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As Stoneleigh is near me I know the local roads, so this is a courtesy post for those who haven't been before: > Stoneleigh is just off the A46, a busy dual carriageway. If you're accessing the A46 North from the M40, come off at J15 towards Coventry. If you're getting on to the A46 North from south of Stoneleigh (from the M40 or from Stratford-on-Avon), you need to exit the A46 at Kenilworth / Leamington Spa and follow the signs towards Leamington (third exit off the junction) - the route to the show will be well signposted. > If you're coming south on the A46 from the Coventry side, DO NOT exit at Stoneleigh as you won't be allowed to go through Stoneleigh village and will just be redirected all around the houses, wasting 15 minutes you'll never get back. Your best route is to go to the next junction south (Kenilworth / Leamington Spa) as above (first exit at the junction). NOTE: The police just love to park their speed camera van on the bridge over the A46 at the Stoneleigh junction facing north, and pick off speeders as they come around an unsighted curve - watch yourself. The good thing about going this way is that you'll be on the correct side of the road for the show entrance. The alternative route from the A45 at the BP island and down the B4113 is pretty enough, but you end up queueing to make a right-hand turn across traffic to get in. Finally, there are considerable roadworks on the A4600 South (Coventry Eastern Bypass) between the Binley roundabout (B&Q, TGI Fridays) and the Coventry Airport roundabout, and on the A45 from the airport roundabout to the A46 junction, with average speed cameras and almost certainly bank holiday traffic delays. I would suggest avoiding this route if possible but if you can't avoid it, allow an extra 15-20 minutes as a buffer (and make sure your cooling fan works!). > When you finally do make it in to the show, drive straight ahead after the entrance gate and you'll see our stand on the right after about 150 yards, impossible to miss. Turn right before the grass and follow the parking assistants directions - they may look mad, but they're great people.

Fixed that for you...

Here is a video I made this evening. Hope you like it. The road is a 1:3.

i'll have a look whilst chewing some bamboo tonight

So West Mids Police have been cracking down on car cruising, it seems folks are just not listening so they are 'setting out their stall' with regard to car cruising and those that turn up to watch - https://trafficwmp.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/the-foolishly-fast-and-the-furiously-dangerous-operation-hercules-tackling-illegal-street-racing-2/

Yes Steve and I have entered

Well mine's got ten years on yours mate!

Thanks Scott I was planning on turning left at Ryton on Dunsmore again

Hello and welcome this place is brilliant

Gary, the roadworks that were at the A4600/A45 roundabout by Coventry Airport last May are still there now (and probably will be there next year as well). IIRC, you came up past Southam and then turned left at the Ryton-On-Dunsmore island - if you're going that way again, I would still recommend that route to avoid delays at the roadworks. Either that, or pick up the A46 near Straford-on-Avon and go straight to Stoneleigh from there.

Well we got a sale for a very simbolic prize pending to deliver toonight for a future westfield owner. If transaction is not completed, will let you know toonight.

"Can't seal tank for MOT". That sounds like a half truth at best. Certainly repaired tanks have passed before now, whether there are any limitations on what constitutes a repair I couldn't say, I've never looked. Is it definitely the tank? Or could it be hoses in the same area. Modern ethanol blends in fuel can cause issues for some older hose types.

Great video Geoff, really enjoyed :-).

I think it's about time we sorted out a plan. So can I have a head count of who is setting off from Newcastle ish area? We can then decide on a route or maybe two, so one for good weather with a bit of A and B roads mixed in plus one direct route for rain to get us there quicker. Then we can arrange to meet anyone who wants to join us on the way down.

Still trying to get back into my good books after the caravan comments

Openreach = BT = thieves in disguise in my experience.

Last year after seeing a photo of a Caterham stuffed under some Armco on the internet and being horrified by just 4 x 8mm bolts through fiberglass holding my windscreen away from my face I started making some phone call about buying a cage For one reason or another I could not buy one off the shelf, have a delivery date or I would have to trail the car halfway across the country then do the same trip a few weeks later to pick up the car again With this in mind I started looking at retaining my RAC bar for its integrity and adding a forward loop of my own construction DISCLAIMER Don't do this if you don't know how to weld or doubt your ability. Treat it as information I no nothing about the subject and do your own research or just buy the off the shelf item and have it fitted So I leant a pipe bender from a mate bought some seamless pipe and made a start reading the blue book for info and ideas I first started by bending the pipes to shape I made saddle type claps to fit over the box section with spacers to stop the saddle hitting the bodywork or the box section collapsing 1 2 I trimmed the end of the tubing using rolled up toilet paper centres to sit on the saddle stubs 3 I cut trimmed and tacked the roof bars to the rear loop, the put a bit of wood across the tub to support the side impact bars at the right height to tack them on 4 I tacked in a diagonal to give strength and shield the mirror mounting plate from passengers 5 Cleaned old powder coating off with abrasive disc 6 Fresh back from powder coating 7 Fitted to car Costs were £160 for steel tubing £40 for powder coating £20 for cutting and grinding discs, mig wire and bolts