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Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:47 pm
by edd
I will hopefully be going from horchurch (if i get the car finnished). A convoy sounds good to me! i know warwickshire quite will but the thought of driving there in a minor (first long journey) was a little scary!
PM me if you want some company!
Edd
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:32 pm
by Kevin
Mines also been posted so a convoy to Banbury sounds good to me
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:17 pm
by rayofleamington
Well at this rate we're likely to hit half way in the entries by next week.
Just remember that details came out in the magazine a few days ago so there will soon be entries from non-message board ppl...
(ie get your skates on)
And as Riley has made it to Brighton and back 2 years in a row with a very tired engine, I don't expect Essex to Midlands will be too much for a limping Minor.
Although if you have the dreaded alternator conversion, bring an AA card!
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:59 am
by racer
So whats the dreaded alternator conversion prob.?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:08 am
by rayofleamington
So whats the dreaded alternator conversion prob.?
A well maintained standard Minor is probably one of the most reliable cars around (>40 years old and still going strong).
Alternator conversions however seem to be a good way to get yourself towed home - there are hundreds if not thousands of people who converted from Dynamo to Alternator only to find it broke down. The typical failure is that the regulator fails putting upto 20 volts into your battery (above ~15.5 volts is too much). The battery then fails soon after and you are left stranded.
custommartin,
Many thanks - it arrived already. You must have good post!
Kevin,
it seems to have been a few days already - You didn't post it in Northamptonshire did you?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 3:15 pm
by Matt
Ray...... Justy in theory would it be possible to take the morris, and a eurobox as back up? will there be sufficient parking etc?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:27 pm
by rayofleamington
will there be sufficient parking etc?
Loads - the place is huge.
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:37 pm
by Matt
so there would be no problem with a 2nd car?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:40 pm
by Kevin
it seems to have been a few days already - You didn't post it in Northamptonshire did you
Well the wife did so I rang to check and she said yes she had posted it when she found it in her glove box this morning !!!!!!!
So hopefully a day or two, not that I am going to search her car tonight
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:14 pm
by custommartin
Ray
It said in our local paper last week that Brentwood is one of the worst postal areas in the country. Must have been a lucky stamp
Your not helping.....my new pick-up has an alternator
....where is that RAC card
Matt
How are you planning on driving two cars at once. Clever trick that.
May cause problems getting through the museum gates
Edd and
Kevin
Have sent you a p.m.
Anybody else up for a convoy to Gaydon, let me know.
Cheers for now.
Martin
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:31 pm
by Matt
Martin...... I wont be going on my own.......
Dan will tag along!
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:06 pm
by d_harris
you hope matt!!! I think I am away on the day in question. I am pretty sure I will be in scotland
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 10:10 pm
by Matt
Whoops!
Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:03 pm
by ironman
i'm going to try and make it, just got to send entry form off.
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:17 pm
by d_harris
On consulting my diary, I won't be in Scotland at all! I will have literally come back from newquay the day before!!!! (I have a very busy July with three weeks worth of being away!)
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 7:12 pm
by edd
Edd and Kevin
Have sent you a p.m.
Erm!. I havent recived any yet!
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 7:41 pm
by Kevin
I received a PM ok from Martin.
Ray has my entry finally turned up.
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:15 pm
by rayofleamington
Kevin,
Yes, got it thanks - Replies will be going out soon (I'm back at work next week so will be back in the land of printers
)
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:35 pm
by Matt
Unlike me........
Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:02 pm
by Kevin
Unlike me........
Fair comment I dont think anyone is