mikeyb

Cracking day out was had by all, 1st Triumph - Lewis Wake (Scrapman's nephew), 2nd  Ellis Stokes, 3rd Mike Bishop

11 CT entrants, see you tomorrow!

Excellent!  I will consult the calendar....

Not many Roadsters in CT (if any), that I know of, although they would be most welcome!

Maybe try the Pre-1940's Triumph owners club and the Triumph Roadster Club?

Kind regards

Mike

27 entries now, still mostly from other Clubs though.  😶

22 entries so far for what should prove to be a cracking event.  Not very many from CT though 😒

Come on guys, this is an easy event, non damaging and suitable for unmodified and road cars. 

The Club needs your support if we are to continue to run such events into the future!

RESULTS

From Annie:

Hi all - thank so much for taking part, and I’m so glad you all enjoyed the event. Like Ellis, we’ve had a few hours’ sleep and feel more human now. We’ve been back through the results slowly and manually to triple check, and I’m afraid tired Annie brain made an error on the first totting up - which is quite dramatic for one team (Team 8, don’t worry, you’re still fine!). I apologise now for this kerfuffle - it is entirely my tired eyes fault - I missed out a minus sign on the final time penalty for Team 5!

So: 
1st - Team 8 (49.5 points)
2nd - Team 11 (37.5 points)
3rd - Team 4 (37 points)
(4th - would be Team 2, but they were in a Mini so excluded (35 points))
4th - Team 7 (34 points)
5th - Team 5 (32.5 points)
6th - Team 9 (29 points)
7th - Team 6 (28 points)
8th - Team 1 (27 points)
9th - Team 12 (14.5 points - an impressive base score before the time penalties, given the wheel was changed too!)

All really close scores, and massive apologies to Team 5 who were demoted 3 places as they drove home. Next time, organise well, and remember all minus signs! 😳

I wondered where you were!  Are you doing the Hurdlemakers tonight?

Ah, I'm aiming specifically at HCR entrants in case someone could pack one in their boot!  

After the HCR I have other possible options but none which could help me out for this weekend  🙂

Not good at the last minute, but the Stag is playing up and I have no backup car.  It has a misfire when the engine bay is hot that eventually results in the engine cutting out.  

I have changed the coil, this didnt cure the fault.  I niow suspect the Lumenition eye in the distributor.  Any chance of anyone having a spare?

Thanks Crow.  It's in our events calendar. 

https://www.clubtriumph.co.uk/events/event/155-qracken-scatter-rally-cmc/

I've updated it to include the links!

Entries are now open for this long anticipated event. 

For more details and links, see here:

https://www.clubtriumph.co.uk/autosolos/ct-and-cmc-spring-autosolo/

Rather different beasts!   Plusses and minuses to both.  Quite a few kicking a around of faceboox recently.  Do you prefer manual or auto?  What's your location and budget?

Great rescue, well done!   maybe you should have posted these photos in your old thread to link the before and after?

Entry up to 8 cars now, would be nice to see a few more....

Poly bushes are usually a good upgrade for small saloon front suspension.  

Mick Dolphin is another good source for such spares.

I suspect you could easily return the Rimmers bush if it turned out to be wrong.

A good day out and a long overdue excuse to drag the Stag out of hibernation. Thanks to Dale and Nigel for a rally that offered a good balance between challenge and fun, traversing some nice roads!  The lunch venue was also spot on.  Well done to Annie & David.

Originally an auto - does anyone know the significance of the "sc" on the chassis plate?

That has had a lot of tinkering during its lifetime!  Must have been a special car in its day!

On 06/02/2023 at 19:11, 65redspit said:

Steering and wheels back on the car 👍🏻

nice looking car!

18 hours ago, Ed H said:

Not sure if you can get a product called POR15 in the UK.  I primed an outdoor railing with it about 15 years ago, and it's still holding.

It does have some drawbacks.  If you get any on you, you'll be wearing it for a while.  If you only use part of a can and re-seal it, chances are that you won't be able to get the top off again.

Ed

 

Without realising at the time, I got a speck in my eye once.  It was only picked up by the optician a few months later who thought it was metal fragment or similar and referred me to hospital.  The eye doctor scrutinised it at length under a magnifier, scratched his head and said "it looks like a speck of paint".  The penny then dropped, it ws very well stuck to my eyeball and took some effort to remove!

What have you got around southern Scotland Tim?

If only I didn't already have so many Triumphs  🙂

indeed it would!