Always prefered the '69 to the '71.
That front end just looks a bit silly.
Maybe what they should have done was to put a droop snoot on it, and a really tall wing on the back...

I think you'll find that was her audition picture for the South Harrow and Northolt Conservitive Amateur Dramatic Society's production of Biggles Flies Undone....

it's easier to spot a fake Yenko

never met her, but I bet she would have been better that what one attracts with a primered V8 Zodiac

Only ever seen one in my entire life, the guy who owned it also had a Hemi Superbird

Trailer trash unless it was a Yenko....

You going to the Euros Steve?

Bit of an anorak fact I admit, but the car they crash into the roadblock at the end of the film is actually a white Camaro not the Challenger....

Not sure where you get that idea from HGB, the 'Rover' V8 was designed by Buick in the late fifties and first fitted in '62.
The entire tooling rights were bought by Rover's then MD William Martin-Hurst and so the legend was born.


http://austinrover.mg-rover.org/index.htm?engineroverv8f.htm.

Oh and PS, The Vette is nice but the new Mustang is nicer

Steve TTTD

I would certainly say both days if possible, simply to avoid being told "The European record was broken yesterday" as I was a couple of years ago.
Anyway, there's nothing quite like being woken up at 9am by Spuff warming up the funny,when your head is still pounding from the night before.

Steve, maybe this time we'll actually meet up, now that I'm sure what class we're racing in.... and assuming Phil remembers to bring the Pop....

As Steve Brown will confirm, you've got the perfect meet coming up in September.
The Euro (World) finals, biggest one of the year, it runs for 4 days now

Steve, The Pod has improved immeasurably since the late seventies, when I started going regularly, OK the banking is still there, but it's become a bit of a tradition now, and I'd be sorry to see it go. Especially since it's part of the 'sound blocking' procedures and if it went it'd be replaced with the 'breezeblock' walls they had to put up at Avon Park.
The place does still have a long way to go, particularly in terms of toilets and catering facilities, but it gets better every couple of years.
From a racer's point of view it is unrecognisable, compared to 5 years ago, the pits are mostly tarmaced, the organisation is many times better than it was, and the track surface, especially at the international meets is the best in Europe.
Keith Bartlett deserves a medal for the amount of work and money he's put into the place over the years he's owned it.
He even resurfaced the entry road   which, old timers will know , used to need a 4x4 just to get from the gate to the track

Team TickleTheDragon are back in the varied places in the UK they started from.
We (Me Raj and Jon) had an uneventful run through France up to Cherbourg on Monday morning, but then managed to split a rear brake pipe on the A27 north of Portsmouth, and I can say that not all Hants constabulary officers are like Robbo, I got bolloc*ed for trying to fix it at the side of the road and a producer for not having my log book with me .
Anyway a fantastic time was had by all, and as others have said, the poobar was a brilliant idea, I put faces to many names, and met up with Andy again who wandered over when we were on Becausejour a couple of years ago.

Finally, a quick plea, did anyone get and pictures or videos of the burnouts I did in the Mk2 Zodiac at Arnage on Sunday night, we have some, but no film of the third one.. (pm me if you can help)

Cheers, and the countdown to 2005 starts now

Steve

OPEC are going to be rubbing their hands together...
The Zodiac, with it's 289 will be luck to see the other side of 18mpg on the run there and back as well

group name (if you have one)

Team TickleTheDragon

Travel plans (crossing/time)
Some Poole-Guermsey-St Malo Monday 7th To secure the site
Some Wednesday 9th Calais-Dover or Poole-Cherbourg 12:30

ETA
Various

Campsite
Tertre Rouge

Any distinguishing features of your group (e.g. exotic machinery)
289 V8 powered 1960 Ford Zodiac (Assuming it's ready)

Any plans for open-to-all events/parties
Just drop by the site, beers are always cold

Steve,
I'm hanging on in anticipation for the next installment....
it's like a sop opera