..blue Daytona is 777FDA Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The BBi in Verde Pino is s/n 43649. An exceptionally rare colour for this model - I can't imagine more than three or four exist. -Ed
Wow. Very rare - the photo was taken in Parson's Green in London, about two doors along from Lambo dealer Heathmans. Here are some more Testarossas - any idea about any of these, as they are mysteries to me? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
G742PGH is s/n 81237 - stolen, burnt out and scrapped in 1999. The 2D plate was on a number of cars owned by D J Green, so I would assume this Testarossa was his, but I don't have a chassis number. -Ed
Just looking through this thread for the first time and to my great surprise, came across this photo of my Spyder after I had it restored by Mototechnique. What worries me is that I simply cannot recall where this was. Image Unavailable, Please Login
To me it looks a lot like the small field behind the Goodwood Cricket Club pavilion. Is that right, Robert? -Ed
Robert took the picture of the lovely Daytona,and Tim remembers being there, I am trying to figure out exactly the situation. I lived/worked within 4 miles of the Goodwood estate. Believe 94 was the first FOS. Very little advertising,but I heard a comment on local radio,so on my way home Friday evening,passed by the Richmond Arms/bottom gate,and about 300yards up on the left drove into a car park,the only one,and I believe this is where the photo was taken. The trees in the distance would line the start straight from the lower gate. What do you think Ed ? I don't go any more. To be comfortable at either FOS or Revival,it costs a fortune. I attended every meeting at Goodwood 1955 - 1963,with my enamel broach,(well my mothers actually) so ...have been there and done it !
That's right, Michael - the left-hand turn into this field is about half way between the Goodwood Hotel and the Molecomb Stud. -Ed
I think this is the area of grass directly in front of The Stables, where the concours is now normally held. In those early years car displays were held there. I was there, but took no photos of the display unfortunately. The first FOS was 1993. Furthermore, and sorry to add to the age problem Tim, but you did not own this car in 1994. You bought it, according to my records on 25 September 1987. It was repossessed from a subsequent owner by Pitney Bowes Finance 1991/92, and sold on to the next owner by me on 3rd February 1993. That person retained the car until sometime in 1995, when he gave it to Maranello Sales on SOR. In an attempt to continue the photo theme, here are a couple of pictures I did take that weekend in 1994, 275 GTB/C #9035 of Paul Vesty and 250 GTO/64 #4399, of Anthony Bamford. Mark Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Still 1994. BRDC Members car park, Silverstone, during June's VSCC Meeting. No idea which cars these are. Mark Image Unavailable, Please Login
More 1994. This time Thruxton for the FOC Test Day, which was late in the year. Yours truly strapping into Nigel Chiltern-Hunt's 512 BB #24477 for a couple of laps. Mark Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is the Ferrari / Aston Martin display in front of The Stables, during the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 1993. Mark Image Unavailable, Please Login
Great photo - FOD 1 is 32517, on the cover of Classic & Sportscar in January 1999 and last heard of in Germany. POP 62 is 50603, regularly spotted in the City of London and still has its Cibie auxiliary light covers. Here are some 365s.. 30 FKH - 16151 - FOC Concours Brocket Hall July 1988 NPJ 65L - 16161 - Birmingham NEC mid 1990s VYR 3 - 14615 - FOC Concours Brocket Hall July 1988 LEY 2 - 12077 -FOC Concours Brocket Hall July 1988 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Just for some fun context, here's Bob Houghton discussing his very first customer car (s/n 5521 GT): "I later met up with David Clarke who owned six Ferraris and had no-one to look after them - I naturally suggested myself. [...] Our dedicated work together caring for his wonderful machines led to us being asked to take on outside work. I still remember our first customer, Mike McQuaker, with a 250 Lusso, which he hand painted in hammerite green!" -Ed SOURCE: http://www.bobhoughtonferrari.co.uk/Bob-Houghton-news/Octane-magazine---a-History-of-Bob-Houghton-Part-1/20.htm
