05-03-2022, 11:01 AM
(04-03-2022, 11:10 PM)Steve kay Wrote: Watching Mr Jones put a competition car up a hill is often exciting. Seeing him put a bog standard Chummy along a public road at 70 mph would be pretty hair raising.
I think Steve was probably in his Ulster when he was out the other day. I have been in his former trials Chummy on the road section of the VSCC Welsh trial when the speedo went off the scale at over 60mph and that was an accurate instrument. I have never had my hair raised whilst passengering Steve on events, mainly due to the fact that I am as bald as a coot!
Perhaps the most alarming incident happened when we were doing the road section of the Welsh trial one year. Starting off at 7.00am on a cold foggy morning, we stopped after half an hour at a small garage to buy something with a receipt which you needed as proof of your route, which would be verified back at the VSCC event HQ in Presteigne, using an old map on a board and a piece of sting. We bought two large sausage rolls which were red hot, having probably been in the oven keeping warm for the last week or so. Returning to the Chummy we set off and decided to eat the sausage rolls on the move so as to save time. On biting into them they exploded into a cloud of fine greasy puff pastry which very nearly caused us to crash. The trials car that was following us got covered in flakes of pastry and Steve was still finding bits in the Chummy several years later.
Then there was the pork pie from the butchers in Ledbury, made with Gloucester Old Spot rare breed pig. Having looked forward to having this for his lunch on the Herefordshire Trial, Steve bit into it and left one of his teeth embedded in it.
I suppose that was preferable to finding one of the pigs gnashers in your pork pie.