sir douglas Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Just been up to trhe Heath Common vintage vehicle rally, and here is my flickr album for today. https://www.flickr.com/photos/59562189@N03/sets/72157645249074727 And here are 3 of those photos for you. Regards, Sam. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) Some from Pickering Steam Fair from me today. This is the third year in a row we've been and some of the regular exhibits are a bit familiar, so not as many pictures as usual. This is a selection of the oil fired machinery on display. The wife got terribly excited about this. Must be something to do with being French. She was quite excited about this too, until I told her she couldn't have it. I don't think I'd seen this run before, though it's there every year. Canadian, I learned today. Lady and tractor are quite well known in the tractor restoring world. It was slightly distressing to see how many of the 'vintage' tractors we still use regularly, including one of these, though we don't plough or sow with it. I didn't get a shot of the beautifully signwritten rear mudguards on this Case, but it was in fabulous condition. I hadn't seen this demonstrated before either - steel frames front and rear, the rear one attached to the 3 point gear and the tractor lifted itself off the ground. Brilliant. I remember these being commonplace. This one has had an interesting life, starting out as an RAF ambulance on Malta. My dad had the Albion version of this. He still has one of these to restore, in these colours too. Mind you, they were everywhere at one time. These were pretty ubiquitous colours in the 1970s as well. When I was a kid the cab from one of these used to lie in a yard my dad used a fair bit. I must have spent hours playing in there. Edited October 17, 2018 by jwealleans 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I remember an old boy near us in the early sixties had one of those Bond Minicars (Correct name?). He would come out of his house, yell abuse at us, get in the Minicar, eventually start it and disappear down the road in a haze of blue smoke and flapping side panels..... Best, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) Well, they seem to have gone down well. Here are a couple from last year which seem appropriate for today: Most of the military presence yesterday seemed to have left by the time we reached their part of the show. Edited October 17, 2018 by jwealleans 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 Three more but I'll probably be repeating them soon (all the same owners seem to turn up at the Shows). 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Ah, big Cibie’s! Is there much of a market in the UK for original, non-modified MkII RS Escorts? Thanks for the photos. Best, Pete. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Is there much of a market in the UK for original, non-modified MkII RS Escorts? Hell yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 21, 2014 Hell yes! Totally crazy prices. I have never been interested but one of the guys at work was talking about them the other day. I was amazed. But it does make some sense as a car that an amateur can restore and maintain fairly easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 21, 2014 Some of you guys may well be thinking of going to Dorset Steam Fair next week. Be warned that the C13 south of Shaftesbury is closed indefinitely due to a landslip so there will be more traffic than usual on the A350 and it will be mighty slow if any of the exhibitors are going down to Blandford (Tarrant Hinton) under their own power, as they usually do. If you are coming from the North, probably best to go via A354 from Salisbury or A357 from Wincanton. I might go myself this year, mainly to have a look at the newbuild Patriot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatman Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I must be lucky, but I had a trip round Norfolk lanes in a genuine 250 GTO. My son worked for the guy who was repairing it. We did 147.5mph up the Wissington Sugar factory road! He shouted across at me..."7000 in top!" Rally gearing. The filling station man nearly wet his trousers! But the car was appallingly badly made. Rivets all out of line, bad paint, rough edges, proving it was made to race. BUT, so pretty and what a sound it made. Got it all on video. At the other end of the spectrum, I once went all the way from Romford to Southend and back in a Bond Minicar, in the back! Regards, Boatman 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I must be lucky, but I had a trip round Norfolk lanes in a genuine 250 GTO. My son worked for the guy who was repairing it. We did 147.5mph up the Wissington Sugar factory road! He shouted across at me..."7000 in top!" Rally gearing. The filling station man nearly wet his trousers! COR!! The best car I've been for a ride in was an original Ford Falcon XC Cobra, from the owner of this museum For those that don't know, the XC is the White/Blue car at the beginning and the end, and all 400 (plus 100 utes) were painted Blue, then had the White put on over it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 best ever passenger seat ride whilst not actually competing MIRA proving grounds works spec MGmetro 6r4 driven by the late great Tony Pond completley side ways every where as all 410 horses in the back did everything they could to break my neck ! 0-100 in six seconds from a standing start awesome only thing that comes close was a run up the scammonden dam hill climb track in an ex works (michelle mouton monte carlo ) audi sportquatro s4 but at just over quarter of a mile not room to realy get is going 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Ah, big Cibie’s! Is there much of a market in the UK for original, non-modified MkII RS Escorts? Thanks for the photos. Best, Pete. prices in the excess of £15k for a descent fourdoor bare shell even more for a two door is leading to cars under restoration being stolen to order from driveways/garages as there is an ever dwindling supply .there have been two in the last six months close to us in one case a subaru impreza was moved to gain access to the escort and left behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 saddleworth yanks weekend 2012 this was lurking in a nearby car park 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 One of my most interesting experiences (as a passenger) was being driven from Essex to a cricket match in Kent in a (real) 427ci Cobra (it may have actually had the 428ci motor) c.1972ish. Not so much for the speed but for the sound when going through the Dartford Tunnel....luckily it did not rain. Best, Pete. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 23, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 23, 2014 The old Blackwall tunnel was the one for noise, the glazed tile walls were great for reflecting sound. Back in 1955 my dad had an old Morris 8, the exhaust silencer box decided to part company with the car as it entered the tunnel. Because of traffic we couldn't stop so we had to go through the tunnel with no silencer! The noise was horrendous. Dad then had to walk back through the tunnel to retrieve the silencer box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweasel Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Try a Lambo Countach at full chat through the Blackwall. We were only doing 30 mph, but in 1st gear! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Nothing in the World approaches the sound of a 427 Cobra with side pipes and no roof at all.......Sorry. I doubt whether I’ll have that opportunity ever again whereas I have several Lambos, two Maserati Boras (both with the stainless steel roofs from the early seventies) etc., within shouting distance. Best, Pete. Edited August 23, 2014 by trisonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragtag Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Here's my current project. Gold star to anyone who can tell what it is Edited August 23, 2014 by Ragtag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Here's my current project. Gold star to anyone who can tell what it is No idea but I'm sure you'll complete it to much Acclaim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Here's my current project. Gold star to anyone who can tell what it is its a Triumph Acclaim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter220950 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Went up to the local Garden Centre today as they usually have a car show on August Bank Holiday. In amongst the usual suspects of mini's, MGB's, Austin 10's and suchlike, were a few more exotic ones, A nice Bond Bug An A40 pickup a Heinkel Bubble Car A Buick Le Sabre A transit for the railway modeller who wants historic vehicles and trains A 1924 3 Litre Speed Six Bentley A 1922 Cluley A Morgan A Healey 100/4 and a 3000 Dodge Challenger A Brace of Nash Metropolitans and matching caravans A 1965 Alvis TE21 Jensen Interceptor 1982 Lancia Monte Carlo Spyder A40 Countryman Hotchkiss Willys Jeep Hispano Suiza A very sharp looking BMW 840 1933 Wolsley 1933 Cotton with support van A Capri you could eat your diner off the engine of And a couple of proper Capris A variety of old bikes And an Austin Pick-up 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Peter, Some nice stuff there - love the gold Alvis! A Ford Executive poking it’s ugly nose into one photo. I once drove from London to Glasgow in one of those. Really like the green Capri (original). Hell would be to be stuck behind a Metropolitan and matching caravan, though. Best, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 24, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2014 Was that Stirling Moss alongside the A40 pick up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 The one facing the camera? I thought he looked like John Surtees - but he seems to have more hair..... Best, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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