"The Broken Piston"

[thegamekeeper]

Some people may have picked up on Andrew "Pridaux" Grays reference to a trophy to be awarded at the pre 1980s meeting for the "preservation class" (his words), so to try to encourage some enthusiasm I thought I would give a bit of a preview of the award.

Hand made and bit different to the generic resin trophies of late the idea is to encourage people to drive and look after their cars instead of just polishing them and leaving them in the garage. Originality but balanced with regular use will be the key factors, obviously some cars are over 50 years old so older restorations will be elligible but there are already awards for fresh restorations and heavily modified cars.

It will be awarded annually and the winner will keep the trophy ( along with a resin trophy to keep) till a couple of weeks before the next award ready for the next winner, hopefully it will eventually turn into a "wall of fame" and be something people aspire to winning.

I,m not sure if I will be able to attend to judge and award it for the first time but there will be people who are well experienced to make what I hope is a difficult decision.






In true TVR fashion the trophy will not be fully ready for the winner, I gave it to a shop to do the engraving and fit the shields and they made a right royal 4 cup of so after the event it will be taken away, completely remade and sent on to the winner.

Apologies for the poor photography, I do know how to photograph rounded reflexive objects, not easy, but I don't have a light box big enough.

Hope the gathering goes well and the weather is kind.

sTeVeR.

[thegamekeeper]

Hansoplast said:

I am dreaming of winning this trophy from THE TVR Man himself.
Good idea.

Pitty the dream does not come through because of a waterpool between my home and the meeting.

Have a nice day and let all of the attendees feel like a winner.

Hans

But surely that is the point, the water is exactly the same if I travel from UK to a Holland as it is from Holland to UK. It has never stopped me going to Zolder or Le Mans or Oldtimer or Spa or Angouleme or Monaco Hisorique or Techno Classica or Portimao. You just have to want to.

Edited by thegamekeeper on Thursday 4th September 20:46

Edited by thegamekeeper on Thursday 4th September 20:46