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Re: The Beast of Turin
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2014, 03:45:26 AM »
Here's a link to Artist Stefan Marjoram's page on Vimeo, well worth adding to your Favourites list. There's a fantastic six minute piece on Thrust2 with Richard Noble stirring emotions with in the drivers-seat stories of the project and record attempts.

http://vimeo.com/smarjoram

Think I've watched most of Stefan's vids two or three times, good to see his talent and passion dedicated to documenting the Bloodhound project.
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Re: The Beast of Turin
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2015, 04:37:20 AM »
If anybody is heading over here for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, you'll get to see the S76 run. Lord March looks suitably impressed from the passenger seat as it runs up the drive from his house.

https://grrc.goodwood.com/festival-of-speed/video-legendary-28-litre-fiat-s76-driven-for-the-first-time-in-100-years#ZsZKR35bM9cTsTzt.97

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Re: The Beast of Turin
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2015, 09:32:02 AM »
How phucking cool is that! Thank's Mate.
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Re: The Beast of Turin
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2015, 11:09:14 AM »
If anybody is heading over here for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, you'll get to see the S76 run. Lord March looks suitably impressed from the passenger seat as it runs up the drive from his house.

https://grrc.goodwood.com/festival-of-speed/video-legendary-28-litre-fiat-s76-driven-for-the-first-time-in-100-years#ZsZKR35bM9cTsTzt.97

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And as we pan away from the pastoral scene of the sequestered manor house, we note a Fiat with the hood up, expelling a trail of liquids on the paver bricks . . .

But yes, when it runs, it's ferocious!   
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll:

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Re: The Beast of Turin
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2015, 12:30:41 PM »
And if you are over here on July 21st then go to Pendine Sands where Don Wales will be running his grandfather's recently rebuilt Sunbeam 350hp Bluebird. Even better, it will be joined by John Cobb's Napier Railton that set all  those distance records at Bonneville. It did run at Pendine but only for the film Pandora and The Flying Dutchman. Check it out on YouTube, it's hilarious. Parry Thomas's Liberty engined Babs is at the museum there every summer so things could be really interesting. Now if we could just persuade them to invite Duncan with S76 and his friend Mark Walker with the Darracq V8 that would be quite an LSR line up.

http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/english/education/museums/museumofspeed/pages/museumofspeed.aspx

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Re: The Beast of Turin
« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2015, 05:45:38 AM »
Well we were hoping to get to Goodwood for the FOS, but, alas, they have sold out. However, I may just take the old Vinny down for a ride and then have a wander around the car park. I have heard that that in itself is worth a trip. Perhaps we can get there next year instead.
Otherwise I will just have to make do with watching it on the telly, again!

One year. One year I will actually get in to the festival, or maybe the revival meet.