my non-Porsche picture of the day

[Lightweight_911]

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Yes, it's Eric Brandon exiting the Esses in one of the prototype Coopers - T3 - in 1946 ...

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[jb]

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[Ian Comerford]

Lovely!

[Lightweight_911]

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Unusual to see 2 Ghiblis together (especially when one's a Spyder) other than at a Maserati specialist's - is that at the airfield where you keep your plane ?

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[jb]

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Unusual to see 2 Ghiblis together (especially when one's a Spyder) other than at a Maserati specialist's - is that at the airfield where you keep your plane ?

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Yes
It was a while ago but one of the auction houses did a photo shoot on the airfield.

[sng45]

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60 miles this afternoon - great car !


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[Lightweight_911]

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That's Tom's (Tp81) old car isn't it ?


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[sng45]

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That's Tom's (Tp81) old car isn't it ?


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That's right - I bought it from him about five years ago. Tom had it restored by Alfaholics ( it's also got a lot of their tuning bits , suspension etc fitted ) the only thing that hadn't been done when I got it was the engine, so I had it fully rebuilt by Peter Smart Classic Alfas a couple of years ago. It's a fantastic car.

I occasionally think about selling it, then I go for a drive and change my mind immediately !

[veryporky]

The only car I ever regretted selling was my 105 2000 GTV

[Lightweight_911]

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In the days (mid '70's in this case) when Astons were used as daily drivers ...

[911hillclimber]

John would drive this to the hill climbs, thrash it and drive happily home.
His wife the same, her car next to the '250'.

He recently went into space....

[Lightweight_911]

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From memory that's one of GTO Engineering's 'toolroom copies' - using a 250 GTE donor ... lovely.

I remember seeing it at one of Brightwell's auctions early last year & thinking "if only ..."

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[911hillclimber]

Yes, it was from the #red# stable of Jon Goodwin, part of his well used Ferrari collection.

He offered me the keys for a test drive in it a few years ago, but I didn't want the responsibility.
He used to regularly race it in the UK Ferrari Hillclimb Challenge.

A very nice gent.
Famously went into space last year or the year before, Olympic level competitor back in the day, walked all over the highest peaks across the world, and a lot more, quite a CV.