NEW YEAR’S DAY GATHERING
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A very busy Paddock (John Retter)
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he Museum celebrated the end of a momentous and record-breaking 2017 with an amazing turnout of 1,119 classics, sports and supercars, and over 5,600 people at its New Year’s Day Classic Gathering. The event, believed to be the biggest 1st January classic meeting in the UK, lived up to its billing with a rich and varied display of clubs and individuals tak- ing full advantage of the completion of the Museum’s Aircraft Factory and Race Track Revival project. The relocation and restoration of
the World War II Bellman Hangar that had stood on part of the original Finishing Straight for over 75 years gave classic owners an even larger space on which to display their cars, augmenting the established areas on the Members’ Banking, in the Motoring Village, Paddock and Aircraft Park.
Early and rare pre-war cars
congregated in the Paddock in front of the Clubhouse and, amidst the Bentleys and Austins, was an MG L2 Magna Sports from 1933 owned by
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Eager drivers make their way through the gates (Katharine Allen).
David Naylor which competed in that same year at Brooklands in the 12 Hour Race as a works- prepared entry. One of the rarest cars present was a 1937 Autovia Sportsman saloon – one of only 36 of these V8-powered cars built by an offshoot of the Riley company. Amongst a huge turnout of Americans on display on the Finishing Straight was
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