Bicester scramble 16 /1/2022

Bicester scramble 16 /1/2022

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tonymor

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1,481 posts

173 months

Monday 15th November 2021
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Tickets have just been released for the scramble in January.

bakerstreet

4,766 posts

166 months

Tuesday 14th December 2021
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I am looking to go to this on the 16th? What are the traffic queues like for getting in? Its only 40 minutes away for me and I'd like to get an event in the diary as my Series is soon going to be on the road in the next week (I hope)

However, I am keen to not spent an hour in traffic in a 1983 Series Land Rover biggrin

B_Tank88

126 posts

79 months

Tuesday 14th December 2021
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Queues aren't so bad, obviously the earlier the better. Crowd tends to start dispersing after lunch.

One of my favourite shows.

v8250

2,724 posts

212 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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bakerstreet said:
I am looking to go to this on the 16th? What are the traffic queues like for getting in? Its only 40 minutes away for me and I'd like to get an event in the diary as my Series is soon going to be on the road in the next week (I hope)

However, I am keen to not spent an hour in traffic in a 1983 Series Land Rover biggrin
The queues are not long...the queues for the bacon & egg breakfast baps will be longer. There'll be a good few Series/early Defenders. I'll be in my 87 Ninety so you won't be alone.

We're hoping the Scramble won't be cancelled and looks like Bicester Heritage have covid risk relatively well managed:


>>COVID COMPLIANCE:
This event has been designed to be COVID compliant, set outdoors within plenty of space, with a reduced visitor attendance number and socially distanced queuing systems in place.
Passes will be scanned through your car windows, please ensure that all attendees have their passes ready at the ticket check, either on their phone or printed on paper.
While face masks are no longer a mandatory requirement, we ask that you are aware of others so that all attendees can enjoy the event.<<

bakerstreet

4,766 posts

166 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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v8250 said:
The queues are not long...the queues for the bacon & egg breakfast baps will be longer. There'll be a good few Series/early Defenders. I'll be in my 87 Ninety so you won't be alone.

We're hoping the Scramble won't be cancelled and looks like Bicester Heritage have covid risk relatively well managed:


>>COVID COMPLIANCE:
This event has been designed to be COVID compliant, set outdoors within plenty of space, with a reduced visitor attendance number and socially distanced queuing systems in place.
Passes will be scanned through your car windows, please ensure that all attendees have their passes ready at the ticket check, either on their phone or printed on paper.
While face masks are no longer a mandatory requirement, we ask that you are aware of others so that all attendees can enjoy the event.<<
OK, this is good to hear. OH has OK'd this outing, but want water leak and Clutch to be sorted on my Series before I commit, but hoping garage will be done by then. Will keep an out for other Series and LRs. Always happy to engage in conversation with other Series owners smile

v8250

2,724 posts

212 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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bakerstreet said:
Always happy to engage in conversation with other Series owners smile
Snob. What's wrong with a period Ninety/OneTen...? driving

bakerstreet

4,766 posts

166 months

Monday 3rd January 2022
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v8250 said:
Snob. What's wrong with a period Ninety/OneTen...? driving
Absolutely nothing. You have such luxuries as power steering biggrin If I see another Land Rover owner and I'm mid bend there is no way I can take both hands off the wheel to wave at them biggrin

j4ck100

800 posts

146 months

Tuesday 4th January 2022
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Looking for a ticket if anyone can no longer make it. Thanks.

tonymor

Original Poster:

1,481 posts

173 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Great event and the sun shine was a real bonus. Good mix of cars and some motorcycles.

gary71

1,967 posts

180 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Great turnout despite the bleak weather at the start of the day. Sunshine was welcome when it finally showed!

I’m a bit early Porsche biased in my pictures, but there is some others in here somewhere!

Porker content first:














And some others:




This Moggy may not be standard:






This was the absolute star of the show: New BRM V16




This little thing was also perfect:



bobthemonkey

3,839 posts

217 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Looks a great event, but there’s some funny business going on with the ticketing for this (and yes, I know this is no doubt par for the course in whatever field) which lives a bitter taste in the mouth.

Having missed out on the initial allocation (my fault, fair enough) I’ve been in the waiting list for cancellations for weeks without any joy. A few ‘personalities’ on other forums and social media were posting that they left it too late/forgot/whatever over the past week - and yet all seem have magically been granted access today.


AllezWasps

554 posts

167 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Agreed. As a Bicester resident I used to go along to this all the time when it was a free event, then they started to charge albeit a nominal amount but now prices to get in seem to be rising and rising and the summer event is almost at Goodwood levels. I just feel it’s now become solely a money making exercise for Bicester heritage.

gary71

1,967 posts

180 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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I bought my tickets 27th Dec.
Less than 3 weeks ago, no problems at all.

MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

208 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Great photos. I really enjoyed this. It was like a Goodwood Breakfast Club but with a lot less people. Left Brighton at 06:30, picked up a mate and got there before 09:00. Freezing and foggy to start with but the sun came out.

I followed a lovely 205 Rallye into the car park.

The NSX-R was very popular and looked fabulous in the sunshine.

There were a lot of Porsches, almost like a Porsche owners club event!

The BRM was mobbed, I couldn’t even get a photo of it.




















JustGREENI

498 posts

181 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Thanks for sharing pics, guys.
Any more?

B'stard Child

28,451 posts

247 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Ahh glad someone started a thread of Pictures - I was there with the PH "Barge 1-5 large" massive

So I'll drop my pics in here and stick a link in the thread so maybe other PH attendees will share

Disclaimer - "I is happy snapper" my tastes aren't for all so no pro pics here - I would say that the scramble always has something for everyone I'm not a huge fan of static car shows either but this one I quite enjoy

Lets start with the 4x4 area (as founder member of the NMRC (Norfolk Mountain Rescue Club) I'm always searching for the idea vehicle for those all important rescues

Lovely Panda - super clean inside and out and very much a car rarely seen - would be ideal for the high peaks of Norfolk



Jean Hunt "Fire up the Quattro"



Great ICE install - ghetto blaster as apparently it's not acceptable anymore to call them *** boxes



You kinda forget that the XR4x4 was ever a thing - you hardly see a Sierra these days let alone one that was an "Oddball" even back in the day



Moving swiftly on

A well presented and tidy 1966 Unipower 1398cc's according to DVLA - I thought probably mini based but no real clue



Something with a little more Patina -

1966 Matra Sports DjetV - Renault based and if my google fu is on form a lot more expensive than I thought



Snuck a quick shot while someone was being interviewed in an Ecurie Ecosse LM-C

I knows this because I read this yesterday



Something a little older - the rear end with the holes (tow eyes) caught my eye but the size of the carbs set me on a path to see if I could find smaller at the show biggrin



Nsxt - I don't know why these appeal perhaps it's the lines or the fact Honda were quite brave to make them



Drivers eye view



Rolph Mode "Can you guess what it is yet"



If you ever get the opportunity to see these things race take it - you will come home with a very dirty face but they are awesome on loose surface track

"Non contact" sport



A truck caught my eye - modern colour and lowered on black steels





I told my mate Will the bed area had been heavily plated - he assumed a weldathon



Lamborghini Urraco 2.5 Litres of V8 goodness



The rear window louvers I love



DEV - I spy with my little eye something beginning with B



Still trying to work out what the vents on the roof were for



That's me for now will add more when I get chance if people want

bolidemichael

13,907 posts

202 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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Some good spots there -- I saw the Urraco but the model didn't come to kind.

I didn't realise that the BRM was there -- did they actually fire up the engine?

B'stard Child

28,451 posts

247 months

Sunday 16th January 2022
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bolidemichael said:
Some good spots there -- I saw the Urraco but the model didn't come to kind.

I didn't realise that the BRM was there -- did they actually fire up the engine?
I have video of the BRM running biggrin They fired it up several times in the day and you could hear it pretty much everywhere

bolidemichael

13,907 posts

202 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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B'stard Child said:
bolidemichael said:
Some good spots there -- I saw the Urraco but the model didn't come to kind.

I didn't realise that the BRM was there -- did they actually fire up the engine?
I have video of the BRM running biggrin They fired it up several times in the day and you could hear it pretty much everywhere
I did hear a rather unGodly cacophony. That was marvellous.

RicksAlfas

13,408 posts

245 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Thanks for the pics everyone. Looks a good do.

B'stard Child said:
Still trying to work out what the vents on the roof were for

Surely it's just cabin ventilation for letting all the cigarette smoke out of?
Early 911s had vents above the back window and Range Rover Classics had them at the bottom of the C-pillar.