I was on this run, and had the pleasure of meeting you all, Doris and Fred would come to tatton up to about 3 years ago and have helped kept the club going and still send out the club magazine, two great members.Originally Posted by kevin..in
Bill.
I was on this run, and had the pleasure of meeting you all, Doris and Fred would come to tatton up to about 3 years ago and have helped kept the club going and still send out the club magazine, two great members.
Bill.
It is strange how things change, in the early 90's I was into kitcars and was a member of quite a few owners clubs which used to supply a magazine and organise runs and meets at the big shows. In those days of course we had no internet so the magazines were highly useful and informative (although they were simple photocopied typed sheets).
My wife and I used to go to the shows, however when kids came along the cars dissappeared
There are not many wives these days who go on the runs, in fact on Sunday it was a completely male meeting. I have tried to convince my wife to come along as the kids are now old enough to look after themselves but she is not terribly interested.
My wife was originally going to come along, but things got complicated with the kids. I think she'd enjoy the scenery and I'm sure she will come on a run soon. The July 1st one is no good though as we're already booked for that day.
I can't make out the number plate - is that my car in the middle? (F462 EBU) I know she'd 'been about a bit'!and from way back in 2005 (I think! might have been '04) a pic of my first ever club run out, taken from above Swainsley tunnel
MK1 Club old gaurd having a lunch break
can anyone name all those present there?
sorry Bill but you weren't on that run, another Peak District run a couple of years later I remember marking Wetton & Ilam on your map so you could find it again, first met you at JAE later that year, I came back from the bar to find you were trying your you old magic on my Barb. "I can help you blow up your air bed!" was your ace chat up line
no blue onein the middle is the car that everyone seems to have owned recently, Fred Sandersons F--- LUD even Gary has had his hands on it for a while I believe
I have been a member since 2003 and have been on 3 peak runs starting in stoke the starting point was on a car park next to a famous road! (whittle road)
or something like that.
Bill.
Last edited by bill hulme; 16th May 2012 at 05:15 PM.
yes Bill you have, just not that one in my pic. everyone who was there other than Thomas who took the pic is in the pic,
yes again Tesco car park backs on to Whittle road, the site used to be an aerodrome, just up the road is a factory which was originally the Rootes aircraft factory built in 1936 & during WW2 was involved in building mosquitos which were then flown off from the aerodrome by women pilots among them was one Amy Johnson
I met my Barbara in that factory 26 years ago
as a child I used to go there to watch gliders towed up by a Tigermoth biplane
A deffinate possative is that with a club that has seen its membeship fall dramatically recently, when I did the peak district run turn out was 6 or 7 cars now with a much smaller club Gary gets double that figure, things are looking good well done NW area for making an event a sucess story so take a pat on the back both Bill & GaryI know how much work goes into putting this run together
Last edited by kevin..in; 16th May 2012 at 08:07 PM.
Good guessing there Graham. You said 230 miles and it was actually 237. Does this mean the average goes up again?
JTB
So thats now 2296.8 miles - 12 Mk1s = 191.4 miles per car - an increase of 0.58 miles per car!!!
Oh, so it's more of a tart than mine? Must be something about the blue ones!
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