Claremont Open Day

[ZR1415]

I last did this trip to claremont's a few years back on a boxing day and enjoyed it,it was good to get off the settee and in a standing position(my christmas tree strobe lights along with many shandies had me hypnotised ) and away from the "guns of navarone" for the umpteenth time.
One thing i like about Tom is atleast he's honest and will say he's not the cheapest..but then he's a buisenessman.

[LuS1fer]

Actually, I will say this for Tom as he helped me with my '85 Corvette a lot. I was a total ignoramus and would ring him for oil filters etc which were cheap and every time I tried to order a part, he'd ask why and when I explained, he'd say I didn't need it so he'd never rip you off. He also located a second hand alloy after I kerbed one and the price was reasonable.

After another dealer failed to diagnose a fault on my car after having it 2 weeks, he fixed it in a couple of hours. Nothing was too much trouble.

But I still don't get his car prices. Anyone looking for a Vette would be literally forced to go elsewhere due to the £5k difference in some cases. When I paid my visit, I expected his cars to be pristine examples but they were just ordinary Vettes. But it's his business, he can run it as he likes.

[Camaro SS]

Travelling to Lemans in 2002 my transmission threw a wobbly about 20km north of destination, called GF and advised that it couldn't be fixed (turned out later to be failure of a 4 day old converter!) and made arrangements for them to return, unaccompanied, to UK in 3 weeks. On return a large hole in the sump had appeared, needless to say there was no oil left and some kind soul had run the engine to destruction! Eventually after 9 months of haggling GF agreed to pay for crate motor, so alls well that ends well, I'm now with RAC so hope there are no horror stories there!