The Tourist Trophy Garage at the 2009 Goodwood Revival!
Discussion
I'm really pleased to say that this year's Goodwood Revival (18th-20th September 2009) will feature the now traditional and popular period garage feature made out as an approximate representation of the original wooden 1935 Tourist Trophy Garage that was located in Hale Road, within sight of the later and famous one in East Street, Farnham. This of course was originally run by Leslie Hawthorn and later by Mike. Some of us involved with the Mike Hawthorn Tribute Site and the recent Golden Boy book have been and are working closely with Goodwood staff to ensure that the final result is what everyone would expect from a Goodwood period set!
This is being prepared as a way of acknowledging the 50 years since the passing of Mike Hawthorn. Mike obviously had an illustrious and formidable racing career here at Goodwood and they were keen to commemorate that and so came up with this idea.
As well as being set up internally with period spares, signs, photos and so on, there will be up to two period cars on the inside, probably undergoing some 'maintenance', featuring at least one of Mike's original Rileys, plus approximately eight cars outside for visitors to look at that have some relation to Mike up to 1959 when he died.
At the moment these include Mike's original Riley Ulster Imp, his father's original Riley Sprite chassis, a Cooper-Bristol, two Jaguar D-types, his Lancia Aurelia B20, a Ferrari 250 GT (provisional) (driven for a short test by Romolo Tavoni in late 1958) and sold from the garage plus an accurate recreation of Mike's favourite Jaguar Mk 1 saloon - all this in traditional walk round/close up Goodwood fashion.
We'll also have various people there that worked at the garage in East Street between 1950 and 1967 (most with Leslie and/or Mike) and they will be pleased to talk to visitors about the garage and their memories. All members of this forum are especially welcome of course and I'll hopefully be there a fair amount of the time over the three days.
The set is located on the outside of the track itself near to the funfair and traders area (behind the chicane/grandstand) so all visitors to the Revival can see it without needing paddock passes.
Below is the garage set from last year, plus a very young Mike with his father Leslie at the original wooden TT Garage in Hale Road, Farnham, and scenes from the later East Street garage workshop.
This is being prepared as a way of acknowledging the 50 years since the passing of Mike Hawthorn. Mike obviously had an illustrious and formidable racing career here at Goodwood and they were keen to commemorate that and so came up with this idea.
As well as being set up internally with period spares, signs, photos and so on, there will be up to two period cars on the inside, probably undergoing some 'maintenance', featuring at least one of Mike's original Rileys, plus approximately eight cars outside for visitors to look at that have some relation to Mike up to 1959 when he died.
At the moment these include Mike's original Riley Ulster Imp, his father's original Riley Sprite chassis, a Cooper-Bristol, two Jaguar D-types, his Lancia Aurelia B20, a Ferrari 250 GT (provisional) (driven for a short test by Romolo Tavoni in late 1958) and sold from the garage plus an accurate recreation of Mike's favourite Jaguar Mk 1 saloon - all this in traditional walk round/close up Goodwood fashion.
We'll also have various people there that worked at the garage in East Street between 1950 and 1967 (most with Leslie and/or Mike) and they will be pleased to talk to visitors about the garage and their memories. All members of this forum are especially welcome of course and I'll hopefully be there a fair amount of the time over the three days.
The set is located on the outside of the track itself near to the funfair and traders area (behind the chicane/grandstand) so all visitors to the Revival can see it without needing paddock passes.
Below is the garage set from last year, plus a very young Mike with his father Leslie at the original wooden TT Garage in Hale Road, Farnham, and scenes from the later East Street garage workshop.
Edited by mh59 on Saturday 25th July 09:12
AJAX50 said:
Notice you've not got a big Healey in your list of cars there but there is one in the photographs, very happy for you to use mine if you want, I'm going to the Revival in it anyway.
That's good of you, it would be a possibility. The one in the picture is a 100 from sometime between May 53 and August 55 I am told - sorry if that's telling you to suck eggs but I'm not a Healey man! Can't guarantee anything but I'll add you to the list. There's also a Fiat Topolino to add to that list.Have you some pics please and a few details? There are incentives if you loan a car
Tony
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