Upper Middle Petrol Head:

  Here was me thinking that I had half a clue about classic cars!  Turns out that the beautiful silver coupe in the centre of the above shot is not a Zagato-bodied Aston Martin, as I'd imagined it to be, but is actually an Abarth 205/A Berlinetta!  Fortunately, Google Lens was able to put me right, with further research and the simplest process of elimination revealing it to be chassis number 102 of just four examples ever built.  The first three - today's plus chassis numbers 101 and 103 - look much the same, whereas chassis number 104, known as the Sport Ghia Coupe (inset, below), differs markedly in its styling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abarth_205A_Berlinetta , accessed 25 AUG 23) .  The real take-home from all of this is that the Goodwood Festival of Speed - where the opening shot and all the following photos were taken - has boggled my tiny Southern Hemisphere mind through its vastness and the extraordinarily exotic and rare nature of the ca...