In addition to the Goodwood members Meeting next month, I'm now including a Donington track day and a Cadwell Park classic meeting, where I hope to catch up with Tim Nevinson. I've just sent Tim a batch of pics for an article he is writing for Classic Driver magazine, so I guess I need to keep an eye out for that appearing on the shelves, as I'm not a subscriber.
Two of the frustrations which are very time consuming are:
1) Late entries who do not appear in the race programme and
2) Cars not displaying race numbers in a prominent position
It has taken me ages to accurately identify a couple of cars, sometimes even the make isn't that obvious.
Can someone please confirm this one? I'm guessing but I'd prefer confirmation.
It would also help if race series organisers had a published list of their current drivers AND car makes AND cubic capacity on their websites.
It seems that HRC have dropped off the cc rating for each car in their programmes. Whilst all info is useful, I'd personally prefer the cc rating to the city.
Last edited by ERC; 03-18-2025 at 09:23 PM.
Oslo - 2014
St Petersburg 2014
No one has come up with the #4945 query so I'll just go ahead and file it anyway and if I see it again, I'll get the confirmation.
My compact camera is definitely due for replacement but supplies of the preferred replacement are in short supply. I missed out on the last one about three weeks ago, but whoopee, a shipment has just arrived so I've just placed my order.
Last edited by ERC; 03-19-2025 at 09:23 PM.
The new compact camera has arrived, but there won't be any pics from it until I get to the Petersen Museum April 7th.
Thunder at the Downs March 16th and I dragged out the big bazooka lens. I missed the Formula Open session as I had to be elsewhere and there was a track delay, so the last pic was taken from outside the track..
Please note that in the race programme - which uses data supplied by the driver and is extracted from that database - this is shown as Quale and it should be Qvale
Great to see Mal Clark back with the Rover.
Last edited by ERC; 03-24-2025 at 09:34 PM.
I've now finished the car stuff on this trip. Just to give an indication of the work I've lumbered myself with, in terms of cropping, discarding, identifying and filing, this is my tally before the work started:
1) Petersen museum LA - especially the first visit to the vault - 250
2) National Motor Museum - Beaulieu (about my 6th visit - 145
3) Goodwood member's meeting (first time visit) day 1 - 920
4) Goodwood members meeting day 2 - 994
5) British Motor Museum Gaydon - my 5th or 6th visit - 250
6) Coventry Transport Museum 2nd visit - 125
7) Donington track day call in but not a lot of interesting stuff and bitterly cold. I turned down a track ride in an Ariel Atom - about 15
8) Cadwell Park Lincolnshire - only 4 race groups - 450
When I get back, I'll start uploading but it will be difficult to decide what is worth putting up on here, as the variety has been huge. From Edwardian to GT3, MGs to cars I've never even heard of.
Just a taster of what is to come. I'm still doing the cropping of Goodwood day 2, then sorting before going through the biggest job - dumping duplicates and those a little bit out of focus. The new pocket compact camera worked well on the stills, but I do wish that all car museums had decent lighting, not just some of them. Too often, a car is so much in the shade that you need a powerful flash, not the rather weedy one built into a small camera.
Petersen Museum Chevron B2 (replica)
Is this the ex-Rob Douglas car?
Cadwell Park
Last edited by ERC; 04-24-2025 at 05:14 PM.
Not too many single seaters on this trip but the first two, from the Petersen Museum in LA, who seem to have expanded their stock since my first visit.
Beaulieu had the engine cover off their V16 BRM
ERA R8B/C was at the Silverstone museum when I last visited where it wasn't well displayed. It is now at Gaydon.
Last edited by ERC; 04-26-2025 at 07:02 PM.
I do promise a Mix of Pics... Not all will be tasteful. The first two again from the Petersen Museum. The main display featured low riders and heavily customised cars, but down in the vault was where the really good stuff was situated and I spent far more time in there and took far more photographs.
Gaydon has a superb collection of Jaguars and Jaguar related cars, especially prototypes, in a separate building.
Last edited by ERC; 04-27-2025 at 09:45 PM.
Last edited by ERC; 04-29-2025 at 09:10 PM.
I may have to up my output to two posts a day so for those regular daily watchers, just check that the last posted one may not be the only new item.
The impressive artwork on this section of the Petersen vault walls was done by ex-racer, Stefan Johanssen, who lives in Santa Monica.
There are so many quirky and one off cars in this collection and the second pic is a Fuji.
Remember this is the vault, not the main display area, yet every effort is made to display most cars really well and the lighting is much better than some other museums.
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