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Over the weekend, we were watching the live coverage here in the shop of the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed that was held last weekend at the Goodwood Estate in southeastern England just north of Chichester. It brought back wonderful memories of a trip there 10-years ago to participate in the event as a mechanic for…
The day we have been waiting for has finally arrived and we can share with you Duncan Pittaway’s 1729 c.i. S76 Fiat running and driving at the Goodwood Estate in the video below. Lord March invited Duncan and crew to bring the S76 to Goodwood a couple of weeks ago for its first test-run and…
Recently we covered The Beast Of Turin Lives Again, the start up of the S76 Fiat project that Duncan Pittaway has been working on for a decade. Thanks go out to reader Graham Rankin of the UK, who sent us this excellent postcard image. It shows one of the two cars when it set a speed record…
By Stefan Marjoram: A ridiculously exciting day yesterday! I’ve been sketching and photographing the rebuild of the 300 h.p. FIAT S76 land speed record car for a few years now. Yesterday, over 100 years since it had last run, The Beast of Turin was brought back to life again. A misbehaving coil caused a lot of…
Updates I & II – The Case Jay-Eye-See, an early racing car, shared the same name as the late Jerome Increase Case’s famous record-setting racing horse. The history of the car is difficult to trace and was also quite hard to determine its exact specifications. One of the reasons for this is because the car’s makeup…
The S.76 at the Goodwood Festival of speed, photo courtesy of Dave Biggins Well, all the hard work has paid off and Duncan Pittaway, friends and crew managed to get the Fiat all together this week and it arrived at Goodwood for the Festival of Speed yesterday morning at two a.m. It can be seen above…
Stefan Marjoram was at Duncan Pittaway’s shop yesterday in the UK and captured the scene with this drawing of the big Fiat engine yesterday and reports: I heard it chuff and woosh for perhaps the first time in close to a hundred years. It was being turned over by a tractor to check the oil…
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