Revival is over for another year. The Marcos GT was booked to the Revival Show after last years mishaps. But fate had other ideas. An early start encountered a flat battery (total battery collapse) so after a quick power pack boost to get things running we set off with cautious optimism.
Which lasted until, carefully negotiating one of our villages erratically constructed speed bumps at 2 mph the carefully angled approach resulted in the mid bracket of the exhaust pipe ripping out after a graze.
A rapid discussion ‘Should we proceed?’ and some emergency 6:30 a.m. roadside repairs to detach the tailpipe resulted in a ‘no go’ (possibly not the right choice but days when one or two things go wrong tend to compound further problems to follow, in my experience. Following a short and very noisy drive home to ditch the Marcos we were able to quickly re-pack the F Type and make up lost time.
We arrived in the carparking field with time for a hurried breakfast, luckily remebering the felt hat!
Weather conditions dried out well so some excellent and spirited racing to follow and time for a visit into the Jim Stokes Workshops marquee where some beautifully maintained motors were on show including what I initially thought was a Landrover.
It was apparantly an Italian army ‘rover clone as far as I could determine, every nation seems to have one. There is also a Delahaye ‘Willys Jeep’ I recently encountered!
What else caught my eye? Apart from the racing of course. The French company Atelier Circourt were there showcasing their amazing car sculptures.
I cannot afford one but can only admire the quality of these works of art (calling them car models would never do them justice). Made of resin there are others machined from solid billets of aluminium and, for me, the best of all were highly polished wooden constructions. I have shown a snippet from their catalogue ‘L’essence du Mouvement’ below.
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