Stuart Wilson Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 What is the most unusual car used on the RBRR?I'm consindering doing the next one in my Moss Roadster, that will certainly be more of a challenge than doing it in the TR7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Not sure if this can be classified as unusual, but most certainly a very different entryCheersHoward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 There have been a few Kit Cars do it. Something with no roof is probably suitably hard core.There are still a few Triumph models that have not taken part, mostly the older ones.Now there in lies a challenge.... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Wilson Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 With me being a slightly larger person, the Moss seats are a touch neat. May have to look for some more comfortable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hunt Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 I recall an intrepid (foolhardy?) pair doing the event in a Gentry a long time back, maybe late 80s. Tim Bancroft would know for sure. That is the most unsuitable vehicle I can recall in my long RBRR experience dating from '74Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Tim, you are spot on, a Gentry did do the event, will have to look up my records.I still think the event is crying out for an entry using a 948cc Herald.Bill or Dave?Also, I would love to see a Standard Vanguard of any type take part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Wilson Posted July 23, 2013 Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 Never heard of a Gentry, what does one look like?Has a Moss been used before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hunt Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Stuart, the Gentry is a kit car based on Herald or Spitfire running gear and with a body similar in appearance to an MG TF of the 50s. The soft top is crude looking with sides screens, offering rudimentary weather protection at best.Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goody Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 For me it was Dave's van and that little Standard Green Pick-Up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAJ Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 timbancroft61 wrote: Also, I would love to see a Standard Vanguard of any type take part.Lee Godfrey and I were talking about an Ensign estate at Ferry Meadows yesterday and how one with an injected 2.5 but no visual outward signs would make a great RBRR car.Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Englishbull Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 CRAJ wrote:Lee Godfrey and I were talking about an Ensign estate at Ferry Meadows yesterday and how one with an injected 2.5 but no visual outward signs would make a great RBRR car.ColinTotally agree.................................Or a 2.5 Beetleback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heraldcoupe Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 timbancroft61 wrote:I still think the event is crying out for an entry using a 948cc Herald.Bill or Dave?I recall a few 948s doing it in the past. I've been vetoed from using this one though..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimboyfat Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 My current daily driver is a 948, Iv'e just come back from the machine shop in it having collected a couple of heads, and blocks.It wouldn't faze me doing a RBRR in it. To be honest I would prefer it to the larger engine'd cars Iv'e done it in the past as its not much of a challenge in TR's, Stags, and V8 Saloons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimboyfat Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Surely its this? Allthough it has unfinished business, anyone fancy the challenge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I thought you sold it......?Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Nick_Jones wrote:I thought you sold it......?NickI thought he had fitted it with a homing device and it re-appeared shortly afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimboyfat Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 A number plate dealer bought it from us off an advert on the Bay.Bearing in mind it hadn't been anywhere near the road in over 4 years, was not MOT'd, or in anyway road legal I thought he was taking a bit of a risk driving it from here to the South Coast! Apparently it got there OK, and better still it 'passed' an MOT the same day ;DA week or two later it re-appeared on the Bay at something like 8 times what he paid for it from us.At some later stage he tried to get the number off it, and fell out with his local DVLA office in the process.They took the V5C off him.We then had to buy it back off him, and pay to have it transported back here (but I'm not bitter). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimboyfat Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 A recent picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goody Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Dave, the last time I saw it (last year) you told me you were gonna brake it up for parts. As you remember the first time I saw it my wife was with me and said I could not have it even if it were free! Shame really as it could have (and still could) be crowd please'er. Some of my local club members were hoping I would take it and make it a club project. Problem is none of us have anywhere to store it. I would like to see it saved, put in a museum like Coventry or even the TSSC one. I admit I did want it (and still do) but have to be real, even I do not have enough garage room! Now if I were to hit the lottery? Or if we moved next to your shop, then I think it would be saved. I still would like to see someone do the RBRR in a Mayflower. That would be cool! Yes, I would go as a co-driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Slimboyfat wrote:Apparently it got there OK, and better still it 'passed' an MOT the same day ;DIt would have been interesting seeing how it fitted in the MOT bay... perhaps it didn't.. ;)He must have used that other 20ft long Herald he had to get the MOT... :)Was her ever likely to get the plate off a car that was known so well and easily searched for on the internet? I think not!Commiserations on landing up with the bill, and it isn't even registered anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Recent photo........? Blimey, have you STILL got snow in the midlands....?Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Its grim up there.Gawd, lets keep this talk of the Stretch down to a minimum please.I could not see a Mayflower making it around? What about a Roadster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferny Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 The stretch would be a great RBRR car. Just think, you could strap a couple of those giant inflatable banana things they tow behind speed boats to the side and float from one side of a loch to the other. Do it with Jason and you wouldn't even need air tanks to inflate them quickly, just a bit of pipe and a funnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimboyfat Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Goody wrote:Dave, the last time I saw it (last year) you told me you were gonna brake it up for parts. Bill It got no further than whipping off the headlight cowls (long ones getting rare!) to go towards one of the Courier projects, and one of the HS6 pancake filters for the Courier we have on the road.Past that I still can't bring myself to take it apart. We had such a great time driving it, specially on the first 10CR. That drive into Nice, and parking up in that sea front car park. The drive around the GP circuit in Monaco and taking a wrong turn, and having to back out of a one way street into traffic. The run up through the Alps, and someone taking us off piste down that mountain full of hairpins I would have struggled to get a normal Herald down. Jason crashing it. Jason trying to take out a fuel pump in front of a crowd of German tourists. Jason being in charge (or not) of the midnight sleeper stretch on that (thankfully) deserted French road.Finally chasing Barry in his Acclaim for what seemed like hundreds of miles, dueling for the lead on the roads back to the ferry.I just can't bring myself to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrapman Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 timbancroft61 wrote:I could not see a Mayflower making it around? That sounds like a challenge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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