Stoke Row Car Show

[lotus72]

............amd yes, the weather was awful!

[Benny Saltstein]

Have you any more pics? I was doing the Touring Assemble with my son in a TVR Chimaera. While the weather was not fab, there were some fantastic cars there including a couple of Ferraris owned by a certain Mr Brawn.

[lotus72]

yes, I have a few more photos but unfortunately, none of your car.

[Ranger 6]

Benny, I was the one with the camera at the start. Not at the right PC for the pics at the mo so will post later. I never did get round to doing it at lunchtime, there wasn't a signal from the Black Horse...

BTW much respect to the Ferrari driver who got a puncture and went home for his 'other' one, he came to check his position with the officials as he'd missed a control....

[Benny Saltstein]

Ranger 6 said:

Benny, I was the one with the camera at the start. Not at the right PC for the pics at the mo so will post later. I never did get round to doing it at lunchtime, there wasn't a signal from the Black Horse...

BTW much respect to the Ferrari driver who got a puncture and went home for his 'other' one, he came to check his position with the officials as he'd missed a control....

I don't know if they're your pictures but Peter sent a link to his Picasa site which had a few.

It was an excellent route but I certainly would have been nervous driving the 458 down some of the lanes which were pretty well potholed so no surprise some picked up a puncture.

Apparently the GT40 ran out of petrol and the Twizzy was running with just 5% battery as it crossed the line in Stoke Row.

[Ranger 6]

Finally at the right PC

I'm sure the tour planners will comment on the route, I think they didn't expect such modern motors and it was more designed as a short twisty one for the Austin and Lea Francis. When we found the GT40 short of juice we were a bit shocked - to go through 3/4 of a tank in under 40 miles.......

These are of you



This has to be the global competition debut of the Twizy


Once we got to the end of the tour there was loads to see at the show itself

[Benny Saltstein]

Thanks for posting those. Regarding the route I thought it was great as I know the area pretty well but much of it was totally new to me.

Hope they do it again next year. Was it the 458 or the 430 that got the puncture?

Robin

[Ranger 6]

The 430 - came back in the silver one which was parked round the corner.

Hopefully we'll be doing it again next year - I really enjoyed it, the spirit was great even though the weather was crap

[Benny Saltstein]

Nice chap who owns that car. Sure I've seen him somewhere else ;-)

[Ranger 6]

yes, massively different to what I imagined, a genuinely nice fella and an enthusiast.