Thunder in the tunnels 8
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Well... what a day!! 
Too shattered to do a full write up yet but safe to say we had the cars, the weather and loads of friendly people both new and old to the TiTT run.
I took a time lapse witht the GoPro but it's going to take a while to pull together. Just the one shot from Brooklands from me then!
Too shattered to do a full write up yet but safe to say we had the cars, the weather and loads of friendly people both new and old to the TiTT run.
I took a time lapse witht the GoPro but it's going to take a while to pull together. Just the one shot from Brooklands from me then!
yosini said:
That's me! not the two guys texting each other, but the silver Cerb going around Westferry Circus. might have to screengrab that one...
Cheers Colin Red Griff
p.s. my pics were with the HD Hero2, great little camera, get the motorsport kit from Amazon sound quality not ideal but a good allrounder - almost got the vid on YouTube, watch this space
If you want a copy drop me an email through my profileCheers Colin Red Griff
p.s. my pics were with the HD Hero2, great little camera, get the motorsport kit from Amazon sound quality not ideal but a good allrounder - almost got the vid on YouTube, watch this space
MrChips said:
Well... what a day!!
Too shattered to do a full write up yet but safe to say we had the cars, the weather and loads of friendly people both new and old to the TiTT run.
I took a time lapse witht the GoPro but it's going to take a while to pull together. Just the one shot from Brooklands from me then!
That's a great picture. And thanks for all the organisation.Too shattered to do a full write up yet but safe to say we had the cars, the weather and loads of friendly people both new and old to the TiTT run.
I took a time lapse witht the GoPro but it's going to take a while to pull together. Just the one shot from Brooklands from me then!
Really wanted to continue to Brooklands. I have a picture somewhere of my great Grandfather after a race there. Sadly, I was on Sunday lunch duty. The upside, I managed to fit one last BBQ into the year.
seeby said:
Oh what a great morning . Perfect weather, good to mix with a load of nutters like myself who get up half way through the night to make a lot of noise in their P&J. Especially you NOISY,
me your car certainly lives up to its name! Thanks to all who organised it & thanks to Chevy-Stu who led me to Brooklands. Hope you all got home safely & roll on the next one 
me your car certainly lives up to its name! Thanks to all who organised it & thanks to Chevy-Stu who led me to Brooklands. Hope you all got home safely & roll on the next one 
had to put the loud pipes on really didn't I 
I'd like to add my thanks to the organisers; had a great morning!
I'd also like to apologise to the 4 or 5 cars that were following me on leaving the Blackwall Tunnel. Managed to miss Westferry Circus completely, and on leaving Limehouse Link missed the turn - satnav took me down a couple of cobbled streets with huge speedbumps and I was very conscious of some very low TVRs following me!
Great fun though, met some great folks, really friendly bunch and lots of thumbs up from fellow TVR drivers Some excellent tunnel action too! Sorry I couldn't go to Brooklands, maybe next year! 
I'd also like to apologise to the 4 or 5 cars that were following me on leaving the Blackwall Tunnel. Managed to miss Westferry Circus completely, and on leaving Limehouse Link missed the turn - satnav took me down a couple of cobbled streets with huge speedbumps and I was very conscious of some very low TVRs following me!
Great fun though, met some great folks, really friendly bunch and lots of thumbs up from fellow TVR drivers
Some excellent tunnel action too! Sorry I couldn't go to Brooklands, maybe next year! ukcerb said:
Thanks to you all who organised this. The best so far and what a great place to finish at Booklands. Test hill was fun too. Steve (ShiDevil) sorry to hear you didn`t make it, would have been good to meet up again.
Ta mate back on road Wednesday pleased no one else had any hassles! now on you tube:
http://youtu.be/J08F6biuVb8
editing almost as rough as the sound from the GoPro
Cheers all for a good day
Joe
http://youtu.be/J08F6biuVb8
editing almost as rough as the sound from the GoPro
Cheers all for a good day
Joe
Really wanted to get to this but after the Ring Monday Spa Tue & Wed drive back thursday followed by Oulton on Fri & Saturday for my first race in the challenge woke at 12 on sunday feeling like i'd done 12 rounds with Mike T!!
Looks like you all had a great time and Brooklands must of given some great shots!
We still held are end up at Spa with one of the T350's getting black flagged 3 times for noise culminating in a visit from the marshals who where more interested in what a great noise it made just not on track.
Car's sounded great at the ring where the limit was 135DB Happy days
Looks like you all had a great time and Brooklands must of given some great shots!
We still held are end up at Spa with one of the T350's getting black flagged 3 times for noise culminating in a visit from the marshals who where more interested in what a great noise it made just not on track.
Car's sounded great at the ring where the limit was 135DB
Happy daysa great day, unfortunately cut short due to problems at home, all sorted so no worries.
it was great seeing all the different TVRs in one place, and it was even better hearing them!
my thanks to Mr Chips who did a fantastic job!
i aoplogise in advance for the video, i had to compromise between sound and video as i broke my longer mike and the short one restricted the camera position.
this has taken 4 hours to upload and there are 3 more, so please be patient
Lester
http://youtu.be/YsKvGnfypVQ
it was great seeing all the different TVRs in one place, and it was even better hearing them!
my thanks to Mr Chips who did a fantastic job!
i aoplogise in advance for the video, i had to compromise between sound and video as i broke my longer mike and the short one restricted the camera position.
this has taken 4 hours to upload and there are 3 more, so please be patient
Lester
http://youtu.be/YsKvGnfypVQ
Had a fantastic day, many thanks for organising it!
As my Eurotunnel crossing suddendly morphed from 04.42 when checking in at the gates to 05.22 when lining up for embarkment (without any explanation I might add) & took the 'loop' in France adding another 10 mins to crossing time & then I failed to find the correct exit from the A20, all adding up to my arrival @06.45, I was very lucky to catch the tail of the convoy lining up for a partially closed Blackwall Tunnel.
Strangely, last time round at TiTT3 I used the same crossing and was the very first to arrive in the O2 Arena parking...
It was also great to put some faces to very familiar PH names - Martin (NiceCupOfTea) and Tim (DonkeyApple) - pleasure to meet you! At that point the convoy was starting to make a move on again, so apologies to all I didn't get to speak this time...
As I was in the car at 01.00 am Continental time, I cut my Brooklands visit a bit short (not before having a good wander around the place, it's magic
) and got home safe and sound at 8 pm (including a stop for tea at my parents), having added around 650-700 miles to the Chim's already impressive tally
Felt really sorry for the guy in the silver Cerb who lost his clutch at just about most inconvenient point (turning in a street in front of a set of traffic lights). Hope you got back safety and that it'll be sorted quickly & painlessly!
Will upload pics on my FB and drag a couple here from there, but they're nowt to write home about I'm afraid...
Again, many thanks to all who made it possible!
As my Eurotunnel crossing suddendly morphed from 04.42 when checking in at the gates to 05.22 when lining up for embarkment (without any explanation I might add) & took the 'loop' in France adding another 10 mins to crossing time & then I failed to find the correct exit from the A20, all adding up to my arrival @06.45, I was very lucky to catch the tail of the convoy lining up for a partially closed Blackwall Tunnel.
Strangely, last time round at TiTT3 I used the same crossing and was the very first to arrive in the O2 Arena parking...
It was also great to put some faces to very familiar PH names - Martin (NiceCupOfTea) and Tim (DonkeyApple) - pleasure to meet you!
At that point the convoy was starting to make a move on again, so apologies to all I didn't get to speak this time...As I was in the car at 01.00 am Continental time, I cut my Brooklands visit a bit short (not before having a good wander around the place, it's magic
) and got home safe and sound at 8 pm (including a stop for tea at my parents), having added around 650-700 miles to the Chim's already impressive tally Felt really sorry for the guy in the silver Cerb who lost his clutch at just about most inconvenient point (turning in a street in front of a set of traffic lights). Hope you got back safety and that it'll be sorted quickly & painlessly!
Will upload pics on my FB and drag a couple here from there, but they're nowt to write home about I'm afraid...
Again, many thanks to all who made it possible!
NiceCupOfTea said:
I'd like to add my thanks to the organisers; had a great morning!
I'd also like to apologise to the 4 or 5 cars that were following me on leaving the Blackwall Tunnel. Managed to miss Westferry Circus completely, and on leaving Limehouse Link missed the turn - satnav took me down a couple of cobbled streets with huge speedbumps and I was very conscious of some very low TVRs following me!
Great fun though, met some great folks, really friendly bunch and lots of thumbs up from fellow TVR drivers Some excellent tunnel action too! Sorry I couldn't go to Brooklands, maybe next year!
I was the Tuscan right behind you! Many many thanks for leading us. I had no idea the cobbled streets weren't supposed to be part of the route and no problem with speed bumps here. Without you, we wouldn't have had a clue where to go as proved near the end of that stage when we lost you at some traffic lights. A couple of U turns later we managed to hook on to another convoy. But not before we lost one of our cars...I'd also like to apologise to the 4 or 5 cars that were following me on leaving the Blackwall Tunnel. Managed to miss Westferry Circus completely, and on leaving Limehouse Link missed the turn - satnav took me down a couple of cobbled streets with huge speedbumps and I was very conscious of some very low TVRs following me!
Great fun though, met some great folks, really friendly bunch and lots of thumbs up from fellow TVR drivers
Some excellent tunnel action too! Sorry I couldn't go to Brooklands, maybe next year! Very sadly, the silver cerb pictured with the police bike further up the page very suddenly lost his clutch leaving him stranded at a set of lights. 10 seconds later the police bike arrived and stopped the traffic in order for us to push his car to safety. Felt very bad abandoning him but there was no where we could've stopped to stay with him. Hope the chap got home safely in the end.
Also, thanks to the turquoisey cerbera which led us to Brooklands (number plate read something similar to 'Cerbie'). Sorry we lost you near the end but we were desperate for fuel (car had stuttered a couple of times!) and dived into a petrol station which only came into view at the last moment.
Again, many thanks to the organisers for a great day.
900T-R said:
Had a fantastic day, many thanks for organising it!
As my Eurotunnel crossing suddendly morphed from 04.42 when checking in at the gates to 05.22 when lining up for embarkment (without any explanation I might add) & took the 'loop' in France adding another 10 mins to crossing time & then I failed to find the correct exit from the A20, all adding up to my arrival @06.45, I was very lucky to catch the tail of the convoy lining up for a partially closed Blackwall Tunnel.
Strangely, last time round at TiTT3 I used the same crossing and was the very first to arrive in the O2 Arena parking...
It was also great to put some faces to very familiar PH names - Martin (NiceCupOfTea) and Tim (DonkeyApple) - pleasure to meet you! At that point the convoy was starting to make a move on again, so apologies to all I didn't get to speak this time...
As I was in the car at 01.00 am Continental time, I cut my Brooklands visit a bit short (not before having a good wander around the place, it's magic ) and got home safe and sound at 8 pm (including a stop for tea at my parents), having added around 650-700 miles to the Chim's already impressive tally
Felt really sorry for the guy in the silver Cerb who lost his clutch at just about most inconvenient point (turning in a street in front of a set of traffic lights). Hope you got back safety and that it'll be sorted quickly & painlessly!
Will upload pics on my FB and drag a couple here from there, but they're nowt to write home about I'm afraid...
Again, many thanks to all who made it possible!
Ah, you were the other car in our little convoy. Good to meet you!As my Eurotunnel crossing suddendly morphed from 04.42 when checking in at the gates to 05.22 when lining up for embarkment (without any explanation I might add) & took the 'loop' in France adding another 10 mins to crossing time & then I failed to find the correct exit from the A20, all adding up to my arrival @06.45, I was very lucky to catch the tail of the convoy lining up for a partially closed Blackwall Tunnel.
Strangely, last time round at TiTT3 I used the same crossing and was the very first to arrive in the O2 Arena parking...
It was also great to put some faces to very familiar PH names - Martin (NiceCupOfTea) and Tim (DonkeyApple) - pleasure to meet you!
At that point the convoy was starting to make a move on again, so apologies to all I didn't get to speak this time...As I was in the car at 01.00 am Continental time, I cut my Brooklands visit a bit short (not before having a good wander around the place, it's magic
) and got home safe and sound at 8 pm (including a stop for tea at my parents), having added around 650-700 miles to the Chim's already impressive tally Felt really sorry for the guy in the silver Cerb who lost his clutch at just about most inconvenient point (turning in a street in front of a set of traffic lights). Hope you got back safety and that it'll be sorted quickly & painlessly!
Will upload pics on my FB and drag a couple here from there, but they're nowt to write home about I'm afraid...
Again, many thanks to all who made it possible!
I didn't know that wasn't part of the planned route either 
I thought the post-industrial backyard scene was rather erm, scenic in the sunlight... but then I really like that sort of stuff, often preferring the 'behind the scenes' view of cities over the highly polished 'front'
You know what ,I'm really starting to like London
I thought the post-industrial backyard scene was rather erm, scenic in the sunlight... but then I really like that sort of stuff, often preferring the 'behind the scenes' view of cities over the highly polished 'front'
You know what ,I'm really starting to like London
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