Monday 3rd November 2014

PH Sunday Service Jaguar

Huge cheer to all those hardy PHers who braved the rain for an autumnal PH Sunday Service at Gaydon

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Sunday saw us holding our fourth Sunday service in four weekends, with us visiting the excellent Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon as guests of Jaguar.

That's not a Photoshop sky, honest!

Despite having held so many Sunday Services of late, we've been blessed with some really great weather. Sadly though, this lucky streak finally came to an end as Gaydon (and most of the UK) was hit with biblical levels of rain. Still, of all the venues that we visit The Heritage Motor Centre is perhaps to best when the clouds open...

With a collection of over 300 British cars including classics, vintage and down-right oddball vehicles there was something for everyone, including a cup of tea and a bacon sarnie courtesy of our friends at Jaguar.

This was a welcome respite from the rain and not a bad way to unwind after the journey to Warwickshire. By about 10am the weather brightened up and most people headed back outside to enjoy a look around the eclectic PH metal, which featured everything from a Caterham R500 to a Carrera GT. Neither of which are famed for their wet weather manners. Brave souls indeed (and a lesson to anyone who chickened out because of the weather!). Also popular were the McLaren 650S MSO, F-Type R Coupe and 911 Targa that the PH team brought along.

Plenty of distractions while the rain fell outside

Next weekend sees the Sunday Service freight train continue, with us visiting the ever-popular Mercedes-Benz World. We look forward to seeing lots of you there and if you haven't yet signed up or want to know more about it, have a look here.

 

 

Photos: Ben Lowden

 

[mrdemon]

Nice morning out, thanks ;-)

[PistonBroker]

Headline pic a candidate for pic of the week, surely?

[PeteBenZ4M]

Thank you to Jaguar for displaying the new XE model, looked fantastic in the red, think they are onto another winner... well done !!

[LewG]

A bit chuffed with that headline pic. My car! Cheers for the photos Ben, I'm surprised anyone took notice of my old scrapper

[Batster]

Well done to Dan and the team for organising such a fun event.

It was good to find out the car can deal with standing water without killing me contrary to popular belief....

[max b]

Well done PH, Jag and HMC, a great morning out.

[Rib]

A TVR out in the wet! That guy must be a nutter!!

[TVRJAS]

LewG said:

A bit chuffed with that headline pic. My car! Cheers for the photos Ben, I'm surprised anyone took notice of my old scrapper

I spent more time looking at your car than I did the Mclaren and Lambo(sorry Mclambo guys) I loved it

To PH

Really enjoyed my first visit to the Sunday Service,the only affect the weather caused me was not being able to arrive with the roof off which was a small sacrifice when you were offering the entry to the museum/bacon roll and coffee all for just attending.

I thought the museum was amazing with so much classic stuff around I wasn't sure where to look. I think if I had the chance to drive home in any of those cars it would be the white E type Jaguar(And I'm not just saying that groveling to Jaguar) There has been one in my fantasy garage a few days after I joined here.

Many thanks... thoroughly enjoyed myself

[JaguarsportXJR]

LewG said:

A bit chuffed with that headline pic. My car! Cheers for the photos Ben, I'm surprised anyone took notice of my old V12 beast

Corrected that for you. Bloody auto complete!

Had a great morning myself and thanks to everyone (including Jaguar) for bringing their cars along for me to ogle.

[andybu]

A shoutout here to the kind person who left a "Why Not join Now?" XKEC recruitment sticker on my Silver Jaguar XK Coupe at Gaydon on Sunday.

Erm - thanks, but I'm already an XKEC club member.........

If you are going to the M-B World SS next Sunday then please e-mail me off-thread and we can arrange to meet. I'll be there.

AndyBu