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July - August 2010 Issue 131

MAGAZINE OF THE CITROËN SPECIALS CLUB

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Geoff Ticehurst

118 Old Roman Bank Terrington St Clement King’ Lynn Norfolk

PE34 4JP Tel: 01553 829142 Email: editor@citroenspecialsclub.org

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Carole Chitty

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3 Chairman's Notes 6 New Members 7 MemSec’s Report 8 General Secretary 9 Editorial 37 Classified Ads

10 Cotswold Chat 11 Scotland Frozen North 14 East Coasters 17 Eastern Angles 20 North Thames gas 24 East Midlands

26 North West Sec-tion 28 Not So

Wild West 12 Stoneleigh (MemSec) 18 Stilton Cheese Run 19 (Pembletons) 22 A Weekend to Remember

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Front Cover: Club Stand Stoneliegh 2010 photo. David Field

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Hello All Hopefully you have all received this issue.of FLAT OUT on time. The last issue was very late due to no fault of the new Editor Geoff, he did his job and was let down by the printer. Well done Geoff for all the extra time and effort you had to put in for your first issue. All that work is not what you signed up for but it should only get easier “Thanks GEOFF”. If any member has a contact in the printing trade or is a printer, or knows where we could get the printing done, we are actively looking for a person or company who would be able to produce FLAT OUT in the future. Please contact myself or any of the committee if you can help. Stoneleigh was cold and windy. It was not the show it had been and with the Club stand as far away from the show as you could get, we asked for quiet and that’s what we got. The show itself was a bit of a let down. The Club stand had a very good turn out of Club members with the majority coming on Sunday. Thanks to Carole for manning the Club tent as always, doing the paperwork for new and old members. Some of us stayed on for the Monday which was very quiet and being so far away from the show meant there was not the normal public interest in the Club and cars. Also well done to Don and Linda for surviving the wind and rain on Saturday night. Initially they used two tents but had to upgrade to a larger one with a good lilo during the weekend. They were the only brave souls who camped, the rest of us stayed in the warm accommodation on site. By the time you get this the Summer

Gathering will have been and gone with full reports in the next FLAT OUT. I am writing this report a week after completing the MCC Exeter Centenary Reliability Trial which involved driving 290 miles over Friday and Saturday with 14 special sections and tests. It was open to motorcycles, three wheelers and cars of all ages, the oldest being a 1909 Darac. There were Morgan three wheelers and one “Panmax” which performed very well and we should have gained an award, and upheld the honour of the Citroen Specials Club. We have put some of the sections on Youtube, look out for Exeter Centenary Trial. Keep on revving Steve

CHAIRMANS NOTES

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Officers Chairman: Steve Parrish 16 Ivor Close, Holbury, Southampton, Hants 023 8089 2071 SO45 2NY email: stevejan@talktalk.net Secretary: Dr John Fowler “Rivendell” Shortsill Lane Flaxby 01423 867410 Knaresborough, N Yorks HG5 0RT e-mail john.fowler67@talktalk.net Treasurer: Alan Peacock Verazze, 61 Windmill Avenue, St Albans, Herts 01727 862971 AL4 9SJ e-mail:threewheeling@sky.com Membership Carole Chitty 8 Forest End, Fleet, Hampshire, Secretary: 01252 620 128 GU52 7XE e-mail: admin@citroenspecialsclub.org

Area Representatives

North Thames: Vic Braybrook 11 Meade Road, Billericay, Essex 01277 622 331 CM11 1DE South East: Vacant South Vacant South West: Ron Bishop 2 Beresford Gardens, Landsdown 01225 335777 Lane, Weston Bath, Avon BA1 4NX Cotswolds: Gordon & Allyson Burch 6 The Barracks, Parkend, Lydney 01594 562844 Glos. GL15 4HR E-mail badgerburch@tiscali.co.uk South Wales: Vacant Contact: Rob Raikes 90 Heol Bardd, Bridgend, 01656 668 683 Mid-Glamorgan CF31 4td email: owlin.kats@virgin.net North East: Vacant East Midlands: Jim & Joy Barry 164 Polwell Lane, Barton (Midshires Sub-Group) 01536 724 512 Seagrave, Kettering, Northants NN15 6UB North West: Malcolm Hopwood 67 Station Road, Thornton Cleveleys 01253 854363 Lancs. FY5 5HZ Scotland: Jennie White Whitelaw Cottage, 01387 370 291 Carlesgill, Westerkirk Langholm, Dumfrieshire DG13 0NZ North Wales & Philip Costin-Kelly 42, Timbertree Road, Cradley Heath West Midlands: 01384 567804 West Midlands, B64 7LE. Northern Raymond Lloyd 19 Monaville Av, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, Ireland 02892 587156 Northern Ireland BT28 2DF East Anglia: Dennis Page The Buntings, Ringsfield Corner, Weston 01502 713498 Beccles, Suffolk NR34 8LA East Midlands: David Field Warren House, 24 Cherry Tree Lane (East Coast Sub-Group) 01522 753372 Nettleham, Lincoln, Lincs. LN2 2PR North Wales: Contact: Bob Lloyd The Oaks, Preston Gubbles Rd. Bomere 01939 290216 Heath, Nr Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY4 3LU

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Falcon Contact: Joyce Taylor Ridge Cottage, Glevering 01728 746 155 Hill, Wickham Market, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 0DG Specials Contact: Derek Smith 4 Shernbourne Drive 01525 876 671 Windsor Berks SL4 4AE Pembleton Contact: Dave Parr Oaktree Cottage, High St, Inkberrow 01386 793042 Worcs WR7 4DY. Technical Advisers: Derek Smith 4 Sherbourne Drive 01753 868 537 Windsor, Berks SL4 4AE5 Dicky Dawes 55 Pedlars grove, Frome, 01373 461589 Somerset BA11 2SX e.mail: Dickyandpat@hotmail.co.uk Regalia Sales: Lynda Kiley 14 Spender Close, Exmouth, S Devon 01395 263163 EX8 4LP Handbook Technical info: Jim Barry 164 Polwell Lane, Barton Seagrave 01536 724512 Kettering Northants NN15 6UB

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Welcome to new members

Cotstwolds 1879 Alan Percival Stratford-on-

Avon 1877 Vic Booth Stoke Orchard Cheltenham Gloucestershire BRA CV3 1878 Barry Morrison Gloucester Gloucestershire Red Lomax 223 KBW 742S 1884 Peter Shaw Kilgat Gloucestershire Lomax 223 East Anglia 1870 Michael Meakin Syderstone King’s Lynn Norfolk East Midlands 1875 James Barrick Worksop Nottinghamshire Blue Lomax 223 Q554 BAL 1880J Fred & Rachel Dumbleton Lower Boddington Daventry Northants Blue Lomax 223 1891 Paul Herriotts Eydon Nr Daventry Northants White Blackjack Avion C52 FYE North Wales/West Midlands 1890J Roy McShane Selly Oak Birmingham West Midlands North East 1883 Mike Fountain Barnsley South Yorkshire Pembleton Super Sports North West

1881J Paul & Niall McLaughlin Knutsford Cheshire Black Lomax 223 RDC 265X Scotland 1876 Stewart Ross Newmiln by Guildtown Perth Falcon 1885J Alan & Moira Middleton Kemnay Inverurie Aberdeeshire Fr. Racing Blue Blackjack Avion RRS 407X South 1873 Colin Robinson Havant Hants Pembleton Super Sports HRV 818N 1888 Fred & Sylvia Cook Dunley Whitchurch Hants Blue Lomax 223 HAB 808N South West 1889 John Rowe Plymstock Plymouth South Devon 1887J Stephen Keohane & Linda Alexander Tisbury Wiltshire Blue Lomax 223 Q508 FAD (Max) Overseas (France) 1886J Jean & Sylvie Pirot 92110 Clichy France Red Lomax 223 AP 775 LS

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Well I’ve been kept busy since Stoneleigh with all the re-newals and the new members listed on previous page. I have also been doing a little caring job and I’m wondering now how I ever found time to go to work. We still have a lot of members who have not renewed their membership, mostly those who renew at Stoneleigh which as you will read elsewhere was very poorly attended this year. They will not get a magazine, so if you are meeting up with members, please remind them to renew if they have not had their copy lof Flat Out (or contact me if there is a problem). I will be sending out reminders at the end of June but this is costly and I’m hoping they will remember before then.

STANDING ORDERS Please check that your standing order is correctly paid on your statement. £17.50 and paid in March. I will be including a debt-

ors list again (thankfully shorter than last years) so if you do not want to be on it,

CHECK NOW!! Other than that I am looking for-ward to seeing a lot of you at the Summer Gathering and during the events over summer. Regards Carole.

Membership Secretary's Report

Dear Editor Message for Carole - who is this Jennie Brown ? (AGM report last “Flat Out”) is she perhaps my doppleganger? Great first Edition Geoff Jennie (still WHITE!)

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Summer Gathering 2011

THE NOT SO WILD WEST are pleased to announce they will be hosting the Summer Gathering in

2011

It will be held on the weekend of 17/18/19th June at

NEWLANDS HOLIDAY PARK CHARMOUTH

DORSET DT6 6RB

www.newlandsholidays.co.uk The site is very near the famous Jurassic Coastline with accommodation (we hope) to suit all. Further details to follow at a later date or contact Dicky and Pat Dawes on 01373461589 email dickyandpat@hotmail.co.uk We look forward to welcoming you all.

General Secretary’s Ramblings

Hi everyone, I hope all are enjoying their three and four wheeled creations now that the election is over and the weather is finally getting better. It seems quite a long time back when many of us had such a good time at the AGM weekend at Morecambe and I’ m sure that all ninety eight who came along felt and filled the magnificent seafront hotel it was very worthwhile. I have a number of friends in other kit and classic car clubs and all were frankly incredulous when told of the success of events such as this across the Citroen Spe-cials Club. In my humble opinion this is due simply to the fantastic fun of our unique vehicles, the general keenness and indeed friendliness of our membership - and last but not least the untiring efforts of our Chairman and Committee. Apart from the cars themselves, we all know that we really cannot take our undoubted success over recent years for granted so we must do all we can to support the club’s events - and its successful administration in any way we can. Please call me any time for details on the clubs committee meetings and our elections to ab-solutely critical committee positions. Well that’s enough of that all to well-worn message. I was out in my Lomax 223 “Demented Wasp” at a local classic car show yesterday with Dennis Cawston in his recently SVA’ed and indeed highly modified 223. It is no exaggeration to claim that our cars attracted more attention than anything else on the field. Hence with a club - and cars - like ours I do feel we really have a lot to be thank-ful for! Safe driving and enjoy those weird and wonderful machines. John john.fowler67@talktalk.net

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EDITORIAL Ceud mile failte What a relief to finally have the last edition printed even though it was quite late. It was also shame to have it in monochrome. So what was lacking in presentation will have to be made up by skilful editorship. After whinging in the Editorial of the last issue I can tell you all that the Windows code has been cracked. Microsoft Word and Win-dows Publisher are now my serv-ants instead of being my masters. My second edition has been almost enjoyable. I thought I had lost the will to live last time but now I can engross myself in all further issues with enthusiasm I have noticed there is not a huge amount of copy coming in and I hope my evil Editorial of the last issue has not deterred anyone from sending articles in. I don’t actually bite people. There you are that was an apology Last time I offered to say a little about myself. Well I’m nearly 65 and I’m married to my secretary and proof reader, Gwen. I’m about 5ft 10” and suffer middle age (or is it old age) spread. It took the pho-to at the bottom of the page to see what my legs and feet look like as I can’t see them when I stand up. Lets be serious! For many years I was employed as an engineer, I was an apprentice

tool and in-j e c t i o n mould mak-er and went on through my career working for many differ-ent compa-nies until I eventual ly became self employed. I then joined the NHS and stayed with them for 10 years until I retired. I must thank all the good people who have sent in copy for this is-sue, because with no copy - no magazine. I need to be awash with copy to keep the magazine bal-anced and interesting. Plenty of photos wouldn’t go amiss either. Remember this is your magazine I only stick it together. We have no reporters, so you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. I’m starting to loose the plot so I’ll stop, but once again thanks to the contributors.

Geoff Ticehurst Editor

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COTSWOLD CHAT

First we must apologise for the lack of an article in the last issue. As we write this we are a couple of days away from leaving for the rally in Slovakia. Sadly we ap-pear to be the only remaining Brits attending this event. Easter Monday saw eight cars on display at the Coleford Carnival of Transport. Although the weather was not too hot (in fact it was a bit chilly at times) at least it re-mained dry. The event on the whole seemed a little quieter than in previous years, possibly due to the weather forecast for the day. Unfortunately due to family com-mitments we were unable to at-tend Stoneleigh this year, but in view of the weather I don’t think that was a bad thing. The cost of staying on site with a motor home at £25 per person was rather high considering there were no show-ers and more often than not no hot water in the toilet blocks. In the past we have stayed at Hat-ton Country Park for £5 a night and driven into the Show for the

day. Our annual camping weekend has been arranged for the weekend of 24 - 25th September at the Ap-pleTree Caravan Park which is just of Junction 13 of the M5 in the Dursley/ Stonehose area of Gloucestershire. This is a relative-ly new site and looks as if it has excellent facilities. Why not join us for the weekend (last year we had brilliant weather for our Sep-tember Camp), or if not come along on Saturday for the run and BBQ. Contact us for further de-tails. Monthly meeting are still well attended with the July meet-ing being rescheduled to July 11th by which time we will have re-turned from the Caux Retro meet-ing. That’s all for now - must go and finish packing. Gordon and Allyson

Forthcoming Events: July 11th Monthly meeting at the Hunters Inn, Longford 12 noon (ish) September 24 - 26 Annual Cotswold Camping Weekend at the Apple Tree Caravan Park. Contact Gordon and Allyson Burch (1462J)

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SCOTLAND FROZEN NORTH

Events for 2010 July 10th-11th Glamis Castle Motoring extravaganza. Book with

Jennie (1162J) Sept 4th-5th Highland Soiree - The Ballater Blast Callum Sept 17th-19th Selkirk Rally Jennie Sept 25th 10,000ft run Malcolm 1591 Oct 2nd-3rd Lakes Tethera Craig & Lesley 1588 Dec 4th-5th Christmas Weekend Jennie .

Our first big event of the year, after the AGM was the “Reiver Raid” in May. Beautiful hot sunny weather for the three days made this fantastic run even better. We were driving in T– shirts both sides of the Border! Lots of motoring, beautiful country-side, and a truly amazing Saturday night Reiver Revels. If you have nev-er heard Matthew and Alsie in full flow, with a broad Geordie accent, you’ve missed a treat. The costumes were superb, especially Craig and Lesley’s Carlisle Reivers outfits. Eighteen of us from points North, South, East and West, plus Merlin and Chessy were on the road in eleven cars. Won’t say any more about this as I know Callum is doing a full write up. Hope he gets his copy to the Edi-tor in time! Good to see new Editor, Geoff and his wife Gwen, had survived the un-expected troubles of getting “Flat

Out” printed and could join us on the Raid. It was worth your efforts when it arrived Geoff - lots to enjoy. We greatly missed Chris and Judy at this event. Judy had a health prob-lem, and we hope all goes well in the future. Fred Kattray also had a bad time recently, but is now back to en-joying himself at local car do’s. Many thanks to Iain and Janet for organising yet another superb event – it really was great. Looking for-ward to meeting up with everyone at the summer Camp, and then at Glamis Castle in July. Jennie

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Well we were much quieter this year but……  We were at  the  top of a hill  in  the  furthest stand  away  (almost  in  the  ‘on  site  camping area’) which meant we   really needed a bus to  get  us  to  the  show!    You  know  what  I mean  ‘park  and  ride’!   With  a  last minute change of  stand we were a  li le difficult  to find, even though  I put a no ce at the gate.  Hopefully there are no members s ll driving round Stonleigh Park trying to find the stand.  I think this must have been one of the cold‐est, windiest and depressing weather week‐ends  I have  ever  experienced  in my  twenty three years of going  to Stoneleigh, we even had  hail!   Oh no!  I  forgot  the AGMs  in  the field in the rain in the early days.  Don Eden and Lynda Kiley were awarded the Adrian  Flux Trophy  for Endurance  in driving both  their kits up  to  the  show and camping on the site. They had to purchase a new tent and  I believe a new airbed  (don’t ask) even Peter  and  I  deserted  them  on  Sunday  and went  off  to  a  curry  house  in  Leamington.  Warmer  in  all  respects.    I  hate  to  say  it though  the evening was partly  spoilt by  the bad behaviour and  language  from members of another kit car club,  luckily they soon  le  but I felt embarrassed for the waiters.  If the weather had been kinder the stand site would  have  been  great  for me  in  the  tent collec ng memberships, renewals and trying to answer numerous ques ons that could be more  easily  be  answered  by  the  local  Area Reps,  who  were  very  thin  on  the  ground, thank  goodness  for  Malcolm,  North  West Area  , who  took a keen  interest  in who was joining  and Peter,  again on hand  to  answer ques ons and who, with  Janet Parrish, pro‐

vided me with cups of tea and the occasional chocolate cake.  (Who was that woman going round with the begging bowl for food on the Monday?)    Thanks  also  to  Lynda  Kiley  for manning the desk when  I did the odd disap‐pearing act.  It was sad seeing Terry Baldwin’s car for sale on  the  stand,  Terry’s  son Mar n brought  it along, Jean had wanted to come but decided not  to, which was  best  as  it was  a  bi erly cold weekend.  We would have loved to have seen  her  but  look  forward  to  other  events she might come to  later  in the year.   Terry’s car was sold that weekend.  It  was  also  sad  saying  goodbye  to  Steve Spence’s Special now on its way to Germany.  Gone  for  a  song  as  they  say.    Steve  was building his Special when we first met him at a Club mee ng  in  the early days  and  it has gone  through  a  couple  of  transforma ons, the most  famous being his pickup extension for which he won  the Adrian  Flux  Trophy  a few years ago.  Jim Rule, who always used to be first on the stand  in past  years,  returned  a er  a gap of two years, with a tale of a disastrous motor‐cycle  accident  that  kept  him  in  hospital  for eighteen  months.    Not  a  good  idea  to  go back  to  two  wheels  and  search  for  a  lost youth.   We all hope he con nues to recover and get back into the throws of Citroen spe‐cialising.  Great  to  see our German  friends again  ‐ Uli and Helmut  the ever  irrepressible  claus and also Gregor Gunther,  one  of  our  early  Club members  who  had  a  DRK  and  a  Buckland.  Hopefully  we  shall  get  a  trip  to  Germany again  soon  and  join  them  for  one  their events.   

Stoneleigh 2010 

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I can’t tell you much about the show itself as other  than  trying  to find  Footman  James’,  I did  not  get  too  good  a  look  round  but  it seemed even emp er than ever.    I was amazed that Grosvenor Exhibi ons had had no complaints about the noise from the Wes ield Slalom,  I don’t  think  they had  the chap going round and round on his own as in previous  years.    Again  the  noise  from  the disco went on well a er twelve!    If  you  are  unhappy  about  anything  at  the Kitcar  Show,  please  make  sure  Grosvenor Exhibi ons have your complaints ‐ if they do 

not know ‐ they cannot do anything about it.   In reverse if you would like to see something at  the  Show  or  think  something  is  a  good idea ‐ let them know about this to.  Roger Cooling Grosvenor Exhibi ons 21 High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TX  Feedback works both ways.   Don’t  just vote with  your  feet.    See  you  in  a  field  some‐where. 

Stonleigh 2010 cont 

Are you sure your wife was with you when you set out?

Remember this from last issue? It now has a caption sent in by Frank Walshe

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EAST COASTERS Our monthly meeting in April took place as has been the case for many years, at The Chase pub in the Market Square in Market Rasen. This time though, we had new owners Brian and Jayne Sankey who recently ac-quired the lease. Brian tells me he and Jayne are delighted to continue the long and historical association with the East Coasters, and we are thankful that our meeting place is continuing when so many other pubs in the country have closed due to the current financial situation. From the pub we jumped in the cars and, after a short convoy through some delight-ful areas on the Lincolnshire Wolds, finished the afternoon at Wickenby, a small local airfield and flying club which has a café set up in what used to be the control tower when the air-field was an active WW2 base. A small perfectly formed contingent of two cars made the journey to Stoneleigh - it should have been three but after a starter motor failure Kieth Bradshaw had to return to Grantham and Stan Dent’s Visa Trike suffered a total engine shutdown a mile from Stonleigh when a separated spade connector disconnected the electronic ignition UCU from the rest of the en-gine. (That’s electronic jiggery pokery for you!) Twas a good turn out on the Sunday and, despite the weather looking doubtful all day it stayed dry. I kept missing the bus to take me the ten miles to the display halls from the CSC site (!) so concentrated on looking up a few pals on our site. Editor Geoff and wife Gwen were pleased to have got their first Flat Out out rel-atively unscathed - despite having to find another printer. I also had a chat with Dicky and Pat Dawes who have secured Newlands Holiday Park in Charmouth near Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset for Summer Gathering 2011. So it looks like it will be wurzels and fossils for us then? Talking of which many of us should feel at home as Dorset has the highest

proportion of elderly people (are you calling me an elderly person, Ed) of any county in the United Kingdom!! A couple of weeks later, after a bit of organisation and a few phone calls and emails, the three-sub groups of the East Midlands area collaborated in a fifteen car attendance at the Bel-voir Castle Steam Fair and Family Show which was a first for many of us. It would have beeen sixteen cars but for the audacity of Steve Spence who, just two weeks before the event sold his lovely Trike Special to Claus Gaertner in Germany resulting in Steve going to the event as a pas-senger in Brian Davis’s 223. (that’ll teach him!!) After meeting at the home of Ian and Martha Lowther who a live a stones throw away from Belvoir Castle and after a tea coffee and bacon sarnies we convoyed over to occupy a site kindly set aside for the CSC by Mike Whiston, chair of the Grantham Clas-sic Car Club. It was good to see so many friends, some of whom we had-n’t seen since Summer Gathering 09. During a conversation with David Muggleton and son Andrew it emerged that David is working on a Pembleton which he hopes to have on the road by the time son Andrew is seventeen in two years time. Andrew will then have Davids yellow 650cc Lomax Barrel-back and David will drive the Pembleton. Andrew will then become what I would imagine is the youngest CSC member with his own car, and a more enthusiastic young man you will never meet! Also sporting a set of new wheels

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new wheels at Belvoir were Nige Bray and Carole Worthy in their new-ly acquired maroon Lomax 223. Alt-hough a nice car, it did throw Nigel a bit of a curved ball the day before Belvoir. The car has the standard dash-mounted gear-change and it literally came away in his hand, the handle becoming detached from the gearbox linkage. On investiga-tion, Nige discovered that the previ-ous owner had riveted two sections of gear-change mechanism together which was obviously not up to the job. Last thing you want when dou-ble de-clutching from 2nd to 1st on a 1 in 3 incline in the middle of nowhere with a convoy of cars behind you! Kieth Bradshaw tried yet once again to raise the standard of event cater-ing at Belvoir Castle with his china cups and saucers, Earl Grey Tea, table cloth, flowers, three course lunch etc. I noted that there were some though who chose not to be influenced by the East Coaster lead in this area, content instead with the crisps and soft drinks—shame on you all (me includ-ed). In answer to several comments of, what is the next stage in your quest for culinary perfection Keith? He said “I have gone as far as I can with the catering, I’m now trying to source a 12v grass trimmer which will

plug into my accessory socket so that at shows like this I can strim the LO-MAX in the long grass around our site”, and people wonder why the East Coasters are the market leaders in show hospitality (allegedly)! We sat, we talked, we ate, we toured the show, but we also barbecued our-selves in the intense heat of the day. One PSO & N (Passenger Seat Occu-pant & Navigator) who will remain nameless had asked her SCE & DE (Citroen Special Engineering & Driving Expert) to put the sun-cream in the car before leaving home. When she went to get it out at Belvoir it was not sun-cream, but Wind Screen Rain Repellent ! Wilst it didn’t do them much good in the sun, it did keep the rain of them all day successfully so, as a collaborative venture, it was a success and we are already working on the next one, the Stamford Classic Car Show on the 29th August

David Field East Coasters Events on next page

Steve Spence in relax mode. Brian Davis is trying to hide the gin in his water bottle and Jim ‘Two Hats’ Bar-ry soaking up the sun at Belvoir Castle

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CSC East Coasters - Events 2010

Note: That these events are included does not necessarily mean that an organised trip will be arranged but, as always, will depend on the number of members interested in each event. A decision on attendance will therefore be made nearer the time. Those events which bear an asterix are events by application form only. A master copy will be obtained and copies will be available either by email or at Monthly Meeting from David Field . July 11th Spilsbuy show* August 8th Robin Hood Festival - Edwinstowe 29th Monthly Meeting - 12 noon - The Chase, Mkt Rasen, or, Stamford Show September 4/5th Live Music Extravaganza & Classics in the Park, West Ashby Manor* 12th Church Farm, Skegness 19th Lincoln & District Model Engineering Society Open Weekend, North Scarle* October 10th Market Rasen Classic December No monthly meetings

Hi Geoff Congratulations on a first step in the right direction. Clearly you have experienced a very steep learning curve, not something all that enjoyable, eh? We want to let you know that we, and I sure we speak for all members, applaud your sterling efforts as our new Editor. To follow Callum must be a daunting task but one which we are sure you will soon have under your belt as you rise to the chal-lenge of trying to please everyone. Our heartfelt thanks to you as our erstwhile Editor, long may you flourish! All good wishes Bill and Gay Watkins Isle of Thanet Kent

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Eastern Angles There  is one thing  for certain and that ap‐pears with me and the Lomax there always seems to be something interes ng happen‐ing.    (I  seem  to  recall  that  2CV  engines don’t’ run very well on diesel!)  We  had  a  lovely  sunny  day  for  our May Area  Sunday  lunch  and  were  all  happily cha ng when Alex  asked  if  the  owner  of Lomax ENJ 70 would  like  to move  it  from the  car  park  as  there was  petrol  dripping from  the  rear  of  the  vehicle.    Panic  sta‐ons!   Armed with a plas c container and 

several servie es supplied by the publican I tried  to  stem  the  leak  but  all  to  no  avail.  Then along comes Geoff who a er a brief inspec on and tests decided  it wasn’t pet‐rol but probably water.    I know  the  radia‐tors leaking I exclaimed!  On further inves ga on I discovered it was in fact water from a bag of plants given by Heather to Anne and placed in the boot by me.  Panic over!  I did men on this was on our  May  Lunch  meet  where  we  were 

pleased to see Heather and Brian back with us again.  We did have a flee ng visit from Mick and Mary which at  the  me had me thinking about the Mad Ha ers Tea Party!  Due  to  previous  commitments  such  as shows and holidays,  it was decided not  to have  a  June Club  lunch  and  I hope every‐body got the message.    Back tracking a bit there were seven cars at our  CSC  display  at  Henham  Wings  and Wheels which  started off  rather  chilly but improved during the day with probably the best air display  I’ve  seen at  this par cular event.  We will be going to Lavenham Rare Breeds Car  Show  on  August  30th  and  I  hope  to have a CSC display  there,  so  If you are  in‐terested  in going please get  in  touch with me as soon as possible.  As well as being a member of Citroen Spe‐cials I am also a member of the East Angli‐

Dates for your Diary  

11th  July  :  Hevingham Hall Country Fair  13th July       : The Plough   Wangford      7.30pm  18th July       : The Horseshoes   Billingford    12.00 for 12.30  1st  August   : Weston Country Fair  8th  August   : The Horseshoes    Billingford    12.00 for 12.30  10th August :  The Plough    Wangford       7.30pn 

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Stilton Cheese Run 26th April 2010

Pembletons

This was Jim and Joy Barry’s 3rd such event, rightly listed as the CSC Spring Event of the Year. Five Pembletons en-tered – Duncan Grimmond’s BMW en-gined “Silver Surfer” Brooklands, Dave Parr’s Moto Guzzi engined Super Sports “Silverfish”, Alan Walker’s Moto Guzzi ‘750’ engined Brooklands, Darren How-ard (the Giant)’s 2CV powered Super Sports and Mike Meakin’s BMW engined Brooklands “Bolide”. To get the best of the Sunday’s “Drive it” day we all booked in to the Queen’s Head at Belton – a restaurant, with themed rooms – spe-cifically asking for a “group” table for dinner. With a package that included bed, breakfast and evening meal, with a bottle of house wine per room, it prom-ised to be a good weekend. Alan – the only unaccompanied driver – was allocated the “Leather Room”. The rest of us got colour-coordinated rooms (Green Room, Blue Room, Red room… etc). Prandial drinks turned in to evening dinner and a very silly evening. Perhaps the Chef had watched too many televi-sion “Cordon Bleu” programmes – food was presented for major visual effect, without too much attention to ensuring that a good plate of food was also a fac-tor. The look on Darren Howard’s face (all 6’7” of him and a BIG man) when served with “mini fish and chips” was only outdone by the next course of fillet steak (served on a plank and probably all of 2 ounces of meat). There was much hilarity and Saturday faded away, with after-dinner drinks and chocolates. Sunday dawned, damp and overcast – it had poured with rain during the night. Darren regretted his evening “Oh, it’ll be alright” comment, as the others fitted their tonneau covers – Darren’s was fold-ed up on the passenger seat overnight. A hearty breakfast (in strong contrast to the evening meal) included everything you could think of – there was even HOT water in the Meakin’s bathroom (up in the “God’s” at the top of the

shop, you have to turn the immersion heater on!). Eileen Meakin made the error of men-tioning that the local area was known, having lived nearby for some years and was promptly designated “lead navigator”. We quickly arrived at Quenby Hall, signed in and took oppor-tunity for a hot drink and photo session in front of the Hall. The wind was mighty cold! We set off in convoy cover-ing the set route, with several “Follow me, I’m right behind you” moments as the route directions misled us (operator malfunction of course) .At one point all five of us were facing opposite direc-tions on the same half-mile stretch. A bedraggled line arrived in Uppingham at the Falcon hoping for cheese sam-ples. An interesting square and village but unfortunately the cheese was all gone. We continued ticking off the way points until we got to New Lodge Farm Shop, Bulwick where the Hog Roast was universally popular! The inner man refreshed, we went on through the seemingly timeless Oundle and carried on reaching the Bell Inn at Stilton around half past 3 – Stilton, cake and tea was laid on and a real opportunity to have a good look at the 170 odd cars that had taken part. I counted 9 Citroen Specials including the Pembletons. It was a thoroughly good day, univer-sally enjoyed and credit must go to Jim and Joy Barry for organising it. Mike Meakin

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Stilton Cheese Run 26th April 2010

Photo : Mike Meakin

March April Cover Photo

Was Autumn

This is the Spring

Photo John Thompson

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NORTH THAMES GAS

I think you will all agree that Geoff made an excellent job of the May/June magazine. The delay was no fault of his, but must have caused him an extra headache which he could have done without. A couple of cars went to Chat-ham Dockyard at Easter. The night before, Tom Lucas had phoned to advise me that we could cross the Dartford Bridge/Tunnel free. When I suggested this at the Toll Booth the at-tendant looked vague, especial-ly when I mentioned we were classified as a Trike. The at-tendant in the next booth con-firmed it was free to cross. Iron-ically, going back in the evening, I had no trouble but they would-n't allow Tom! Even the supervi-sor said "No". Tom, out of prin-ciple, wrote a letter to complain, and received a cheque for the toll he paid. Woburn Abbey Classic Car Show (new venue for us) was very good and exhibitors were al-lowed in the house for half nor-mal price (senior citizens approx £5.50 instead of £11.00) It was quite windy and we had trouble putting up the tent (splitting two poles - which still worked) but it was worth it as there were a few heavy showers. We got very wet at the Chiltern Hills Vintage Rally. It didn't start off too badly and after a bit of a shower it turned out quite nice. But at about 2.30 it really poured.

Unfortunately there hadn't been enough room to pitch the tent. Jim and Trish had invited us all back afterwards for a buffet - which was excellent as usual - but we were soaked and they had to have dripping clothing everywhere!! It sounds silly, but we really enjoyed the day!! At the Museum of Power, we were next to a 7.2L Jenson. The owner said if he took it very steady and didn't go above 50 m.p.h. he might get 17 m.p.g. If he drove it normally, he gets about 7 m.p.g. With the price of petrol, I'm glad I have a Lomax! There is an enormous steam en-gine here, one of the three which used to pump water from the River Blackwater to South-end - the flywheel weighs 18 tons and was made in two halves to get it into the building. At the moment on Open Days, it is turned over every 15 mins. by an electric motor. Next year they hope to have a boiler etc, to run it by steam. An old col-league of mine was in charge of it and showed Peter Cook and myself the underground water pumps and pipes, etc, (not open to the public). Real heavy engi-neering!! Vic and Denise Braybrook

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JULY 4th Sunday Heathrow Classic Car Show, British Airways Concord

Club, Crane Lodge Road, Cranford, Middlesex, TW5 9PQ. Turn up after 10 am £3 per vehicle

10th Saturday Vintage and Classic Vehicle Display, Hoddisden Town

Centre, High Street. Free entry, obtain forms from me - limited number of vehicles allowed.

18th Sunday Uxbridge Autoshow. £5.00 if pre-booked by 30th June.

£10 .00 on the day. AUG 15 Sunday “It’s Showtime” Classic Car Show & other attractions.

Purleigh Halt Barons Lane, Purleigh, Essex. Free - obtain entry forms from me.

29 Sunday Little Gransden Air Show nr. St Neotts, Cambs. £5

entry (funds to BBC Children in need Appeal 2010) must be pre-booked by 31 July. Download entry form from their website

29/30th Sunday/ Knebworth Annual Classic Motor Show, Stevenage. Monday £3.00 pre-booked 28 Days before SEPT 19th Sunday Milton Keynes Classic Car. They are requesting we send in entry forms (which I have) but will accept vehicles that turn up for the day . 26th Sunday Motobilia Day . Battlesbridge, Essex. Free - but must pre - book 14 day before. No pass no entry!! Happy Motoring

North Thames Gas Forthcoming Events

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A Weekend to Remember

(A dismal story of dismal disaster)

The beginning

I don’t normally write about my travels but the Reivers Run was a bit special, for one thing we went to Scotland and it didn’t rain. In fact it was hot and my face which isn’t a pretty sight at the best of times, looked completely ruined the day after we returned home. However it wasn’t my ugly mug that mattered that much. It was the poor old Fal-con. It was quite ill by the time it ar-rived back at Terrington. To my shame it was probably my own fault. How embarrassing. The trip started badly before we set out. I had had a cough and cold for about a week and to be honest I did-n’t feel like driving to Moffat. Still we went anyway little knowing what fate had in store. After leaving the A17 and travelling up the A1 I started to feel a bit more enthusiastic and we reached Moffat, met up with Matthew, Alsie, Iain and Janet and had a really good evening in the pub. There were two guitarists and a mandolin player in the bar and when I told them I had the accordion they invited me to join them, which was fun, though it did mean we went to bed somewhat later than normal. Mind you Alsie and Janet went back to the B and B before us not realising Matthew and Iain didn’t have a key and were subsequently locked out. It took a few pebbles on the window before Alsie heard them and let them in. Foot went to the floor Next day we set out on the run and after a while the leaders turned left on to a minor road and stopped to let everyone catch up. I was just be-hind Jennie and when she started braking so did I, except she stopped and I didn’t. Brake pedal went

straight to the floor. Did a very quick change of direction to miss Jennie and stopped about fifty yards up the road. Pumped the pedal and got the brakes back temporarily. Callum rushes up to tell me my back wheel was coming off. Gave it a kick but it seemed solid. Anyway we complet-ed the next ten miles with intermit-tent brakes and then they started working properly again. The rest of the day was fine but when we stopped at a castle I did jack up the car and found the offside wheel was buckled. I would have changed to the spare but the gap for the spare was made to take a 135 and the rear wheel was 145. Not wanting to leave my rubbish in the Scottish Borders I decided to leave it on. I was stopped three times by other worried drivers so it’s nice to know some people still care. The horrendous rattle Next day we heard the most horren-dous rattle coming from somewhere and when we stopped at Holy Island we examined the car to see what was coming off. Couldn’t find any-thing loose and when we left the Is-land the rattle stopped. All was well!!! Finished the day with no more problems, enjoyed a good meal and an evenings entertainment. Mysteries solved Going down the A68 next day for our final meal before going home, some-thing started scraping on the road. It w3aswas

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was the shock absorber complete with plate running on the tarmac. Not a retaining bolt in sight. Well at least that explained the rattle of the day before. Easiest solution was to take the shock right off and put it in the boot. As we had overshot the pub we turned round and went back until we found it. On driving into the car park the brakes gave out again. After the meal we all had a look under the bon-net and found the pads were badly worn on the nearside brake which was binding on the disc. This was overheating the brake and causing the brake fluid to boil. Result - no brakes. After an hour of trying to push the pis-ton back into the calliper it was decid-ed to change the bleed nipple to the other side and run on one calliper. That’s how we drove home. Danger-ous? Perhaps, but not as bad as hav-ing brakes that only worked some-times. Braking, of course, made the car pull to the right, but after riding a motorbike with a sidecar for many years I didn’t find it that strange. Did a test stop when the road was clear and felt if I drove within its limitations I would be all right. Pretty hard and solid Having travelled two hundred miles I decided to stop at a Little Chef and have an expensive cup of tea. We were quite near home but I wanted a break. I tried to open the pedal bin in the loo to throw away some rubbish but had to resort to opening it by hand not noticing the machine bolted to the wall above. On standing up, my head already sore from sunburn made con-tact with it. It didn’t move and I stood there for a moment with stars swim-ming in my eyes mixing with the tears of pain. Told Gwen when I staggered back to the table and all she said was “It’s not bleeding”. Didn’t mean it did-n’t hurt. Anyway that more or less ended a the weekend. The Falcon sits in the garage waiting to be put back together. The lump on my head is get-ting smaller, so all is fine with the

world. The Excuses A few questions. Why was the wheel buckled, why did the shock fall off and why did the brakes stick? The wheel, complete with tyre, was given to me by a friend. I wonder if he knew? I checked the tyres the day before we left and found the walls were crazing on the rears. There was no time to change tyres so I changed the wheels complete with two good XZXs. Didn’t think to check the wheels were alright. Who would? The shock absorber was new so the plate had been taken off a few weeks before and maybe I didn’t tighten the bolts sufficiently. Will never know. Origi-nally I thought the brake pistons had stuck because the pads were worn, but they wouldn’t push back because salt water had attacked calliper around the first seal and made the rubber swell. I had to jack both pis-tons out with the brake pedal before the damage showed. I will replace all the seals in both callipers. I have a word of warning. Most Citroen Spe-cials run without the cooling shroud. You know the bit, it’s the bit that usu-ally gets thrown away. Not just on Specials but 2CVs as well. Ecas say it helps keep the brakes cool to stop the fluid boiling, but I think it stops water coating the disc and finding it’s way into the calliper. Salt water is especial-ly bad of course. Why just the near-side? Cos that’s the side that goes through the most puddles, isn’t it!!! Anyway it was a weekend to remem-ber. Geoff Ticehurst (1144J)

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EAST MIDLANDS (MID SHIRES)

Once again I would like to remind local members that the Midshires Sub Group, which covers North-amptonshire, Leicestershire, Rut-land, East Warwickshire and South Nottinghamshire, of our monthly meetings that are normal-ly held at Sibbertoft, to join us not only for monthly meetings but for any other runs or events that are taking place within our region. Whilst we have nothing planned for the immediate future any ideas you may have will be welcome. The group cannot function without your support. However we did manage to meet up with The East Coaster Sub Group and The Derbyshire Devils at Belvoir Castle so we are man-aging to achieve something within the East Midlands Area. On this note I would like to give my thanks to David Field and his Team for their efforts and to Ian and Martha Lowther for the teas and sausage sandwiches. Hopefully we will all be able to meet up again at the Stamford Show on Sunday 29 Au-gust 2010. Anyone wishing to join us will be most welcome. Just let me or David know, so that we can organize a club stand and also send you details. Repairs and strengthening of the

rear suspension arm, the fitting of the replacement engine, together with many other little mechanical jobs to my Lomax, are now com-plete so I can now tidy up the paint work before setting off to Norway on the 21st of June. We will be re-turning, with any luck, on the 19th July. Our monthly meetings venue is at the Gliding Club, Sibbertoft Air-field, which is between Husbands Bosworth and Welford on the A5199. Meetings are on the 4th Sun. of the Month. Please ring 01536 724512 to inform us if you wish to join us at Sibbertoft. Very interesting venue, which attracts other classic car clubs and of course, you have the attraction of the gliders taking off and landing. However if there is enough inter-est we can organize a mid week meeting. When we return from Norway we will be able to concentrate on events for the remainder of the year and start preparations for next years Stilton Cheese Run which will be held on the 17th April 2011. This year we raised £840 for the Air Ambulance Service. Jim and Joy Barrie

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Down South Forthcoming Events

Meetings at Kirdford on the second Sunday of the month and at Eastleigh on the last Sunday of the month, both at 12 noon. July 16/18 Running Board Rally at Henley - Arrive Friday night, Treasure Hunt and Driving Skills on Saturday. Judging and Prize Giving on Sunday Do as much as you wish, a relaxing weekend. Contact Carole Chitty. Forms should be available at Stoneliegh. August ? New Forest Camp - Steve Parrish (104). August Bank Romsey Pageant of Motoring at Beaulieu. This event is over two days but we usually attend on the Sunday. There are arena displays and autojumble stalls, Craft Tents and Food Outlets. We no longer have the hospitality of Brian and Evelyn for the weekend Holiday Monday Gosporteers Classic Car Show, Stokes Bay, Lee-on-Solent This small show includes minor arena events and a tour of Gosport, although it has not been as good over the last two years due to there being no buses displaying as in previ-ous years. It still makes a good day out by the sea. September 5 Wessex Car Club Show has now moved back to Bovington. If you wish to go contact Ron Bishop for the South West Ar-ea or us if you are in the South Area. Entry is by application Form September 27 Alton Town Show. Contact John Robson. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Although Down South have no official rep at the moment Flat Out will run a list of their events as a separate entity.

Geoff Editor

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Here we have a list of events the North West Section will be attending this

year :-

4th July Halminton House. Classic Vehicle Show, Garstang, Lancashire 11th July Leighton Hall. Classic Car and Bike Show. Carnforth, Lancashire 1st Aug Capesthorne Hall. Macclesfield, Cheshire 5th Sept Cholmondeley Castle near Malpas, Cheshire 12 Sept Hoghton Tower. Preston Lancashire 25 Sept 10,000 Car Run All the events are run in conjunction with the Nutcracker Car Group (as it’s not much fun sat in a field by yourself). All CSC members will be most welcome to join us. Please phone me for more information;-

Tel: Malcolm Hopwood 01253 854363 Member no. 1591

NORTH WEST SECTION

Hi folks Saturday 10th April met up with Dave and Jan Stephenson from Beverley at Kirby Stephen on the DRK weekend run. Drove down to Hawes with them. Al-so on the run was Geoff and Pat Wren in their DRK. They all came on last year’s 10.000ft run. Had a trip over to Yorkshire, it nice to see what other people are building and working on. There’s some good engineering in this section.

Richard Williams is now the owner of a BRA P.Type. It’s a very nice car, a nice stable mate for the Blackjack. Richard’s Lomax turned up at Stone-leigh now owned by Niall McLoughlin, who has now joined the club. The Lo-max looked very nice. Don’t forget this year’s 10.000 run on Saturday 25th September, all welcome. Malcolm Hopwood

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Southern Section Festival of Transport Frimley-Farnham

A fund raising event on behalf of the Phyliss Tuckwell Hospice was organ-ised on the 6th of June by the Tindle Newspaper Group.

A

nice Brooklands Riley A French Water Cart A range of interesting classic and unusual vehicles assembled at the Frimley Hospital and set of for Farnham 10 miles away where the parked in the town Car park for visitors to see the cars and talk to their owners.

Sir

Ray Tindle Speedwell Dogcart A Military Half Tracked Vehicle The oldest car was a 1904 Speedwell Dogcart driven by Sir Ray Tindle the owner of the group of newspapers organising the event. Only two three-wheelers were present, Custard Muscles, our Lomax 223 and a 1200 cc engined Grinnall Scorpion 111. Everyone enjoyed the day which was blessed with warm sunshine. John Robson

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Not So Wild West

Firstly, what an unfortunate start our new editor had, however despite all the problems he did produce an excellent issue… and well worth the wait. Our trip to Stoneleigh was fraught with problems… the weather was very “iffiy” on Sunday but we did set off. We had not realised that it was the Badminton Horse Trials and spent the first hour do-ing only about two miles! It was drizzling and we were fed up so… trip abandoned! Janet and I set off early on Mon-day morning.. Missed all the traf-fic and had quite an enjoyable run up. The search for our pitch took a little longer time but we did find it eventually.. I’m sure they put us that far out as a “comeback” for complaining about the noise in previous years. I have since learned that a couple of my local members never found the CSC site, gave up and went home! Not that, in my opinion, they missed a great deal as I felt the whole show had deteriorated and there was not anything new or particularly interesting. We were told it was a good job we had not made it on the Sunday as it was abso-lutely freezing cold and very windy. Better luck next year… if I bother to go it will only be to meet up with club friends and not because I feel the show has wide interest. The Bank Holiday weekend was not particularly bright and we missed both the Tortworth and

Selwood Rallies but did manage to get to the Bradford on Avon Fun Day on the Monday. It was a fairly bright day and well attend-ed… although as the name im-plies… focussed around “the fam-ily”. Lots of various entertain-ment and a really huge car boot sale… which proved productive for one or two bits and pieces. On Thursday 3rd June five mem-bers met on the road to Chepstow and Ray took us on a great trip around the “ Black Mountain” area. We had our picnic lunch on the lawns outside the Priory and continued on afterwards to Hay on Wye where we spent a couple of hours enjoying the general bustle in the town. On the way back we stopped for tea at Grosmart Gardens and Tea Rooms where we enjoyed huge scones of various flavours and excellent choice of teas and all set in very interesting oriental sur-roundings. Our grateful thanks to Ray who, after a three year wait, was final-ly lucky enough to pick a brilliant day and organised a lovely trip which we all thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks again. Regards Ron

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What a shame this won’t go under a Lomax bonnet

Photo John Robson

July 3rd –4th Heddington and Stockly Rally July 11th Atwell Wilson Museum, Calne July 18th Classics at Sherborne Castle July 24/25th Tortworth Vintage Show (B4509 Wickwar) July 25th Branscombe Air/Classics Day Weds pm 28th Informal Gathering of Classics at The George Longbridge Deverill Aug 1st Leo and Vanessa’s BBQ Aug 7th West Huntspill Classics Aug 14/15 Bridgwater Classics Aug 28th Henstridge Car and Air Day Aug 29th Wallop Vintage Gathering (nr Stockbridge)

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Not so Wild West

Forthcoming Events

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Here is a reminder of the LIEGE - BRESCIA - LIEGE and MI-

CRO MARATHON. I have reproduced the first page of their news letter. For more information there is a www. Address at the bottom of this letter. Dear Friends, Here's the latest news on Liège-Brescia-Liège and Micro Marathon 2010 - the clock is ticking and the events are approaching fast, so if you've not entered yet and you're thinking of doing so, please tell us NOW! In the Newsletter, you'll find a reminder that if you want to enter Liège-Brescia-Liège (July 16-25, 2010) in a car under 1000cc, 2010 is your LAST CHANCE - for 2011, the engine size bracket goes up to 1000-1500cc, so act now to avoid missing out! Likewise, if you like the idea of 1000 miles of Wales' best mountain and valley roads - stun ning scenery and brilliant driving experiences - Micro Marathon 2010 is open now to crews with PRE-WAR cars up to 1000cc and 1946-1976 up to 700cc. Due to hotel sizes, this is a smaller event than LBL and we expect to close entries soon: act fast if you want to come! Below is a clickable link for the newsletter: if the link doesn't work for you and you'd like one sent as a PDF attachment or by post, just let us know. Here's the Newsletter - www.classicrallypress.co.uk/mediapool/77/772273/data/LBLMMNewsMar10.pdf Malcolm McKay

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Product Price per item

Boyer Bransden Ignition Dual Output Coil….. £39.50 Boyer Bransden ignition Kit………………….. £20.00 Oil cooler feed adaptors (pair)……………….. £5.50 Breather Reed valve………………………….. £25.00 Oil Filter Cover………………………………… 3.00 Sets Exhaust/Rocker Cover nuts…………… £6.50 Stainless steel Car badge…………………… £7.50 Self Adhesive Club Logo badge……………. £1.30 Windscreen Sticker………………………….. £1.00 Embroidered Club Badge…………………… £4.00 Enamel Lapel Badge………………………... £2.50 Standard Sweatshirts……………………….. £12.50 XL-XXL Sweatshirts…………………………. £13.50 Standard Polo Shirts………………………... £11.00 XL Polo Shirts ………………………………. £12.00 Baseball caps……………………………….. £5.50 Magazine Binders…………………………… £4.00 Rocker covers (pair)………………………… £40.00 Lomax Books………………………………… £8.95 Mugs………………………………………….. £2.00 Cast Metal badges………………………….. £2.50 Anniversary Polo Shirt……………………… £11.00 Anniversary XL £12.00 Anniversary XL………………………………. £12.00

Citroen Specials Club Regalia

Prices do not include Postage or Packing For Order or Enquiries please contact: Lynda Kiley (Regalia Sales Rep) Tel: 01395 263163 (evenings or weekends) 14 Spencer Close Exmouth Devon EX8 4LP

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The 2010 run has been an overall suc-cess on previous years with a total of 150 vehicles taking part. This year we had set a limit of about 150 so that we could see how well we and the system would cope. All went well so we should be able to cope with about 200 next year. After all, how many other runs can boast that they run through four counties. When Joy and I arrived at Quenby

Hall just after 9:30am, as last year, there were already half a dozen cars and owners waiting for us, despite the very overcast conditions, for us to book them in and to hand out their certificates. Sarah and the staff of Quenby Hall were busy preparing teas and coffee. for the expected 300 drivers and passengers of the wide range of classic cars, motorcycles and kit cars that had been booked in. Un-fortunately there were fewer West-

fields this year due to their local or-ganiser leaving the club. It goes to show just how important it is to have someone in charge and active within each region. However we did have quite

a few CSC cars including the Pembleton contingent. By the time we had set out our tables

with the necessary paperwork and certif-icates, booked in the early arrivals, the rest of the entries began to arrive in a steady stream. Lynn Mellor, from the Cit-roen Specials Club, also arrived early to help us in the ensuing rush that then fol-lowed. We were very grateful for her help. Her sales/mother hen routine clucked in and the entrants were left in no doubt as to what they were to do and see on the run!!!!!!! The route, as before, took us via The New Greyhound at Billesdon and The Fox at Hallaton, famous for its annual “Bottle Kicking Festival”, for cheese tasting at The Falcon Inn in the pretty town of Up-pingham where, despite taking extra supplies this year, they again had sold out of cheese by about 11:30. This is a problem that we must overcome for next year as there were a lot of very disap-pointed people. Fortunately The Bell at Stilton had some extra stock and they were able to satisfy some of the de-mands.

The Stilton Cheese Classic Vehicle Run April 25 2010

In conjunction with Citroen Specials Club

The Kettering Area Motor Club And

The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs “DRIVE IT DAY”

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Leaving Uppingham the route takes us to Seaton and under the magnifi-cent Harringworth railway viaduct, also known as the Welland Viaduct or Seaton Viaduct, which crosses over the River Welland between Har-ringworth in Northamptonshire and Seaton in Rutland. Its impressive span of 82 arches stretches three quarters of a mile and having been completed in 1878 by the Midland Railway makes it over 132 years old. With its impressive length Harring-worth Viaduct is the longest ma-sonary viaduct across any valley in Britain and carries a grade II listed structure status. It is around this part of the route that some of the entrants take a wrong turn and find even more of the Northamptonshire coun-tryside. However there were no complaints. Then onwards to the pretty village of

Spanhoe, where there is a WW2 air-field where the squadrons on 315th Troup Carriers Group of the US Army Airforces flew from on missions to Normandy, Arnhem and the Rhine for the liberation of Western Europe and the defence of freedom in 1944-1945. The site is now used for private flying.

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next stop was the New Lodge Farm Shop, where again Simon and Sarah Singlehurst had laid on an Hog Roast as well as home made cake etc. in their well stocked shop and café.

This year they were better prepared for the mass of visitors with more staff on hand and plenty of food to be had. They again opened up a field for the classic cars where driv-ers an passengers could relax and have a picnic before setting of for the second half of their “epic” journey to the Bell Inn ay Stilton. From here we head for Oundle (formerly in Northamptonshire, it now comes under Cambridgeshire CC) and its well known Public School where the Lo’cost kit car was first developed as a school project. Oundle has a wonderful array of beautiful Georgian architecture all built using the local sandstone and Collyweston Slate. Well worth a visit at any time.

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Leaving Oundle, and its many pubs, restaurants and antiques shops, we passed by Ashton, famous for its in-ternational “Conker Champion-ship”and Polebrook where there is another WW2 airfield. It was here that Major Clarke Gable was sta-tioned, and where the filming of the colour documentary ‘Combat Ameri-ca’ took place, which included some good footage of the Airfield and Con-trol Tower. The next and final stop would be The Bell, Stilton but on the way we again passed through the beautiful villages ‘and bends’ of Lutton and Wash-ingly. We remember the first time we travelled this route three years ago, and seeing a thatcher at work on a beautiful chocolate box cottage just outside Washingly. Jo now man-ager of The Bell and her staff wel-comed everyone with coffee and trays of cake with Stilton, all with the compliments of The Bell. After the disappointment of not tasting or buy-ing the Stilton at Uppingham, Jo was able to step in with supplies. This the third year of the event, will see us presenting the Air Ambulance Services covering Northamtonshire and Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Liecestershire, Rutland and North Cambridgeshire with £840. An in-

crease of £340 on last year. Joy and I would like to extend our thanks to Freddie and Aubyn de Lisle and their staff for making us so wel-come at Quenby Hall, Simon and Sa-rah Singlehurst at New Lodge Farm Shop and Jo and her staff at The Bell Inn. Without their help and generosi-ty this event would not be possible. We would also like to thank Chris Turner, Graham Turner and Lee Tra-cy, for sending us some magnificent photos, and Dave Wise for preparing the Web Site. Last but no means least we would like tpo give our thanks to all who took part, because without their participation, there would be no Stilton Cheese Classic Vehicle Run. We cannot believe how popular this event has become. For next years run Freddie and Aubyn de Lisle are considering opening up their home, Quenby Hall for guided tours. We are also hoping to organ-ise a reunion and Hog Roast, at New Lodge Farm this coming October. So watch this space. For further details email- jim.barry@ntlworld.com

Stilton Cheese Run

 

Jim and Joy Barry

Kettering Area Motor Club

And the

Citroen Specials Club

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Classified Ads

Teilhol Tangara (RHD)

This Very Special 2CV ‘Special’ is in need of a new caring owner.

Only two of these low volume production vehicles were built with RHD

Versatile and robust GRP body on space-frame structure. Manufactured with Citroen’s co-operation and Full Euro Type-Approval

1987 (9JAZKA)

A fun four seater that’s cool in the summer, but keeps you WARM

Through the winter

Imported new in 1989, 602cc 2CV6 on Club Chassis, 41,000 miles, same owner since 1994, professionally maintained (as owner disabled). Currently on SORN. Price negotiable around £4,750 to someone who will cherish, enjoy and pre-serve this historic vehicle.

For further information contact:- David Wain (CSC mem 864) on 01568 797573 or mobile 07866 037106

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For sale

Solomatic A Frame Model SA25

Towing capacity 2500kg.

£160

(cost new £311)

Only used for Summer Camps and the odd rally

Contact Albert York Mem. No.1262J

Tel: 01609 761293 email valerie.york@talktalk.net

Wanted

Full windscreen for a Lomax

Telephone Peter Davies

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01938 552817 mem.1868

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Track Rod Ends Balls

After the troubles I had on the Reiv-ers Raid I started thinking about maintenance on the Falcon and Lo-max. Things such as the track rod end balls often don’t receive the at-tention they deserve. Over a period of time they can wear quite badly. I was looking through a copy of 2CVGB magazine and noticed that SPOG were selling the castle nuts that hold the track rod end balls in place. They are made in stainless steel and have a grease nipple in them.

I contacted Spogman to ask if he thought pumping grease in the end of the housing would reduce the ten-dency for the balls to wear. We in fact discussed the matter at length and the conclusion was: Pumping grease in would certainly lubricate grease one side of the ball because there is a hole in the hard-ened cup behind the nut. Hopefully grease would migrate round to the ball and lubricate the other side. More important than this is the fact the grease would ooze out of the protective gaiter after any space was filled. This should stop ingress of wa-ter and dust which causes most of the damage.

This isn’t an advert for SPOG nor am I recommending these castle nuts (although I have them fitted to the Falcon). I know some CSC members are members of 2CVGB, but many are not and this article is only to bring this product to their attention. I am not trying to teach members how to suck eggs but for newer

members who perhaps don’t know the anatomy of a 2CV steering sys-tem the photo above shows the track rod end etc (albeit pretty scuffy). The ball housing is the thing with the rub-ber gaiter and the castle nut goes in the end. For more information email Spog-man. His email address is: Spog@2cvgb.com Geoff Ticehurst ( by the way the proper expression

is “To teach your Granny to suck

eggs”)

Question is: How does anyone suck an egg. Should it raw, boiled. fried, scambled or what? And why would your Granny want to?

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CSC PARKING DEAL!!!!

To the Editor Please note that “Open Top” CSC members may now use the covered parking facilities at Sainsbury’s Ipswich Branch, on a trial basis (if you’re discovered, you could be sent for trial!!!). As evidence, see Ipswich member Mike Peacey’s Lomax taking shelter

Regards Terry Tomlin 1048J

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