Post FOS carnage

[northo]

Pity we poor exhibitors. This was the scene on Monday.























Quality number plate

[northo]

Plenty of people got stuck - they only had a limited number of tractors to pull people out. It just tipped it down for the whole day

[bluesatin]

Is the boat for towing the cars out?

[RedCabbage]

I left at gone 6pm on Sunday in a rwd car with no real problems - careful driving and a little luck.

[RedCabbage]

frazer guest said:

RedCabbage said:

I left at gone 6pm on Sunday in a rwd car with no real problems - careful driving and a little luck.

Had you managed to park near one of the car-park exits, or where you in the middle of the field?

Not especially close, as you've seen on my other posts the car got sprayed with mud from everyone else struggling to get out before we came back to the car. Some people with fwd cars and even 4x4's decided 3,000rpm/1st gear was the only way out!

We decided to leave late to avoid all the stop/start driving in the mud.

Edited by RedCabbage on Friday 29th June 21:23

[TimmyArt]

Looking around the site, our row of tents were exposed to the worst of it just up to the left of the top/4th photo. I was unconvinced that we'd get the van out if we took it down there so we walked all the paintings up to the van in the carpark. Big workout (in the rain) - all the pics stayed dry though luckily. When we where leaving I struggled to move the van in the carpark and quite alot of lorries/vans were getting stuck...people pushing 7.5ton lorries

Edited by TimmyArt on Monday 2nd July 08:57

[northo]

frazer guest said:

TimmyArt said:

Looking around the site, our row of tents were exposed to the worst of it just up to the left of the top/4th photo. I was unconvinced that we'd get the van out if we took it down there so we walked all the paintings up to the van in the carpark. Big workout (in the rain) - all the pics stayed dry though luckily. When we where leaving I struggled to move the van in the carpark and quite alot of lorries/vans were getting stuck...people pushing 7.5ton lorries

Edited by TimmyArt on Monday 2nd July 08:57

Its pathetic isnt it? The Earl can organise the cream of motorsport to turn up for a bash in his grounds, but for the 2nd year running, cant organise metal roadways.

There is plenty of hardstanding on site - however you just run out of space when all the exhibitors and contractors turn up at the same time to break their stands down....

[esv683]

I think that after all the controversy Goodwood should issue an official explanation for the lack of wet weather preparation.

[Mattt]

O/T - but just realised I had a good look round your tent Timmy - some great work!

[TimmyArt]

Mattt said:

O/T - but just realised I had a good look round your tent Timmy - some great work!

Thanks I have contacted the organisers re - more metal walkways etc, also to try to restrict non motor/motor racing Walford market style T-shirt sellers

[andyuk911]

mud lovely mud, glad I went Friday

[ridds]

northo said:

Quality number plate

I worked at JCB for a while and everyone of their pool cars runs a JCB plate. They're also all white, used to be Vauxhalls when I was there, not sure what they have now.

Imagine the cost of transferring all the plates every 3 years!

[360boy]

JCB have one of the largest collections of company number plates in the UK.
As well as a lot of the later prefixed JCB plates, they own JCB 1-10 plus dozens of other "proper" JCB numbers.