Shardlow Marina - Saturday 19th August @ 10am

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

Hi,

 

A few of us are heading to the classic car meet at Shardlow Marina tomorrow morning about 10am (Shardlow Marina, London Rd, Shardlow, Derby DE72 2GL).

 

If you are coming from the south, I'll be doing a B-road convoy from the Lidl/Halfords car park in Swadlincote (Belmont St, Swadlincote DE11 8JU), meeting about 9am for a 915 depart.

 

 

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

At last, some nice weather!!!!

 

Lee, Hedley, Tony, Alex, Michael and I met up early doors at Swadlincote.

 

 

I'd planned a route through the local B roads to Shardlow so set off through Swadlincote in convoy.

 

Shortly afterwards I managed to get pulled over by one of our friendly boys in blue after exhuberantly accelerating from a mini roundabout.... the exchange went like this....

 

"Do you know the speed limit sir?"

 

"Yes officer, it is 30mph, I live half a mile away"

 

"How fast do you think you were going?"

 

"I was doing 30mph officer, but I did get there quite quickly!"

 

"Yes, very quickly! Not very grown up making such a scene with all that noise is it sir!?"

 

"No officer, apologies, the car is a little loud but I was within the speed limit"

 

"Hmmmm.... Do you have your licence? I will be checking your car while you are here"

 

5 minutes later after a check of my insurance and finding nothing wrong with the car, his demeanour changed somewhat... had I built it? how powerful was it? do i take it on track? etc etc 😂.

 

After the pleasant chat with the nice officer, I scooped up the rest of the convoy (who in true Top Gear, style had scarpered.... thanks guys! 😂😂) and headed for the twisties where we made a whole lot more noise!

 

Landing at Shardlow we found Glynn and Steve already there so parked in formation in the sunshine.

 

 

I hadn't even got out the car when the laughter started about my run in with the traffic officer 😂. Sadly, @HB46443has the stop on video so no doubt it'll be posted all over social media within the next few hours 🤦‍♂️

 

After the ribbing we indulged in a coffee and bacon buttie, and headed to admire the cars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A cracking morning of cars and laughter with a bunch of mates!

 

Hope you all got home safe, see you on the next one 👍

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

11 minutes ago, Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO said:

Sadly, @HB46443has the stop on video so no doubt it'll be posted all over social media within the next few hours 🤦‍♂️

 

With club hat on, please don't! 

 

It happens, many of us have been there! (i've done a speed awareness course my self as a result of such over exuberance), but it's not exactly the sort of image we want to project, and as per the photos of a few of us in the rain going through a puddle with a cyclists, can generate a lot of toxic posts too from those that hate all forms of four wheel transport, let alone toy cars.

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

4 minutes ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman said:

 

With club hat on, please don't! 

 

It happens, many of us have been there! (i've done a speed awareness course my self as a result of such over exuberance), but it's not exactly the sort of image we want to project, and as per the photos of a few of us in the rain going through a puddle with a cyclists, can generate a lot of toxic posts too from those that hate all forms of four wheel transport, let alone toy cars.

 

He had the laser speed gun on me so knew I wasn't speeding, he spent more time asking about the cars and where we were going than anything else 🤷‍♂️

 

 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I had a white F11 five series for a while years ago. It hadn't been out many months, and must have just coincided with Cheshire's traffic Pol. changing over themselves over the following few months.

 

I got stopped a number of times for very minor little technicalities, and each time it would go along the lines of "Do you know ........." (what ever I'd done wrong), followed by a "don't do it again" at which point, it would be some variation of, "how do you like the car, I've got one coming in a week or two"!! All they really wanted to do was have a look and a chat about the car. 

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

That's pretty much how this went!

 

A vague implication of speeding but we both knew I hadn't been above 30... a quick licence check (34 years without a single point!), MOT and insurance check (no issues there!) and a quick visual on tyres etc. After that it was "did you build it?", "what's the engine?", "how long have you had it?", "how much did it cost?", "where are you all going?", "are you all in a club?" etc 

 

Funnily enough, I passed him on the way home too where he was doing another speed check in Ticknall and he gave me a wave 😂

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Just after I put my first car on the road 23 years ago, I was out for a little local run, nothing exuberant honest.

After a while I became aware of a police car following my every move, I was thinking oh flippin’ eck, is it going to be like this every time I go out? And he kept following me all the way home, I pulled up outside my garage, he parked up and came walking over, and yes all he wanted to do was talk about the car and tell me about the Cobra he was building 😎