tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post6506168873402986013..comments2024-01-10T09:21:52.531+00:00Comments on YoungManGoneWest: Métallurgique - Wacky RacerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-32208154955498413132020-02-09T06:03:40.082+00:002020-02-09T06:03:40.082+00:00A fantastically detailed review of the car's h...A fantastically detailed review of the car's history features as part of the Bonhams auction description. Great to see that the car is still very much alive and well.YMGWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206422601969617658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-30513975153315467522020-01-12T15:23:45.998+00:002020-01-12T15:23:45.998+00:00that was the wrong URL obviously. It should have b...that was the wrong URL obviously. It should have been https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25453/lot/356/ <br />Adhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102291288324288791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-84600749718664064362020-01-12T15:21:54.230+00:002020-01-12T15:21:54.230+00:00Just saw the Metalllurgique was auctioned on ths p...Just saw the Metalllurgique was auctioned on ths page:<br />https://ymgw.blogspot.com/2011/08/metallurgique-wacky-racer.html <br />dated 5 Jul 2019, 14:00 BST Adhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102291288324288791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-19484210741258875632016-01-12T15:43:49.435+00:002016-01-12T15:43:49.435+00:00Thanks for posting this great blog which I have qu...Thanks for posting this great blog which I have quoted with a link on my own blog on this wonderful car which I saw at Chateau Impney last year, 2015 here is a cross link for reference :- #AirshipPoweredBelgian :- http://www.psychoontyres.co.uk/airship-powered-belgian-metallurgique-6080-maybach/Art Tidescohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16680781189400367930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-49804110949695747892016-01-05T22:47:26.443+00:002016-01-05T22:47:26.443+00:00Yes indeed! Robert Stigwood may have been a backgr...Yes indeed! Robert Stigwood may have been a background person, but what he has meant for the music industry and UK pirate radio, from the days he started working with Joe Meek and then managing Beegees, the Who, the Herd, Cream and then producing landslide movies like Saturdaynight Fever and Grease are quite staggering. May he rest in peace.Adhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102291288324288791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-79509442941889302472016-01-05T18:42:36.591+00:002016-01-05T18:42:36.591+00:00Thank-you for your memories Ad. Quite a coincidenc...Thank-you for your memories Ad. Quite a coincidence that Stigwood died fewer than two weeks after your recollection of his meeting with Fitzpatrick.YMGWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206422601969617658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-12252690211438824252015-12-26T17:30:03.225+00:002015-12-26T17:30:03.225+00:00more memories surfaced: the place we went to meet ...more memories surfaced: the place we went to meet Robert Stigwood was East Barsham Manor also in Norfolk. Vividly remember now Douglas telling me that Mr. Stigwood had asked him to help finance the production of a movie for which the Beegees weke making the music (that must have been Saturdaynight feaver) . He sadly decided against getting involved in that historic project.Adhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102291288324288791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-25300812970224490312015-12-26T16:45:36.878+00:002015-12-26T16:45:36.878+00:00Sorry for the typos in my earlier post.
Just was s...Sorry for the typos in my earlier post.<br />Just was so thrilled to find these well kept memories of Douglas, the Hall and his cars that I did not notice them when I posted it.<br />So good to find that the Metallurgique is alive and well. Would sure love to see recent images of it, if possible in action.<br />I seem to remember it played a role in the car-race sequences of 'around the world in 80 days' and in 'Chitty chitty bang bang', that I just saw again n Dutch tv this Christmas (2015) .Adhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102291288324288791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-2846861679734244132013-06-04T15:21:16.526+01:002013-06-04T15:21:16.526+01:00The car numbered 69 in the photo is not the Metall...The car numbered 69 in the photo is not the Metallurgique but a similarly engined Mercedes/Maybach built by Roger Collings in the nineteen nineties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-34163452953638696832013-06-04T15:15:48.692+01:002013-06-04T15:15:48.692+01:00Yes, the car is "alive and well" and now...Yes, the car is "alive and well" and now owned by a fellow member of the Vintage Sports Car Club. I should be delighted to pass on any message. "grahamrankin@btinternet.com"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-14921463775690344972012-11-29T17:22:41.031+00:002012-11-29T17:22:41.031+00:00Thank-you Richard for your reminiscences - Fitzpat...Thank-you Richard for your reminiscences - Fitzpatrick sounds a fascinating chap. Does anyone know where the car is?YMGWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206422601969617658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-24288145059449837572012-11-26T16:21:54.408+00:002012-11-26T16:21:54.408+00:00Douglas Fitzpatrick was a long time friend of my f...Douglas Fitzpatrick was a long time friend of my father, sharing a common interest in veteran and Edwardian motor cars. My early memories of Douglas were of a colorful, larger than life character who kept my brothers and I amused and delighted when we visited him at Sherringham. Trips along the coast road to Cley and Blakeney in the Metalurgique were always a thrill and quite hair raising - the expressions on the faces of drivers in the on coming direction were a master class in surprise and concern!<br />Douglas was a generous host and seemed completely unconcerned at having three young boys rampaging about the house. In retrospect I never remember Thomas being there when we visited, so it may have been that our visits were timed to coincide with his absences. <br />Gerry was a lovely character who used to accompany Douglas on trips out in his cars and being one of the few Germans that I had met at the time, would argue about Spitfires and Messerschmidts with us youngsters who at the time were mad about wartime aeroplanes. <br />Sadly Douglas died some years ago as did Thomas. Sherringham Hall went to the National Trust and the cars were dispersed. I'd love to know what has happened to them, the Metalurgique was the jewel in the collection but Douglas also had an Achilles, a Wolsley Siddley, a brace of Rolls Royces and a latter day Singer Gazelle which he had supercharged.<br />I too would like to hear anyone else's recollections of Douglas - just writing this I can hear his laugh and see him clapping his hands in delight, he was a lovely manRichardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-67292363714990603432012-03-16T20:17:12.978+00:002012-03-16T20:17:12.978+00:00Fantastic stuff Ad, thank-you; it seems that accid...Fantastic stuff Ad, thank-you; it seems that accidents were a recurring feature!YMGWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206422601969617658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-81620068468390174582012-03-13T23:04:02.828+00:002012-03-13T23:04:02.828+00:00I travelled in that car quite a bit. Douglas stran...I travelled in that car quite a bit. Douglas stranded in it in front of our hotel in Pijnacker Holland in the late 60's. I helped him park and move it to the Hook-Harwich ferry the next day and immediately had a crush on him. In return he invited me to Sheringham Hall next summers, where we swam in the Norh Sea, warched cabaret at the local poer, cheered along his raft race team, played croquet, listened to his 78 rpm disks on a huge acoustic player. We traveled in many of his cars around Norfolk. Remember getting pretty drunk when we visited producer Robert Stigwood who then had an estate in the area. We crashed into a churchyard with one of his Rollses on the way back. <br />In the Metallurgique we went across England to a hillclimb in Wales. His mechanic lived above the garages, and was called Gerry. Anybody knowing more information, do get in touch.Ad Schuringhttp://www.queerlog.nlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-75215125358668059692011-11-15T09:47:55.141+00:002011-11-15T09:47:55.141+00:00Thank-you for your comment. Yes, Fitzpatrick is un...Thank-you for your comment. Yes, Fitzpatrick is understood to have taught Bader to fly.<br /><br />The above commenter added: "[Fitzpatrick] always treated the occupants of the local pub to a drink as he had to have a turnout from the bar to give him a push start."YMGWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206422601969617658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435894645091403903.post-42776399510151821292011-11-14T09:57:20.954+00:002011-11-14T09:57:20.954+00:00Douglas Fitzpatrick lived for many years at Bradfi...Douglas Fitzpatrick lived for many years at Bradfield Hall before moving to Sheringham Hall. Hismany cars were a frequent sight in the surrounding villages. A very nice and generous man often seen out walking with his dog. Was he not Douglas Bader's flying instructor?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com