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RBRR 2025 - How Ready Are You And How Long Have We Got?


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Less than a year to go, so how far along are your preparations?

Have you even started or found the car you're going to use yet?

This is the Club's premier event and the ways things are going, how many more RBRR's will there be?

None of us are getting any younger, in fact, our cars are in better condition than we are!

With the drive down the electric car cul-de-sac, running our cars will become more and more difficult every year.

So. it's important to get stuck in and enter while we still can.

Club Triumph - The Club That Does!

Jim.

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Andy Mathers and I will be joined by Rob Lingard in my Saloon. The car has completed the RBRR several times with its previous owners. I'm gradually working my way through the car whilst we use it on a weekly basis.

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11 hours ago, John Bell1 said:

Seriously thinking about entering in this car. We've just completed the LTV Nachtrit for a second time and have two Coast to Coast's notched up.

Shall I, shall'nt I??

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There is only one answer to that. If yiou have not done the event, it is a must. 

I have some friends that have done the event with me. All loved it, and still talk about it years later.

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I'll probably be doing it again. 6th time, twice in a friend's stag, twice in my TR6 and once in my rover v8 stag. Will probably be the stag again this time. In theory it should be ready to go now. But working out whether the engine was damaged by some oil pressure issues. (Stuck pressure relief valve)

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Biggest issue isn't the car, it's the logistics around care etc. while I'm away. Both Simon and I would love to do the run again in the Spitfire. It's sitting there in the garage waiting to go. Most of the niggles that were present on the last run have been addressed, so unless something serious breaks in the next 11 months it's mostly servicing and getting some test miles on the clock.

If I'm really really really lucky I might get time to build the 3.63:1 ATB diff and fit that, the current diff got a bit whiney around Bude last time around. 

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Well the TR7 hasn't completed it yet rudely losing its gearbox oil not far from the start last time. 

So unfinished business ... tr7 is now EFI but I have a 16v sprint head to swap on just need to get the injector bungs on the inlet manifold.

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Not had time to drive it since the last RBRR and it's been sitting on one axel stand after repairing the studs and replacing the buckled wheel.

 

Just cut out a large chunk of rot at the bottom of the b-post. A repair I did 15+ years ago. Currently trying to decide whether to fix it or help out the dog food tin industry! 

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As things stand I plan to enter my 24th RBRR in the same car, having had to miss the last one. The TR is kept serviced and fettled with jobs done as necessary. It could go round the UK now at the drop of a hat if necessary. DV I will be at Knebworth House on 3rd October with co-driver Mike Hockaday for our 17th Run together. It's a refinement, but one job I would perhaps like to do before the Run is fit an intermittent wiper kit.  

Tim

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11 hours ago, Tim Hunt said:

As things stand I plan to enter my 24th RBRR in the same car, having had to miss the last one. The TR is kept serviced and fettled with jobs done as necessary. It could go round the UK now at the drop of a hat if necessary. DV I will be at Knebworth House on 3rd October with co-driver Mike Hockaday for our 17th Run together. It's a refinement, but one job I would perhaps like to do before the Run is fit an intermittent wiper kit.  

Tim

There's a clue to the date there Tim 🤔. Has the date been fixed already?

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21 hours ago, Tim Hunt said:

As things stand I plan to enter my 24th RBRR in the same car, having had to miss the last one. The TR is kept serviced and fettled with jobs done as necessary. It could go round the UK now at the drop of a hat if necessary. DV I will be at Knebworth House on 3rd October with co-driver Mike Hockaday for our 17th Run together. It's a refinement, but one job I would perhaps like to do before the Run is fit an intermittent wiper kit.  

Tim

My wipers can be intermittent but then that's just my dodgy electrics.  😀

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My word, I am inordinately excited!
 
Not done the RBRR before but have assembled a crack Team of idiots x3 and purchased the car below in order to enter the 2025 event for the first time.
 
I have a Racing Dolomite Sprint and am currently restoring a road going L Reg Sprint but think the Acclaim will be more comfortable for 3 very generously proportioned chaps....
 
 
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3 hours ago, shaunroche said:
My word, I am inordinately excited!
 
Not done the RBRR before but have assembled a crack Team
 
 think the Acclaim will be more comfortable for 3 very generously proportioned chaps....
 
 
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Good luck, have fun, and enjoy the experience 👍

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