Spotted: Car park of Goodwood during the Revival 2012

Posted on 27-03-2013 at 13:30 by apple – 27 Comments”

One of the most famous events related to classic cars is the Revival meeting held each year in Goodwood. Racing cars of different classes show up to the track to tear. To old times to revive clothe many visitors, traditionally, and that is a very unusual sight. Which for many is an afterthought, but what I do really like is the parking lot. This is a very brief selection of all of the special that there is to see.

Bristol 404

The most recent product of this brand is already some years out of sight lost and what they have in the previous decades was built sits on the border of traditional and dated. In the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s was still flowering in the notice, of which this – especially from behind – very nice creation of a product. This was built from 1953 until 1955, then American influences are clearly reflected in the sexy staartvinnetjes. The front of the car is a Bristol 2.0 litre straight six, because in that time you borrowed, you still no engines from Detroit. This beautiful car remained with a total production of 52 copies are very rare; the 405, a sedan on an extended chassis, did it with 297 instances better. Prices are not entirely coincidentally, all on request.

Gordon Keeble GK-1

This is, as is more often in small-scale cars, a beautiful, multinational bijeenraapsel. In the basis the car is in English, but the engine comes to Chevrolet from. It is the 5.4 liters V8 engine that in a number of European classics to be found. In this car produces 300 horsepower. Finally, the carriage itself is typical. A side view is not here, but where the first to think about is the Alfa-Romeo 2600 Sprint. The Gordon Keeble was in 1960 to see on the Bertone stand at the Geneva. The angled headlight units were a fad, and were also known at, among others, the Bentley S3 Mulliner Park-Ward and the Lagonda Rapide. This fun, luxury 2+2 was, unfortunately, very pricey, the total production limited to 100 copies. For approximately a half ton do you have a car that in many ways is very close to an Iso Rivolta GT.

Iso Grifo

The Grifo also makes use of – among other things – the 5.4 liters V8 engine that the Gordon Keeble all borrowed from the Corvette. The carriage comes back to Bertone’s coming from. Actually, it is a success, and I pleaded for years for the return. Of 1963 and 1974 rolled the Grifo of the band in Milan’s Bresso, and in many shapes and sizes. There were 4 engines available, and a few copies are with the removable roof panel is provided. A coupe with a 5.4-litre Chevy V8, as found in the depicted instance, is the most usual, but that makes him not necessarily less. Versions 7.0 and 7.4 V8 received namely a dam in the middle of the hood because the engine would otherwise not fit. A second series was klapkoplampen. Some cars had a 5.7 liter V8 from Ford, but ultimately, it is the muchness. They are all insanely fast, 110 km/h is possible in I.

Lancia Appia Zagato

A low point where Lancia in ended up is still pretty recent, namely the badge engineering of the Chrysler 300C. A highlight is, again, a lot longer ago, in a time that so many wonderful things built that I not all of them can remember. Several designers had a nice finger in the porridge, such as the Flaminia, with no fewer than five coaches from three renowned designers available. It gave a large dynamic range in the segments in which a model was to be found. The Appia, for example, was a reasonably affordable sedan, which also serves as a pick-up available, but the cabriolet was much more pronounced and exclusive with its Vignale coachwork. The icing on the cake came when Zagato came from. Was the car still, but he drew attention by the striking lines. Note that this instance is fitted with a roll cage and raceruitjes.

Marcos TS500

The line-up of visitors is spread over a parkeerveld with only classics on the one hand, and a field, with modern (re) cars on the other. Alone on the field with old cars is too much to see to be peaceful to be able to see in a day’s time; after all those hours you realize that how much special there between the newer cars. Cars like a Aero Eight, Continental SC, T Mulliner and R Le Mans, you come al’s not often, these TS500 is in the first instance, a car which you have perhaps had yet to discover. Marcos does, in many respects, strongly reminiscent of TVR, and unfortunately also in the fact that there is now very little of it. In the past rolled out a number of the band, the relatively recent models did less well. The TS250 was a convertible similar to the pictured car, but with a V6 in the front, but in 2003 the TS500 is introduced with a 5.0 V8 Javelin engine in the front. 320 horsepower at 1.025 kilograms is a whole lot, but what car exactly is performing is never fully become clear. In his 4 shows 240 km/h easily achievable. Despite the affordable price of about £35.000 people went no further than a handful of copies.

Rolls-Royce Handlye Special

It is all by the decades, a classic combination for snelheidsrecordpogingen (Scrabble/Lingo) become: a giant battleship, equipped with Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine. I made it all about them in the ‘Autotron’ in Rosmalen, and hung there, a year or eleven ago, an enlargement of in my room. V12. 27 litre. To 1,400 hp. And for the rest huge. The British MOT indicates that such a motor also in this structure. 1.400 hp is probably only possible on methanol, but the most important is that this is a overwhelming device. “Special” indicates that it is a later built car (Bentley/Rolls-Royce) is on the basis of the old parts, such as that also applies to the often R-Types based cars as the Mallalieu’s from the years ’70. The from a Hawker Hurricane built V12 from 1940 was in 1985 used to this car to build, some 22 years later resulted in this car. The performance of the car exactly are is not clear, but an information board in the car indicates that the car is in first gear, around 145 km/h, in second gear 225 km/h, and in the last gear, the III, around the 300 km/h. The fuel consumption of up to 3 miles per gallon, about 1:1, you can get probably just if you are a moderate, constant speed persists. The distance is about 180 kilometers…

TVR Grantura MkIII, Vixen Mk III 1.8, and Vixen Mk II 1.6

TVR’s have always been awesome cars. Not only built the brand over the most absurd looking cars ever, in the past, it was mainly very small, a two of three and a half metres long with engines of moderate to large size. The white copy is a Grantura MkIII from 1962, a very early copy, as the third series for 1963 was on the program. The four-cylinder of 1.8 liters is borrowed from the Ford Cortina, and delivers up to 95 horsepower, so you with less than 800 kilo – driver included – can play properly. The Vixen followed in 1967, the Grantura, and was in the course of the years, little by little adjusted. The available engines were a Ford 1.6 liter engine and a BMC 1.8 litre four-cylinder engine. The differences between the models are not very easy to see, but the various vents in the side shields betrayed a little bit.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there is even more beauty of the Goodwood car park.