Practically Classics Forum

I don't often go to car events these days, but made an exception yesterday by accepting an invitation to attend the VSCC (Vintage Sports Car Club of Great Britain) Autumn sprint meeting at Goodwood yesterday.

Some amazing machinery, some of them the most heath-robinson affairs you could think of, but great fun. Everything from Morgan 3-wheelers to racing Bentleys (lots of those!)

This wasn't a race as such, but was a time trial against the clock. The fastest cars on the circuit?

Austin Sevens - and by some margin too.

Some pics:
















This is a 10-litre 4-cyl Aero-engined car, the chassis, rear axle, front axle and firewall are original Austin, circa 1911. It looked a real handful to drive, to say the least......









This is also Aero-engined, 9.5 litres apparently. Beautiful engineering, although still pretty mad:










A great day, it was friggin' cold though.

Cheers!

Nice toys!
Did they let you have a go?

Excellent! I must confess to a fascination with properly ancient cars such as these. Don't get me wrong, modern classics float my boat too, but tend to be the sort of things that I'd have been working on when they were new or at least fairly recent, whereas vintage stuff fascinates me because it's so different from that which has been around for the last forty years or so.

At least you don't seem to have spent your day plodging about in deep clarts to see cars.
There's a lot to be said for concrete underfoot.

If ever I am able to add to the cars I have, number one on the list will be a VSCC eligible car (As I have the last model of MG Midget, one of the first M Types would be nice......poxxy Lottery ticket ). I’ve always liked the VSCC stuff and if you look on the What Classics have you seen thread, you’ll see a few of my VSCC sightings.

The Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica has a particular interest for me (Unusual to see one with spoked wheels), as my father had one (When you could buy one for less than £1000), alas a bit before my time, though I have seen the car since…..had my picture taken in it when I was ten years old. It was very much based on the pre war BMW 328, which must have been a helluva machine in its day.