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Write for schedule and rates. © 2017 Jaguar Clubs of North America, Inc. www.jcna.com NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2017 3 NEWS & VIEWS Blowin’ Smoke “Moving the goalposts” Peter Crespin I don’t know whether the phrase ‘bucket list’ became popular before the eponymous movie, or afterwards. I think in strict chronology it must have come before Messrs. Nicholson and Freeman strutted their stuff, but either way, it’s such a catchy term I guess a few of us have informal bucket or ‘to do’ lists that inform our decision-making in some respects. I don’t have a true As the rain fell harder, the smiles grew bucket list, but had always wanted to broader. Goodwood was wet! visit the Goodwood Revival. I attended the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the is trying to conjure up some catchy Dick’s Lynx XKSS displayed at the dealer E-Type’s 50th year (2011) but attending slogans connected with the weather, where he bought his F-TYPE. the Revival had just never worked out. especially as Saturday and especially This year I finally got there, thanks to a Sunday were also afflicted. However, IN HARMS WAY niece’s wedding bringing me to the UK if you decide to go, be assured that A few years ago, when the F-TYPE Coupe in September. Plus I had an E-Type to you’ll have a great time regardless. was launched, I got a message from Gary drive, loaned for a week by former JJ Lots of people – especially the women Cunningham that he had interviewed an columnist Angus Moss. Thanks, Angus. – really go to town on their appearance amazing character named Dick Harms, and you feel you’re walking on a film who in his old age had just become WEBBED FEET AN set from the 1930s and 1940s. Keep one of the first people to buy an F-TYPE ADVANTAGE an eye on www.goodwood.com for fixed head. Oh, and by the way, he also the Revival dates next year (Festival of In one respect, my time at Goodwood had an XKSS… Then a year or so after Speed is 17-18 March 2018). was a washout, literally. With a classy that, as the entry list took shape for the last Western States, at Elkhart Lake in sports jacket, new flat cap and slacks, SEEN AT ITS WORST, I was correctly dressed for the event Wisconsin, it seemed Dick was going to but completely incorrectly for the GOODWOOD IS STILL bring the Lynx XKSS and run it on the weather, which was very ‘British’, AKA MESMERIZING. track, if not in a full race. Once again, I wet. Spread over three days (with I once rode 500 miles in poor weather to was straining at the leash to meet this rumors of a fourth next year to ease visit the Carolina club’s Little Switzerland gentleman, but fate conspired against it. crowding) I chose the first day, Friday, concours. By the time I left for the return Maybe the IJF in North Georgia this year, for my debut. Much of the time was trip after three days, I still had not seen I reasoned, but it was not to be. As you spent running between vendor tents to anything beyond the hotel parking lot, will read elsewhere, instead of writing stay dry. At least there were aluminum due to constant low cloud and rain. up his life story, Gary had the bitter task walkways over the worst pathways and Strangely enough, the experience just of composing his obituary. Dick had a the pits were somewhat covered by left me wanting to go again and soak ‘good innings’ as they say in the UK. He small flat roofs, meaning the shelters in the event properly. Goodwood is the lived life to the full and has left those who soon filled with people. Staying dry same – it’s technically crossed off my knew him with many happy memories. I was a good reason to observe the bucket list, but I’m keen to go back to am sad to have missed my chance. Dick’s exotic race machinery all around us, see the real deal and enjoy it even more. custom plate read ‘FYNLRYD.’ He was a although space was tight and we had If you find yourself in the UK or Europe spiritual man and it seems he was ready to give the owners/mechanics room around the time of either Goodwood for it. RIP, Dick Harms. to twirl their wrenches. Nevertheless, event, I recommend them highly if you the mood stayed remarkably buoyant like sports machinery being used as throughout, which probably boils down designed. For a more modern hill-climb to Brits being used to rain and not theme and a mix of new/old machines, allowing it to spoil a good day out. try the Festival, but for hot historic circuit competition as the oldies exchange paint Given that rain is an ever-present risk, at high speeds, it has to be the Revival. one imagines Goodwood’s ad agency Just be sure to pack an umbrella. 4 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2017 JANUARY 18 +1 (415) 391 4000, West Coast Scottsdale, Arizona +1 (212) 461 6514, East Coast [email protected] AZ CONSIGNMENTS INVITED Ex Bob Jane - 1963 Australian GT Championship Winning 1963 JAGUAR E-TYPE LIGHTWEIGHT COMPETITION Sold for $7,370,000 bonhams.com/quail NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2017 )VUOHTZ )\[[LYÄLSKZ(\J[PVULLYZ*VYW(SSYPNO[ZYLZLY]LK)VUK5V):).3 NEWS & VIEWS News Shorts SAYER? SHURELY SHOME MISHTAKE? Demountable steering wheels packed heritage references are big business you need to hop in your own car and with electronics are compulsory fitment these days.