Sunshine at Duxford

[cliff.b]

Great day out today meeting my old friend who has been living abroad for several years but back for good now and brought his car with him.

Back when we were

 young we both had Spitfires and he is still keen on them.

[Pete Lewis]

are you getting ready for the All triumph Picnic September 5th    cos youre a bit Early

Pete

[cliff.b]

59 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said:

are you getting ready for the All triumph Picnic September 5th    cos youre a bit Early

Pete

LOL, are cars of the non Triumph persuasion, as seen here, welcome?

If so, he might want to come.

[Colin Lindsay]

If they were to say that they identified as Triumphs on certain days, would that work?

[cliff.b]

7 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said:

If they were to say that they identified as Triumphs on certain days, would that work?

Seems to work with everybody else 😄

[Pete Lewis]

The Triumph show at Duxford has always welcomed other marques 

we are not that posh you know   anyone with cash is  welcome 

it normally says so on the advert but we ran out of space 

will add it to the events listing 

Pete

[cliff.b]

1 hour ago, Pete Lewis said:

The Triumph show at Duxford has always welcomed other marques 

we are not that posh you know   anyone with cash is  welcome 

it normally says so on the advert but we ran out of space 

will add it to the events listing 

Pete

I will let him know. If he is interested we will probably both come to it.

[cliff.b]

My friend imported the Jag from the US. Has had the engine rebuilt, all the emission control nonsense removed & 3x HS8 SUs fitted. Thinks he has added about 80BHP

[mark powell]

That puts me in mind of this beast at our local Transport festival 5 years ago.

[cliff.b]

45 minutes ago, mark powell said:

That puts me in mind of this beast at our local Transport festival 5 years ago.

Good grief, that bit of paper says supercharged 420+BHP.

My friends one was a 1970 US car but he has ditched all that emission control nonsense & had it rebuilt to largely earlier UK spec with some mild tuning & balancing.

He was told it should be producing getting on for 300bhp and that felt fairly "brisk".

God knows what the supercharged one is like 😱

[Colin Lindsay]

3 hours ago, mark powell said:

The last time I saw a bit of paper stating that a vehicle 'was detected travelling at a speed of' someone got three points... it weren't 170 mph neither.