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Re: who went to brooklands?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:22 pm
by xpress
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Re: who went to brooklands?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:24 pm
by mike.perry
I got to the gate and they spotted the dog in the back and would not let me in. Had to park in the public car park, leave the dog in the car and use the pedesrtian enrtance. Nearly told them where to stick their extra 90p Gift Aid or whatever.
Left early as I was slightly p***** off.

Re: who went to brooklands?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:27 pm
by xpress
ah, sorry to hear that mike. yes, test hill would have been fun but i guess it wouldn't have been as scary as watching the two guys go up in that early morris car! i should have wore a funny hat or something then you would have recognised me. hope i haven't bored you with the pics, if there's anything you want to see again, pm me and i will see if i have it.

Re: who went to brooklands?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:29 pm
by xpress
as for my fuel consumption, 30 miles (A roads) cost me a fiver. how much mpg is that? :S

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:54 am
by IaininTenbury
Few more pics and general shots:
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Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:28 am
by cmea
keep the pics coming :D
As for fuel consumption, work on petrol being £6 a gallon!
I reckon that's 36 mpg xpress, I suspect it would be better if calculated for a longer distance - maybe if you didn't live so close you would have saved more :o

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:11 am
by dougieboard
Hello,

I went along to Brooklands. Lovely (cold) weather and there was a great display of Minors - probably the best represented model there. Well done to all. Liked the brown Minor trailer amongst others but my choice of what to take home would have had to be one of those Austin A60 Suntor camper vans - loved them

Lovely museum, but I'll take a flask and a picnic next year (and hopefully my car). Three coffees, a slice of cake and a couple of sarnies cost nearly £14! I could have gone to the motorway services for economy reasons...

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:20 am
by IaininTenbury
A Suntor drive past:
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Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:58 am
by aupickup
150 mile round trip for me

enjoyed all of it

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:42 pm
by xpress
lol i just realised, in ian's picture of all the cars lined up, i am parked up behind the green van at the front! lol.

cheers for that cmea, i am going to back out the mixture screw as much as possible tomorrow just until it starts running rough when warm then will turn it back in a bit! (need to economise during these times of high fuel prices!) ;)

will try and put up some other pics when i get a moment.

i loved those pop top campers too, they were quite popular! also loved the vans, the little tub race cars were good, what were they called, any info about those?

wish i could have had a go up the hill tho! :)

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:48 pm
by chrisryder
don't weaken it too much xpress. a lean engine is a hot engine. and you can burn out valves and cause head gasket failure if you're not carefull.

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:51 pm
by xpress
ah, ok. point taken! better not run it too lean! i will take a picture of where it is right now, i fancied moving it back a bit to see if it's set too rich. if it runs a bit lumpy will screw it back in. i have the use of a gas analyser, i could test it out on that. i have a feeling it might be running slightly rich. took a look at my points, they seem a bit pitted too but seem to have quite a bit of metal left on there. they've not been on there for that many miles! i am thinking of getting an accuspark distributor, would like to see if it helps mpg, has anyone seen an improvement?

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:24 pm
by Kevin
Well we had a great time but also decided to make use of the facilities and have a quick service and tune up while we were there

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But Vic wasn't around so I went here instead

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While wating for the work to be done I had a go in the Mclaren simulator round the track in the 1920's

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And after the tune up I went for a spin, but where has everyone gone

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Oh well I will just have a go by myself then :D

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And in reality the track is actually steeper than it looks and it was a little hair raising to climb up on foot.

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:29 am
by chrisryder
Russ Harvey took this picture of my minor at Brooklands. I really like the composition and thought i'd share it with you all!
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Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:56 pm
by xpress
Great pics!

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:59 pm
by Richard H
I was there too, in my little black A35 5187 NO... :D

Re: who went to brooklands? (pics)

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:56 pm
by xpress
i didn't see many there, one of the few!