RE: Denbies Sunday Service 19/11

[Scoobysaurus]

Polo is part way along here

[Jlroberts]

bungie said:

Less of the 'Ad Fab old girls' if you don't mind chaps. You are as old as you feel which makes us both 18. [ oh allright, 21]
Enjoyed the morning , talking to interesting people and admiring lots of interesting cars.
Thanks Pistonheads for all your hard work.

Edited by bungie on Sunday 19th November 18:14

As the owner of a Ford, albeit a lowly Focus ST, The word 'Mountune' got my attention on your plate, what's all that about? I didn't think Mountune did work to Ford GT's

[Zaim]

RED5RACING said:

My favourites had to be the Forester WRX and the New Civic Type R. The RS4 avants that arrived in convoy looked tidy.

Edited by RED5RACING on Sunday 19th November 13:24

Forester STi

Thanks for taking a look. We arrived late and snuck in behind the Ford GT, then parked in the corner. Nice to have a poke around and the RS4's looked great. Shame that by the time we arrived a lot of people had left. Was hoping the kids would get up early, but they didn't, and it's best to leave them to sleep in.

Agreed that it would be great in the summer with a barbecue going.

[yellowjack]

Robatr0n said:

fatboy18 said:

Stevejay said:

Great morning although a tad chilli with some some super old skool cars. Ok who is going to own up who brought the last picture.

What's a crusader MK VI doing there?

Mmmm, taking that back, a Crusader normally has 5 central wheels, that Tank has 4? Turret looks like a crusader?

Edited by fatboy18 on Sunday 19th November 16:42

I've been reliably informed that it's a Covenanter tank.

Great meet, thanks for organising it. Although some guidance into the car park would have been useful.

The chap that was involved in digging that up, and I'm reliably informed intends to restore it, is ex-REME. I got a ride-along on another of his tanks, a Cromwell, at the 2016 Chalke Valley History Festival. Right into the arena display! I'd got chatting to him about it, and because I was ex tank crew myself, he wanted me along to "keep an eye on the engine compartment and operate the fire extinguishers if it goes pear-shaped..."

The Covenanter was turret-less when it was excavated, and the turret came from abroad. The Cromwell was a "composite" tank too, with the hull, engine, and turret all coming from different places. Sadly he sold it (to Russia, I think) just before Chalke Valley, so it was it's last 'show' before delivery. Rick was trying to fix the turret traverse gearbox during that show too, as the turret couldn't traverse and the buyer had bought a tank with a working turret.

Rick has quite a collection, and has done some difficult restorations in the past, so I've no doubt that if anyone can get it restored, he can.

Edited by yellowjack on Sunday 19th November 21:57

[bungie]

Jlroberts said:

As the owner of a Ford, albeit a lowly Focus ST, The word 'Mountune' got my attention on your plate, what's all that about? I didn't think Mountune did work to Ford GT's

I bought it in Monaco and had Mountune look over it when it came here. They converted all the 101 European spec cars when they were new and do
upgrades on all Fords including GTs. They also looked after two origional GT40s for Ford. Hence the plate. This was a few years ago so may have changed,

If I am able to book into the Christmas SS it will be there too.

[Ads22]

Great meet up today and great location with interesting cars. Nice to see a meet which doesnt attract the wrong attention. Loved the old M3 and the Alfa! oh and the Esprit. Good opportunity for some photos so took a few.
Link to album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/144748182@N07/albums...

[Ads22]

kiethton said:

Sorry, forgot there was another blue lotus there - that one's not mine unfortunatly (best colour for an S1 too!), I'm the blue Exige with black alloys - was next to a orange S2 Elise

@kiethton

[Zedboy]

Great meeting, but low turnout methinks too? I was booked, but didn't see anyone to check in so perhaps I was not ticked off the list? Took the tour with the missus, great fun even for a miserable non-wine lover like me!

Huge thanks to friendly staffers on the PH stand ... my three year old went to bed refusing to take his freebie PH stickers off his PJs! Made his weekend, lovely gesture :-)

[Ads22]

[quote=LiamBS15]My first SS, was some lovely examples there, E30 M3, Orange Exige S & the GT3R’s

Did anyone get any photos of me and my friends black import Nissans (S15 & friends Pulsar)

The 2 lads did on the way out! Will attend the next one, thank you[/quote


Managed to get a photo of the Pulsar

[delta037]

Orange Exige looking cool.

[Joehow]

Took almost zero photos at the SS but was quite pleased with myself with this on the way down.

[kiethton]

Ads22 said:

@kiethton

Thanks

[butaclor]

Thanks to the Pistonheads team for putting on this event . It was a good morning and some good roads on route to blow away the Saturday night cobwebs. Surprised at those that registered and dropped out , I moved up the list by about 70 places . Looking at the final list getting on for 100 drop outs. Had friends who when the list was well over 200 names didn't bother registering as they believed they would be wasting their time.

[Atom Ant]

Many thanks to PH's and Denbies for hosting a very different SS set in the Surrey Hills countryside, beautiful. It had a loverly relaxed feel and the cars were great. As I haven't seen any pics posted of the wine tours yet so I thought it would be rude not to place a few here.
Denbies wines are being used today for the Queens very special and historic 70th Anniversary. Lovely wines, great cars washed down with coffee and bacon...perfect. Cheers to the next one.

[coldel]

butaclor said:

Thanks to the Pistonheads team for putting on this event . It was a good morning and some good roads on route to blow away the Saturday night cobwebs. Surprised at those that registered and dropped out , I moved up the list by about 70 places . Looking at the final list getting on for 100 drop outs. Had friends who when the list was well over 200 names didn't bother registering as they believed they would be wasting their time.

Yes I was something like 256 on the list when I registered, then the email went out reminding people to remove themselves if not attending and suddenly I was in. Its really difficult if people are on the reserves and want to go but have other options as well which they need to decide to turn down or not.

I think people see the event and just put their name down and then decide a day or two before if they are going to attend or not which is not helpful in any way and yes no one ticking who arrived and who didnt, surely black list people for a few months that just no show?

[Lordbenny]

I’d imagine a LOT of people wait to see what the weather is doing on the day before they make up their minds. I am guilty of this as I don’t have a roof on my car!

[NorthernSky]

We all got lucky with the weather for this meet, it was constant rain on Saturday! Great to meet some new people & enjoyed appreciating all the rare machinery that was parked up. On the way down we rapidly (but legally) overtook a Police speed van that seemed to be going in the same direction, hopefully he didn't catch anyone out (-:

Having washed the Z carefully on Sat afternoon, on Sunday morning I woke up to see the local eagles had dive bombed the car... Meaning 1 hour lateness whilst I washed off the mess... Couldn't help but laugh though :/



A few favourites for me must be the two 991's, there are not enough green or riv blue ones around! Loved also the Alfa & lesser-spotted red Volvo, with moose detailing.











Thanks to the organisers and everyone who came down!

[Alex]

I was amused by the "Prancing Moose" on the Volvo.

[kiethton]

Alex said:

I was amused by the "Prancing Moose" on the Volvo.

Likewise - the window sticker in the back of the discovery too - "my other car is a TVR"

[Cats]

kiethton said:

Likewise - the window sticker in the back of the discovery too - "my other car is a TVR"

And your point is? Lol