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Snapped on Sunday driving into a very well organised, socially distanced classic car meet at Statfold Railway Museum. Unusually they charged for each show car and massively capped the visitor numbers but they'd invested a lot of time and money in effective Covid precautions. Pre-paid tickets only, capped display car numbers, personal temperature checks on arrival, one way systems, sensible (enforced) gaps between cars and social distancing marshall's patrolling constantly... All with sign off from the local authorities. At least it shows car meets can be done safely! 👏👏👏

Last Sunday, 5th July, we had what I thought was going to be a small, quiet run out to Squires Coffee Bar, but as these things do, it got bigger. 7 car met at Rothwell Sports centre then headed over to Sherburn. With the opening of cafes on the previous day, Squires was full of bikes. We managed to all get parked up with Frank who had come on his own. Shortly after, 2 more joined us, so that made 8 Westfields and 2 MNRs. With the cafe busy, we decided to drive through Sherburn to the Areoclub, but due to the high winds both the cafe and airfield were closed. This was the first proper run after lockdown, with hopefully more to come.

one of many, all covering old battle scars....

Complete 1700 Crossflow Ford engine for sale. Available due to bike engine conversion. Originally Built by Rallytune in Lancashire. Engine Parts include: Duplex timing gear and chain Reground cam stamped 44 on the end journal so believed to be equivalent of Kent 244 cam, but I have no documentation or proof of this Steel Rocker posts Baffled alloy sump Twin 40 DCOE Webers including air filters and new Magard duel cable thottle linkage Lumenition electronic ignition and coil Offset distributor Tubular steel manifold Stainless steel exhaust with allloy heat shield– believed to be Westfield Alternator Brand new starter motor Engine mounts New water pump New radiator fan switch Price of engine complete to spec above: £2000 Gearbox by separate negotiation Ford Type E “Rocket “ gearbox. Nice slick gearchange and fresh oil. Never used by me in the car but all seems in good order: Price £375 price reduced to £200 Prop shaft by separate negotiatio - almost new propshaft to suit with English diff flange - was fitted with the engine and rocket box in pre-lit chassis Price £125 All prices negotiable(within reason) Contact: Richard Vaughan 07388 124361 Engine situated near Bingley, West Yorkshire

I told you all.... I quite like the dog.

THIS IS AWESOME!

My mate helps looks after a private collection of toys and popped round with this tonight, took me for a we spin, what a machine, the noise and smell was mega. Bugatti type 35,😛

Yes built not bought was on mine covering old paintwork

Gone back to basics Martin 😎

Yeah pity we couldn’t pitch tents on hard standing 😁 I've got your “train” on video going through Hall Bends.

good one..you have even superimposed some rain to make it look like a wet day!

We were meant to be at Le Mans Classic last weekend, so made do with camping in the Dales instead !

I didn't see the join .. will have to have another look. Quick off the mark with a vid. Nice one Simon. 😎

Train incoming. Had to stich a couple of videos together so hopefully it has worked. Very cold day, happy we got this one good session together. New battery required after today's issues.

A couple more..

Well .. despite the awful weather, I did enjoy the day. Had some good fun chasing Phil and Mike, and we even got a small train going at one point. The Rain expert tyres performed better than I thought they would. Absolutely no problem with the standing water, and pretty good in the twisty bits. On track I felt I was flying but the vids I've seen so far look horrendously slow. There were plenty of race Caterhams and MX5s that made that point all too clear.. 😉 It was a shame we got split up in the paddock, .. the B team's pitch was just a bit far to walk to in the rain. 😃 Didn't take many pics, here's a few:

Great day even if peeing down all day..good to meet some new faces.. Great fun on track..perfect tyres for monsoon - thanks Adam... Had a great couple of laps in Lionel 2..what a car.. Oulton park is too long a wait!!

Curry is on the go!

Oh.... and here’s Der Hund......

They wont fit a mega s2000

The ratio can be done by turning the input and counting the outputs but to tell what type of diff it is you will need to remove the drive shafts.

A profile is added to a cartridge output to compensate for lack of bass if I remember rightly. I've forgotten exactly what it's called but there's a string of initials that refer. More later... RIAA equalisation curve. It reduces bass when recording to reduce groove width and thereby allow longer recording times, and the pre-amp corrects this bass reduction by applying the inverse curve. I have an LP of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra (the well known opening music from 2001, a Space Odyssey comes from this tone poem) on the Decca Phase Four label and there's such a level of distortion at one point that I seriously thought that my (quite pricey) deck was to blame. It turns out that any deck it's played on does the same. I still have both the deck and the LP but neither has seen action for some years. Edited to clarify the groove width section.

@Michael Whitworth .. try one of those burgers as a filler cap.. they look about the right size? 🙂 Nice set up chaps.

I read a theory recently that the reason vinyl sounds warmer is that they limit the bass frequencies. Because proper bass would rattle the needle out of the groove.

Just had Barony Castle confirm my booking, so I guess we’re good to go 😁

This is my sticker of "Buttercup" on Buttercup.

"Use (a) straw, dear Bernie, use a Straw - A STRAW!" (apologies to Harry Belafonte). Apropos the bleedin' obvious, the 'experts' were pontificating ad nauseam about how useless - counterproductive, even - face masks were in the early days. It seemed obvious to me that while masks are pretty useless as protection for the wearer, but that they are very useful to prevent an infected wearer from gobbing virus particles at others. Try spitting at someone whilst wearing a mask! Why did it take so f*****n' long for the common sense to dawn? 😷

Just changed from 15's to 13's what a transformation in looks and handling, compomotive fronts are 13x6 et 23 with 185 60 13 toyos and the rear are 7x13 et 0, 205 60 13 had to trim 5 mm of rear arch as it was buffing 2 up

big clean before the first blast of this year today

Summer sunshine and finally unSORN....

First time out in the new car yesterday at blyton

Have you added lead to yours..................... Mines 600kg with a cage on it 🤣🤣

Mike didn’t fare so well though. note matching tee shirt!