Club Arnage

Anyone got a clue as to this year's theme?

GBW web site still has 2008 info.

There's usually some knowledgeable folks around here with a bit of 'inside info'  ;)

Cheers,

TC

I do indeed know and am sworn to secrecy for the moment.  However, think of a car which is celebrating its 100th birthday this year.   ;)

Oh crap T-Fords or was their centenary last year?  ;)

Lagonda? :)

And had four consecutive wins at LM, perhaps.

Perhaps - Lagonda first built a four-wheeled car in 1909, but were founded in 1899 and started building cars in 1906.

Aston Martin are apparently celebrating Lagondas 100th anniversary this year, so could tie in.

Well that rules out Morgan then ;D

Ummmm....

There's a few 100th anniversaries being celebrated around about now, depends on how much latitude is allowed.

Evinrude outboard motors for instance, 2009 is there centenary year - some of the weather I've experienced over the years suggests they SHOULD have had a LM entry! - but I don't think it's them  :P

Harley Davidson are celebrating 100 years of their V twin engine, not much of a bike aficionado, so not sure if there's a LM connection, but it ain't a car!

GM has just celebrated their 100th, but that's not 'a car', so much as a brand. That said, there was a special edition 100th anniversary  Corvette made, and there's a definite LM connection there, and a LM history with Cadillac (very fond memories of the safety cars a few year ago - best sounding motors on the track!).

Now the prospect of  an Aston Martin - Lagonda theme really gets the juices flowing, absolute heaven. But the dates are a little on the flexible side, so that's got to be a definite maybe! :)

It you take Termi's words literally, looks like the 'Dagenham Dustbin's ' Yankee forefather it could be then - damn!  :(

Termi - you wicked tease, you can tell me, I wouldn't tell another living soul (no one I know has a soul, they all sold them to a old chap called Nick years ago!  >:D)

TC

I believe Woolworths are (would have been) 100 years old in 2009  ::)

Surely its a Harley theme?  There's never a lack of them at least...
Although they're hardly "Great British"......

Well if the 4 consecutive wins hint by Kpy is anything to go by then it must be Bentley, Alfa Romeo or Audi. (forget about Ferrari and Porsche for the moment).

Audi is 100 years (of production under various names) in 2009
Alfa Romeo is 100 years in 2010 iirc
Bentley is of a later date.

somebody tickle Termie and get us some answers here  ;)

Audi must be a favourite given their involvement over the last decade, plus the dates seem to fit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi)
http://www.audi.co.uk/audi/uk/en2/about_audi_ag/history/chronicle/chronicle_1899_1914.html (http://www.audi.co.uk/audi/uk/en2/about_audi_ag/history/chronicle/chronicle_1899_1914.html)

and how many of us knew what Audi really meant as a word......nice touch, founded by Horch who fell out with the company he founded in his name and couldn't use his name, which means "listen" in German but when translated loosely into Latin comes out as "audi".....

Alfa didn't appear until 1910 http://www.alfaromeo.com/cgi-bin/pbrand.dll/NEWALFA_COM/controller/alfaworld/alfaworld.aspx?language=1&category=PB_TMPL_FIAT_WORLD%7C/MENU/HISTORY (http://www.alfaromeo.com/cgi-bin/pbrand.dll/NEWALFA_COM/controller/alfaworld/alfaworld.aspx?language=1&category=PB_TMPL_FIAT_WORLD%7C/MENU/HISTORY) and who knew that Alfa's roots were in Darracq of Paris who opened an assembly factory in Naples, which turned out Darracqs under licence until bought out and renamed as A.L.F.A?

GM was 1908, Ford kicked off with the Model A in 1903, Bentley Motors was founded in 1919, the Aston Martin name came into being in 1914, so they're out of the running.  Lagonda is a bit more confusing having started with motorcycles in 1898, cyclecars in 1905, and started making cars in 1908, and raced a 16/18hp car at Brooklands in 1909, which was subsequently entered for and won the Russian Reliability Trial in 1910.

Not clear cut by any means, but I guess that Audi has to be a favourite guess...... 

 

MG Mark

Thanks Mark. While I knew Audi was Latin in Origin i had never made the Horch connection. Another piece falls into place.
 Ford celebrated 100 in 2004 in North America
 Last year the British welcome was swarming with Ferrari's so obviously Audi would be a fine British Automobile  ;D
Phil

I am very tickled thanks! ;D  I thought the clue would get you all there very quickly.

The web site should be updated this evening or over the weekend and technically the details are embargoed until 8pm but you might as well be the first to have the news officially confirmed. The 100th anniversary of..................

Hmm, do I say it??????????


MORGAN!

There should be a very good display for you all to see too. Look forward to meeting you all there.

Thank god.  I was worried that it was a bunch of A4s, a couple of TTs and a DKW.  But if they've got a Pikes Peak Quattro, I'd have gone.

Well that's a relief, for a while there I thought it had to be the dreaded blue oval in the form of the Model T.

Must admit Morgan's centenary crept up on me and caught me out.

Termie threw me a bit with the mention of '..a car..', which kind of made me discount manufacturers in favour of a specific car model (back to the 'T' !!!)

Have to confess to having a bit of a soft spot for 'slightly eccentric' British craftsmanship, so will be well happy to visit St S again this year.

TC

Well, that's good to hear!  Missed thinking about that one

MG Mark

Staring you in the face all the time.

Lynx was obviously not enjoying this as much as I was. >:D

Tinkle, tinkle, PLONK!

That's the sound of the penny dropping  ;D

The clue was far too cryptic for me (and seemingly everyone else!)

TC

Not much of an embargo, i was catching up on some reading this morning and the Jan issue (read December for that) of Classic Cars magazine talks about it ::)