Drive It Day 2010 - Manchester

Just a small snippet to put on the website, hot off the press, having just returned from the event.

We have got great friends in other clubs down here in the sticks. Many have Austin Sevens but also have other pre-war vehicles like myself. As the weather forecast was good for Easter Monday, down here in Cornwall at least we decided to have an impromtu run out for the day.  Peter Hallam had a pre-war Standard on the road in the form of his
Ensign and I wanted to put some miles on my Flying Twelve Drophead but I was given the task to organise the run.

We started with coffee at the Crossroads Lodge and believe it or not the walls did not flex nor did the props disintegrate like the ATV series on TV did. We had lovely coffee plus a sight of some of the participants vehicles that finished the Lands End Trial a few days before and had stayed over. We were joined by not only a few Sevens but a lovely Austin Taxi and Austin Heavy Twelve. By devious roads and byways we made our way down towards Marazion on Mounts Bay to intermingle with the hardy holidaymakers braving the chilly wind but remaining dry throughout our
trip. We threaded our way through Penzance and Mousehole ( pronounced MOWSALL  for the uninitiated ) to our lunch stop at the Kings Arms at a village called Paul.

The two large Austins had to call it a day after lunch owing to prior committments but the hardy remainder carried on to St.Buryan, Lands End Airport and around the coast to St.Ives. The leader at this stage was an Austin Seven van with a driver with Strawberry Cream Tea on his mind and led us to the Lelant Station tearooms where some of us just had tea and others went the whole hog and had the scones, jam and cream.

A great day was enjoyed by all; good friends with the same common interest in old vehicles. Clubs working together GREAT.

And the EASTER BUNNY bit, well at the tea rooms they had a tame one in a netting compound !!

Brian Murrish

(April 2010)