L7s Weekender Photos from... errrmm, half the weekend

[bstardchild]

Jun 2, 2018 10:36:58 GMT luckyseven said:

I was about to gently remind you that you were there

I was

Jun 2, 2018 10:36:58 GMT luckyseven said:

I may not know a Pulsar from a GTiR but I do have one factoid. Probably the same one you all know as well but here goes; Only car other than Rolls Royce to come as stock from the factory with a furled umbrella stashed in the doorshut. Boom!

....you knew that, didn't you? Never mind. Liking the apparently home-made LED indicator intake nozzle


Sunny Pulsar intake indicator by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I spent a bit of time talking to that bunch as we had one on the track on Sat and I wanted to get some feedback - I completely missed seeing that!!!

[luckyseven]

Hullo again!

It was nice to see the Lord High Imperator of BNMAC, @quatermass arrive at last but it seemed a long way back to the boonies just to resolutely avoid becoming mates, so we didn't and pressed on regardless. I only learned the other day that a Pop differs from a Prefect mostly in the door quotient. This information came from a man with dreadlocks and a Beetle engine in the boot of his Popular. But I still dunno what differs a Popular from an Anglia. Never mind, this has a lot of doors and is therefore a Prefect. Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Now there's a cool frood who really knows where is towel is


Prefect 107E by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Here's something different then. I assume these lovely Jowetts had something to do with @grumpynorthener and would have loved to meet the gentleman who seems the mainstay of keeping Bradford's finest alive and on the road, but they were unmanned all day


Javelin by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Jupiter by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Amazingly, the pair of buffoons I was with had never even heard of Jowett, which seems odd for car enthusiasts. The upside was it gave me the chance to point out cool design touches such as the way the front grille is the same shape as the boxer engine behind it, and thus was made to hinge up out of the way while the engine was "just" slotted out forwards through the aperture. As you can see from this pic I took later int he day. Saab-esque radiator behind/above engine so nothing's in the way. Probably don't want to get your pinkies in the way of the bacon slicer fan!


Javelin bay by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Sad to see yet another great British marque that was full of great ideas and quality engineering wither away and die. My two BNAMC errr... non-mates were happy just to enjoy the shapes and colours. and quite right too


Jupiter int by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Javelin int by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Javelin r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

This Javelin seems to have come a long way for this, judging by the Swiss ID plate. Lovely attention to detail everywhere you look, such as the name engraved round the boot handle. Don't I always say it's all about the details?


Javelin r d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Jupiter d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Epic and astonishing thought the pair of Jowetts were (as much as anything because of just how damned immaculate they still were after such a long life) it was hard to stay focussed on any one thing. As I'm trying to concentrate on taking photos of Bradford's sober heavy steel engineering, next door a group of frisky plastic Italian rally slags are making rowdiness. It makes it hard to stay on-mission


Delta Integrales by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

As always, this is what makes RR events so full of win. It's impossible to be a one-make bore or to not be moved by the smorgasbord of weird and wacky that gets under your skin and draws you in whether you like it or not


Delta Integrale red 95 d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

But anyway, who doesn't love a Delta Integrale? Especially one drenched in one of the finest motorsport liveries ever. Horrid drink, great paintscheme


Delta Integrale Martini 88 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

...and, becos Italian, the stand most likely to witness essential running repairs at


Delta Integrale surgery by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

and then you get distracted by a great-looking Caddy pottering past, with genuinely excellent wheel fitment and you take a quick snap because you might never see it again.


Caddy grey 90 r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Nope, never saw it again. And then you're back to the Lancias and nearly run over by what is presumably the last running Beta in the British Isles. Impressively immaculate


Beta white 80 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Or perhaps Sir prefers his Lancia in full regalia? How about a stage refugee Fulvia


Fulvia Marlboro 72 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Fulvia Marlboro 72 bdg by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

No, it's no good, I can't concentrate on Lancias any more, there are all these properly VIP stylee Mercedes barges lined up over the way


200 220 maybe Heckflosse 66 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

The worst thing is, I genuinely can't tell one flavour of Mercedes from another. Well, not those built after about the mid 1950s anyway. I tried to use my feeble Google-fu to work out what this one was, for example, and all I found was a Merc forum discussion about whether those little wing vents were the ultimate acme of cool or the desperate ravings of a barry-loving imbecile. And once I'd lost half an hour of my life reading this fascinating (and extensive) thread I decided I just didn't care what it was called, I was happy just to like how it looked


W124 E Class by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Details, details...


W114 marker emblem by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Someone will no doubt be able to tell me what these wheels were. At first I thought they were F*rd Revolutions. I did say I know nothing about Mercs


W114 75 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Guessing this fella gets through a lot of detailing spray. And a lot of Elastoplasts


Mercedes wheel d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Ada took this next one while he was holding the camera for me (so I could take my hoodie thing off... yes, the sun was finally burning through the mists and loving life like the rest of us). You can tell because the vanatge point is about two feet higher than most of my photos. Thats what you get for letting Wookiees have cameras


300SEL maybe by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

The pick of the bunch for me was this (mostly) yellow and flamed W1(*coughs*)whatever with the superb steampunk theme inside. My photos really suck for which I can only apologise, but there was a good crowd round this pretty much all the time so you had to be quick with the camera. If this didn't win some kind of prize for the interior then the judges want to have a long hard word with themselves. Actually, knowing who they are, they probably want to have a long hard word themselves anyway. Strange bunch


Mercedes steampunk d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Mercedes steampunk int by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

...and quick as that, we're distracted by something else. My dislike of Golfs is oft-documented. And it's not just mindless bigotry, I earned that hatred through years of owning the worst MkI in the known universe. You don't know, man, you weren't there.... anyway, to my biased sensibilities the only thing worse than a MkI is any other Golf that came after... and yet here I am taking pics of a MkII ...a cabriolet of all damned things and in no way am I able to argue that it doesn't look absolutely brilliant. Damn you, Retro Rides, that's another prejudice exploded


Golf MkII black cabriolet 89 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I snapped this mostly because I was trying to work out the story behind the P-slot wheel take... they don't look factory to me. Then I looked at the pic on the computer and thought "what the hell is that?". I'd assumed it was a Passat at the time but was so drawn in by the wheels I never really looked at the car. Turns out it's a Santana. Nope, me neither. I always thought he was a guitar virtuoso.


Santana blue 82 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Oh, for God's sake! Retro Rides has even forced me into taking photos of MkI TTs now. But... but... it does look good. Arrgh! I said it. OK, it's a TT and it looks good. Nope, I'm never coming back from that one


TT 99 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

There's always time for the daft whaletail and preposterous steroid arches of a 911 Turbo. Even if it means lying in damp grass to get the picture


911 Turbo 83 r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Now, this is a Popular.


Popular 100E by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

You can tell because it's got fewer doors than the Prefect. It could be an Anglia... dunno why... but on this occasion you can tell it's not because it says "Popular" on it. In a lovely fetching mix of pot metal and ferrous oxide


Popular 100E d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Oooh, it's a deluxe as well.


Popular 100E r bdg by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Another one of my irrational prejudices is well-documented in these threads; rat-look. But this is rat without the look! I could have taken photos of that Pop all day... in fact, I did take a lot! Just brilliant. And in total contrast


Beetle blue 66 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

...an immaculate '66 Beetle right next door. Nice to see another Beetle, nice to see the all-inclusive RR matra so pithily represented in just two cars. Dread rat kill your mother sleep with your sister hardcase besides lovely gentle prim pretty little thing who takes tea with their little finger pointing out. Personally, I'd sleep with either of them


Beetle blue 66 r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

But if you prefer your Beetle in a slightly younger upright headlight flavour then we can provide


Beetle yellow 72 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I love how parts of the original paint (like on the numberplate light shroud) have acquired craquelure exactly like the tired and broken tempura oils of an old master


Beetle yellow 72 bdg by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Accord SJ by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Just time for a random Hahhhhnda before a momentous announcement. Early Accord. No idea how early, it's got no numberplate. Interior is a rhapsody of 70's BROWNs (another frequent L7 thread meme). Yep, everything in the 70s was brown but it's a wonderful treat to see quite so many of them in a single interior!


Accord SJ int by Nick Liassides, on Flickr




Momentous announcement time; We'e made it as far as the actual paddock! Yayy

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Verrr nice photos!

and, I must quote....

********[Javelins] but they were unmanned all day********

@grumpynorthener .....I rest my case. Unmanned, all day. I REST. MY CASE. THE CASE RESTS. IT'S RESTY, M'LUD. THE CASE. IT RESTS.

[luckyseven]

"All day" can be taken to mean "we walked past them at the start of the day and there was no-one there and we walked past at the end of the day and there was still no-one there but the bonnet was open on the Javelin" So someone was there. At some point. Sometime. But we weren't
In other news, I spent ages trying to work out why the "@" and "grumpynortherner" thing wouldn't work to highlight his name.

Turns out he's spelled "northerner" wrongly

@grumpynorthener See?

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I didn't want to poke the hornet's nest by pointing out the mis-pelling. He is grumpy, after all.

My version of 'all day' is that my buddy and I spent a good half hour scrutinising those Jowetts. so 'all day' in my case was 'half an hour' around midday.

M'LUD.

I put a lot of effort into creating the impression Grumpy is a very close friend of mine and often comes to me for advice. My friend was clearly impressed, but I did feel the illusion would have benefitted from a hearty northern handshake and some generic bonhomie from a bloke who I imagine looks like Sean Bean in Game of Thrones. I expected him to be stood there... a few shoulder pelts, a cow's head helmet and a couple of rabbits for shoes. I felt let down to be really honest about it.

Bloody northerners. You can't rely on them for anything.

[georgeb]

Jun 5, 2018 11:24:29 GMT @quatermass said:

Bloody northerners. You can't rely on them for anything.

Hoi, less of that. You could rely 100% on me not being there. Don't you be tarring us all with the same brush!

L7 - great pics and, as usual, lovely write up. If 'lovely' is the word I'm looking for.

Who needs to be there with coverage like this!

Well, me obviously, but see my first point on reliability.

[luckyseven]

*ahem* think you'll find it's "northeners"

I thought you were there, George? I've seen loads of pics that resolutely don't have your P38 in them

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Jun 5, 2018 11:10:21 GMT luckyseven said:

"All day" can be taken to mean "we walked past them at the start of the day and there was no-one there and we walked past at the end of the day and there was still no-one there but the bonnet was open on the Javelin" So someone was there. At some point. Sometime. But we weren't
In other news, I spent ages trying to work out why the "@" and "grumpynortherner" thing wouldn't work to highlight his name.

Turns out he's spelled "northerner" wrongly

@grumpynorthener See?

Tha not lurnt much haz tha - tat's t' Yorkshire spelling of 'Northerner'

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Unlike the owner of a certain Black Scimitar whom was not only late to the show but then by his own admission went AWOL - we were about and on our stand on occasions has witnessed by several members of the parish whom called by to say hello - but we did wonder off to take a look at the rest of the cars - then came back and we then wondered off for a long lunch - by the time we returned the lot of you had cleared off home - Javelin had indeed come over from Switzerland and is back home with Peter it's owner

[bstardchild]

Right luckyseven that is pretty much as far as I got on the Sunday so make with more pics - no worries if a wookie takes them

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M'Lud.

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'Not Guilty your Honour' and has one of our party that attended the weekend is a top barrister we shall defend our case all the way - furthermore should the itinerant Scimitar owner continue with such contentious allegations we shalt be suing for slander & damages

Go forth & Jowett

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Hey L7, somehow I missed your shot of my junker on page 1. I've only just seen it now. I don't know how you managed it but you've actually made it look half decent in the photograph. May I download a copy and keep it and possibly use it on occasion when I need to create a good impression?

[HoTWire]

Jun 5, 2018 19:48:21 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

Javelin had indeed come over from Switzerland and is back home with Peter it's owner

That is a long way to come for our little event! Hope they enjoyed themselves. Was great to have the Jowetts there, classed up the joint!

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Jun 6, 2018 7:01:57 GMT HoTWire said:

Jun 5, 2018 19:48:21 GMT @grumpynorthener said:

Javelin had indeed come over from Switzerland and is back home with Peter it's owner

That is a long way to come for our little event! Hope they enjoyed themselves. Was great to have the Jowetts there, classed up the joint!

Unfortunately we were a car down - well a driver down in reality otherwise I would have trailered this down in it's has found state before I commence the restoration next year

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^ *Attempts to bookmark Jupiter resto thread before it's even started*

[fr€$h&m1nt¥]

Thanks for capturing my special side in that photo

[luckyseven]

Jun 5, 2018 23:48:53 GMT @quatermass said:

Hey L7, somehow I missed your shot of my junker on page 1. I've only just seen it now. I don't know how you managed it but you've actually made it look half decent in the photograph. May I download a copy and keep it and possibly use it on occasion when I need to create a good impression?

Yeah, of course I think there's another one still to come somewhere.

Right, I'd better post some more pictures then....

[luckyseven]

I know Goodwood pretty well... after all, I only live twenty miles downt he road and regularly attend Breakfast Clubs, the Revival, trackdays and stuff here. The little run-through to the staging area past the end of the pit buildings always seems to be a place where the coolest cars hang out on any given day. I was feeling a little tingle of anticipation therefore, even though this wasn't actually a Goodwood event. Maybe it was just that my hat was too tight. Nope, it seems that the cosmic law of cool car organisation held firm


Skyline R30 82 r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

At first, a cluster of early Skylines with their mad etched tailights would have been more than enough to draw me in and keep me happy


Skyline R31 Autech 88 r lgt by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

but as I rounded the end of the Iron Mask Skyline (which is quite a long walk, to be fair), something even more downright erotic hove into view


Skyline Kenmeri GTR r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Gnnnggghhh....spaff... was about the limit of my thought processes. An actual KenMeri Skyline. Just about my favourite Japanese car ever. Hnnngh


Skyline Kenmeri GTR by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Skyline Kenmeri GTR d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Skyline Kenmeri GTR r d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

So awesome. Once I got that out of my system (and it took a LOT of photos, believe me) I could calm down enough to finish with its earlier brothers


Skyline R30 82 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Which suddenly seemed a bit... well, ordinary, bless them


Skyline R31 Autech 88 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Especially since there, tucked away in the corner behind the KenMeri was the daddy of them all, the one that really started the Godzilla legend way back when, the Hakosuka


Skyline Hakosuka GTR 71 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Which, exotic as it sounds is rather disappointingly just "three-box" in Japanese. Never mind, an amazing machine but one I was slightly less giddy about simply because I've seen it before


Skyline Hakosuka GTR bay by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

details, details...


Skyline Hakosuka GTR d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Skyline Hakosuka GTR bay d by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Skyline Hakosuka GTR bdg by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Skyline Hakosuka GTR dsh by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

actually, it seems that I took quite a few pics of the Hakosuka too. This was, in fact, a Good Place to Be. No idea what the group were who provided the cars for this area, or if there were many groups or what. But everywhere you looked there were unarguably impressive vehicles


XJ6 93 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I was quite taken with this Zed and its nice, worn exterior but the ridiculous bumpers and overriders were slightly upsetting and took away rather from the front


240Z grey by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

...but from the rear, with that original-style over-under shotgun exhaust and those deep Watanabes(?). Mmmmm, close to perfect


240Z grey r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

And then... and then... gahhh, too much awesome


Charger brown 68 grille by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

yep, best Charger year ('68), best colour (brown, obvs) yet rendered even better with all the accessories you really need to be really cool; extra added Ratfink, handcuffs and errrr... a wooden doormirror


Charger brown 68 ratfink by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Charger brown 68 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Charger brown 68 r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr


Charger brown 68 int by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

With all those nice little added touches it's sometimes easy to miss how cool these things were when they left the factory (leaving aside obvious touches like headlight doors and apolcalyptic engine displacements). This one has one of my favourite Chrysler options; the clock mounted concentric in the rev counter to give what was colloquially known as a tick-tock tach. Oh, come on. It deserves better than that groan! You don't get a sense of fun like that out of car manufacturers today. No? OK, suit yourself. How about some Plymouth then?


Super Deluxe 50 msct by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I love late 40s, early 50s Murican cars. The sense of optimism and invulnerability that infused the nation was never so boldy expressed as in their automobiles, yet it was before the visionary styling gurus such as Exner and Earl and the like took fins and rockets and really ran with them. So we have cars that were massive, amazing and excessively styled but not yet caricatures. Ada found it hard to believe my spiel when we looked around this 1950 Plymouth that this was the entry-level Chrysler in its day, equivalent to an Escort Popular L... although this is the Super Deluxe so maybe an Escort 1300E then. Plymouth was Chrysler's bargain basement marque, built cheap to sell cheap and steal sales from Ford and Chevrolet.

Super Deluxe 50 dsh by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I'll just say that again to let it sink in. This was the entry-level car.

Super Deluxe 50 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

And speaking of cheap utilitarian (!) vehicles that were never supposed to last any amount of time, let alone become expensive, cool or collectible, what represents that more succinctly than the once-humble and now unaffordable VW Commercial?


Bay window white 70 r by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

I bet when Volkswagen replaced the now-iconic splitscreen original Type 2 with the "Bay-window" they had no idea that fifty-something years later one would be into six figures and the other well into five! Bonkers. Mind you, when they look this good, this low, and with a swamp cooler for added fantasticness, it's easy to see why you'd want one.


Bay window white 70 by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Incidentally, how annoying is it when you spend ages trying to get "that" picture (including rolling around on my flabby belly in this instance) and then when you get it in the computer you realise some random undesirable has snuck into the back ground (or, worse, the foreground)? Take a bow, fella, you nearly reduced me to tears of frustration

Tune in to the next thrilling installment when we'll be looking at some more normal(ish) cars owned by normal(ish) people.


That's not true. They're all exceptional

[HoTWire]

Jun 6, 2018 10:14:37 GMT luckyseven said:

No idea what the group were who provided the cars for this area

Skyline line up was me.

Lineup outside the garages was RollHard.

If I can I'd like to have that garage space be given over to different groups to put their best foot forward each year. But we'll see.