Cholmondeley Sun 12th May 2013, now Northwich: *TICKETS HERE

[Minimad5]

Thanks to everyone who made this happen.

Had a good day out, EVEN THY LADY ENJOYED IT

Also made a whole £2 thanks to Mk1_4dr

[sporty-shite]

Sorry I had to push off early. Combination of bad weather, restless kids and holiday packing meant I couldn't stay as long as I'd have liked.

 

Good to catch up with the few I did catch up with, and good to meet a couple of new faces. Hopefully we can do another one this summer.

[davidfowler2000]

Yes on the subject of cms206's car park shennanigans...

 

Yes there is a video and I will deal with it's upload tomorow hopefully. There is also a rather jolly film of a blue 1.3 Cavvy that can backfire to order

 

And I must say what a top day out with a bunch of top blokes!

[hairnet]

Well we didn't even make it. £4.30 down plug hole.

 

Head gasket properly gave way on M56, hmm, so now to sell as is! Anyone want one if the tidiest mk1 SI Mondeos? Fully MOTd

 

Shall enjoy the bus tomorrow...

 

Hope you had fun like, have an ice cream for us!

 

i didnt use motorway this time - woulda seen you and offered taxi

[hairnet]

 

Hairnet's pub suggestion was perfect by Autoshite standards, too. It had plenty of space for the cars and no other customers!

 

 

 

is it bad i turned the wrong way out of the gate and ended up in appleton

 

not been down there for a long time and as man poo were playing needed to get home sharpish to avoid 100000 people going to wave at alex ferguson (i live within in goooaaaallll distance )

[rml2345]

 

Hey did anyone get any photos of that Invicta? What a spectacular motor.

 

I did! It looked bloody ace.

Finally made it home about an hour ago. One small drama on the way back up when the wiper arm came loose in the pissing rain... Then the fuel pump relay did the same...

Thanks to Billy for organising us and to my fellow Scotoshiters for waiting when I went to the wrong meeting place...

It was great meeting folks and putting a face to the user name!

[worldofceri]

*Edit: Captain Cock Chops (the announcer) excelled himself with another gem this year:

CC: 'Oh, how unusual to see a Chevrolet* with an engine in the back!'

Owner: 'That's because it's not a Chevrolet'

Everyone else: MASSIVE LOL

 

*It might not have been Chevrolet, but you get the point.

It was a Chevy but he called it a CORVETTE as opposed to CORVAIR.

 

Great to meet everyone and put faces to names; and to see such 'famous' cars in the metal.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That rear engined Corvette announcement was followed by a brief summary of Ralph Nader's career.

 

CC: I don't think he achieved very much, did he?

Owner: Well, yes, he did actually.

[mk1_4dr]

Hey did anyone get any photos of that Invicta? What a spectacular motor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

I see both myself and Mr Bollox have managed to lurk in the background of some of those Invicta shots. That was definitely car of the show for me. If that really is the only saloon of that type built, then it's the one featured in the mighty A-Z of cars 1945-1970. The specification is ludicrous and originally included an infinitely variable 'hydro-kinetic turbo transmitter' rather than a proper gearbox. This was rubbish and replaced in this one by a Jaguar gearbox in the 1950s.

 

Fact. One of the backers of Invicta was Mr Lyle of Tate and Lyle.

[retrogeezer]

Nice that, I missed it.

 

Anyway, yesterdays weather finally turned up!!

 

[SambaS]

My driver side windscreen wiper made a bid for freedom on the A59 near Skipton. Had it have happened on the M60 Manchester ring road I promise you: a lot of people would have died. What a fucking mental bit of road that was in the heaviest rain so far this year.

 

Hey did anyone get any photos of that Invicta? What a spectacular motor.

 

I did! It looked bloody ace.

Finally made it home about an hour ago. One small drama on the way back up when the wiper arm came loose in the pissing rain... Then the fuel pump relay did the same...

Thanks to Billy for organising us and to my fellow Scotoshiters for waiting when I went to the wrong meeting place...

It was great meeting folks and putting a face to the user name!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey that photo of the Invicta is ace! (the one with me in I mean)

[Lankytim]

Hey Wobbler, I think the announcer guy was right- You are a Hippie!

[KruJoe]

Has anyone heard from GaryCox? Has he got home yet? It's a bloody long way back to Brighton in a beige four-speed Maestro only running on three.

[hairnet]

holiday in northampton first i think