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Brooklands Italian Car Day P1

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1,300 mph against say 50 mph, only at Brooklands could you get a Fiat Gamine and Concorde in the same shot.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

I certainly cannot be accused of being elitist, having only just returned from Rome and the amazing and exotic Anantara Concorso, it was time for a trip up to Brooklands in Surrey on May 2nd for their annual Italian Car day with Auto Italia magazine. Such a contrast to Rome but just as fantastic. The event attracts lots of exotics so plenty of shouty Ferraris and Lamborghinis, but it is the more everyday stuff which you used to see all the time but now rarely do that piqued my interest. Well, perhaps one or two exotics sneaked into my selection.

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Italian Car Day, Brooklands 2024

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Fiat 2300 Ghia, behind which is BAC 1/11 G-ASYD. Throughout its 29-year flying career SYD was used as a test aircraft for various variants and for testing technical equipment including ‘Fly by Light Control Technology.’ Donated to the museum by British Aerospace Airbus Ltd and landing at Brooklands (her 5004th landing) on the 14th July 1994.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

“Just follow the F40!” Not something I have said before but when my pal asked me which junction we needed to exit the motorway, it sounded so much better than “this one.” The F40 had just passed us, by the way, and it was obvious that we were both heading to the same event. So where were we going on this bright spring morning (4th May)?

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Italian Car Day: Alfa, Lancia, Maserati

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Alfa Romeo Giulia enjoys the shade offered Vickers Vanguard G-APEP (EP). EP first flew from Brooklands on the 29th November 1961, joining BEA (British European Airways) on the 13th December of that year. After 9 years of passenger service EP was converted into a Merchantman before re-entering service carrying freight in the early 1970s, retiring on the 30th September 1996.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

This year’s Auto Italia Italian car day, held on April the 29th at Brooklands in Surrey was, as you can see from the number of people in the background of many of the shots, particularly popular with the general public. When I arrived just after the museum had opened the place was already filling up nicely.

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Brooklands Italian Car Day 2022

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

The following articles contain no production numbers, with one or two exceptions, no chassis numbers, no race histories and no illustrious drivers, bar one. Just photographs of the sort of Italian cars you rarely see this days. Where might one see such an event? Brooklands, for the Italian Car day held on Saturday the 30th April. The right crowd, well they like Italian cars, but there was some crowding.

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Brooklands Italian Car Day

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

A huge thank you to our friends at Auto Italia magazine for making the Brooklands Italian Car Day happen, and for the loan of a hi viz tabard (high level photo pass) to allow me to take shots during the lunch time demo sessions on the Mercedes Benz World test track.

As the Editor pointed out last week, there are three or events that attract rare Italian cars; Concorso Italiano in the US, Milano AutoClassica in Italy, the even larger Auto Moto d Epoca in Padua, and the Brooklands Italian Car Day in the UK. I have covered the UK event now for many years, and it is always a joy.

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Brooklands Italian Car Day, 2019

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

May 4, 2019 Brooklands

Driving into the designated Alfa Romeo parking zone at the Brooklands circuit brought to my mind the long-term car park at Turin airport, except that the Turin long term car park nowadays is full of Kias and Volkswagens, not Fiats and Alfas.

Passing through the gate at Brooklands into the museum, this year we Alfa drivers had our own entrance, which avoided the queue at the Campbell gate. The Alfa section was 360 degrees of Alfas, so I placed my creaky old GT Blackline next to another GT. [Read more…] about Brooklands Italian Car Day, 2019

Italian Car Day at Brooklands

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This 1965 Fiat 850 Coupe benefited from spending the first 50 years of her life enjoying Italian Sunshine. Behind on the banking is a rather more recent baby performance Fiat, namely a 100 HP Panda.To the left of the shot is an even quicker Fiat, or should I say 500 Abarth.

This 1965 Fiat 850 Coupe benefited from spending the first 50 years of her life enjoying Italian sunshine. Behind on the banking is a rather more recent baby performance Fiat, a 100 HP Panda.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

On Saturday April 30, the gates to the Brooklands circuit were opened at 8am to let in the first arrivals for the annual Italian Car day. I am told those early arrivals had started to queue at around 6.30 am. Such is the popularity of this annual event which is now in its 31st year.

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Brooklands Italian Car Day

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The Pininfarina lines of a Fiat Dino Spyder contrast nicely with the starkness of the Brooklands memorial erected to commemorate the home of motor racing 1907 - 1939.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

Judging by the three lines of cars, all of which were made in Italy, waiting to pass through the Campbell gate of the Brooklands Motor Circuit in Surrey, the Italian car community is alive and thriving. [Read more…] about Brooklands Italian Car Day

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