Bristol Italian Auto Moto Festival

Paul,

Great pics as always. Forgot all about the event........

Would normally be there!!

Regards,
Phil.

 

Thanks for the pic's Paul

It was a good day out, great cars, weather and company

cheers

Paul

 

Nice pics, Two Lamborghini Islero's not sure I have even seen one yet alone two together!

 

Thank you for posting all those nice pictures!

I spotted an yellow Ghilbli II in one of the pictures, but surely there were a few more Maseratis in Bristol for the event?!

Cheers,
Gabriel

 

Paul - I was down on the list to attend in the Stradale, but the 'organisers' then removed my offer to display due to scaffolding! Think it's a poor show when they even charge £5 to display your own motor.

 

Very nice to see (what seems to be...) a well kept four-door biturbo. Thanks for posting.

Gabriel

 

Hi Paul, i've sent you a couple of PM's but they're not showing on my "message out" box, i'm just checking if you've received them?

Phil

 

For anyone who's interested, more pics of the silver Islero at the show can now be found in the car's own online gallery, here:

http://gallery.me.com/zerog_samples#100122

 

Nice pictures folks!

OK Tommo. you had applied within the last few weeks prior to the event but had not paid your fiver. When I discovered about the scaffolding (no prior warning from the council!) I had to do a review and found that due to the spaces lost we were in fact over subscribed. I therefore had to decline with regret the half dozen or so entrants who had failed to pay. I did explain that this was due to the scaffold, which was beyond our control. As it was, all the streets were very full, just a few places left and had everyone turned up there would have been about 20 cars with no places. If you want to be sure of a place please apply in January! We are usually full by early / mid March but this year was a bit slower, presumably due to the recession.

We had to introduce the entry charge becase we cannot afford to subsidise the event any more. The public liability insurance, printing and posting costs several hundred pounds. All surpluses will be forwarded to Help For Heroes. Suerly a fiver is nothing compared to the cost of Ferrari ownership? Its less than what will we all be paying at other events throughout the year.
Cheers,
PH

 

I just thought you would like to know that as a result of the bucket collection on the day and the surplus from the entry fees we have raised £500 for the charity Help For Heroes.
An interestin article on the Festival may be found here (although a bit down-beat about the Ferraris). http://www.dep-o.co.uk/page1.asp