Track day at Snetterton, 16-11-13, come on you chims!

[phazed]

I've put this on the events forum, TD as above.

Wide open fast track, ideal for chims.

You just can't drive fast on the road, this is your chance for a proper blast, all day for £129.00!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[QBee]

I have invited Garlick to come and join us. Don't suppose he will. He's a good guy, but like many a Londoner, plays at performance cars rather than really using them for the purpose they were made......

[QBee]

ChimpOnGas said:

I'll join you soon, but sniffin gas to show you what 45mpg is like on the track

My 5 litre does 24 mpg at steady motorway speed......8 mpg at all out track speed. So are you getting 135 mpg on the road, or 15 mpg on the track?

[QBee]

Come and join us anyway - I am fairly sure there will be another 4 litre there. Mat Smith, my TVR guy, says he will bring his 4 litre if he possibly can, and I imagine he will find your gas install fascinating.

[Richard 858]

Anthony, thanks for the prompt & just realised I posted my reply on the wrong thread ! Afraid I won't be able to make it, annoying as it looks like a good day at a good price. I'll look forward to the next opportunity, probably be next year for me now though.

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Richard 858 said:

Anthony, thanks for the prompt & just realised I posted my reply on the wrong thread ! Afraid I won't be able to make it, annoying as it looks like a good day at a good price. I'll look forward to the next opportunity, probably be next year for me now though.

No problem, we will be doing more.....

[Geoff38]

hmmmmm , could be tempted now that I have a Chim too. Might have to use bolt on cans to get the noise down thou ( I have some ). Exhaust was sleeved by a previous owner.

Cheers
Geoff

[frenchie TVR]

Hi Phazed,

I am really, really tempted, it's a Saturday, it's cheap and the good old girl: The Chimaera needs to get out more: since the birth of our son it’s not getting used as much it really should: 5 outings since end of July (Silverstone Classic)…

Enjoyed our outing in march at Bedford autodrome (when I surprised you one how well my “standard” 500 was going…) and would love to join the Chim crew, but a few of us are already going to eth Classic Car show on the NEC on the Sunday 17th… To go to Snetterton for a track day from London, I guess I would have to go there on Friday night to be there nice and early for the kick of the track day, but I think I know the answer I’ll be getting form the mrs if I ask her if I can be away all the weekend on “car business”…

But please keep them coming and I will try to join the Chim crew for the next time… if a Chim owner I remain… I love my 500, she’s well sorted, full service history, good chassis, low mileage (36k), all works, have quite a few extras and as you know she pulls well, … but she’s is not getting used enough as usually she’s was being used when going to the country side for the day / weekends with the mrs and since we are now 3, I am “missing a seat”…

So I am, almost ashamed to say it, looking at a heeerrrrrr a (can I say the word here…?) let’s try a P o r s c h e, would go for a “classic”: 964 or 993, but I am scared by the lack of power and also by the fact that they are so common….

So I have 2 other options:
1) Keep the Chimera and try to use her more (she’s garaged so she’s not going to rot away), she’s well sorted, so the intention was always to have her as a keeper.
2) Sell her / swap her and join the Cerbera team

I am more and more thinking that I might sell and buy a Cerbera or see if one of the Cerbera guys fancy some open top motoring and fancies a swap….

I’ll try to join you, but I think that the chance is really small.

All the best to all of you out there, Frenchie

[phazed]

Frenchie, lay the rules down now!

You have to come and play or you'll loose your friends, (we're very shallow people).

I'll probably stay at a cheap hotel on Friday night, there's an incentive for you!

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phazed said:

Frenchie, lay the rules down now!

You have to come and play or you'll loose your friends, (we're very shallow people).

I'll probably stay at a cheap hotel on Friday night, there's an incentive for you!

I would, and indeed will, offer to put you both up on Friday night, but as I now live near Newark that will leave a 100 mile journey Saturday morning which kinda defeats the object for you two.....

[phazed]

Ah yes! Only 120 miles for me.

[QBee]

I'll be doing the 6am Saturday departure - so much less traffic than on a Friday evening, though having said that I found the trip INTO London on the friday evening before TiTTs was no problem at all.