Event Cholmongdogley 6th September - put your name down here

[rml2345]

I think we passed Adrian on the m74 around an hour ago, it was certainly a k reg ax in the same colour anyway...

 

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Quite possibly! Apologies for not noticing the 305 though, was pretty tired at that point.

Arrived home about 10.30pm having driven 460-something miles in the best worst motorway car ever. Surprisingly uncrippled!

Thanks must go to Billy for organising the HBF club and it was great to see everyone again. Gatecrashing the concours event caused quite a stir and I can't think why Autoshite didn't win anything. Some folk have no taste...

[mat_the_cat]

I spent a bit of time being antisocial up at the top of the hill, managed to spot a couple of people!

 

DSC_5600 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

This must have been a satisfying visit to the toilet...

 

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Hey, that's me! I don't recall it being any more satisfying than normal though...

[andy18s]

Quite possibly! Apologies for not noticing the 305 though, was pretty tired at that point.

Arrived home about !0.30pm having driven 460-something miles in the best worst motorway car ever. Surprisingly uncrippled!

Thanks must go to Billy for organising the HBF club and it was great to see everyone again. Gatecrashing the concours event caused quite a stir and I can't think why Autoshite didn't win anything. Some folk have no taste...

You'd have thought having 12 cars in the same category at once should have got us something!!

I have a vid of the mighty 305 making its entrance,and the bemusement from the "commentator" about the cheering it received.ill post it when I can get my phone to talk to tapatalk....

[dollywobbler]

Trig - given the heroics from the Scots, no one south of the border can claim it was too far away. Felt like a large number of the campers were technically locals! Myself included...

[chaseracer]

Two bat fastards chatting shit, as per... 

 

[320touring]

Two bat fastards chatting shit, as per...

 

I count 4;)

[bub2006]

Looks a great day,disappointed I couldn't make it. Still not found ticket either. All best to billy and hopefully ls will find his electrickery

[Richard]

Trig - given the heroics from the Scots, no one south of the border can claim it was too far away. Felt like a large number of the campers were technically locals! Myself included...

There's not actually that much difference in journey time between Ipswich and the part of Scotland that most of the SVM come from, although it it's another hour and a half to two hours for me and FOAD.

 

It helps that most of us are used to driving long distances, and that we just have to follow one road for most of the way. The journey some of the southerners endured to get to Shitefest sounded horrendous.

[Skizzer]

I got home before dark.  I 'feel' local, but it's actually about 160 miles and over three hours.  Nothing broke, in fact nothing interesting happened car-wise at all on the way home because Audi.  Very nice scenery though.

 

I completely failed to take any pictures of any cars but ours (and not many of them), which was a bit of a shame as there were a few gems amongst the ranks of identical Stags and MBGs.  There was a nice Rambler Classic with a Venetian blind in the back window, for instance, and the red Fuego TL that Andy posted.  Car of the show for me was a tie between Skattrd's Sera and Grundig's squealy Passat Saloon, I think.  

 

Irritating Mr Angry on the mic was huge fun, especially as he's clearly an idiot. (He thought a rather nice 3-door Sierra 1.6L was an 'XR4' in spite of an actual XR4i being next to it at the time, for example, and started yelling at the crowd for not having enough entries in the Commercials contest when there weren't supposed to be any commercials).

 

Great to meet some people for the first time and catch up with what are becoming old mates.  Really sorry that Billy and Mo were thwarted at the last minute - hope the eye and the Sterling recover quickly chaps, you were missed.

 

KruJoe - thanks again for the tea service, you are a true gentleman.

[Richard]

Is it normal for the "arena" to be laid out like that? At most of the shows I've been to it's more like a circuit. I'm surprised there wasn't any contact the way they were doing it.

[JohnK]

Is it normal for the "arena" to be laid out like that? At most of the shows I've been to it's more like a circuit. I'm surprised there wasn't any contact the way they were doing it.

 

It was an absolute joke that they got all of the 80's cars to come out of the back end of the arena where all the 90's cars were waiting to go in. I had to go with pot luck and just flogged it straight into the path of a Sierra to get through. Hardly safe for all them members of the public walking around!

[Junkman]

I count 4;)

 

I count none.

[retrogeezer]

yep, it's always as disorganised as that at the Andrew Greenwood shows......random parking all over the place. Part of it's charm really Yesterday wasn't as busy as it has been there either!

[Junkman]

Is it normal for the "arena" to be laid out like that?

No. It's one of the daftest things I've seen beyond the carefully staged cooling system test for classic cars on the way in,

and it's hard to believe that the "organisers" didn't realise it's not going to work during the planning* phase.

It was a source of much hilarity for the advanced cynics, though.

 

At most of the shows I've been to it's more like a circuit. I'm surprised there wasn't any contact the way they were doing it.

 

I'm surprised none of the spectators got killed.

 

Probably the entire thing becomes less surprising once you saw the 'winners' of each category congregate at the end.

If your car isn't a red Ford, don't bother showing it. I mean, it's not surprising that no Autoshiters won, which might be

caused by the fact that they spend the same effort to lose, that others spend to win, but the entire thing had a whiff

of nepotism and being staged about it.

 

I suggest a game for next year: Point out the winners beforehand. Then again, maybe it's too unchallenging.

 

The announcer is delightfully annoying and actually worth the visit alone. A few highlights:

 

"Oh, an old Audi" - when a superb DKW 3=6 entered the arena.

"I love old Jags, I was working on them back in the early Sixties" - the car in question was a Daimler,

the announcer gives me the impression that he can't tell the difference between a crankshaft and a camshaft

and he can only have been a toddler in the early Sixties.

 

I bet other members can quote more entertaining drivel.

 

Anyway, we weren't kicked out. I consider this a victory in itself and conclude that the organisers are sound blokes at heart.

 

My personal car of the meeting was that mindbogglingly nice Bentley Speed Six.

On reflection, it must be the most expensive car I genuinely like.

[DodgyBastard]

More pics...

 

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The 305 maintained an average of 58 mpg over the course of the trip which was quite impressive.

[Station]

"A lovely Ford Corsa"

It's a Ford Corsair.

"Oh ... [continues to ramble on]"

[Cavcraft]

That commentator bloke will never change, but then it makes it a bit more interesting, I suppose.

[Junkman]

Long may he live, he is one of the reasons I'm going there.

That revoltingly filthy burger van sure isn't.

 

I still don't quite understand why Mr Conelrad insisted on entering my half arsed parts car into the contest...

[JohnK]

I can confirm that the bar on the cricket pitch next door is worth a visit.

[retrogeezer]

hearing him getting mixed up about Consul Classic's and Consul Capri's was superbly entertaining.  

[chaseracer]

Probably the entire thing becomes less surprising once you saw the 'winners' of each category congregate at the end.

If your car isn't a red Ford, don't bother showing it. I mean, it's not surprising that no Autoshiters won, which might be

caused by the fact that they spend the same effort to lose, that others spend to win, but the entire thing had a whiff

of nepotism and being staged about it. I suggest a game for next year: Point out the winners beforehand.

As an executive genius suggested yesterday, we should club together to buy a REALLY SHIT Ford - that happens to be red. Or, more likely, pogweasel pink.

 

Anyway, we weren't kicked out. I consider this a victory in itself and conclude that the organisers are scared of us.

 

Let me assist you with that.

[andy18s]

Listening to him literally begging for a modified car to go into the ring was comical.He latched onto a rally Sd1 that was obviously modified 'cos it had Esso stickers on it.........

[Junkman]

The one I could somewhat relate to was when he said during the 'cars of the 1970s' presentation, that these are now almost 30 years old.
 

The 305 maintained an average of 58 mpg over the course of the trip which was quite impressive.

At the opposite end of the planet saving spectrum, the haunted Rover must have set the negative record at 16 OMGMPG.
Next week, it's booked in at a garage run by a guy who seems to know what he is doing.

[chaseracer]

His arithmetic is on a par with his presentational skills, then...

[dugong]

I can confirm that the bar on the cricket pitch next door is worth a visit.

They use it as the press office during the Pageant of Power. That's one of the reasons I like Cholmondeley.

 

You know that farty little access road over the bridge that people bimble along to get to the main field? That's the start straight.

 

At the opposite end of the planet saving spectrum, the haunted Rover must have set the negative record at 16 OMGMPG.

Next week, it's booked in at a garage run by a guy who seems to know what he is doing.

If it's any help, my Piazza did 6mpg around Cadwell Park before it 'broke'. It stumped all us 'experts' before RatDat worked out it had run dry.

 

I would have loved to have come to Cholmondeley, but I fell out with the Magna Carta on Friday evening. Things were rather complicated before that, too. I was finding fewer and fewer things on the forum which interested me; other things began to take precedence instead.

[vulgalour]

Should have gone in the Rover, put Ford badges on it and then told the commentator it was an Orion.  I'd've been a shoe-in for a win.

[retrogeezer]

I reckon he must have offended 90% of the fee paying crowd when he said 'come on, don't just sit in your car eating sandwiches and drinking tea, come and take part' ! 

[andy18s]

I reckon he must have offended 90% of the fee paying crowd when he said 'come on, don't just sit in your car eating sandwiches and drinking tea, come and take part' !

And then he started on the E type owners...............

[dugong]

And then he started on the E type owners...............

The wheeled dildo brigade should expect abuse.

[rml2345]

That announcer fella is heroically shit. It'd be worth setting up some sound recording stuff to capture the magic* to share with those who can't make it.

A sort of Autoshite Radio 4.