Right, a bit more catching up from events earlier in the year – this time using my new 35mm zoom lens!!! First up, the Goodwood breakfast club's annual “anything but the car” event, this year held on Sunday October 2nd. I know, nothing to do with Novas, but I just wanted to try my new lens out...
OK, here we go...
It was a very nice morning...
Scammel Explorer, otherwise known as the Teapot, after the kettle shaped radiator swirl pot. My favourite pre-war 6x6!
Lots of bikes, obviously. This is more my era, a 3-cylinder Kwaka, liberally daubed in chrome and metalflake...
LWB buggy made it into the “interesting” car park. I like the Twister theme, although playing the game on the topogrphically challenging body could be hard work!
Lovely litle Lancia Fulvia...
Lotus Esprit turbo, the side profile unfortunately showing too much of its blunderbuss front bumper – I think I prefer the S2 and earlier models.
Early Ford Ranchero gets to quite a few local events, and is always nicely turned out...
A brace of Raliegh Choppers (I sooooo wanted one of these when I was a kid). The blue one is a Mk1, the wheelbase was extended on the Mk2 because the early bikes would pull wheelies too easily. Coaxial sprung saddle, sissy bars, ape-hangers, three-speed manual... this bike had it all
Ah – an Oldsmobile Toronado, in a very contemporary black over 'gator green colour scheme. Why is this in a no car themed event? Simple – its really a big barge
My favourite trike at the event, sticking closely to the original Ed Roth design with a Beetle engine and rear chassis frame, with extra-long over-tele forks. Dynamically, I know it is fatally flawed, but I just can't help loving it!
Following the not-a-car theme is this civilian-ised Aerospatial/Westland Gazelle, one of the smoothest looking helicopters to come out of the 1970s...
Ford never made any Edsel pick-ups. Here's one of them...
Like a scene from 50 years ago – A35 service van and Big Healey parked amongst the shipping crates left over from the Revival...
Maserati Khamsin is an old friend, with an MGA, Stylus kit car and a brace of Ducatis in the background...
I can't think why I profess to be a fan of the Nissan Skyline when I can't even recognise the model I am looking at – is it a GTR32 or 33?
That's yer lot for now...
Lauren