Sunday 21 April 13 - Drive it Day at the DeHavilland Museum

ajcb

ajcb

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Drive it Day at the De Havilland (Mosquito) Museum, on Sunday 21 April 2013 – 10.30am to 4.30pm

For this year I have arranged an outing on Drive it Day to the wonderful Mosquito Museum. P6s and older Rovers are welcome.

This small but incredibly interesting Museum is only a few minutes drive from Junction 22 of the M25 and not far from the M1, M40 AND A1M .

This is a major event similar to our outing on drive it day in April 2012 to the RAF Museum and to Brooklands on Drive it Day in April 2011.

The Director at the Mosquito Museum has kindly arranged a special car park solely for our cars. There is a charge of £9 per head which includes a welcome talk, coffee and biscuits and tour of the museum.

Programme:

10.30 am - 11 am. Arrival and line up cars

11 am – 11.30 am. Meet other attendees

11.30 am - 1.30 pm Welcome talk, coffee and biscuits, tour of the museum

1.30 pm - 4.30 Free time to eat any picnic you have brought with you (hot and cold drinks but not food are available to purchase if you so wish), revisit the museum, look at the cars, chat with other owners and make new friends.

If you want to come you must be on the list so please contact me asap by e-mail or pm via this forum with your name, telephone number, e-mail address, car model, car registration number, and the number of people, including yourself, that will be in your car. I will then contact you re payment of the entrance fee and other details. All P6ers and owners of older Rovers are welcome whether they belong to the Rover P6 Club, another Club or no club at all. Places are limited.

Best Wishes

Tony Bunting
Regional Organiser of the Rover P6 Club for NW London, south Herts and Bucks
otherwise known as the P6ers from the Case is Altered
 
Update as at 26 February 2013:

Places are filling up fast with 24 P6s and over 30 P6ers already registered for the event.

No older Rovers have as yet registered for the event. Where are you all?

For more details of this and our other 2013 outings click on viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15051

Tony Bunting
 
We already have a wonderful turnout for this superb outing. I am keeping the booking open as the club magazine has not yet come out. So if you are not booked in and wish to join us please contact me as soon as possible either by e-mail or pm from this forum. Everyone welcome whether you belong to the Club, another Club or no club at all.

With the weather imoproving let's hope we have the usual splendid sunny day we seem to get every year on Drive it Day!

All P6s and older Rovers welcome

Best wishes

Tony Bunting

Founder of the P6ers from the Case is Altered
which is affiliated to the Rover P6 Club as the local branch for NW London, south Herts and Bucks
 
Booking is now closed.

We have 27 cars and 40 adults coming plus some children.

The weather looks good so it should be a great day.

Best wishes

Tony Bunting
 
Thank you for the warm welcome to everybody I spoke too. Some great looking cars!
I took a few panoramic shots of the day.

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Great turnout today at The De Havilland Museum. Several cars I've not seen before.

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Here's the front row.

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Here's the well attended guided tour. I sneaked off into the car park to get the photos (hence why there's no-one in them apart from Guy)

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Nice to see the famous OCH. I'm not sure I've ever seen this TC in the flesh. Here relaxing with John Milner's TC.

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Nice to see Roy Payne's January 1964 car - number 903. The only P6 I've ever seen never fitted with seatbelts.

Here's she's posing with her almost identical twin.

I had a nightmare on the drive up - attempting to keep up with the Buntingmobile across some awful speed bumps, I was aware of a nasty banging under the car. Thinking the exhaust (which we'd played with this week) had broken a mount I carried on.

Only when we got to the show, about 15 miles after the bang, and with awful banging noises from the car, did we realise I'd lost a trailing arm bush and my offside rear was flapping in the breeze. Scary. A couple of large washers as a temporary repair and we're home safely.
 
So Nick that is why you dropped down to 50mph on the M25. I think you were lucky nothing worse happened! Great turnout about 30 cars, 44 adults and some chidren. 50 people in all. Hope everyone enjoyed it. I am very busy at the moment but hope to post a few photos in a few days time.

Cheers

Tony
 
ajcb said:
So Nick that is why you dropped down to 50mph on the M25. I think you were lucky nothing worse happened! Great turnout about 30 cars, 44 adults and some chidren. 50 people in all. Hope everyone enjoyed it. I am very busy at the moment but hope to post a few photos in a few days time.

Cheers

Tony
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It was Tony. The lesson here is not to try and keep up with The Buntingmobile. Many have tried, and only a few have succeeded.

Seriously this was quite scary and a rebushing is now on the agenda. Along with a later type clutch to get rid of the dreadful judder (which cannot have helped my bushes).
 
Looks like you had a great day out. I saw Tony Rhylles (green 2200TC on Slotmags) on a dual carriageway near Nottingham yesterday morning and wondered where he was off to. I had a prior engagement so couldn't make it.
 
NickDunning said:
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Nice to see Roy Payne's January 1964 car - number 903. The only P6 I've ever seen never fitted with seatbelts.

Here's she's posing with her almost identical twin.
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Those two do look good together. I reckon we need to get Lady C in a shot with those two so we get 3 almost identical cars registered in successive years together.

Looks like a great meet :D and I get just a tad envious of the lack of P6s up this way, or perhaps the lack of enthusiasm to get together.

Dave
 
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