On Sunday July 17th the South West region and the Severn Valley Region had a joint meeting at Haynes Motor museum. It was agreed that we would meet up at 12pm for those wishing to go into the museum and 2pm for anyone else who fancied a bit of a run after the event.

You would think that living the closest that I would be the first one there, but alas this was not to be and when we finally arrived we found that Jeff (Severn Valley Organiser) Ashley and Ali, Martyn and Dawn had already got there and were over in a quiet part of the car park. We had a bit of a chat for a while and then decided to go and have a wander around the museum.

If you haven’t been to Haynes, it’s certainly worth a look. As mentioned elsewhere on the club site, there is a red MK1 on display. Its condition isn’t too bad, but we all agreed that every car that had made the journey up today was in better nick. So maybe we should offer Haynes one of our cars over the winter months!

Once we had finished in there we had a quick tea break, and waited to see if any other members would turn up for the 2 o’clock section of the afternoon. We were pleased to say Chris made the trip over from Taunton and Richard and Jackie came down from Westbury, I think.

We had a bit of car chat again, and then made our way out on to the road to see if we could find a pub that would do us something to eat. Three pubs later we managed to find somewhere that served food after 2pm, so thanks very much to the Half Moon at Mudford, the food was good and it was air-conditioned, which was a real blessing with the soaring temperatures outside. Jeff then kept us amused with some jokes and stories. Jeff, I think you missed your vocation; you should have been on the stage!

At around 4.30 we all started to make our way out to our cars for the journey home. I had 40 minutes to travel, but Martyn and Dawn had to head back to Plymouth, somewhere around 2 ½ hours away.

Having had some feedback since, everyone seemed to think it was a good day and I would like to thank everyone who came along and made it what it was. In the future me and Jeff are hoping to work on some more joint events, so keep your eyes open for them, and if anyone feels they have got an idea for one drop us a line. There was some talk of meeting up at Christmas time, but we will have to wait and see on that one.

If anyone fancies a pub meet one Sunday, get in touch and we can sort one out. This time of year is a bit busy with other events, so these tend to get put on hold a bit during the summer months.

Well I think that’s it for now, hope to see some of you around in the future.

All the best,

STEVE HALLETT