Manky Monkey Motors

Save up you pennies (and pounds) as the Goodwood Festival of Speed is coming up, near Chichester in Sussex.

Its not a cheap event (esp on the Sat and Sunday), but what you can get to see is literally world class, and its easy to spend a whole day (10 hours) there, so if you kinda calculate what it costs per hour......................



Friday costs £37, which is about the same as a big UK drag meeting. (2011 British Car Grand prix £57)
Sat  is £53. (2011 British Car Grand prix £77)
Sun is £53. (2011 British Car Grand prix £141)




http://www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed/what-is-it/what-is-fos.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH3v8AelUfk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikY_0NLL69Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17i9D62LDOA&feature=relmfu


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-AeO3t4IA&feature=related      2008 Goodwood Cacklefest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1r_ef3NC0&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IpB66Wfm8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIySiloylkU&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQH4GURd_ZU&playnext=1&list=PL77CF9C2BF1480366

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTYCPiAL31E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9utiCbL60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXV5AUH3sQ   This is how close you can get to the vehicles in the paddock. V16 supercharged Auto Union

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFdgibPRyQQ&feature=related   How the Festival started back in 1993


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2UO-ZguhxM
If you watch this video the poor lass that says she's late for the press day, and is rescued by the hero in the rally skoda, is actually on a road known as Princes Road which leads (only) to Goodwood House 1/4 a mile behind her, which kinda suggests that her and rally-man have both just come from the press event!!!!! Doh!
(believe everything the media tells you????  ;D)
The building you get a glimpse of when he pulls up if Goodwood Cricket Club (google map it)...... I'll get me coat ............

Yep, we'll be there. Haven't missed one yet!!

I've wanted to go for years but it always clashes with something - this year we'll be in France.

You on commission Tony!

JJ  ;D

I wish !!!   ;D ;D ;D  (just an amazing event, and on the doorstep too)

There's a few quid floating around that particular part of Sussex that time of year to put it mildly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJf_xRuQp5o

Got our tickets for Sunday, now. Who else is going?

my two lads and a couple of their mates are going for the weekend.

Just found out that Mephistopheles is making another visit....... saw this monster about 6 years ago..... unreal  :o

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/goodwood/

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/fiat-mephistopheles-top-gear-2011-06-16?imageNo=0

2010 had a special feature of customs/rods owned by the musically talented (and famous).

Taken today, Thurs 30th.

Thursday is set up / scrrutineering etc for the competitors, so no are on the hill (hence the static photos) but it gives a bit of chance to see some of the vehicles, as others will arrive during the evening.
Thurday now has whats called the Moving Motor Show, which means the hill is used for strate-from-crate factory mobiles (some rather exotic) to be test driven by those who book up etc etc.
This restricts access to the competitors wishing to unload, whereas in the days before the Motor Show thingy, vehicles would be arriving all day, with the site would only be open to exhibitors, competitors and few other souls only, with some of the drivers mooching about (had Peter Fonda ride his Easy Rider copy dressed in civvies past me only a yard away the other year).

Firday has the first timed runs and demo runs going through all the classes of vehciles, and the Red Arrows usualy make an appearance.

Each year, the Festival has a feature out side of Lord March's front door on the lawn (well you would wouldn't you, beats a hanging basket I guess).

So can you tell what it is this year?

Cummins diesel of 1931 - not quite your normal cummins diesel.

The car qualified last but finished 13th as it did the whole of the Indy 500 without stopping......

and the engine close up.

Built in 1911, 6 cylinders of 9.8 litres, this car won the very first Indy 500, 100 years ago in 1911.

See the rear view mirror - it was a world's first, on this actual car. Back then the cars carried a mechanic as well, so with being a single-seater, to make sure the driver could know who was behind him, the mirror was fitted.

Remember when fags kept motor racing alive ?

The 1971 March 711.
Aerodynamic input from was a gent called Frank Costin (who you might say). He went on to be the co-founder of a little ol' company called Cosworth Marcos with Jem Marsh.

His brother Mike co-formed Cosworth.

Thanks for putting me right on that Brock  ;)  (I had taken info from a flyer on the car which looks like it was produced by www.stp.eu  - even those that are meant to know don't always get it right - tut tut)

"March Engineering" took its name from the founders Max Mosley, Alan Rees, Graham Coaker and Robin Herd.
 

"S-C Corp'n'hurst Floor Shifter Special"

Built in 1964 for Indy, it unfortunatly crashed.

The driver sits in the little pod bolted on the side - Weird huh!

Something very old, with 2 De Dion Bouton engines

and braking technology to match

1936 Auto Union type D. 6 litres of supercharged V16..... this sounds amazing !

Twin back tyres as this was used in hill climbing

A Dymaxion from 1933

Beautiful Auburn from 1935

The hand built Jag as featured on BBC 2's motoring comedy show

The actual pace car for the 1955 Indy 500 - '55 Chevy

Hands up if you like engines

THE Jaguar X13

The only non-pistoned engined car to win Le Mans.

The 1991 Mazda, 4 rotor rotary, with 900 BHP

A Tatra

Graham Hill's Gold Leaf Lotus 49B from 1968.

Turbo charger anyone?

A Watson-Offenhauser from 1963 (Indy racer)

Dan Gurney set up "All Amaerican Racing", and this is an Eagle-Ford from 1966.

Gurney later had the Gurney Eagles, one of the prettiest race cars of its era.

The great Mephistopheles from around 1920/1922.

21.7 litres, 6 cylinders, 4 valves per cylinder.

Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles

Single seater race car, who knows the power plant?

Perious pic - DAF Variomatic See Phunkie's posting on page 7 - Ford-based engine with DAF Variomatic gearing


Below
What great workmanship..........

1935 Alfa Romeo 'Aerodinamicia Spider'

The new Morgan with truly patriotic made-in Britian engine sorry, made-in-the USA engine. (and I think a Mazda gearbox)

The Aussies have now made a Vincent.... yummy!

Selection of American Indy cars

This is a production bike that is being made in Japan (and so has type approval etc)

So if you want to save up your pennies....................

http://www.zeroengineeringeu.com/bikes/index.html

Part of Krazy Horse Custom Cycles' display.

http://www.krazyhorse.co.uk/

Big boy's dream.............. :'(

Price tag on the car - £39,950

Back to the display outside the house.....

This should give it away............

50 years of the E-Type

Different...........

I think I've got premature acceleration!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

Pre X flow Ford at a guess.

Beleive it or not, DAF Variomatic.............

See Mr Shepard's gone a bit over the top this year, but I 'spose it is a Mustang!!!!!!  ::)

As always, some gorgeous photos of gorgeous machinery Tony. Great, informed commentary too. You could very easily create a cool coffee table book from your work. I'd buy a copy.

Friday 1st July, the first day the competitors take to the hill, so a couple of 'action' piccies in amongst the general shots.

So how many horsepower should a motorcycle have.. well these guys reckon 420 sounds about right - its the MTT Streetfighter Turbine. The turbine comes from a helicopter. (reckon the pilot might be a bit pi**ed off  :D)

turbine from a helicopter !!!? ?   ,CLIVE,,,,,!!!!!!  what  you takin home in youre dinner bag ? ?  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Gilera double overhead cam, not sure of the details on this one

Ducati......

Little Austin and the big Napier Railton from the Brooklands Museum (Napier has just under a complete engine overhaul/rebuild)

The first car up the hill, a Rolls Royce, driven by Lord March (well it is his driveway, and he does organise the event).

Oh, and it was electric..........

1911 Fiat S74.

Grand Prix regulations restricted engine bore, so Fiats responce was to build this with a stroke so long, the originals drivers had difficulty seeing over the bonnet.

4 cylinders and 14,200cc  :D (so each cylinder is bigger than a complete Rover 3.5 V8)

Regulations.... sound familiar?

Lola-Ford T90 'Red Ball Special' (replica). 1966 4.2 V8 indy car.

Graham Hill won Indy at his first attempt in a T90 in 1966.

Just for the record - Graham Hill is the only driver to win the so-called Triple Crown of Motorsport — 24 Hours of LeMans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship. Not bad eh?

Jaguar XJR9LM from 1998. 7 litre V12.
These were built by TWR (Tom Walkinshaw racing) and ended Porche's domination of endurance racing

The lovely Jaguar XJ13. 5 litre V12 from 1965...........  

Maserati MC12 from 2005. 6 litre V12

The Alpha suffered with something and pulled off, the driver is on the phone, maybe to his mechanic??

Found this in the car park...

Just thought I'd take a pic

This year celebrates the Indy 500 being 100 years of age, so the paddock had its own Gasoline Ally for the 40 or so Indy cars brought over to the UK

and we had a marching band......

The lovely Eagle Ford T2G from 1966. 4.2 litre V8 being pushed as part of the parade to celebrte of 100 years of the Indy 500

The Lotus that Britain's Jim Clark won the Indy 500 in.

The 1968 Pratt & Whitney 56 'STP Special' Indy Car

Stunt driver Ken Block's runaround... put Ken Block into 'you tube' to see what this guy gets up to..

As with all motorsport, the people behind the scenes make it happen, so a big thanks to them and esp the marshals who are all volunteers (tho they do seem to get a view of what's going on........... ;D)

Some of the bike racers from the recent TT were at this year's Festival of Speed, along with legend Sir John Surtees (the only man to be world champion on 2 wheels and 4).

This is Keith Amor (left) talking to John McGuinness.

John has 17 TT wins under his belt and was the first rider to average the Mountain circut at over 130mph. The bike he first achived that on is the one he was riding today.

John wheeling his bike to the assembly paddock - 2009 Honda CBR1000RR

Cameron Donald from Australia, 3 times TT winner, also on a CBR1000RR Honda

Keith Amor's Honda (LHS) & John McGuinness' Honda

The one and only John Surtees, standing by a display-only MV Augusta.

For this weekend, John was riding a 1938  BMW type 255 from 1968. Although only 500cc, it is supercharged.  :D

John Surtees in the assembly paddock, ready to ride the supercharged BMW (#49 just behind him)

From the World Superbike Championship, Tom Sykes, sitting on the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R before moving to the assembly area.

This is Ian Hutchinson, who in 2010 became the only man to win 5 TTs in one week - an amazing achievement.

Towards the end of the season he suffered a horrible crash at Silverstone and nearly lost the lower part of his leg. He did have, and I guess may still have, a set of scaffolding going into his leg to help it heal properly (see the modified leathers), but, some how, he's at Goodwood and riding..... what a star  ;)

Notice the Goodwood "Organic" Food at the end of Gasoline Alley...............................Freudian slip????? ;D ;D ;D ;D

I`ve actually seen one of these turbine bikes in action. There`s a company in the states that make them. Very weird, but extremely impressive and everyday useable believe it or not. I expected it to be all out grunt but it is versatile. ;D ;D ;D ;D

Right mr Oily Tony Bike  ;D  I thought I was right, just from the photo, The power plant is a Ford pre crossflow 997 screamer. The original block would have been found in an anglia and the heads were modified by blocking off the inlets in the normal place and boring down above the inlet valve (to give a straight inlet port) and using one choke of a twin choke, in this case downdraft Weber...................

Just a bit of a mish mash of pics, but I think you'll get the idea.

Nice chop
Normally these Cosworths would drive a performance/race car, this drives the compressor for Bloodhounds jet/rocket engine!!!!

Our lunch time entertainment.

Isn't it funny who you run into at thes events.........................

Our very own Deadly Derek with Brian May in the back of Pats pickup and Gary from SSR with one of Deadlys other pickups.

And the peterbuilt stage. This was all in aid of the celebration of The Indy 500,s 50 birthday in May this year.............

A GT40 as it should be............... a road car!!!

A really cool early Aston grille.

and an Abarth bat car

This called a Dymaxion. Made in 1933 this three wheeler was powered by a Ford flathead V8 of the same period, driving through the front wheels.............

 More of the Dymaxion.

1935 Auburn.

A lovely old type 35.

Think this is a American circuit racer.

1935 Indy car made by Miller. Note the modified '35 ford grille insert

Whilst on the subject of Indy cars..................

Here we have one with a four cylinder Offenhauser with a turbo.........

and the Hurst supported car with an injected normally aspirated Offy

This was a real surpise. The last time I saw this car was in the late 80's, when it had been restored by an aquaintence of mine called David Bruzas, in Woking. I managed to persuade him I really needed to sit in to see how it fitted.
This was Juan Fangio's 1958 Indy car  :o

One more of Fangio's car.

Honda's ferris wheel with gondolas shaped just like those little suitcase generators!!

I must say thanks for all the photos on behalf of all the peasants like me that couldnt afford to go,its been very interesting cheers.

I agree. Thanks chaps. Great pics & very informative too.  :)

I stand corrected sir  ;)

Found a snippet saying its a "Huron-Cosworth HA4 with DAF Variomatic transmission"

Didn't see the trucks/musicians on Friday (& didn't go on Sat or Sun), so good to see the pics.

Yeh, its a Daf transmission alright. My guess is they used that to save time on gear shifts. A lot of inovations back in those times.

Radio Times says a TV programme about the festival is on ITV4, Tuesday 12th July, 8pm for an hour.

Ooh, I'll set the reminder thingy for that -no, not Taz.  :P

deadly derek is ,,,famous,,,,,     just seen the truck  on the  telly ,,,,

He was always a star!
Completely forgot to set the TV reminder, so just caught the last 5 minutes. That Toyota Celica, turbocharged, supercharged and nitrous?! Crazy.
I want one.

,,,NO,, YOU DONT,, want one  you got a ,,,,,POP,,,,,,,ok its a manky ,,,pop,,,, pick up




but  what the hell its better,, :)

Don't think it'll get up the test hill quite as fast as some of those guys did though.

it would be a nice sight to see  one scared :o :o monkey in a pop pick up  going hell for leather up that hill ::) ::)

 :o White knuckles gripping the big steering wheel as the tall skinny truck crossplies skate around the corners
                 AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

next year then  ;) ;)

Okey doke.  :P

if you do

i,ll fetch one of the  ,duttons, out of mothballs and join you  ;)

Don't think it's open to the general public to race up Mike. Think you have to be super rich or own an ultra expensive race car to be invited, neither of which applies to me.

we,ll  have to find our own hill then  :D :D

Just a little one for me to practice on
-the fool on the hill. The pillock on the hillock?

'tis barley a 'hill'...... least ways the first half is pretty darn flat.

So guys, if you actually factually want to drive your own cars at a hillclimb, here's two ways that you can:

The Prescott drivers school lets you out on the beautiful hill owned by the Bugatti folk near Cheltenham (I've competed there on a bike a few times, really good place with loads of history)

http://www.prescott-hillclimb.com/driversschool.aspx



Or Gurston Down, Salisbury direction, and the only hillclimb venue that starts by going down hill!! Ridden there a few time too.

http://www.gurstondown.org/school.htm


So what's gonna stop you..............  ;D

Andy - I've been in touch with ITV4 and after lots of hassle, they're gonna show the programme AGAIN, so you can catch it this time.

They suggested that you do the following this time: Tell a responsible adult about it so they can remind you, write it in ink on your hand, leave a zillion post-its about the place, and set the video thingy.

Hope you appreciate all the hard work and favours I've had to call in to get this on again!!!

SAT 16th July - 4.30 pm (liable to be 16:30 on the video timer), duration - 1 hour   ;D   ;D

"So what's gonna stop you"?
Discs & drums hopefully.

Having spent so long putting the truck together, I don't really want to wreck it dirt oval racing at the Hotrod Hayride, (yeah I know they've stopped doing that), but might be tempted to give it a blast up a hill or two, though I'm sure that's just as rigorous.
Appreciate your behind the scenes efforts with friends in high places Tone.  ;) I'll write it on my forehead this time.

my youngest lad steve was on the telly very very briefly getting john mcguiness,s autograph,him and his mates had a great time.

Nice pics and captions Tony. I had a great time as always at Goodwood on the Friday. Its good value for money as far as I'm concerned. £50 for 12 hours of car heaven including the ticket, some water, a burger and an ice cream. In that time I took 871 pics, a few of which are here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonesy59/sets/72157627106449078/

Some very nice photos there Chris!!

Looks like some were taken when the sun was getting low, gives a good colour change.

I managed to do Friday for £17 per head, and bought diddly squat (apart from a Programme, which I got on Thursday), which goes to prove it may be not as expensive as some may think.

Been told we pay "March" prices for food n drink!

Ps Car and Motorcycle heaven  ;D

Lovely, professional pics, as always Chris.

don`t forget to write it backwards or you won`t be able to read it in the mirror :D :D :D :D

Thanks Chaps, oops, forgot the bikes! It was early light Tony, first pic was just after 7.30am, it clouded up in the evening unfortunately.