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Rootes75
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 Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:35 am Post subject: Drive It Day 2025 |
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Anyone any plans for Drive it Day this coming Sunday?
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Ray White
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Drive It Day 2025 |
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | Anyone any plans for Drive it Day this coming Sunday? |
Hopefully Trundles will get an airing. It will be interesting to dee if there is any improvement on the hills with the new coil and condenser. |
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consul 57
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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the bridgwater club are doing a run in the quantocks, hoping to get along.
we are also doing a pre planned meet at bridgwater on sat as well but now fully booked. |
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MikeEdwards
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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Our club is doing a short run, it can be tricky to find people to organise longer runs in a small club. Last year we ended up at the Boat at Erbistock for lunch, which worked well, but the weather was rotten.
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Crashbox
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I'll be heading down to Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Little Washbourne (B4077), just north of Prescott Hill Climb, for the VMR (Vintage (Morris) Minor Register) organised run. We meet at 8:30am at the pub for breakfast, and will visit the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway Trust, at Toddington, then a visit to the museum at what was the airfield of RAF Defford, before arriving at The Old Bull, in Inkberrow, for lunch. The landlord of The Old Bull is a VMR member, and has a rare 1932 Minor Tourer.
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Rootes75
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:05 am Post subject: |
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On such a lovely sunny Drive it Day how could we not get out in the car??
We didn't take part in anything organised, we just headed out round the levels and had lunch in Wells before looping back into Glastonbury.
When stopped for lunch in Wells we were inundated with people looking round the car or taking pictures and just having a good old chat.
Exactly what Drive it Day is about.
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consul 57
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:25 am Post subject: |
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a little trip to the rocking horse cafe in west somerset then a short run to blue anchor bay near minehead for tea & cake again!
nice day it was too. |
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alastairq
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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I stayed at home. Sorry, but I don't 'do' specific drive-it days...I run around in mine as & when I feel like it...Not really into 'showing!'
Besides, I couldn't think of anywhere I particularly wanted to go yesterday....Everywhere likely to have been too crowded for me!
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Ray White
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| alastairq wrote: | I stayed at home. Sorry, but I don't 'do' specific drive-it days...I run around in mine as & when I feel like it...Not really into 'showing!'
Besides, I couldn't think of anywhere I particularly wanted to go yesterday....Everywhere likely to have been too crowded for me! |
I also don't like doing things for no specific reason. It could be seen as a waste of petrol ...but if seeing an old car on the public highway reminds people that they are still about then I suppose it is worth it.
As it turned out I discovered that the 'new' Austin Seven bronze carb that I fitted to Trundles had been secretly leaking. The petrol tap was also faulty so gravity had drained what was left in the scuttle tank.
The needle valve seems O.K. so I think the float chamber level must need correcting. This entails melting the solder around the needle and moving it. Not a difficult job but I wouldn't have had the time to do that and go out for more petrol.
I have also been volunteered into erecting a plastic 'potting' shed ...so my own free time is is short supply.  |
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Rootes75
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Saw this on Flickr of us from yesterday.
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consul 57
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Rootes75 wrote: | Saw this on Flickr of us from yesterday.
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looks smart |
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