THORNFALCON MEET - SUNDAY 4th SEPTEMBER 2005

I thought we would go to the Thornfalcon meet at Taunton as Steve the South West Area Organiser recommended it having been before, although he was not able to attend due to a change of date as he was booked in to compete at Wiscombe Down in a Hillclimb.

On arrival we were most impressed with the amount of cars that were already there on display. We were directed to the Eighties and Modern Classic area, as we were passing the line up I spotted a white MR2 MK1 that belonged to Chris from Taunton. After parking next to a Nissan 350Z I had a chat with Chris about the repairs that had been done on his car since we last saw him at the Haynes motor museum, new offside rear quarter and both near side wings restored to their best. Meanwhile my wife Dawn had spotted that we were parked right in front of some blackberry bushes so was busy filling up a carrier bag.

I had a walk around the cars on display - everything from Austin’s to a Ferrari and loads of MG’s and Triumphs that had a field to themselves. On the way back we spotted a Peugeot 205 cabriolet that had a pink stripey teddy in the back and Dawn said that must belong to Steve’s partner Chan.

While we sat by our car Chan came and said a quick hello. We had the usual amount of interest with the MR2 from all ages.

We left around 1.30pm which was lucky as when we got to Honiton the skies opened up and had heavy rain the rest of the way home.

Martyn and Dawn Westbrook

Chris

Martyn