3 car shows, 2 days, 600 miles and a wartburg....

[bodieanddoyle]

First I apologise for the lateness as ever. its been a long time as I am soo busy in the workshop (now slowed down a bit). This all happened on the last bank holiday weekend of may. It started as I, 1) I had an invite to go to 2 stroke day at gaydon and being as I have a two stroke car it would have been rude not too. 2) I needed to pick a head up from dugong that he had kindly collected for me. then I had a gearbox to pick up not-really-on route but hey and Jon suggested we do capesthorne hall on the BHM. The three shows are the 2 stroke day, metro day also at gaydon and capesthorne hall.
Big thanks to Jon for putting me up for the night and a wee trip outside alty in his awesome ovlov
So it was gaydon-milton keynes-warrington-macclesfield-home. done 90 litres of juice and had some seriously cool things go on. started with the wart running like a sod saturday and sinking 5 litres of fuel in 7 miles because the ignition decided to unseat itself. think I fixxed it. sunday monring it drove a bit funny to beaconsfield services where it made a full-on terrorist alert sized backfire! after that it was faultless!
lots of waves and curious stares along the entire roadtrip, including an 09 plate cayman S slowing down in the outside lane, drawing back level with me and giving me the thumbs up

I think we need some pics about now.....

[bodieanddoyle]

starting with the two strokeness


saabs outnumbered all over marques there!


mine and my friend simon's together. rallye banded steels on his!


simon. I envy his bodywork, he envies my ride height


the event was organised by the trojan owners club. heres a 20's trojan dash. these things are awesome in all repsects, but I didn't get a great shot of one of the salloons


no I have no idea why there was a rover p6 amongst us. cool anyway


a trojan horse! these things will drive ANYWHERE!


mascot of troy.

[bodieanddoyle]

who knows whats going on here? well its a two seater roadster with a horizontal parallel twin two stroke motor feeding an all exposed epicyclic geartrain. I love interesting shizzle like this


heres the roadster in question


troy tempest? no other famous troy was there?....


scooter fighters


fabric body DKW was gorgeous two stroke and FWD too.


trojan of a different era. some micro/bubble car madness.


we'll have more on this in a minute. lets just sit and sample its sexy good looks

[bodieanddoyle]

this is a DKW 1000sp. and its one of the most beautiful cars ever in my book




check the 8 track too




a more usual deek, a munga.


passed this on the m40, looks pretty on the move


lets not get into the audi rings, someone got a right earful talking about the "audi" badge...


more deek. although more auto-union I geuss by age.

[bodieanddoyle]

unbelivably there were only 2 trabbi's there


random cool four strokeness.


saab wagon could suit many looks


and yeah, it did drive all the way from the ilse of wight that day.


bloody things were everywhere, common as.... ;D


saab in a saab cap.


rally saab dash. so gutted he wouldn't open the bonnet


cap on a wartburg tourist tailgate, to stop water getting in. love it

[bodieanddoyle]

the other trabant.


zesty tourist.


and a little height comparison. mine is dropped an awful long way from stock!!


a few 2 stroke bikes around.


yours truly. in a reflected way.


random ado16


oldest UK metro? maybe....


incase you hadn't geussed, we're onto the metro show now- metro 30.


clean MG.


thinking "spacekadett...." he had one just like this!

[bodieanddoyle]

spot the real ones. there are 2


that rules one out! yep, honda k20 (civic type R) motor in the back!


and thats in this one.


that'll be a real one then.


has been raced in the states and then recently imported, sorry repatriated home.


where's the red seat belts? haha!




proper rare, its a road registerd one. with trx metric tyres on still!!




speaking of proper rare, its a metro saloon prototype


neat huh?

[bodieanddoyle]

this one was ultra nifty, really nice looking metty


exige engine!


random bond equipe. love the sound of the trump six in this.


very smart dressed guy had this four wheel meschersmidt. not seen a four wheeler for a long time.


moskvich wagon! <3 love


and cyrilic mudflaps.




can you beat an original dealer sticker?


pair of goggo's. I prefer the 400 saloon to the 500 coupe. the left one.

[bodieanddoyle]

goggo coupe inside.


rear end. uhuh...


prefer the 400 muchly.


positive camber much?


took a while to clock this. its a suzuki lj50, a really early 500cc 2 stroke sj. the owner is with it here, she imported it herself. she also has a lambo muira and an AC428. she sold an LM002 to have garage space to put this.


its a posi lube engine too!


I likes it!








mad saab 900 turbo rally metty.

and that cocludes the southern section, time to travel

[bodieanddoyle]

so I picked up me gearbox from MK, headed north to manc to see dugong. So good of him to put me up- you legde!
we went over to the secret lair to pick the zon up- what a superb car that is and I got the seatbelt to work









Jon, tunnel chasing

[bodieanddoyle]

right, some of these are from me and some minimad5- thanks mate

so early at alty train station, we pick up MM5.




I was overtaking an invisible bicycle. honest.


not a huge timescale between these 2 pics I think!




at the fill up, yo!

next, we may have some show pics.....

[bodieanddoyle]

violets neat little whizzkid.


motley krew


me, in yorkshire (nearly)! jeez


compere (that everyone wanted to stab in the mouth) kept raving about this £25k boom trike. it has a mondeo engine. well zetec sigma thing.


the jon-a-zon


now for a quick motorbike interlude....




hmmm, helmets....


chrome does get you home!


mouth organ.


yes, it is special.


why this pic? bsa c10, c11 and c12. I own a bit of each


glorious laverda concludes the bike pics, normal service resumes shortly

[bodieanddoyle]

up your, erm, what was it now?


you know what they call an opel monza in england? a royale with cheese. you know why that is? because of the imperial system......


80's 930? dressed as a 70's one. allegedly supercharged....


roll away the stone.


sorry but this cobra roof is just no!


madonna? no far more tasteful!


manta A was Rv8 powered.


someone call for a cut and blow dry?


savage indeed!

[bodieanddoyle]

nice wheels.


wheels that are too big.


TURBO!


splediferous alfa!


02 tii targa. well baur, made in stuttgart IIRC.


i do like these elan sprints.

[bodieanddoyle]

neat little min.


who the.....


taunus coupe


real one? no idea! but its nice.


the perverse in me really likes tr7s!


damn limey!


MM5s fave I think.

[bodieanddoyle]

imposing.


NSX was an auto! never knew they made them!


4 seat-ish rari.


its low and now turbo'd.


being an MGC, its technically an westminster coupe, not a sherpa coupe


back to the seventies!!

[bodieanddoyle]

matt is not rat!


buick was just stunning


port holes....


buick in question!


I LIKE TRUCKING!


No idea but I really like it!


big ass olds!


that also had a sexy dash!

[bodieanddoyle]

mmmm. like!


I remember mysterymachine taking a stupendous shot of a bonnet pin once, so I thought I'd give it a go too




to finish, I took these as I passed jodrell bank on the way home. in 1957 it succesfully tracked sputnik and the rocket that propelled it into orbit. a few years later but I'm some bit slower eastern bloc tat for it to follow ;D ;D

and thats about the end of my mamoth roadtrip. 13odd hours on the road out of 40, just plain good times

enjoy folks

[Team Blitz]

Great stuff, Edd. I like the red DKW Thunderbird the most!

[luckygti]

Awesome vehicles Remember Gates of Harlow (I think ) converting the 6R4's to road cars when I was there at college. They used to rip them up the dual carriageway for test runs What a fantastic noise