Editorial

Welcome back after our short summer break. We’ve an early report on Pebble Beach 2006 and hope to follow this up with an overview of the auction and racing action next week.

Next Friday will of course be the opening day of the 2006 Goodwood Revival. As always I’m really looking forward to this, having my appetite well and truly visited by seeing one of the front-running Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy Celebration entries just emerged from some serious restoration and race preparation work, and you can read about this highly desirable car in the feature on DK Engineering below.

And talking of highly desirable GTs the day’s driving I had in the Factory ‘30,000 Mile’ V8 Vantage was tremendous fun, and sharing the drive not only made it slightly easier on the concentration but also a chance to debate the merits of the small coupé, argue over the route (not really, the sat-nav was spot-on), admire the scenery etc, etc. I understand it was washed the very nice next day in order for an important trip to the continent – I trust my signature is still on the roof!

Hoping to see you at Goodwood next week, until then.

Steve Wakefield Managing Editor sw@classicdriver.com