Gordon Whitworth

[john johnson]

There's a cracking picture of him at the wheel somewhere Coxxy , giving it the beans .... That one may be the ticket . He coming round s bend I think , sure peteb knows the one

[Phil Payne]

Originally Posted by SteveT63

Well Im inclined to say yes Phil, that would be fitting.

Got a better idea. Why don't we nominate someone as a collection point for all the snaps we have - said person puts them on a memory stick for the family and we have a whip-round at the funeral to pay for the stick? Fiver from me's no problem.

Then they can wander down to Jessop's or somewhere and click on the ones they want to print - those machines are a breeze to use and the staff are quite helpful.

[Phil Payne]

Originally Posted by john johnson

It dont need restoring , your out of touch old fruit

Oh, he did it, did he? I don't think I paid much attention to the car the last time we met.

[Coxy]

Originally Posted by Phil Payne

Oh, he did it, did he? I don't think I paid much attention to the car the last time we met.

there is a thread on here about Gord's resto on his car somewhere.
T'was very early on in Classic Audi terms and I remember one of it's first outings was to one of the very first Breakfast Clubs at my old unit. The paint had hardly dried at the time!

[john johnson]

Originally Posted by Phil Payne

Got a better idea. Why don't we nominate someone as a collection point for all the snaps we have - said person puts them on a memory stick for the family and we have a whip-round at the funeral to pay for the stick? Fiver from me's no problem.

Then they can wander down to Jessop's or somewhere and click on the ones they want to print - those machines are a breeze to use and the staff are quite helpful.

It's already being done, well something is

[darreno'd']

Originally Posted by john johnson

There's a cracking picture of him at the wheel somewhere Coxxy , giving it the beans .... That one may be the ticket . He coming round s bend I think , sure peteb knows the one

simmo took it a few years ago on a chester trip, some others by some water if i recall. Not long after he'd restored it. Bloody sad news this.

[john johnson]

That's the one !

[Isimmo]

Just got back from a week away to read this, I met Gordon several times whilst I was working up that way, and he was a fine man with a dry humour. Bless him.

I did a mini photoshoot of his quattro several years ago, took some stills, literally weeks after he'd finished restoring it.





Then went out to take some 'action' photos...

Bloomin' heck, the quattro came absolutely flying into the bends, understeer, lift-off and power oversteer... I was stunned, Gordon could peddle a car and wasn't afraid to use them. They're the few 'action' shots I've got of a quattro where you can actually tell there's some serious action going on.

[David Small]

Thanks to Alistair for the photo of Gordon and Sally . when I first read the thread yesterday I could see that photo in my mind

[Tim C]

Always sad to here this sort of news.
I never had the pleasure of meeting Gordon, but he was obviously a like minded person.
Best wishes to his family.