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[clockwork]

Yesterday I went to Cholmondeley Castle,it`s the first time the event has been run and it attracted a mind boggling array of cars,bikes,boats and helicopters,there were demonstration runs on a large circuit from a diverse selection of bikes and cars from a Napier-Railton(the finest laxative known to man)12 cylinders,3 banks of four,2 litres per pot ,exhausts about 3inch dia and 18 inch long the pops and bangs on lift off made my TVR sound like a drunk with wind,the twin engined Auto Union/Ferrari,Honda 250/6 even a Kurtis just to keep me happy,I shall attempt to show some pics (phone ones)later.Clockwork :)

[WayneB]

Ahhh, John Cobb's Napier-Railton.:)

From a time when real men drove 24 litre aero engined racing cars.:ohmy:

Teriffic stuff.:thumbup:

http://www.sandspeedwales.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/Napier-Railton-Cobb-posed-hangers-39-35a.jpg

[Martin]

Cool, was it an 8 cylinder aero?

[WayneB]

Napier Lion W12 my man!:icon18:

V8s are for girly men.:lol:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Napier_Lion_W12_%40_Brooklands_Museum.JPG/800px-Napier_Lion_W12_%40_Brooklands_Museum.JPG

[clockwork]

What a beastie!and just to re-inforce the fact that you need twelve cylinders,this poor chap only had six so had to take a spare! http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t347/clockwork012/DSC00014.jpg http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t347/clockwork012/DSC00016.jpg sorry they are big, feel free to shrink.Clockwork :yes:

[WayneB]

Isnt the Alfa Romeo Bimotore owned by Tom Wheatcroft?:huh:

I saw it at the Donnington Collection a couple of years ago.:)

[clockwork]

Yes,it was owned by Tom,now owned by corporate entities with some kind of trust deal.Clockwork :)

[WayneB]

The Inland Revenue isnt after Mr.Wheatcroft I hope.:crying:

[clockwork]

Sold up and taken the presidents job of the new company !Clockwork :yes:

[Brian Skeoch]

great pictures. I have never seen the Napier. Love the Alfa tho.

while watching the Russia / Georgia crisis I saw the remains of an olf Alfa 4 door in the news. the Alfa 4 door looks like a early 70's car. it was brown and had been smashed by bomb fall out.

pretty neat seeing an Alfa in Georgia of all places.

[Autocross7]

great pictures. I have never seen the Napier. Love the Alfa tho.

while watching the Russia / Georgia crisis I saw the remains of an olf Alfa 4 door in the news. the Alfa 4 door looks like a early 70's car. it was brown and had been smashed by bomb fall out.

pretty neat seeing an Alfa in Georgia of all places.

Quite a few Alfa's and Fiats in Russia. Fiats are especially easy to locate there...

Cameron

[WayneB]

The 'Fiats' you see in the eastern block countries are actually Ladas and Polski Fiats , which were made after the communist countries bought the defunct tooling for the Fiat 124 from the Italians. They dont use the Fiat engine though, just the horrible home grown units.

Fiats were also made in Spain and called Seat's (pronounced See At).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Polski_Fiat_125p.jpg/800px-Polski_Fiat_125p.jpg

[Brian Skeoch]

this looks like the one I saw in the news but the one I saw had the Alfa grill which was all bent out of shape . darn shame.