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Thanks to everyone who came down to Harewood on Sunday, either to show their car on our award winning stand or just to say hello. I think it is fair to say that we had an eventful day

It was great to win the prize for the best club stand, although I have no idea what you do with bubble gum flavoured odourizer or 24 assorted cans of "monster", squirting the former into Rich's beard struck me as a pretty decent idea at the time & we did manage to find a lucky youth to relieve us of our "Monster" who I don't imagine will be sleeping for a month. We managed to get a great selection of cars despite not managing to dispose of all 10 tickets & our little display showing the huge variation of Minis, derivatives & variants clearly went down well with the organisers.

Our fortunes on track were a little more mixed.

I was so pleased to see that Rich managed to get his Surf Blue racer finished & fitted with a sensible gear lever, and both Adam & I turned up me having washed the car twice after the filthy sprint at Blyton last weekend.

All started off well, Rich put in a decent time in the little 1071 & both Adam & I managed to break our own hill records on our first runs. The second run however didn't go quite so well. Rich went MUCH faster & I was looking for a good tussle with him, but 1/2 way up on my second practice & noticed a very nasty clunk, clunk, clunk coming from the front end. Initially I thought it could be a CV joint or drive coupling, upon investigation it looks likely to be the "unbreakable" Quaife ATB diff. Our day was over, to add insult to injury, as I lowered the jack I managed to trap both Adams hands between the car & a front wheel, rendering his day doubly over. I was ready to pack up & go home.

It was Rich who suggested I see if i could do the afternoons competitive runs in the Sprint. I can't thank the organisers at Harewood enough, they bent over backwards getting the Sprint Scrutineered & entered ready for the afternoons runs. OK, it wasn't "really" competitive, but it meant that my day wasn't totally ruined & Adam could sit on the sidelines watching me have fun while he nursed his aching wrists.

By the end of the day Rich had managed a very creditable second in class behind a very fast septuagenarian in a beautifully prepared TR6 & I managed 4 uneventful runs in the Sprint improving my time by a good few seconds. My fastest time in the Wolseley is 73.29 so I reckoned that if I managed under 80 seconds I was doing OK, when I pulled a 78.79 out of the bag on the last run I was thrilled.

So, as I said above, a pretty eventful day all round, I couldn't get close to Rich in his racer & he couldn't get close to an old man in a Triumph, it was great to see AndyB, Timell, Goff, Stu & everyone who came down to say hello, we suffered broken vehicles, broken bodies & a beard that smelt like Bubblegum, but we still walked away with a Trophy!

One of the most enjoyable events all year for me.

As promised here's some snaps from Harewood, starting off with the display areas.

Road Legal? I doubt it.
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When did you last see one of these, and they were never that shiny when they left the factory
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Beetle in the weeds
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Tonys' Avenger
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Vermillion
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Looks like this could do with some paint to stop the rust spreading
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And the Winners are...
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The Paddock

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surfblue63 wrote:As promised here's some snaps from Harewood, starting off with the display areas.

Road Legal? I doubt it.
IMG_3081 by sb63, on Flickr

this belongs to my mate dirk

legality aside, it was all built in a small single garage and has gone through various incantations over the years

Off to the hill

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Superb photos as always Stu!

Thanks so much.

M

There was plenty of Minis in action in the other classes.

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The rest of my pictures from Harewood can be found on the following link

https://flic.kr/s/aHsm65osDZ

By the way Rich, it looks like the grass needs a trim

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rich@minispares.com wrote:
this belongs to my mate dirk

legality aside, it was all built in a small single garage and has gone through various incantations over the years

Rich is this the one that's MX5 underneath and that picture of you on 3 wheels......Epic!

Is that a Manx 7-Port in one of the shots?
Got any more pictures of it that you could post?
Cheers
Gary

mk1coopers wrote:

rich@minispares.com wrote:
this belongs to my mate dirk

legality aside, it was all built in a small single garage and has gone through various incantations over the years

Rich is this the one that's MX5 underneath and that picture of you on 3 wheels......Epic!

yes it is the mazda

three wheels good, the one on two wheels is better, that was stus fault as he told me where he was going to be, so I took plenty of kerb!

rpb203 wrote:Is that a Manx 7-Port in one of the shots?
Got any more pictures of it that you could post?
Cheers
Gary

its the red Maguire, it had a set of split 45's on a normal five port

it did have plenty of manx parts on it, but not a manx 7 port

owner was a really nice guy and the car was beautiful

AndyB72 wrote:Best stand award... (photo from Adam F.)...

Awesome that Can , Sure bet young Adam slept with it

No 7 port, Longman Splits on a 5 port if you are talking about the Maguire engine pic?

Mark, this raises 2 obvious questions:

1. Why didn't you run the moke in the afternooon - that sort of weight saving usually costs thousands! Scrutineers not too keen, I guess?

and

2. Given that you knobbled Adam, do we assume his times were getting a little too close to Dad's?

Looks like a cracking day all round (disasters aside) but the Hornet seems to love a problem......

Al

Yet another cracking event that I've missed, but thanks to Stu for sharing those superb photographs.
I'll get along to an event one day, I promise.

Thanks Rich/David,
My excuse was I only had a quick look at the pictures, saw the rose jointed carb linkage and the Manx badge on the rocker cover and put 2 and 2 together to make 5!
Anyone get any pictures of the rocker cover or in particular the badge?
Cheers
Gary

No probs Gary, before the 7 port Bill Quoine at Manx did some great 5 port tuning, the 7 porter heads are strange things a bit more work than 5 ports with the centre port split.
In the south we used to run against one in the old BARC Touring car class and it never performed better than a well set up 5 port on the speed scene, it may have been a different story on a circuit however!

Forgot to say Derek has owned and run this car since the late seventies or early eighties the same time as mine has been competing, BDL is the 5 port and JHW ran the 7 port

1. Why didn't you run the moke in the afternooon - that sort of weight saving usually costs thousands! Scrutineers not too keen, I guess?

CORRECT

2. Given that you knobbled Adam, do we assume his times were getting a little too close to Dad's?

ALSO CORRECT