Another new member from Kent

decapman · Post by **decapman** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:25 pm

Hi all,
I am Marcus From Kent.
Now owner of a lovely RHD red 1967S. Just de livered this weekend to Nick Moss to be resprayed in its original light Ivory plus a little bit more light fetling.

Looking forward to meeting some of you at events like Goodwood Breakfast club, revival, Headingham etc.

Marcus

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:37 pm

welcome.

whats going on in Kent ? has Nick Moss been on a early porsche/DDK recruitment drive or something?

hope to meet you at one of the events. 2008 is going to be a buzy year

left4dead · Post by **left4dead** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:40 pm

Welcome Marcus!

That's a lovely '67 you got there, btw.

Ferry Man · Post by **Ferry Man** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:50 pm

Hi Marcus.
Glad to see you're going back to the ivory. Should look great.

Yet another member in the Kent chapter. That county alone should outnumber the northerners soon.

decapman · Post by **decapman** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:05 pm

Hi Paul
We met briefly with Steve and Nick Moss at the Silverstone classic in the Bonhams tent.
I was rather tempted by that RHD rustheap 1965 911
my favourite colour combo, Slate grey and a red interior.Scary car though!

Marcus

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:37 pm

Hi & welcome

Ferry Man wrote:
Yet another member in the Kent chapter. That county alone should outnumber the northerners soon.

Oi cheeky ... we go for quality over quantity

, the ones who don't make the grade we send down south

Ferry Man · Post by **Ferry Man** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:45 pm

hot66 wrote:the ones who don't make the grade we send down south

Shouldn't be long before we hear from Ian.
Did he move to Kent?

Ferry Man · Post by **Ferry Man** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:47 pm

decapman wrote:Hi Paul
We met briefly...

Oh dear, I wish I'd been nice to you now.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:37 pm

Hi Marcus, and welcome

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elkelk · Post by **elkelk** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:57 pm

Welcome to the site, i'm also based in Kent, I might have to sell the car and get something rarer like a Mondeo.....

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:23 pm

Welcome to DDK Marcus.

As for the northerners/Southeners debate: just bear in mind that the midlanders have the schwing-vote

Great that you bring your car back to light ivory: a very underrated colour...

As you know, in the olden days each nation had their colour to distinguish their cars:
Italy: Red,
France: Blue,
Belgium: yellow (incidentally the ferrari Giallo as Jaques Swaters' Garage Francorchamps in Brussels was the first importer outside of Italy of ferrari's and the belgian racing colour was kind of adopted by ferrari),
UK: British racing green and
Germany: white. (the silberpfeil mercs were originally white but were 2 kgs over the allowed weight limit. Therefore Racing manager Neubauer said: strip the buggers to bare alloy and get on with it. Hence the confusion)

Porsche still has a tradition to deliver their racing cars in white, albeit these days it is GP white.

That light ivory is a hothothot colour, imho.

All the best,

Bert

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:24 pm

woops double post.

B

Nick Moss · Post by **Nick Moss** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:08 pm

Welcome Marcus

Please don't give him ideas like that Bert!

decapman · Post by **decapman** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:05 pm

Thanks for all the kind words guys, I feel I am in friendly territory.
Bert, I think in this months Octane there is an interesting article about the paint stripping story on the racing mercs, appears it may be apocraphyl.

Went to See Steve H's (left4dead) new silver 2.4S yesterday, stunning.

Looking forward Nick to seeing the results of your hard work, good to see you last weekend.

Marcus

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:42 pm

decapman wrote:I think in this months Octane there is an interesting article about the paint stripping story on the racing mercs, appears it may be apocraphyl.

Wouldn't be the first time that scibents have their facts wrong: so let's quote the man himself:

NEUBAUER, Alfred; Speed was my life; edited and translated by Stewart Thomson and Charles Meisl with a forward by Stirling Moss; 1960 London: Barrie and Rockliff.

page 55: Describing the chapter "carracciola crashes" Neubauer noted down for may 1934, the International Race at the Nuerburgring circuit:

"Then on the very eve of the race I received a second shock. When our cars were weighed they were found to be too heavy. No more than one kilo over the prescribed 750, but that was enough. And even to reduce weight by one kilo seemed impossible, for there was nothing on the car that could be dispensed with. But a chance remark by von Brauchitsch gave me my inspiration. The whole night was spend removing the glossy white paint from the Silver Arrows. Next morning, they turned the scales at 750 kilos exactly.
And a few hours later von Brauchitsch clocked up the first victory for the new Mercedes racing-car. "

Can you tell I'm working from home today?

Now, to be fair the man Neubauer was larger than life in more than just the litteraly sense.

Reading his book, it is clear that he likes a good story. But the story is not of doubtful authority or authenticity....

All the best,

Bert