'08 Goodwood Festival of Speed: The Central Display is revealed
Click image above for high-res gallery of pics from our first night at Goodwood
We got back from the Members' Ball at Goodwood House and we wanted to share some of our shots from the opening event. Although we were reduced to using a point-and-shoot, we thought you still might like to see some of the cars and sights at this year's Festival of Speed. Lord March puts on a fantastic event and the night before the whole thing starts the members get to attend a special dinner where the Bonhams auction offerings are open for viewing and the Central Display for this year's festivities gets unveiled.
As this is a big anniversary for Land Rover, they were chosen as the featured marque. The display featured five special silver Land Rovers climbing a giant steel girder jungle gym of sorts. After seeing some of the cars in the auction tent and having a wonderful supper, the fireworks and unveiling were almost too much, but there was more. Among the many featured categories this year are some vintage dragsters from the '50s and '60s that still run in a special historic series. As a treat to the members, a few of them were fired up so the Brits could experience the sight, sound, feel, taste and smell of these Hemi-powered slingshots. With so few Americans in attendance, it was nice to see these racers being given such honored treatment. It truly brought tears to our eyes. Actually that was the nitro-methane. Enjoy the gallery.
All photos copyright © 2008 Frank Filipponio/Weblogs Inc.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ovidiu Miron 11:52AM (7/11/2008)
I don't see where is the good sign in this treat. The fact that a few of them were fired up isn't very adequate in my opinion.
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Sorin 12:01PM (7/11/2008)
:(((( I would have liked to see something like this. But who knows ...maybe sometimes I’ll go there. Until then I am fooling myself with your photos.
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John 12:14PM (7/11/2008)
From the picture could the 'a giant steel girder jungle gym of sorts' represent a human heart?
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turbo-quattro 12:41PM (7/11/2008)
ahaha, i like how the owners of the vintage dragsters are in sweaters and t-shirts while everyone else is black-tie formal.
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Mike 1:16PM (7/11/2008)
Thanks for these pics! I dream of one day attending the festival. Why just a point and shoot, what happened to the SLR? ;-)
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chuck goolsbee 5:55PM (7/11/2008)
The car labeled as 'The first D-type' in the gallery is actually E2A, the second E-type prototype from 1960. It ran at Le Mans with Briggs Cunningham. The first E-type prototype, E1A was destroyed.
--chuck
http://chuck.goolsbee.org
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