{"id":1298,"date":"2026-07-10T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:47:04","slug":"rac-concours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidseall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"RAC Concours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was very fortunate to recently be invited to the Royal Automobile Club’s Concours<\/a> at Epsom. The invitation came courtesy of my good friend Eman Martin-Vignerte at Bosch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a wonderful day out looking at some beautiful cars ,both the stars of the Sotheby’s auction and those of RAC Members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the the themes was ‘Shooting Brakes’. There were several lovely examples and conversions including a take on the famous Ferrari ”Bread Van’. It was just a shame there wasn’t a Volvo P1800 which is one of my favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also a display of ‘extravagant spoilers’ which included a 930 Porsche 911 ‘Whale tail’ like mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope that you enjoy the photos of some of my favourites. There’s a link to the auction itself at the bottom of the page – have a guess what the rather grubby Porsche 911 went for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again a big thank you to Eman and Bosch for a wonderful day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a link<\/a> to the auction catalogue and here’s a link to the grubby Porsche<\/a>– I suggest you sit down before opening it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I’ve been out and about a bit doing Classic Car shows and meets I thought it would be a shame for my baby to miss out so I thought that I’d include it as it’s just had its 40th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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