15-06-2019, 12:39 PM
I don't know whether this counts as a tradition but we have been attending the World Famous Bristol A7 Club North Devon event since 1978. I can't say that we have done every year but probably we have clocked up 30 out of the 41 trips. The event is held over the half term week after the late spring bank holiday.
Here we are at the top of Porlock, waiting for the following cars. Someone had ignition problems that turned out to be a shorted DK4A base plate and had to change a distributor back along the A39.
Subsequently, we headed for Minehead that particular, wet day and played trains on the West Somerset Railway.
Incidentally, I can remember Ruairidh on the first event I went on in 1978, having his pyjamas put on in the Rockford Inn. We used to get a lock-in there and we would sit and drink until the small hours, staggering back up the 1 in 4 hill to the campsite.
On that first event, I can also remember seeing Porlock for the first time through my Ruby windscreen. Someone said "just get a good, clean double de-clutch into first gear on the hairpin and you'll be fine!". I thought "but I can't do that…..".
Miraculously, by the time we reached the top of the hill, I had learned to double de-clutch and have never forgotten!
Tim R
Here we are at the top of Porlock, waiting for the following cars. Someone had ignition problems that turned out to be a shorted DK4A base plate and had to change a distributor back along the A39.
Subsequently, we headed for Minehead that particular, wet day and played trains on the West Somerset Railway.
Incidentally, I can remember Ruairidh on the first event I went on in 1978, having his pyjamas put on in the Rockford Inn. We used to get a lock-in there and we would sit and drink until the small hours, staggering back up the 1 in 4 hill to the campsite.
On that first event, I can also remember seeing Porlock for the first time through my Ruby windscreen. Someone said "just get a good, clean double de-clutch into first gear on the hairpin and you'll be fine!". I thought "but I can't do that…..".
Miraculously, by the time we reached the top of the hill, I had learned to double de-clutch and have never forgotten!
Tim R