[DeTomaso] Back from Goodwood Revival?

[John Taphorn]

Asa

You caught my thoughts exactly!

JT
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From: "Asa Jay Laughton" <asajay at asajay.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Back from Goodwood Revival?


>  Makes me want to write a book:
> "My Vicarious Life as lived by Mike Drew"
>
> :)
> Thanks for the report Mike, it sounds like it was a great time.
> Asa Jay
>
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> &  Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
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> On 9/24/2010 23:30, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
>> In a message dated 9/24/10 21 33 32, julian_kift at hotmail.com writes:
>>
>>
>>> So can I take it this spurt of list activity means you are back from
>>> Blightey and the Goodwood Revival?
>>>
>>>>> Yes, now wading through 1000 e-mails!   Unfortunately e-mail access 
>>>>> was
>> quite limited over the past week.
>>>
>>>> How was it?
>>>>> Spectacular as ever!   The best vintage racing in the world, on a
>> fantastic track with literally 100% viewing access, unobstructed by 
>> fences, with
>> classic warbirds (Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Lancaster bomber, a P-51 
>> Mustang
>> and a Bearcat) flying overhead, and 50K people all dressed in period 
>> costume,
>> you just can't beat it.
>>
>> What made it better was being in the company of so many other De Tomaso
>> owners.   Initially we stayed with John Braithwaite, who lives about 30 
>> minutes
>> from the track on a farm (actually a 500-acre estate), where besides
>> boarding horses, he stores sports cars.   He himself has a Mangusta, 
>> Porsche 356A,
>> Alfa Romeo Duetto, Marcos, and a very rare RHD Citroen Traction Avant
>> drophead (convertible).
>>
>> He also rents storage space to other people; one of those folks we met
>> briefly in Le Mans this summer, and he kindly loaned me a '59 
>> Austin-Healey
>> 3000, which made for a delightful drive to and from the track!   That
>> straight-six with a crackle on the overrun is really evocative, on a 
>> winding lane with
>> the top down on a cold fall evening.
>>
>> We also were fortunate to meet up with Charlie and Amaya McCall:
>>
>> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=25937
>>
>> Along with Roger and Melanie Coates, and Geoff Peters.
>>
>> Afterwards we went to visit Andy Prill, who I think you met at Le Mans.
>> He runs this business, also located on a remote farm in the countryside:
>>
>> http://www.maxted-pageandprill.com/index.html
>>
>> As one of the world's foremost authorities on the Porsche 356 and early 
>> 911
>> (neither of which I am particularly interested in), he had about eight or
>> ten cars present, including two original 356 Speedsters, a 911 Carrera 
>> 2.7 RS
>> lightweight, and a 911 ST (predecessor to the RS).   He also had two
>> Porsche 904s, and was getting ready to go to Spa to race one this coming 
>> weekend,
>> driving it for the owner.
>>
>> He also looks after the 50-plus car collection of rock star Jay Kaye of
>> Jamiroquai:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai
>>
>> and he had his Mercedes 300 SL roadster and a Maserati A6/GCS super-rare
>> Frua-bodied car (one of four made I think) on-hand.
>>
>> http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o37/SchumiFan777/Maserati.jpg
>>
>> Coincidentally, Jamiroquai is releasing their first album in five years 
>> in
>> the next few weeks, and the video of the lead single consists of him 
>> flying
>> a helicopter and singing, while chasing his 2.7 RS Carrera across a 
>> Spanish
>> desert, with Andy doing the driving, sliding, drifting, doing donuts and
>> blasting across the sand at up to 130 mph!   The video is due to be 
>> released in
>> two or three weeks.
>>
>> The car got so filthy that Andy had to remove the engine and gearbox to
>> clean it!   The car was up on the rack and the engine had just been fully
>> detailed and was ready to go back in.
>>
>> Andy's partner is a high-end classic car broker (glorified used car 
>> dealer)
>> who specializes in these same sorts of Porsches but also has sold more
>> original GT40s than anybody; he had three of them in stock, two for sale
>> (GT/111, the Bob Bondurant Targa Florio roadster, and P/1085, the last 
>> original
>> chassis built in period by JWA), plus P/1080, the white one that he drove 
>> for
>> the owner at Le Mans Classic.
>>
>> http://www.maxted-page.com/cars/default.aspx
>>
>> It was great to be able to spend Quality Time with three original GT40s,
>> lifting the hoods, kicking the tires, sitting inside them and making 
>> vroom
>> vroom noises while imagining rocketing down the Mulsanne straight at 200
>> mph....
>>
>> Andy is also a dynamite chef and cooked us an amazing dinner, in his 
>> home,
>> which was originally a bakery when it was built in around 1350 (!)
>>
>> Then back to Geoff's place the next night, where I got to play designated
>> driver and bring us home behind the wheel of his '97 Bentley Turbo R, 
>> which
>> is quite a ride indeed.   Fitted with the Mulliner package (Bentley's 
>> answer
>> to Mercedes AMG or BMW's M-division), it is surprisingly quick and 
>> handles
>> amazingly well for a car that is 5300 lbs.
>>
>> Finally home today, and planning on staying home for the entire week next
>> week and banging out another Profiles, before heading to Afghanistan next
>> weekend....
>>
>> The Goodwood Revival really is a fantastic event, well worth attending.
>> With no Le Mans Classic on next year, it and the Spa Italia event with De
>> Tomaso as the featured marque, Date TBA but probably in June, maybe even 
>> a week
>> after the regular Le Mans, will be two events not to be missed!
>>
>> Mike
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