People, I’m back. I’ve seen amazing things this weekend & experienced a positivity so foreign to us twitteratis & politicos, I’m almost embarrassed to log back on to twitter.
So, if everybody here will stop yelling at each other for a sec, I have some great stories to tell.
My dad and I visited the 25th @fosgoodwood this weekend, an annual hill climb/car show in southern England.
With 150,000 visitor PER DAY is is one of the largest (if not the) event for petrolheads like my dad and I.
#GoodwoodFOS was started by Lord March in 1993 after his gramps built a race track at his estate. Today it also features a rallye track, an off-road park, a 🐎 racecourse, an organic farm, an airfield, restaurants & a hotel. 550 people work there.
Isn’t that just fantastic?
Oh yeah, and a golf course.
The Festival of Speed is the annual highlight at the estate (next to @goodwoodrevival & the members meeting), bringing drivers and cars from all over the world to Goodwood. Literally everything from 1900 until 2018 was on display.
After I went to @goodwoodrevival with my friend @DWilloch in 2012, I knew I had to take my dad there one day.
So this year he turned 70 and my family and I decided to get him some tickets and a neat little surprise:
An HMC Mark IV, a car inspired by the Austin Healey 3000
In 1985 the brothers Holmes started the Healey Motor Company and four years later produced the first Mark IV, based on old designs for the Healey MkIII.
They produced some 160 cars, which today are sought after collectors pieces.
Amazing what people do.
So in this we set out for four days of burned petrol, rubber and English sausages. But we found so much more than that.
The first sight were about half a dozen helicopters roaring over our heads at the parking lot. More than I’ve ever seen in one place.
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