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Driving A Silver Arrow Though The Heart Of Vintage Racing
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What I stumbled upon is, quite literally, the stuff of legends.
I’d have been no more flummoxed if Noah’s Ark had floated past on a river of rainbows skippered by a pair of unicorns.
I had heard, off in the distance, a rumbling I couldn’t quite place. I’d know the basstone of overhead-valve V8 mills from America if I heard them in my sleep, and a quick pinch to the fleshy part of my forearm proved that I was, for better or for worse, wide awake. No, not from America.
The sound continued, louder and more insistent as more engines were fired; clearly not the shriek that accompanies the spinning guts of an Italian 12-cylinder engine, either. And then the unmistakable whine of a supercharger. My walk turned into a quick jog, and then an all-out sprint.
I went out in search of the mysteriously glorious sound of internal combustion. What I stumbled upon is, quite literally, the stuff of legends. It’s true: One-horned horses have managed to master the art of ark wrangling. How else could I be seeing a brace of open-wheel Silver Arrows, shivering with every percussion of compression, all hailing from 1934 to 1939 and ready to race? I must be at the [Goodwood Revival](http://autoblog.com/tag/goodwood revival).Continue reading Checking the Goodwood Revival off my bucket list
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