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The Goodwood Revival Near Chichester, UK is Racing, Vintage Cars, Vintage Bikes and People dressed in Vintage Dress. Most people at the event were dressed in period clothing. What period? Didn't much matter, mostly 40's through the 60's, some 70's and a bit of the flapper period, but there were some great outfits. People put a lot of effort in. Seeing people walking around in the incredible heat and hot sun while wearing mink coats, or wool suits made me hot. So did the mini skirts.
I have found that I can use my stupidity and American Accent to my advantage. After walking or standing around for hours, literally not sitting down for 7 hours, I see something I want to take a photo of. I don't have the right pass, but I go to the entrance anyway. The guards said, "No.... you need a pass. Wait a minute where are you from?" I told them. One says "Well, you've come all this way, you oughta go in and have a look around".
In this paddock were some of the most incredible, rare, beautiful race cars. Famous racers from the 1950's, 1960's and more. Many of these cars were priceless. SO.... WHAT was it that drew me into this area:
THIS.
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A 9 cylinder Radial Engine motorcycle. 
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The machining work is phenomenal. 
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The intake was interesting. 
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The transmission tiny. 
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A phenomenal price as well, that is about $150,000. Not sure if it really is for sale though.
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Anyway, back to the show.
I caught the Spitifires zooming around. Fantastic to see. 
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This was pretty much like any other car show I have ever been to:
Used bikes for sale: 
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Reasonable price too. 
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Other common parts available, these to fix up your V2 rocket, just in case.. 
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License Plates. 
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Crappy T-Shirts and other clothing. 
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Use Cars for sale. 
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This one is only $175,000 
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This one is... interesting. 
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Interesting and most photographed. 
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This one is more standard. 
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Great price too. Although I think this may have been the price when new as it was a recreation of a bintage car dealership. 
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Gotta love the British Attitude. Very civilized. We would probably join in to help, just to be neighborly and all. 
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Oh, Look, some of our stuff is already here. 
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Oh Yeah, Racing. This is supposed to all be about racing. 
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Just a few of the cars that will be racing, or had raced, or something. I am not much into facts and details. 
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Oh Boy, the motorcycle that was driven by that humanitarian butcher Che' Guevara. 
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See, there is proof. 
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And an accurate relating of the story. 
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More or less. 
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Priceless Car. Big Brass Hammer. Sure. 
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Oh, Yeah, Racing, this is supposed to be about racing. I took some videos. Videos suck. 
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Vintage bikes healed over. The way racing should be. This was a two rider race. NO, Not both at the same time, half way through the race they swapped riders. For the victory lap, both the riders were on the bike smoking cigars.. The winners got off and kissed all the girls waiting at the fence. 
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Of course, the Triumph won. 
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There was same car racing too. See the video to see these cars in a controlled, more or less, drift. I think the tires are vintage too. 
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A friend just bought a Mustang. Not this one, but it is the one he should have gotten. 
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Good brakes and engine and suspension in a vintage Mustang. Cool. 
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THIS is a parking lot. All cars from here on were in the parking lot. There was a lot for pre 1969 vehicles, older ones had to park with everyone else (more or less). This lot went on forever. You could walk your legs off here. I did.
OK, who here DID NOT have a car something like this as your first car? 
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Remember, Parking Lot.... 
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Tiny car dwarfed by a Mustang. 
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A Vincent relegated to where the Riffraff park. 
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Oh Yeah, the more modern cars had to park way over here. Mclaren's are considered Riffraff aparently. 
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Yeah, Yeah, Parking Lot..... 
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What you can see, ALL of what you can see is just a portion of the under 1969 parking lot. Really, it was BIG> 
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Did I mention this is a parking lot? 
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The RB.23 - The world's Oldest Working Jet Engine (1943). I can confirm it is a working engine, I saw them start it. Boring as hell in the video, so I did not show that. 
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This was built by Spain in 1949, later set up for the 1968 movie "The Battle of Britain" 
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A few Parachute Troops relaxing. 
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One of the coolest races that I missed used these little pedal cars. Driven by kids. Notice the one painted just like the real car? 
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I took a lot of videos, but none of them came out very well, except for maybe this one.
CAR RACING, WATCH THE SEMI CONTROLLED DRIFT:
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