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Alfaholics 10th Annual Spring Trackday April 2011
The opening of the Alfaholics Workshop last year meant
that there would be a new twist to the annual Castle Combe track day for
2011. This year we had built a pair of cars for customers who would be
arriving at the Open Day with the promise of a track-ready car polished
and waiting! As the deadline approached, the workshop team were flat-out
to make sure all the cars would be ready for the big event. With the cars
in the workshop lined up, the food and drink spread out in the office,
we were ready to go.
By mid-morning, the snarl of Alfa outside announced
the arrival of the first visitors and as lunchtime approached, the car
park filled up with 105s of various colours and nationalities. Once again
we had many visitors from abroad – a large Belgian and Dutch contingent
joined others from Germany, Ireland and the UK but most impressive was
the journey made by Faisal Huda, who flew in from Canada to pick up his
freshly upgraded yellow ochre GT Junior. Also collecting their car on
the day were the Cottons, father and son who had commissioned us to build
a bespoke high specification track day Spider. Among the assembled cars,
an additional touch of glamour was provided by the gorgeous pre-war supercharged
1750 of Mike Hurst. Our neighbours on the estate are quite used to sporty
looking stuff being around but this was something else entirely! Everyone
enjoyed an afternoon in the sun, chatting about the cars but all too soon
it was time for everyone to head into Bristol and check into the hotel.
We all then assembled in the bar and headed out to our familiar Italian
restaurant where we took over the entire upstairs restaurant area! After
a fabulous dinner and not too much wine (!), the evening drew to a close
in preparation for the following day.
Alfaholics Ltd
Unit 12
Hither Green Industrial Estate
Clevedon
Bristol
BS21 6XU
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