Club Arnage

To motivate peopl who still hesitate to take part, here is an extract of the entry list for my Le Mans Classic Rally

JAGUAR XJS Coupe V12 & 3.6l
LANCIA Beta HPE
LANCIA Monte Carlo
ALFASUD Sprint Veloce
SIMCA CG
MERCEDES 250 CE
DAIMLER Double 6
PEUGEOT 204
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I still wait for your cars and especially, the Burgundy beast, the Commer, the Ferrari Spider, and the SPS TVRs.

whats this then?

Gilles , the TVR is at rest for the winter getting a gentle bit of loving in depest Surrey, ready for another British Summer.

I could always bring my 2003 MG Diesel ?

I just receive the application of a TR6, so I can't understand you're not able to find any classic in your surroundings !

I need a navigator for Gilles's Classic Rally on the weekend 11/12 December.
The car is on your left   Alfasud Sprint Veloce
I can offer accommodation as my guest at my house in France on the Friday and Sunday evenings. You can either bring your own car to Calais and drive down to my house (leave it here, or bring it on down to the Sarthe), or I can pick you up from Dieppe in my car. You will find ferry prices below. I live about 20 miles east of Dieppe and 100 miles south of Calais. Ideally we could spend Friday evening here and travel down to the Sarthe (via the old Rouen Grand Prix circuit, if you like) on the Saturday. Back here after lunch on Sunday, so that you can return to UK on the Monday.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot - this will be fun.

Basically it will cost you:

Rally including breakfast and lunch 35 euros
Single room at Chateaux Domaine de Bel Air 70 euros
Dinner Saturday night 20 euros
That's a steal.
I can arrange very cheap travel: Dover-Calais unlimited return  - £50.00 with a car, or Newhaven-Dieppe three-day foot-passenger return (Friday/Monday) - £19.00.

Please e-mail PM me the if you are interested

Here come pictures of the yesterday's rally

The Italian (mechanic) Job !!!

Can't remember name of that place  ;)

maybe the sign over the gate can be a clue

So what's that place....  ???  ;)

Vision of next june race, a Vette with overheating problems !!!!  :P

what's the difference of cc between the two cars ???

Not a NIMBY but a YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard)

If the Mustang was running a 351, each cylinder would be almost the entire Smart engine... :) :)

Only my precious cars are in my garage  8)

(better with image ...)

Guess which vehicle has still its UK registration number  ::)

3 diffrent driving experiences

Was it a success then Gilles ?

Couldnt ses KPY's AlfaSud or Ferrari Spiders Ferrari ?

It was a great success, thanks to Gilles' hard work. It was also a steal. Cost me 125 euros for the entry, dinner, luxurious room at Chateau de Belair http://www.domainedebelair.com/ (Gilles's base), breakfast, coffee break at
www.chateaudemontbraye.com
(the GT40 IMBY photo), plus three hour lunch (canapes, aperitifs, then four courses, wines and coffee) back at Belair.
I spent a lot of time floundering  around lost with no navigator, trying to read the roadbook, map, odometer etc whilst keeping one eye on the road. For the fifth and final stage Gilles arranged a "luck dip" navigator swap, which meant that I not only had someone in the right hand seat (Alfa is LHD), but an expert classic rally navigator to boot. And boot it we did, leaving by no means first, but arriving first, two and a half minutes before the next car (superior navigation, not flat out driving - never even squealed the tyres or spun the wheels).............. It was really fun having a guy sitting there saying " 300 metre straight, followed by medium right, then long open left, 600 metre straight, tight esses though forest then take forest track left after 400 metre straight. 1 km rough track, then  take left at T" and so on. All that read from a map, not the road book.
It was all worth the foggy trip down and the freezing fog on the way home.
Thanks Gilles. It was a weekend to remember.
Oh, the Alfsud Sprint Veloce is the silver car next to the French-registered Routemaster. No sign of the Ferrari Spider.

I was going to comment on the Mustang - very pretty car - though I don't think it ever had a factory 351ci Steve. 289 or 302 displacements in V8 form (not counting Shelby versions) until 1968 'wedge' and Boss versions got the Windsor and later Cleveland 351 from Fairlane and Cougar. I'll have to check, but i think that's the story. Nice looking car, either way. The disco-vette in the pics seems to be getting more than it's fair share of attention. What's that packing - a 427?  

Yes, for the Vette it's a 427

To continue with pictures, here is an American Muscle Festival...

A pretty success because of the cold water...
... the whole entrants in front of my hut !!!

quite a spelling problem I mean weather and not water !!!!  :-\

Matt, you're right about the 351 not being a factory fit in the first series, but I didnt know that the Fairlane and Cougar got it first.

Gilles, I wish I had been able to take part but can only manage one trip to France per year, Guess when and where? The event looks like fun and if you do a repeat next year I WILL TRY to join in in my elderly MG Midget. All depends on whether I still have employment then...

Kpy, thanks for the "How it was for you" letter, I wish...


Bill

 :)