The Goodwood Revival - 9
Vintage Support Vehicles

The atmosphere at a top rank historic event is helped in huge part by having the appropriate machinery in the paddock - not just the racing machinery, but also the support machinery that has such a major part to play in the racing action.

Typically the Goodwood Revival hadn’t missed this trick either – modern transporters were parked discreetly behind hangars and fencing, well out of sight, with the contemporary rescue vehicles also ready to go but out of immediate sight, leaving period fire tenders and tow trucks in plain view.

Course cars? How about a stunning Ford Thunderbird droptop, with a quartet of GT40s including the original prototype!

In the paddock itself there were elderly but immaculate Land Rovers aplenty to assist those in need of……..assistance! And of course there were the team support vehicles themselves, a lovely old Alfa Romeo estate presenting support of a brace of Alfa entrants in the St Mary’s Cup, a fabulous period panel van providing appropriate support for Elva Sports Cars and a quartet of wonderful race transporters scattered around the paddock - the infamous coachbuilt Ecurie Ecosse Commer taking pride of place, but with a beautiful recreation of the 1955 BMC factory transporter parked nearby, alongside a very evocative 1960s/70s coach conversion.

Alongside in the outer paddock was the wonderfully restored 1969 Leyland Worldmaster, previous owner Mr K Tyrrell: wonderful stuff.