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Evening Rob Great picture 6738 was in traffic until very recently and hopefully may return to traffic in the future

Well if its Stafford that's me and our group not coming. Too far as is Warley. I'm sure plenty of other venues towards the east not only the present venue. Stafford may have good north south road and rail links but terrible cross country

Morning David, just take it easy. Hope you are feeling better soon

I was talking to Mike he was telling me it was actually a modern bus that failed I don't hold Hornby magazine responsible at all for the bus farce Not at all impressed with Dews coaches I found the driver of the 6w Plaxton quite obnoxious, I know he had to have his break but there was a spare bus and driver and as he seemed to be the bloke organising the buses he did a s#it job

Was a great day, pretty crowded first thing but bus service to car park was an absolute disaster We walked this morning and had to wait ages for return bus There were 2 buses there and I asked what was told one was spare and the driver was having a break on the other! Queue was hus so quite why the spare bus wasn't used was anyone's guess as it was sitting running keeping its driver warm

Surprised this doesn't happen more often . Frightening the amount of bridges and viaducts you see with trees and bushes growing out of them

I wonder about that , was there many of them

There is Chris is still the original door

It's not a solid door the plastic flyscreen was replaced with a metal one which is yellow

Morning David, I love the atmosphere in the Gunness wharf picture

Mine arrived last week had a flick through it and seems excellent It one of those books that I want to make time to really savour reading it. I was the same with Michael Rhodes book from grid iron to grassland Anymore projects in the pipeline Simon?

It could have been a signal dropping to red in front of the train and the driver is being relieved as he or she is shaken up

That's a shame, would have sounded better. Is that Jim tipping on the platform

Cheers Mark, I thought you or David would know

Were they in multi Nidge?

The cradles were called Granbils named after two chaps that came up with the idea. Sadly I can't remember their names now

If it was a mk1 turbo in that condition it would be over 20k

Very true but until recently these types of show tended to by things that looked like a mobile Westminster Abbey and almost as old with headlamps the size of a small planet

Things have definitely changed in the world of classic car shows too About 2010 some arse#ole with a Morris Oxford coupe more commonly known as MGBGT had a right go at me saying my Maestro EFi had no place to be at a car show. Yet to my utter amazement it won best in show at a fairly big local generic classic car show where there was a vast array of classics including beautifully presented pre war cars and even E types and big Healeys

Have you got details for the place please mate?

And a maestro van! What's the score with that?

I love that, very very rare. Looks immaculate. They are very fast , I wish my tomcat was a turbo rather than VVC

Mine is the lucas system which is a version of L jetronic with a hot wire airflow meter rather than electromechanical flap system

I remember being terrified of ECU failure when I first got a maestro EFi in the mid 80s but in all those years and owned about 10 I've only come across one with a faulty fuel ECU. It still ran but very rich. Because of this fault I bought it for 50 quid! The cause of it is catching a spanner on the battery positive on the airflow meter I've had airflow meters play up but on the whole it's a reliable system. I've managed to get hold of all the Austin rover fast check modules for setting up and testing the system. Far simpler than a modern car

Ah of course I was forgetting that was related to the L series