10 Years..........

[Hoover.]

this year since London Thunder was first held....... there only seems a few videos left on YouTube of the day....... but they reminded of great day, not dampened by the torrential rain before the off from the Ace Café.

Approx 400 TVRs descending on London to show their support for the workers and the brand of the shutting factory.

[julianc]

Hoover. said:

this year since London Thunder was first held....... there only seems a few videos left on YouTube of the day....... but they reminded of great day, not dampened by the torrential rain before the off from the Ace Café.

Approx 400 TVRs descending on London to show their support for the workers and the brand of the shutting factory.

Me being one of them.

Shame it made no difference to Moleskins, but the workforce appreciated what we were trying to do.

[Bluebottle]

Hoover. said:

this year since London Thunder was first held....... there only seems a few videos left on YouTube of the day....... but they reminded of great day, not dampened by the torrential rain before the off from the Ace Café.

Approx 400 TVRs descending on London to show their support for the workers and the brand of the shutting factory.

was it that long ago?! iirc the unofficial count was nearer 700 tivs wasn't it?

[sonnylad]

Remember that day well, i had a TVR worker in my car for the journey to whitehall and back.

Unfortunatly had a delayed start from the Ace as i stopped to give a Cerb owner a jump start.

[Byker28i]

no video but:
http://www.pbase.com/byker28i/london_thunder&p...

Only 3 cars broke down, mostly heat related issues as we rather blocked up central London. Highlight of the days was the ripple down picadilly as every rev'd their cars

[Byker28i]

[Byker28i]

[sonnylad]

Byker28i said:

Hi Dave, do you have a high res copy of this you could send me please.

Russ

[Byker28i]

yup drop me an email - I'll sort it tonight

I might even sort out my t-shirt

[TOV!E]

Yep good times, I still have the TVR fleece I brought at the Ace before the off............

[Byker28i]

Such ropey images. It was so wet, but we jammed up central london, so many cars

[anonymous-user]

I do have some video spread across different formats, that I may pull together one day.

Here are a couple of photos from my compact Digital Camera from the Ace café.



This was a merge of two photos from the roof.

[nrick]

Might have been fun to recreate, Brand awareness and all that?

[AutoAndy]

i remember the weather was pants, but a special day never-the-less...

and when several hundred TVRs started their engine to leave the Ace Cafe ...wow...It was like North London had experienced a small earthquake..

[sonnylad]

anonymous said:

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Good one of my Cerb there on this side of the bus stop

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Remember it well. Not least because my wife to be and me had not long been dating, and it was her first time in the Chim!

[Byker28i]

nrick said:

Might have been fun to recreate, Brand awareness and all that?

We did it again in 2008, but I think that was a tunnel run/memorial. Met at the Dome, tunnel run, down to wake Mr Brown the PM early and back to the Ace for breakfast
http://www.pbase.com/byker28i/londonthunder2008

[K12beano]

AutoAndy said:

i remember the weather was pants, but a special day never-the-less...

and when several hundred TVRs started their engine to leave the Ace Cafe ...wow...It was like North London had experienced a small earthquake..

Yes - I see my roof was on.....


....like everyone else.

My passenger was a very quiet chap who was responsible for interiors.... "Would you have done this one?" "Probably" .... and there was a great feeling amongst all the owners and workers getting together!

[Andy Pandie]

anonymous said:

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That's my old Chim alongside and behind the two S's, I'd only had her a week or so before this meet and unbeknown to me the dealer had managed to leave the otter switch disconnected, which I found a couple of days later whilst investigating, so we completed the whole day relying on the leads randomly shorting out to get the fans running ................ live and learn Great memories though

[anonymous-user]

sonnylad said:

Good one of my Cerb there on this side of the bus stop

And my grey Chimaera next to it and an identical grey one next to it. The only time I have ever seen another one in the same colour.