Dorset & Wessex Newsletter - August 2024
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The Club Stand at the Classic's at the Castle event 2024 |
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Out & About: 300624 - Axminster Vehicle Extravaganza:
Two Sevens at this annual show, Rhett Land and the Mirylees'. Absolutely packed showground with all sorts of classic and interesting vehicles, unfortunately it wasn't until most of the participants had departed that we realised no pictures had been taken 😞 Great day spent talking to may people and a special mention to a really nice chap named Chris who parked next to us in his series one Elise (up for sale at £20k) and also informed us that he has a Lotus Seven series 2 at home soon to be back on the road again 🙂 Also, a surprise visitor was Mark Tredwin a local 7 owner who used to live in Lyme Regis but has since moved to Wales whilst competing in the Caterham Academy series.
070724 - Broadstone Classic Car Show: Olly and Ian both attended the Broadstone Fun Day Classic Car Show in Poole. (Olly in the Green and Alloy Caterham and Ian in the Black SV model) 👍
Ian's Image - Luckily the rain stayed away!
Olly's Image
Olly: The organiser said he had 100 vehicles exhibiting today. 120724 - Skeetsy:
Success! MOT passed 🙂 140724 - Oily's Breakfast Club Meeting: Yes, the Oily Rag is no more - replaced by Oily's Breakfast Club! And the prize for the first Seven to appear goes to...
Phil making an entrance in his Lotus 7 series 2
Phil's Lotus dwarfed by this early 2-stroke Saab! 140724 - Pride & Joy Event: Sean attended this Pride & Joy event on Sunday 👍
160724 - Dorset Area Club Meeting: A beautiful evening merited a fairly good turnout of Sevens and owners at the Red Lion. The downside was that the car park was full of the visiting cricket chaps vehicles meaning that our small cars had to park amongst the array of behemoth's.
Regardless an excellent evening spent in the car park amongst our cars discussing anything and everything. Special mention and welcome to Sam Smith and his wife Lisa who arrived in his recently acquired yellow crossflow Caterham which looked the 'DB's'. Pics by the Stafford's (and others)
Couple of older chaps chatting with a young lady
Ian and Skeetsy discussing all things 'K'
Johnny passes on some of his wisdom
Sam and Lisa by their Caterham crossflow
The cause of the crowded car park
Just park wherever you can...
Johnny's Porsche 993 (still can't get in his HPC 😞)
Skeetsy's Caterham (much modified) 'K' series
Ian's Caterham SV
Jim's Caterham crossflow
Chris's Caterham 420R
Graham's Caterham crossflow
Robin's series 2
Mirylees' series 3
Yellow 7's don't just attract the fly's! 210724 - Supercars & Classics at the Castle:
The forecast was for a dry but overcast day but just to make themselves a nuisance, the weather gods decided it would be fun to rain in certain areas when the exhibiting cars were heading to the Sherborne Castle grounds! We arrived to find Richard (Salisbury) and Olly already on the stand and whilst the others arrived we headed for the coffee tent. Not as much interest this year from from owners outside the Dorset area (1 Somerset and 2 x Wiltshire) but with a total of eleven cars on our '10 car plot' we had room to spread and the company was great plus, to top it all, after the initial fine rain, the sun shone through for the rest of the day and personally I came home with a very burned face! A really good day...
Jon's Caterham Classic developed a squint on the way!
7 owners relaxing in the sunshine
Line up facing East
The North and North East facing Sevens
Olly was on pole
Jon captured the Porsche by the Castle
Another of Jon's pics.
Mark captures the 7 stand Images below from Nick Westbrook:
A genuine Stratos
and the rare Aston Martin Valkyrie
---------------------------------------------------------- Phil's Take:
Blue skies, fantastic roads, early start, no traffic, loads of tight bends and a day out at Sherborne Castle, Supercar show with fellow Seveners, shame I had not got a working 7 to go in, the MX5 did the job and good fun but no way near a 7. Still had a very good day out. 210724 - Somerset: Tim & Vicky's Barbeque:
Some of the Somerset area enjoyed the hospitality of Tim Barber and his wife Vicky when they organised a barbeque for the area at their home.
A screen grab from Jonathan's drone video
Here's a pic taken by Vicki from an upstairs bedroom, just as the sun/shadow swept across the courtyard. A Good action shot of the BBQ being replenished in the background!
And this one is a favourite because it shows the drone in action, albeit at low level. Out & About: 280724 - 'Not the Haynes Breakfast Meeting': As is usual, a few Seven owners caught up with each other for a breakfast chat on the 4th Sunday of the month.
We had a great drive to Haynes and back along some minor and empty real 'Lotus roads' to meet up with Richard Taylor, Rhett Land and Sean and Adi. Brilliant to have a long chat with everyone in the 'executive lounge'. Bonus for us was that the display car park by the go-kart track was full of Jensens. 🙂 A good day!
Richard's bike engined Caterham
Sean & Adi's Anniversary Caterham
The 'Executive Lounge' 😁
New outdoor area
Jensen's on display
Jensen's on display From this month's 7 Club magazine, Low Flying:
A DATE FOR THE DIARY! Graham Nearn Memorial Blat Saturday 28th September.
Castle Combe Autumn Classic - 21st-22nd September 2024:
A brilliant event with always a great attendance by the Caterham & Lotus 7 Club. Autumn Classic details here. Caterham Tour: A tour around the new Caterham factory.
Link Here and even more Here. AF Seven 360 Unveiled at the British F1:
Caterham are making a special appearance at the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone with the RAF. Unveiled today, Friday 5th July 2024, is a special one-off car built using exterior and interior components from a Puma HC2 helicopter, paying tribute to the remarkable aircraft. So, you thought you had problems...:
Barnfind Lotus 7 series 2 Link here. |
Upcoming Events: August/September
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