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billy964 wrote:was going to roll along in freshly repainted bLimey (75)... do i still need a 20 quid ticket to park in the field??

you might want to email them as in theory tickets are only currently for cars upto 73

billy964 wrote:was going to roll along in freshly repainted bLimey (75)... do i still need a 20 quid ticket to park in the field??

First ticket release is for KG (pre 1973). Later ticket releases will be for later cars but likely to be £20 too.

Booked! See y'all there.

Booked too

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Booked for the 356.

For a moment I asked myself if £20, 7 and a half hours driving and a 440 mile return journey is really what I want to do for an event that’s ‘in the same low key scenario as the first event’ but then Hedingham was where my 356 first saw the light of day, albeit only half built, and some emotion or other kicked in.


In 2011 I joined the Roger Bray crew for the trailer drive up there.






It was my first time there, and to me the atmosphere, and the turnout left a large impression. It was the first time I’d been amongst significant numbers of early Porsche - attending 356 Internationals and other Porsche events had still to come.




We unloaded the night before, after Roger’s team set up their display areas.

On the day, the car was displayed with a mirror beneath so you could see the chassis and construction details.




This was my first initiation into one of the joys of 356 ownership, in as much that so many people wanted to talk about it, and many recalled memories of others they’d either owned or wished they’d owned. Pretty much everyone wanted to know the colour. It’s a little less unusual now, but back then, it was a rare sight.



I was interested in what response it would get. Roger always chastised me for choosing Graphite Metallic - he thought it was too much like a modern Citroen or some such. I shouldn’t have worried, people loved it. I also got the impression that many there were not Porsche owners, or PCGB members but had come to see the spectacle, and were clearly being dangerously sucked in to the possibility of ownership.



Later I wandered round all the other cars there - fabulous line-ups of early 356’s and 911’s, many displayed with good information. Bizarrely I was so ‘356’ in those days, I didn’t even contemplate eventual ownership of an early 911, but the colours were knockout.





At the tail end of the day I remember vividly that the weather broke, and there was a spell of torrential rain, and looking back I see the camera doesn’t lie!




So that was my first Hedingham, and it’s why I’ll return again. Maybe some others of you have far earlier memories and pictures. It would be good to see and hear them, perhaps by way of a build up to the day.

I have to admit, I'm not sure. 640-mile return journey (more if I go via Delwyn's and, as usual, act as his mobile AA repair man...), overnight accommodation, etc etc. Or Wiscombe hillclimb on the same weekend. Hmmm.

Yup. Tough one that. You doing Goodwood Revival the next weekend?

jeremyg wrote:Yup. Tough one that. You doing Goodwood Revival the next weekend?

Not sure as the Members' Meeting is not long after, and I already have tickets for that. To me a much better meeting, with fewer spectators and more emphasis on racing.

KS wrote:

jeremyg wrote:Yup. Tough one that. You doing Goodwood Revival the next weekend?

Not sure as the Members' Meeting is not long after, and I already have tickets for that. To me a much better meeting, with fewer spectators and more emphasis on racing.

+1 members meeting for me - better racing - less poseurs,

KS wrote:I have to admit, I'm not sure. 640-mile return journey (more if I go via Delwyn's and, as usual, act as his mobile AA repair man...), overnight accommodation, etc etc. Or Wiscombe hillclimb on the same weekend. Hmmm.

I liked that time everyone came to Cambridge the day before and all went out on a jolly in the evening.

That should happen again.

You could all camp in the shell of my half-built house.

Sam wrote:

KS wrote:I have to admit, I'm not sure. 640-mile return journey (more if I go via Delwyn's and, as usual, act as his mobile AA repair man...), overnight accommodation, etc etc. Or Wiscombe hillclimb on the same weekend. Hmmm.

I liked that time everyone came to Cambridge the day before and all went out on a jolly in the evening.

That should happen again.

You could all camp in the shell of my half-built house.

That was funny night

anglophone1 wrote:

KS wrote:

jeremyg wrote:Yup. Tough one that. You doing Goodwood Revival the next weekend?

Not sure as the Members' Meeting is not long after, and I already have tickets for that. To me a much better meeting, with fewer spectators and more emphasis on racing.

+1 members meeting for me - better racing - less poseurs,

Not sure about the racing - I’ve seen some brilliant close races at the Revival, and frozen through many at the MM! But I agree about the crowds. Who couldn’t?

As they don’t have to stick to the pre-66 of the Revival you can get a lot more variety- the 917/ 512 demo for example. My brother has been going since the beginning ( although like me is missing it this year) and reckons he has seen every Pre-66 race car that can possibly attend

AG and public tickets now available

https://www.porscheclubgb.com/events/20 ... the-castle

I plan to be at Hedingham, Revival and MM. Looking forward to them all!