Morris Minor Owners Club

i went to an event today and they had a great game/competition
maybe we could adopt something like this at the nationals
was certainly a lot of fun
see http://www.mildred-the-minor.co.uk/winner.html

genius!!!!!! I'd definitely want a go at that

Good fun, might try that at home in the field!

Jay, didnt they claim you were cheating because you were using vehicle that didnt comply with being an A30/35??

Sorry - but I see this as really SAD !

Matt wrote:Jay, didnt they claim you were cheating because you were using vehicle that didnt comply with being an A30/35??

no matt, it was open to all classics

bmcecosse wrote:Sorry - but I see this as really SAD !

oh dear! get a life, it was a fun way of making money for charity

Jay-Minor wrote:i went to an event today and they had a great game/competition
maybe we could adopt something like this at the nationals
was certainly a lot of fun
see http://www.mildred-the-minor.co.uk/winner.html

Did you see the Driving Challenge at last years National?

theminorsite wrote:

Jay-Minor wrote:i went to an event today and they had a great game/competition
maybe we could adopt something like this at the nationals
was certainly a lot of fun
see http://www.mildred-the-minor.co.uk/winner.html

Did you see the Driving Challenge at last years National?

no this year was my first

bmcecosse wrote:Sorry - but I see this as really SAD !

Thanks for your contribution

Jay-Minor wrote: no this year was my first

Driving Challenge was to drive a Moggy we provided round a series of cones, into a 'garage', and then back to the start line in reverse. All while having a tennis ball in a plate stuck on the bonnet - each time the ball came out you had to get out of the car and replace it and then run back to the driving seat. About 90 people had a go at that over the weekend.
Interbranch Challenge was a new course, plus you had four members of your team in the car (plus a marshall - made it cosy!!) and each of you had to swap rounnd so everyone got a turn behind the wheel. Overall time counted for all four drivers. FIFTEEN teams entered that, and it took so long that we went over time by half an hour. A measure of its success was that prizegiving for the concours etc had to be delayed until the challenge was over, since there were so many people watching the Interbranch

wibble_puppy wrote:

Sorry - but I see this as really SAD !

Thanks for your contribution

theminorsite wrote: Interbranch Challenge was a new course, plus you had four members of your team in the car (plus a marshall - made it cosy!!)

Silly question but what about LCVs?

wibble_puppy wrote:Silly question but what about LCVs?

You wanna get five people in a VAN!!?? No, it was a 4-dr saloon we provided for the job, but of course LCV owners were welcome to have a go - I'm pretty sure more than a couple did

oh i see!! sorry - a bit confuddled today and missed the bit about you providing the car.... didn't realise everyone drove the same car...

and yes you can get about twenty people into a van - try providing a van for next year

theminorsite wrote:..............prizegiving for the concours etc had to be delayed until the challenge was over,.......

As I recall it was ALL prizegiving but as far as I am concerned, if everyone was enjoying themselves whats a small delay, providing of course that people were not waiting to get away

I have to admit, I'd be the one turning up with a modified potato cannon, a can of lighter gas and an assistant.

Blam! Take that you skittles!

Judge wrote:

theminorsite wrote:..............prizegiving for the concours etc had to be delayed until the challenge was over,.......

As I recall it was ALL prizegiving but as far as I am concerned, if everyone was enjoying themselves whats a small delay, providing of course that people were not waiting to get away

Well we had a riot*, but I'm afraid the car suffered a bit with the stop-starting and the heat

*Not immesurably aided by the fact we won

dunketh wrote:I have to admit, I'd be the one turning up with a modified potato cannon, a can of lighter gas and an assistant.

Blam! Take that you skittles!

Hmmmm, you sound like the right sort of halfwit. Oooops, I meant chap, sorry, chap! Wanna build a raft for next years?

Took me a while but I finally found it - heres a page about last years event with a few pics of people getting it wrong
http://www.theminorsite.co.uk/newsinterbranch.php

wibble_puppy wrote:

bmcecosse wrote:Sorry - but I see this as really SAD !

Thanks for your contribution

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