9 Videos That Prove Alain de Cadenet Is The Luckiest Man Alive

Alain and his Victory by Design series was something I wouldn’t miss for the world when it came on. Was glued to the TV hanging on every word Alain spoke and every framerate of video shown. Not even the original Top Gear with Tiff Needell (also one of my favorite people ever) could match what Alain did for me with his James Bond like (Sean Connery James Bond not Daniel Craig) suave sophisticated presentation style swept me up into a world where I put myself in, experiencing every moment of excitement and dreamlike state of actually driving such rare and mythical machinery. If there was a GoFund me for a new series of Victory by Design I would be the first to contribute. Maybe I should start one? 🙂 Can I count on you guys to be the first contributors?

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And here is the video http://youtu.be/ME3m1Rz2RzE

For me ,” Victory By Design” , was like the “National Public Radio” series of many years ago featuring Carl Hass ,
“Adventures in Great Music” .
Something to be appreciated and enjoyed by a few , but understanding that most people don’t get it .
Every year I watch the Goodwood Revival and wait for Alain to appear .
His distinctive voice and reporting are always one of my favorites.

For me personally, my favorite videoof Alain was him driving the Ferrari 333SP. I don’t remember how I stumbled upon the show, but I was raised a car guy by a dad with race cars, muscle cars, and hot rods my entire childhood. Italian sports cars were never something that interested me. Until that fateful day. The car was odd looking, and clearly a factory race car, but when he first fired it up, and I heard the sound, I was hooked immediately. The sound of that V12 was insane and feral to young me, after having grown up listening to nothing but low, grumbly, American V8s. As the years have ticked by I still love the 333SP for sparking my exotic interest, but now tend to lean more towards the classic Ferrari’s with beautiful curves and chrome in all the right places. I was fortunate to go for a ride in a Ferrari F355 Spyder with a Tubi titanium exhaust last year. Summer weather, top down, the sounds of the valves opening and closing behind you was amazing, and one of my new favorite automotive memories, specifically of the auditory variety.