Goodwood FOS 2015 - couple of highlights for now

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:06 pm

Loads of pics taken as usual - and as usual will probably take me a year to get round to not uploading them all

But a quick one for now, this car was the highlight of the show for me. Fiat S76.

(that pic not taken by me, 'cause I haven't uploaded them yet!)

It was there last year in the paddock with the restoration incomplete, but this year it was running for the first time in 100 years.
It is a drokking awesome machine

and not just because it's 28.5 litres - it does something that even babs and the railton don't do;

It is just immense

That was on the flat from the start line, you should have seen it on the hill with the foot down. Amazing flames, amazing noise and genuinely fast especially considering the size, weight and age of the thing!
Loved it

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:14 pm

Quick video of the restoration and first time it was started;

Want!!!

G-lude · Post by **G-lude** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:30 pm

What an incredible machine! Does it get any miles to the gallon

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:34 pm

A close second was watching the Darracq 200hp in the shootout final on Sunday afternoon.
110 years old, given a right proper thrashing. Watching this thing drifting out needing opposite lock on the corners was amazing and it was incredibly quick - faster than a GT40 up the hill

Skip to 2:27:52 on here;

That misses the biggest drift out, which was just before that footage starts unfortunately, but still - absolutely mental

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:16 am

Excellent!

Post by **Lude-dude** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:00 am

I was there too, took loads of pics may post them if I got time

weather was brill for it, nice day out