Beaulieu motor museum

[Mercdan68]

On holiday with my family dads day out today
Have a few pics

[Mercdan68]

[Mercdan68]

In my dreams!!??

[Mercdan68]

A few vintage cars on show in the grounds

[mr2fc]

Brings back memories of a trip I made with wifey (she treated me for my b'day)

Three things...

That mini (3rd pic) is pornography

I remember that red dog or decker, as I was working in St Mary Cray at the time

The hotel we stayed in had the tiniest swimming pool imaginable! You could push off from one side and touch the other almost instantly, and we had to get out when a family of four showed up, as there was literally not enough room for five people in there!

Thanks for the memories...

[Mercdan68]

Yep this part of our country is fantastic
We’re staying 10 miles from beaulieu in a quite fantastic caravan park, my youngest is happy and I’m pleased to get to the car museum

[georgeb]

Jun 22, 2021 14:36:18 GMT mr2fc said:

Brings back memories of a trip I made with wifey (she treated me for my b'day)

That mini (3rd pic) is pornography

Thanks for the memories...

Totally agree on the Mini. Looks wonderful and just little bit ready for action.

Jun 22, 2021 14:49:01 GMT Mercdan68 said:

Yep this part of our country is fantastic
We’re staying 10 miles from Beulieu in a quite fantastic caravan park, my youngest is happy and I’m pleased to get to the car museum

I was last there, ooh, I don't know, in 1966 or 7 on holiday. My uncle owned a hotel in Brockenhurst (gone now - the hotel, not Brockenhurst ) and we did Beaulieu on a day trip. Looks a bit different to how I remember. Half the exhibits wouldn't have been built.

Highlight of the holiday wasn't the museum though, it was a run out on my uncle's friend's ex-WW2 Motor Torpedo Boat. Remember whipping across the Solent at indecent speeds pushed along by three V-12 Packards. Noise, sea, speed. Intoxicating to a 10 or 11-year-old boy!

Revisited the New Forest a few times after and got to agree, it's a lovely part of the world.

[bmcnut]

Great pics of the sheer variety in that museum. Most of my family holidays were in the New Forest and Beaulieu often got a visit, not just the museum but the village as well. Also went to countless autojumbles there, almost got struck by lightening once.

[awoo]

Beaulieu is great, as is the Haynes museum a bit further west.

got a real special look around Beaulieu last time I went. I was looking intently at one of the old Bugattis they had and one of the old guys who works there came up and started talking about it. I said I hoped to see a type 35, as it is one of my all time favourite cars and expected they might have one (I kind of knew they had one...) he said, "come with me..."

followed this bloke out through some doors of the museum with car hating girlfriend in tow, through to the workshop, nothing bad happened... but there was the Bugatti type 35 sitting there with the bonnet up being worked on. got to have a good chat with the guy in there working on the car and have a proper look around it.

got to be up there with one of the best moments ever for me and my girlfriend knew not to roll her eyes on this occasion too which was even better!


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