Where did you drive to with your TR today

[Kiwifrog]

Picnic at a chateau with the local car club in Bergerac

[Hamish]

Shelsley Walsh in the sunshine today. 
both ends of the performance spectrum in the TR class what diverse cars

[Z320]

Out for a short tour today,

one stop was at the MB museum aut Stuttgart

along the river Neckar to Marbach next stop was at "Das Gartenhaus" / Erdmannhausen, sadly already closed.

Passing Affalterbach (AMG tuning) we had to close the hood because of heavy rain.

The car runs great, I'm very pleased.

[Bfg]

17 hours ago, brenda said:

Only 2 TRs today but lots of other new and old vehicles to look round with a brew and bacon butty.

Looking around that collection of classics one might have instigated a competition as to which was the most difficult for someone of my size to get in and out of.

[brenda]

Morning Pete, I was chatting too this guy earlier I think he is as tall as you. And then it was time for him to leave if he can get in I think you could. His mate in the passenger seat was the same height.

Mike Redrose Group 

[Tony_C]

 

TSSC South of England meet 
 

[Lebro]

And over in side of the world 

[Lebro]

Yep, I was there two (rather later on!)

              

Click on to enlarge

Bob

Edited May 8, 2023 by Lebro

[Tony_C]

Virtually in your backyard Bob..!

[Lebro]

Indeed, a mere 1 mile away.

Bob

[TRTOM2498PI]

CVB6H returns to the road after an LSD rebuild and a new bearing in the diff.  After that, an oil & filter change, and new brake m/c.  Great to be back in the pilots arm chair and enjoying the little bit of sun we had at the weekend.  Still revving hard to the shift light & beyond.

[Misfit]

Holcombe house private owned estate, where gardens were open to support Exeter Hospice charity. Sitting in 20 acres of gardens and woodland Both gardens and buildings beautifully maintained.

 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by Misfit

[brenda]

Just got back from Cholmondeley Fastival of 1000 classic cars, wonderful weather and lot of interesting cars, about 15 TRs around the show ground, but I did like the look of the 1500s fiat.

Mike Redrose Group.

 

[Misfit]

Today we went to Broadsands beach in the TR where we met up with some members from a Brixham car club. US cars are popular it seams.

Edited May 14, 2023 by Misfit

[SuzanneH]

Just a few cars from a Jag CC event we attended today. There was also a yellow TR6 and a Conifer TR4A and Geoff from North. London Group who was in his Jag.

[harlequin]

The maroon XK is one seriously nice car!

George 

[Misfit]

• Scimitar, I had one of these loved it travelled Europe in the 70’s right down to South France then up coast into Italy then up to Hamburg then returning Via Netherland Belgium back to France and home, great car. 

Never seen the other one before.
 

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by Misfit

[stuart]

Judging by the works done on that Morgan in 11000 miles no wonder he`s flogging it!

Stuart.

[TRTOM2498PI]

Had a great day out with friends yesterday, even the sun came out.  Some great roads, with minimal traffic.  A good 120 miles covered, & first proper run out.  Car is a beast to drive !

[monty]

8 hours ago, stuart said:

Judging by the works done on that Morgan in 11000 miles no wonder he`s flogging it!

Stuart.

I can think of nicer cars for that money!

[Bfg]

I've not driven Katie  for a couple of weeks now, due to general despondency & cold wet weather, floods, my own health and my working afternoons on my boat, but this Sunday afternoon I pulled her out for a drive across to  Rendlesham forest and over to my local castle at Orford.  She's not running well, seemingly running too rich with these carburettors, but I'll address that in due course.  The weather was a beautiful mid-May day with blue skies and that's something we both needed to be out in. . .

 

^ did I mention floods ?  This one was particularly muddy and I guess only about 6" deep ...although it felt much deeper than that as we went through it.

^ The faces of this castle's keep look very 'blobby' now that they've spent a cool £-million (which even then I'm led to understand ran over budget) to render over the coralline red crag stone < more about that here >  in order to prevent it from further crumbling away.  It's odd that a castle built 1165 on the order of Henry II should all of a sudden be crumbling but for sake of popular reasoning let's blame that on global warming - as it seems to be responsible for everything else.  It's noteworthy at nearby Framlingham castle too that the limestone stone carved coat-of-arms above its gatehouse has suddenly and badly eroded in the past 80 years (photographs over this period showing its loss of definition are indisputable), so it's a good thing that the English Heritage and other such organisations are working to preserve our country's heritage.

I enjoyed good conversation with the English Heritage staff regarding details of the castle's design and construction, before walking down to the quay, via the very pleasant 'Jolly Sailor' for a quick and rather good a half a pint of ale. . .

^ Orford, Suffolk - once a small but busy sea port, sheltered by the ness (..the shingle beach) is now some 5-miles from the sea. That is but a reflection of how things that may seem timeless have in fact changed ever so slowly through the centuries.  Even before this, the shingle moved by the action of the sea's waves ad tides, long ago formed a bar across the river Alde, and that diverted it's flow down the coast across marsh land to Orford. The mouth of the River Alde has long since been completely cut off from the sea and it's name changed to the River Ore.  Orford's name (which was cloned after the doomsday book) was I guess was derived from the rust coloured sand ..the iron ore in that red crag, and the shallow ford across to the ness.  What is now Quay Street, Orford used to (just 150 years ago) be called Bridge Street. As you might gather from the above photo the River Ore is wide and so for very many years a ferry has served the purpose of conveying animals and foot passengers across.  

    

^ springtime with luminosity through the leaves and bulbs of seed (nut ?) or flower yet to reveal itself.  Even the pines were in flower.  

 

^ Orford castle still has the quarry from which that red crag of the castle walls was hewn.  There's an incredible timeline if you were to think about it, not least perhaps because this is a particularly rare to Britain and ancient rock ..the remains of a causeway to Belgium & Holland.              

 

I opted for a slightly different return route through the forest (avoiding the flooded roads) and driving directly into the setting sun made for some wonderful glimpses of light through the trees.

A pleasant afternoon out in a TR

Pete

[PaulAnderson]

That blue vehicle is an amphibious vehicle, like the old amphicar, made by Tim Dutton of kit car fame, using a fibreglass hull and mechanicals from a Suzuki Jimny.  Here’s one of several YouTube  videos showing one.  In fact, here’s Another at RYA boat show.

Paul

Edited May 16, 2023 by PaulAnderson

[Misfit]

Nice day so checked out the replacement injector, and used it as an excuse to buy an ice cream at Buckfastleigh railway station. Perrrfic

 

[Mick Forey]

On our way down to the Ardeche, so went to look under the Milau bridge. Amazing.

Mick

[Ian Vincent]

A bit after the event, but last Sunday we participated in the Mendip Vintage and Classic Tour organised by the Classic & Historic Motor Club.

We started from Puxton Park in Weston Super Mare and wound our way around the Mendips until we stopped for lunch at a hotel near Brent Knoll before wending our way to Wells where we parked on the Cathedral Green.  It was a very well organised event with 160 cars, the earliest of which was a 1924 Belsize and the most recent a 1992 Alfa Romeo Spider.  There were three sidescreen TRs along with one each TR4 / 4a and three TR6s.

Attached are just a few photos of the event.

Rgds Ian