Dorset & Wessex Newsletter - July 2024
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Sixes and Sevens at Castle Combe |
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AR Rumblings:
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Out & About: 230524 - New Member:
Sam Smith
This was take a little while ago - pre-service. Since then, it’s had new tyres, new steering rack gaiters, new calipers and pads for the front brakes, new shoes and cylinders for the rear brakes, a new fuel filler hose, a new oil filter and a change of all fluids ------------------------------------------------------ 250524 - Club Lotus Track Day at Castle Combe:
Great start to the day after an early morning traffic free blat via Sherborne and Wincanton to Bradford-on-Avon where we found the first Caterham of the day at the Five Zero's where we stopped for coffee and Tiffin before heading off to Castle Combe. The Five Zero's was a brilliant place for enjoying a beverage and food whilst surrounded by Supercars of all makes and ages - well worth a visit if you are headed that way (Link).
Sample of the Five Zero's menu (Note the Caterham Classic!)
A beautiful day meant that there was going to be a cracking turnout of Lotuses at the annual Club Lotus trackday held at Castle Combe. This free entry event always attracts a wide range of the marque from the very early Six's to the latest Emira's and pretty well all the road cars in between.
The Historic Lotus Register always has a good display of cars on show which this year included the famous Clairmont (which may have been the forerunner of our Sevens) plus Malcolm Rickett's type Nine. There was also a good display of early Seven's and type 14 Elites.
The HLR stand (Note Robin Cheeseman's Red S2)
Malcolm Ricketts with some early 7's
Six's, Seven's and an 11
Charles Help's Lotus 6
There were plenty of Seven's this year 😃:
Entry to the paddock etc is free but if you want to get on the track to test you car and skills against other Caterham's/Lotuses you will need to be a member of Club Lotus and pay the required fee. All in all an excellent day enjoying the cars and catching up with old friends. ------------------------------------------------------ 250524 - Olly: Olly attended the 7 event at Gurston Down 😃
------------------------------------------------------ 250524 - Greg: Meanwhile, Greg was hillclimbing his Caterham at Shelsley Walsh!
------------------------------------------------------ 260524 - FaceBook: Rowland Casebourne, a much liked and well known character to the Dorset area 7 owners (who sold his 7 and moved to Sussex some time ago), was spotted by Graham Baker who posted the following on FaceBook Graham Baker:
Yesterday I was at the Bexhill 100 Motoring club display on Bexhill seafront the gentleman seated next to my 7 has owned three Caterham's and only gave up as he can no longer get in and out of the car spent sometime talking with 90 year old Rowland (that’s the correct spelling) and as he lives right opposite when I was parked he went to get his photo album full of Sevens and other interesting cars. Great to meet you sir!
It really is a small world! ------------------------------------------------------ 010624 - Sturminster Newton Classic Car Show: Sunny dry day, great company and a mass of classic cars - what's not to like? 🤣
The very first Caterham 7 was spotted 😂
Bill & Emma-Janes's Caterham with Robin's S2
Old chap looking at old 7 with Colin's VX220 behind
Interesting Austin 7
Time to compare of old and new! ------------------------------------------------------ 020624 - Breakfast Meet
Once again the weather gods were in our favour for a breakfast meeting just off the Weymouth/Bridport coast road at the Egg Cup Tea Rooms.
The Bike Engined Caterham belongs to Richard Taylor from Chard ------------------------------------------------------
040624 - New Forest 7's Monthly Meeting: ------------------------------------------------------
060624 - Nick Westbrook:
They have a nice coffee bar too called Torque & Grind BTW Ian is more than happy to work on other 7s. He is not a Caterham expert but has many years experience working for Porsche and BCA as a problem solver and in my view is a very competent technician. Charges £75 per hour ------------------------------------------------------ 060624 - New Member:
So, today on the Dorset WhatsApp group, it went something like this ...
------------------------------------------------------ 060624 - Somerset Area Meeting:
Pics and text from Tim Barber:
------------------------------------------------------ 080624 - Olly:
I'm doing the Minehead motor club tour of Devon tomorrow, currently parked at my brothers garage ready for a early departure. ------------------------------------------------------ 160624 - Phil:
Currently at the brewery in Blandford. Yes, the 7 is back on the road again! I'm the only 7 here, but some nice cars.
160624 - Rhett:
Rhett took his Caterham out for some serious exercise on the coast road (more than once...) before joining the Mirylees' for breakfast at the Egg Cup Tea Rooms. ------------------------------------------------------ 180624 - Olly:
MOT just passed, catch you later 👍 ------------------------------------------------------ 180624 - Dorset Monthly Meeting:
An excellent turn out of Sevens and their owners at the Red Lion to enjoy a beautiful evening plus good food and drinks. A great line up of 12 cars although we did manage 13 in all as Paul left early in his green 7 and was replaced by Ben arriving later in his green 7! As usual plenty of Banter on 7's plus Bucklers Hard, le Mans and goodness knows what else!
Good to see Keith who came from Chideock in his Lotus 7 series 2 Justin arrived in his Elise and Johnny in his Porsche so a really good number of owners present. Plenty of pics were taken: These were from 'the Twins':
These are from Nick Westbrook:
These from David:
------------------------------------------------------ 190624 - Poulshot Green:
Some of the South Wiltshire group attended the annual Poulshot Green (Nr Devizes) Vintage meet. Pics by Helen:
and Chris took this at the Bath Arms:
------------------------------------------------------ 200624 - Somerset Old Boys: The Somerset Area Old Boys group met up at the Aviator cafe, Dunkeswell for a lunchtime get together.
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The Midsummer hard-core!!
------------------------------------------------------ 210624 - Sam Smith: Sam asked via What's App for help!:
Does anyone know someone who can weld stainless steel? The mount for my 7’s exhaust has just fractured, leaving it hanging from the primaries images/Archives/Smiley-Aghast-18.jpg
------------------------------------------------------ 220624 - Bucklers Hard:
Image by Charles Been looking forward to this event and it didn't disappoint! We had Chris and Ken Conley driving up from Cornwall to stay with us on the prior evening so our driveway was graced with their beautiful Caterham Cosworth HPC for a while.
Ken Conley and his Cosworth HPC
Ready for the 'off'.
The organiser, Lee Rayment, arrived just after us and we were allowed in where we were able to watch the other 7's arriving. All in all a great day and company, thanks Lee for organising it (and the weather!).
Image by Charles
Image by Lee Rayment - Even the happy couple wanted the cars to be included in their special day!
Another image by Lee.
------------------------------------------------------ 220624 - Nick Westbrook: Nick is on an Alpine tour with some other Caterham's.
Finally into Switzerland! ------------------------------------------------------
One lonely 7 at the Thruxton Historic today (Two including mine in the car park) ------------------------------------------------------
After yesterday's dive off Swanage Pier I camped at Norden Farm, Corfe.
After breaking camp, I went to Compton Abbas airfield...
Then, after Compton Abbas, drove home to Bedfordshire along A-roads (A338) via Porton, Tidworth, Wexcombe, Hungerford & Wantage. Superb fun, flying up & down the rolling hills of Dorset and across the roof of Wiltshire 👍 ------------------------------------------------------
240624 - Nick Westbrook:
Top of Karlesjochbahn pass
Weather has been good where we’ve been but we met a guy with a Merc up from Italy that had a badly damaged car due to hailstones!! ------------------------------------------------------ Supercars & Classics at the Castle - July 21st 2024:
Always a really great event - don't miss it! Link to Show here |
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