Retromobile 2003
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Hi All
There's still time to get to Retromobile 2003 in Paris. It closes next Sunday and Seafrance are offering £69 crossings with 3 free bottles of wine as part of their Valentine Weekend excursion promotion.
This year's show's centrepiece is the record-breakers display. The poster sites around the Peripherique are emblazoned with this year's poster portraying Donald Campbell's Bluebird with both the Union and Australian flags on its nose. Star of the show for me was Seagrave's Golden Arrow, the Napier engined projectile on tyres that I wouldn't trust at 75 let alone 200mph. Sunbeam, Renault and Citroen record cars are present as well. There's a large display by Christies with many RR, Bentley, Jaguar and Bugatti supercars. MG are well represented with cars all over the show- I've never seen better MGA TwinCams, also TC and TFs. The car I wanted to drive home this year was an Alpine with 3 litre engine although the Maserati 3200GT racer also appealed. The Michelin tyre making demo was missing this year, its space taken by a display of "50 years of Corvettes".
The show is bursting at the seams now with hordes of dealers of model cars as well as the real thing. Very little space for boats either- just a few examples of classic speedboats. Still space for a number of military vehicles including "jeeps" from Peugeot and Delahaye. I picked up a flyer from a French publication offering a 1/43rd scale model of Tintin's jeep from "Destination Moon" by Herge for 3E40 but only to a French address- there's probably a tie-in to a part work as well.
We paid 52p per litre for diesel and brought home the usual wine, cheese and coffee groceries. Weather was cool and misty but dry- an easy drive making good time with the 82mph speed limit on the toll roads.
Going back next year??? You bet !!!
Cheers
Ian
There's still time to get to Retromobile 2003 in Paris. It closes next Sunday and Seafrance are offering £69 crossings with 3 free bottles of wine as part of their Valentine Weekend excursion promotion.
This year's show's centrepiece is the record-breakers display. The poster sites around the Peripherique are emblazoned with this year's poster portraying Donald Campbell's Bluebird with both the Union and Australian flags on its nose. Star of the show for me was Seagrave's Golden Arrow, the Napier engined projectile on tyres that I wouldn't trust at 75 let alone 200mph. Sunbeam, Renault and Citroen record cars are present as well. There's a large display by Christies with many RR, Bentley, Jaguar and Bugatti supercars. MG are well represented with cars all over the show- I've never seen better MGA TwinCams, also TC and TFs. The car I wanted to drive home this year was an Alpine with 3 litre engine although the Maserati 3200GT racer also appealed. The Michelin tyre making demo was missing this year, its space taken by a display of "50 years of Corvettes".
The show is bursting at the seams now with hordes of dealers of model cars as well as the real thing. Very little space for boats either- just a few examples of classic speedboats. Still space for a number of military vehicles including "jeeps" from Peugeot and Delahaye. I picked up a flyer from a French publication offering a 1/43rd scale model of Tintin's jeep from "Destination Moon" by Herge for 3E40 but only to a French address- there's probably a tie-in to a part work as well.
We paid 52p per litre for diesel and brought home the usual wine, cheese and coffee groceries. Weather was cool and misty but dry- an easy drive making good time with the 82mph speed limit on the toll roads.
Going back next year??? You bet !!!
Cheers
Ian
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