Drive it Day

[Cavcraft]

will  be full of journos? It will be a mass gathering of cunts.

 

 

Pointless troll is pointless.

[Skizzer]

I'm with Mr Nutsack on this.

 

The Rover 75 is in a coma until Lord Sterling comes and sings its favourite songs to awaken it.

The SD1 runs great and is fully road legal, but still has no tailgate and is in Cardiff.  Due back next weekend, although they've been saying that for at least a month.

The Dedra's engine is in bits, it hasn't been taxed or ticketed since 2006 and is 200 miles away near Portsmouth.  Not due back until at least July.

The Jag runs fine but has an MOT fail sheet of unknown (but significant) size, and is even further away in Eastbourne.  On a back burner until I have storage (next year).

The Golf is right here, starts and moves but wants a proper reconditioning before it's MOT-worthy.  Might get round to this in August-ish.

Every day is drive it day for the Yeti, it doesn't count.  

 

Bumhats.  I may be doing this wrong.

[dome]

Have new shite(xj40) but have a 180 mile round trip today and still not in the best of health so today will be not drive it day and the missus can chauffeur me in her ickle Mazda. like many on here I drive my shite every other day so ironically today can be my day off.

[dugong]

Just do what you were gonna do anyway folks. DID is just an excuse to get a load of old cars out on a weekend afternoon - more or less like any weekend, really.

 

It's a laudable enough idea but it doesn't really shout its prescence IMHO (and I really must stress IMHO).

[Angrydicky]

I only have old cars so would have been using one anyway.

[dugong]

I only have old cars so would have been using one anyway.

This.

[dieselnutjob]

or maybe this

http://www.clubpeugeotuk.org/events/upcoming/drive-it-day-cpuk-south-west

 

I'm doing this ^^  Pumping up the tyres on the 604 and heading for the M4

[HillmanImp]

I just took the Audi to Tesco to get a £3 meal deal. Does that count?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Hubris = Nemesis!  Shouldna dissed the Pharty Old Kar Klub.  

 

In other words:  OMG Lancia clutch PHAIL RAC Tow Truck City Arizona!  

 

Arse.  Still, I was only seven miles from home  (I had turned back and was trying to limp it but gave up and adopted Plan Mobile Phone).  Luckily, Roy the car is coming tomorrow anyway, so another job for the list is to bum the clutch off the donor car.  

 

Loadsa MGAs and earlier ones oot and aboot.  1970s TVR nutta getting the back end out on slippery Aston Hill on the A 40.   Quite a few old Landies inna area innit. A smattering of old Porsches too.

[Skizzer]

^ Should I be rethinking the wisdom* of purchasing an HPE?

[RobT]

My DID is now Fix it Day. I was supposed to be in Oxford but the Rover resolutely refused to start, fuggin thing. I thought i'd fixed that. The Cavalier brake lights aren't working so I'll be scrabbling around in the footwell after a cuppa to put a new switch in. Bulbs and fuses are fine so I reckon that's the problem. My oldest car, the Metro, seems to be the most reliable these days. GO FIGURE as the yanks would say.

[Guest Breadvan72]

^ Should I be rethinking the wisdom* of purchasing an HPE?

 

 

The clutch on my donor car won't fit on the Volumex, so if yours blows you can have that one!

[mattblack]

I will be loading some kit in the Cortina and driving to the lock up to work on the moggie.

 

The same as I do most Sunday afternoons.

[meggersdog]

will  be full of journos? It will be a mass gathering of cunts.

 

Newspaper hacks write any old shit on subjects they know nothing about.

Seems to me that Facelifted75 is a newspaper hack then

[Wilko220]

Seems to me that Facelifted75 is a newspaper hack then

He is Piers Morgan AICMFP

[rml2345]

I totally forgot about drive it day but managed to drive it anyway. It's not an old car though so doesn't really count.

[Skizzer]

The clutch on my donor car won't fit on the Volumex, so if yours blows you can have that one!

That's kind, thank you - sounds like very much the wrong result for you, however. Much sympathy.

 

What you want is a nice reliable diesel Peugeot...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just got in after 200 mile round trip on M1 M25 and M23, only saw a Mk1 Zephyr on M1, a couple of Spitfires and a black DS on the M25 and another mk1 ,this time a Consul complete with 'period' mods-visor,portholes Corsair hubcaps etc. I did see a couple of Edwardians on trailers,one a Renault I think,otherwise disappointing, must have been the bad weather.

[Angrydicky]

Saw absolutely sod-all on the roads today. I went to Dover Transport Museum, where they had a 1940's weekend on, which was pretty good and I spotted In con sis tant's Porsche in the car park. Excellent spares room there as well, very reasonably priced and I will be going back next week for a proper look around.

[richardmorris]

Nice day out with a very broad selection of citroens and two panhard. Just followed a pre war aston martin up from the M25 too!

[seacow]

In the spirit if DID I left the Montego on drive as I use it daily. Took the E30 for a blast instead. Saw a couple of old Mercs and a very nice gold Sierra sapphire but that was it

[Jimcit]

Drove the Saab up to Derbyshire! Although it was purely coincidental that it was Drive It Day, was dropping it off to have some dramatic welding to the inner rear wings.  Also discovered that the increasingly loud exhaust makes the cabin a bit monoxidey...

 

Picked up my friends 2cv from the same welder for the return journey and she's done a magnificent job on it, so looking forwards to getting it back.  Think it'll be gone a while though

[inconsistant]

Saw absolutely sod-all on the roads today. I went to Dover Transport Museum, where they had a 1940's weekend on, which was pretty good and I spotted In con sis tant's Porsche in the car park. Excellent spares room there as well, very reasonably priced and I will be going back next week for a proper look around.

 

Bum. Was that you in the Austin by the gate? For some reason I thought you lived in Brighton so it couldn't be you. I'll say hi next time on the off-chance. The Dover Transport museum was great, loads going on, a bit of a transport festival atmosphere. Definitely worth a visit.

Didn't see much out and about. Couple of E types, a Stag, mk1 Cortina, Bit disappointed really.

[Junkman]

To say I'm disappointed would be a gross understatement, even by British standards.

 

Despite spending literally all day on the road (from 10am to 10pm), precious little shite was seen, and things that could be considered classic cars were countable with the fingers on one hand. I see more old chod out on a rainy Tuesday morning during my 10 minute commute to work, than on a day out on DID, so I call it what it was, namely a total fail.

At least I had a lot of fun, though, and that's what counts.

[Angrydicky]

Bum. Was that you in the Austin by the gate? For some reason I thought you lived in Brighton so it couldn't be you. I'll say hi next time on the off-chance. The Dover Transport museum was great, loads going on, a bit of a transport festival atmosphere. Definitely worth a visit.

Didn't see much out and about. Couple of E types, a Stag, mk1 Cortina, Bit disappointed really.

Yep, that was me. I think I did see you, but I wasn't sure so didn't want to embarrass myself by getting the wrong person! 

 

I would guess there was some sort of 924 gathering on, there were a few others there in addition to yours?

 

[inconsistant]

Yes, the Kenty Chapter of the owners club in full force. They had to park around the back, I got to park next to an airplane.

 

 

Next year we should both be more brave!

[dugong]

Went for a drive round Wales in the Amazon. 

The highlight of the day (apart from the company of course) was an Alexander-bodied Leyland Atlantean that blasted past us as we sat in the lay-by on the A55. I'm gutted I missed the flame that shat out of the tail-pipe. 

 

Amazon crapped itself again and had to be low-loadered back to the garage. 

Got back to folk's at around 10.30, got up at 4.30 for drive back down to Peebo..........made it in on time. 

If [if] I do shite-fest, it will be in the Charade. 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Went for a drive round Wales in the Amazon. 

 

That red P6 we spotted spotted us too. 

[Junkman]

And correctly identified the non-Rover in the convoy*. Didn't bother to photograph it though.

[inconsistant]

It rarely happens as a 'grown up' but what I did really enjoy about yesterday was driving just for the pleasure of it. Enjoying the car, the roads, the view.

And some dodgy 80s compilation tapes that I found in the loft (Magnum, T'Pau, Don Henley... I had GR90 musical taste in the late 80s).