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International Rally - Friday and Saturday
Standards gather at
the start of the Saturday roadrun
This year I decided to take the
Flying12 Drophead to the National Rally. So I set off on Thursday
evening, shutting up the website for the duration, to collect the 12
from it's home in the Cotswolds. On Friday morning I set off down the
"Fosse", that well-known Motorway for old cars in drizzling
rain. I prefer to keep the roof down in such weather, as most of the
rain tends to blow over the top of the car enabling me to remain
relatively dry, until of course one is forced to stop by traffic
lights and the like! Making good progress, I arrived at my rendezvous
with other members somewhat early. Our meeting place was the
"George" Inn in Longbridge Deverill on the A350 just
south of Warminster. Here I was joined by Dennis and Shelia in their Flying 12 saloon, Bob and Val Richardson in the
'34 Avon and Steve
O'Hara in the
'35 Nine. Following a quick lunch, Steve fixed a sticking
stop light switch with the aid of my WD40 and we set off south again
over Sailsbury Plain. A couple of steep hills caused the car
transporter behind our little convoy to become a little bit frustrated
so we pulled over to let the ignorant driver past!
Arriving at Bovington about 2.30pm,
several of the cars and members had already arrived. We busied
ourselves putting up a fence to keep non-attendees out whilst watching
the dangerous brothers attempt and fail to put up the Club flagpole.
Evening meals were taken either in
the "Ship
Inn" in Wool or the "Seven
Stars" just a mile or so down the road, this being
distinguished by enormous meals that no-one could finish!
You can click on any of the
thumbprints to see an enlarged version
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Cars
assemble for the start of the roadrun
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Cars at the
mid-morning stop at Hardy's Monument
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The base of
Hardy's Tower can be seen in the left of these four
pictures
Saturday dawned a
much brighter day and soon the Rally field was buzzing with
members signing in for the organised Roadrun. Set by a couple of
locals this was planned and succeeded in finding some of the
remotest and prettiest roads and sights in Dorset. Our thanks must
go to David Lovering and Kim Henson for organising such a splendid
route. About twenty miles out, after a steep climb, the cars
paused beneath Hardys
Monument, a local viewpoint with fine views out to sea and
across Chesil
Beach. From there we moved on to the pretty Dorset village of Abbotsbury
where there were plenty of options for lunch. The run back was
over more major roads.
A view of some of the
Standards from the top of Hardy's Monument
Picture: Steve
O'Hara
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| Near
collision in Abbotsbury |
Kim
Henson's Flying 14, an early Vanguard and Werner Maurer's
Flying 8 arrives from Switzerland |
Highlight of Sunday evening
was a dinner prepared for 70 or so members which was arranged at tables
set up in the main hall of the Tank Museum itself
Members assembling for the
Saturday evening meal in the spectacular setting of the main hall of the
Tank Museum
Picture: Steve O'Hara
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