Car Museum, Derbyshire, car gathering, Sat 19th NOV, 10am

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

The Great British Car Journey, Ambergate, Derbyshire, DE56 2HE are hosting a car gathering from 10am on Sat 19th November.

 

It is £5 per ticket which can be booked on the eventbrite website. Refreshments are available.

 

Is anyone joining us?

[Stuart]

Booked 🙂 I'll be in the beemer though my Westy will be sorned by then 

[AndrewBClarke]

Will try. I'll book nearer the time just in case.

[NigelO]

Might pop along in the tin top…

[AndrewBClarke]

Ticket bought 😁😁

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

I struggled to find this so I thought I'd post the link

 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gbcj-gathering-vintage-car-classic-car-meet-tickets-449769391357

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Looking forward to this event, the weather is set fair 😀 so now is a good time to buy a ticket.

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

We are meeting at the Hurt Arms, Ambergate, DE56 2EJ at 10 to10, so we can all go in and park together.

[Stuart]

8 minutes ago, Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative said:

We are meeting at the Hurt Arms, Ambergate, DE56 2EJ at 10 to10, so we can all go in and park together.

That just for Westfields or any car Julie? 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Any car. Do come and join us if you can.

[Stuart]

20 minutes ago, Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative said:

Any car. Do come and join us if you can.

Got my ticket and will see you at the Hurt Arms 🙂

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

For those coming from the south, we will do our normal pre-meet at the A50/A38 services (DE65 6DX) at 9am for a 915am departure and convoy up to the Hurt Arms to meet the rest of the gang.

 

Feel free to tag along if anyone is coming that way 👍

[Labrat]

Great to see everyone this morning. Sorry I was late getting there and early leaving. Got absolutely drenched on the way home, but fun to be out and about in November all the same.

 

Luke.

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

We briefly gathered everyone up at The Hurt Arms to take the 1 minute journey to the Great British Car Journey museum where we all got parked together, it was dry at this point 😃. After a bit of a tyre kick the tea pot beckoned and we all piled into the cafe to continue our conversations. Here we are, anyone with magical photo editing skills please feel free to sharpen this one.

 

 

When we came out of the cafe it was raining,

 

 

 

 

so any thoughts of looking around the other cars were dashed and we set off, some for home and some in search of cake.

Luke

 

Steve

 

 

Tim

 

 

Stuart's M240i

 

 

I rang round but places were full so I booked us into the Fountain at Bonsall, only 10 minute's away, which is far enough when you are shoehorned into a wet car

 

The Fountain car park

 

 

Inside the cafe

 

 

Andy and Becky always half their cakes to share them and this is an 'Andy's Half' well Mr Gilbert, that is never halved, tut, tut, and these people build cars. Let's hope the build manual never says 'cut this piece in half' 😂

 

 

Obviously Becky took the larger half as Andy then had to prey on Andrew for his cake 😂

 

 

Glynn was keeping well out of it

 

 

While I was absent exactly who was it, Rebecca Gilbert, that nicked my camera and photographed these loonies 😁

 

 

A message to @Andy Westwood , where were you today? you were missed by these stand-in Cake Meister's

 

 

 

Thankfully it was dry when we came out of the cafe so we all removed our half hoods. The way home was not without challenges, we turned at Matlock due to heavy traffic, we knew both Bakewell and Chatsworth had their xmas market's on, so we took to the back roads with all the other locals, it was like the Wacky Races as no-one was hanging around, so we got a run out after all, brill.

 

See you next time, go and fetch some sunshine though please.

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

Thanks for organising @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative , we seem to be cursed with rain every time we go to the GBCJ, I'm starting to think it has its own weather system! 😂

 

Having not been in the car for 2 weeks, I got all excited and arrived at Willington Services far too early but the sun was out! Mind you, it was verrrry cold but thankfully heated coat had come out of hibernation!

 

 

@Tim Coles and @Stuart (in the lovely M240i) arrived at about 9am.

 

 

Stuart even put the electric roof down (poser! 😂) in solidarity, but with the heated seats, 3 litre twin turbo powered heating and air deflector I'm sure he was far warmer than Tim and I 😂

 

Nine Westfields (plus Andy, Becky, Gary and Stuart in "normal" cars) in mid November is an amazing turnout, thanks everyone for making the effort!

 

 

It's typical though, only 10 miles south and no rain.... another 10 miles and it was blue skies again!