Event Shitefest 2018 (U.K.) Chez Saabnut 9-10th june

[HillmanImp]

Early Esprits are fab, but it’s best to realise that trouble with pop-up lights is always the current situation, and find a way to embrace that.

This is the 'reveal' video after repairing the pop up(s) on the MR2.

 

https://youtu.be/xaq_7C_5_fE

[captain_70s]

Reet, a wee write-up from me, better late than never right?

 

I set off for Shitefest at around about 3ish after a morning of being violently sick, as one does. I decided to take the Acclaim, I did considering using the Doloshite but one of the front brakes is sticking so long trips are out... The Acclaim is also a better place to be at motorway speeds.

 

 

Upon arrival I was greeted by the Big Yellow Bus (which I found out shares it's indicator stalk and hazard light switch with my Dolomite because parts bin):

 

 

I was seriously impressed, there couldn't really be a better venue with a fine selection of shite cars dissolving into the countryside and an actual proper toilet in a shed and everyfink. The only downside was the midge bastards eating everybody alive. Some of Saabnut's fleet were rather impressive.

 

The early 1930s Morris Cowley became a firm favourite and I think most of us had a sit in it...

 

 

The Rollers were impressive beasts as well!

 

 

The T2 with the Turbo-R motor and re-worked suspension looks to be a fine daily motor...

 

 

Some of the long term outdoor residents were also rather charming:

 

 

Over the course of the evening a few more people turned up with Squire Dawson arriving at 1:30am after his heroic 12 hour drive up in the Oxford MO. As me, Ghosty and Supernaut wandered over to greet him it looked like a scene from a period drama with the Oxford's yellow headlights appearing in the distance. I then went to bed.

 

The following morning, after a surprisingly good sleep in the shite tent (aside from a worrying moment where I thought I was going to get run over by a Morris Oxford being parked behind me), I wandered around and took some proper pictures of some of the visitor's cars.

 

Ghosty's Rover with nay an undented panel on it:

 

CMS's new OMG-BLMC-AR barge.

 

Squire's Oxford which ran incredibly smooth and quiet:

 

Kinkersaab's Allegro which was seriously FIT.

 

Buketeer's new 205.

 

A Pug 106 running on veg (M'coli) and a Volvo 850 (one of two in attendance). Prime shite.

 

I also had breakfast courtesy of SVM catering cooked on FPB7's jet engine paraffin stove which was equal parts excellent and terrifying.

 

 

Squire Dawson then offered the Oxford for a run to the shops, so Ghosty, Supernaut and Dollywobbler joined him for a jaunt to the local town:

 

 

When we got back this fantastic beast had arrived:

 

 

The front is a Riley RM, the back is custom built into a camper and it is running a Pug diesel engine!

 

Obviously this being AS something had to be brought back to life and the subject had to be the Green Goddess which had last ran when it'd arrived 9 years previously, led by Squire Dawson we set about tinkering:

 

 

The result, after many set backs (including but not limited to dropping a tiny plastic insulator from the dizzy down into the weeds and nettles below..) was this:

 

 

 

Then night (and the midge bastards) came, although M'coli had brought some stuff which seemed to repel them fairly well although apparently also melts plastic...

 

 

Some people gathered under the bonnet of the Allegro, as that's what one does when Allegros are present:

 

 

The following morning people gradually set off home and I managed to get a good shot of the collection of fine 1980s British* daily driver chod on display:

 

Turn out was very good, especially considering the venue is a million miles from anywhere worth being:

 

We left in convoy, of course:

 

 

Really an 11/10 event, fantastic host, excellent venue, great people and ace cars. It really had it all.

 

[Richard]

There were three Volvo 850s, but not all at the same time.

[Supernaut]

A bright yellow double-decker bus trundling through the forests of southern Aberdeenshire, followed by a Montego, an R8 Rover 400, a Goona 2 and a Triumph Acclaim.

 

Truly majestic. This is Autoshite.

[beko1987]

I've learnt more about my car watching that leaving video than the entire time I've owned it! Sorry for ruining your video man, you should have said and I'd have gone behind you!

[wuvvum]

Bloody hell, Fowler wasn't hanging about was he?

[captain_70s]

I've learnt more about my car watching that leaving video than the entire time I've owned it! Sorry for ruining your video man, you should have said and I'd have gone behind you!

 

Not at all, few things are more shite than a Gooner2!

 

Bloody hell, Fowler wasn't hanging about was he?

 

Nope, I reckon that thing could out accelerate the Acclaim...

[davidfowler2000]

Nope, I reckon that thing could out accelerate the Acclaim...

 

To 30mph maybe. It really doesn't like hills at anything more than that. We were down to 30mph up the big hill south of Perth on the way to Shitefest on the Friday.

 

In a straight line I've had it doing 77mph (down one cylinder) and I've never been brave enough to reattempt that feat. I reckon it'll do 90 if you let it.

 

That bit at about 7:45 in to the video where it makes the tight turn then roars off in a cloud of black smoke makes me giggle as well.

[Guest Hooli]

Feck that! buses feel dangerous enough to drive at 40mph!

[davidfowler2000]

Feck that! buses feel dangerous enough to drive at 40mph!

 

Is not a bus. Is a coach!

 

Had the Fest™ not been such an arse to get to in such a vehicle I would have dug it out and let you go for a whirl.

[Guest Hooli]

Coach aye reeeeght...

 

It would have been a laugh to see if I could rememeber how, only got till 2022 on my licence as I don't intend to pay for another medical.

[Zelandeth]

Is not a bus. Is a coach!

 

Had the Fest™ not been such an arse to get to in such a vehicle I would have dug it out and let you go for a whirl.

I've only driven one big double deck coach, was an early 80s Neoplan. Main things I remember we're that the trailing rear axle made low speed maneuveres feel downright odd, that it had more warning lights than your average spacecraft (which I've since discovered seems to be true of all Neoplan coaches), and that the V8 Mercedes engine in it sounded absolutely epic. It also lacked a limiter and would easily do 80mph + on a private road. I don't even want to speculate as to what top speed would be, but I calculated that you'd hit the rev limiter at 96.

 

It's astonishing how baffled the general public get by something that size trundling by with an L plate in the window...

[wuvvum]

I reckon it'll do 90 if you let it.

Surely that must be worth attempting at least once, if only to see the look on the faces of the National Express drivers as you go steaming past them with 28mph in hand.

[Zelandeth]

Surely that must be worth attempting at least once, if only to see the look on the faces of the National Express drivers as you go steaming past them with 28mph in hand.

The look I got going up the hill North out of Dundee in an old Bristol RE with the semi auto box, you could have cut glass with! The NX driver was in one of those mid 90s Plaxton Premieres with the horrible ZF auto box that has no kickdown facility...so he was slogging along at about 30...I just dropped a couple of years and stormed past him in an acrid smelling cloud of still slightly cold Gardner diesel smoke. Gave a cheery wave as I went by...he didn't look amused!

 

...never saw him again later either...that old RE could go though! Sadly it didn't stop half as well, so forward planning was the order of the day.

[davidfowler2000]

Keep a live stagecoach route on the destination board if you do.

I usually put megabus or Citylink destinations on the board if I'm tootling about the motorway.

[hairnet]

lol at twatt

 

even frae their its a looong way how much on the ferry??

 

youse are all 137.6% mad

[Zelandeth]

I usually put megabus or Citylink destinations on the board if I'm tootling about the motorway.

Totally after a shot of that beast if it ever works out.

 

By far the biggest regret I have from my old job was that I was never able to follow through getting my PCV full licence because of bloody politics. Have just never had the spare cash to do it myself.

 

Been a few years now since I was behind the wheel of a bus, so will probably have to start from square one!

[drum]

The look I got going up the hill North out of Dundee in an old Bristol RE with the semi auto box, you could have cut glass with! The NX driver was in one of those mid 90s Plaxton Premieres with the horrible ZF auto box that has no kickdown facility...so he was slogging along at about 30...I just dropped a couple of years and stormed past him in an actor smelling cloud of still slightly cold Gardner diesel smoke. Gave a cheery wave as I went by...he didn't look amused!

...never saw him again later either...that old RE could go though! Sadly it didn't stop half as well, so forward planning was the order of the day.

The Powrie Brae, testing ground of all cars in Dundee and Angus. "What can it do under the bridge at the top of Powrie Brae?". My first car, a 1.3 mk2 escort could do 60 and I've tested all my cars against that benchmark. They've not all been as fast.

[dollywobbler]

Have finally got the first of my Shitefest videos completed! 

[Supernaut]

The Powrie Brae, testing ground of all cars in Dundee and Angus. "What can it do under the bridge at the top of Powrie Brae?". My first car, a 1.3 mk2 escort could do 60 and I've tested all my cars against that benchmark. They've not all been as fast.

I think the best car I've taken up there was a certain well-known Lexus LS400 with the gearbox in power mode. Can't remember what the figure was, but it was lots.

[dollywobbler]

More video. Diesel V8 time!

[captain_70s]

More video. Diesel V8 time!

Did somebody say diesel V8?!

 

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, I thought I was pretty close to that Maestro. Not sure I thought I was that close!

[rantingYoof]

Phwoar what a noise that makes .

[The Moog]

Why do we need channel 5 when we can watch men drive cars like that....

 

 

I hope all the background artists are signed it Equity now and we can find them on IMDB

[kirton]

Has Kirton made it?

Got back home this Monday afternoon after more wandering through Scotland, but thank God no more midges. Got to Durham County brass band contest at Beamish as planned. Thanks to Saabnut for hosting (quote from 6 cylinder's event) daycare for men who should know better.

[drum]

Crumbs! I didn't realise my coupon was going to be in the hub nut vid. That'll be your viewing figures buggered.

 

That tinny rattle noise as we drove off is a bit of a mystery. I thought we were dragging a piece of fence wire or something, but there was nothing to be seen and the noise disappeared after a mile.

[dollywobbler]

Crumbs! I didn't realise my coupon was going to be in the hub nut vid. That'll be your viewing figures buggered.

 

That tinny rattle noise as we drove off is a bit of a mystery. I thought we were dragging a piece of fence wire or something, but there was nothing to be seen and the noise disappeared after a mile.

 

Even worse, my followers are asking questions of you! Like do the rear windows actually open? They're also berating me for no engine bay shots, which is fair enough. It was a busy old day!

[hairnet]

LOL drum innterogation by hubnut

[drum]

Even worse, my followers are asking questions of you! Like do the rear windows actually open? They're also berating me for no engine bay shots, which is fair enough. It was a busy old day!

Four electric windows, no less.

The rear windows only go down two thirds of the way, like old volvos used to.