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Sunday, 2 August 2026

Breakfast of Kings

 It's been a busy holiday period, with a wonderful trip to France (again) and a long weekend in Cornwall for my mums 80th birthday,  so little driving until today - the Goodwood breakfast club.

I've been a couple of times in the past and it is always impressive, especially as it is free and today was no exception. Part of the reason I like it is the route down there - lots of B-roads to stretch Barry's legs.

The place was heaving, with a surprisingly large number of fairly dull cars from my childhood in the 80s - Fiestas, Golf's etc. They were all immaculate so people are obviously restoring and garaging these, sorry, very boring cars 😀

But some of the other stuff - wow!!! Double figures for the number of E-types, 3 or 4 DB5s and 4s, bucket loads of Triumph Stags, TR6s, TR4s, even a TR3 I didn't know existed. I tried to be restrained and only take pictures of cars I hadn't seen before but even that meant a lot:



This is a 1950 Cadillac Healey, whatever the hell that is:





An Auto Union ie. early Audi:



Mm, mmm, mmmm - look at those bonnet bulges:





This is a Montevardi 375 - the owner was just driving off and it sounded beautiful:



Possibly my 2 faves of the day:



....and. Stanley steam powered thing - check out the controls in the cabin:



A glorious half day out with a fun drive there and back.