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After a disaster of a not Christmas meal, and a completely unsatisfactory response from the new manager of our old venue, we are on the move and looking for a new venue, we have a temporary home at Willerby and Kirkella Social Club, Willerby, Hull HU10 6BY. Carpark around the back. Call me on 07735326006 if you require any assistance. Dan

Come and join us for the inaugural East Yorkshire Triumph Weekend, organized by the Hull and East Yorkshire area of Club Triumph. A weekend camping with friends and family at White Cottage Holiday Park, 5 minutes drive from the seaside town of Hornsea, home to THE best chip shop in the land. We are planning a Burn your own BBQ on Saturday evening and a line-em-up & look-at-em car show on Sunday morning Camping is £30 a night for 4 people with electric hook up, they also have luxury glamping pods if you don't wish to camp, Please book directly with the campsite at WWW.whitecottageholidaypark.co.uk or on 07740918499 and quote EYTW

Hull Area meeting at Sandpiper pub Melton, North Ferriby HU14 3FQ I should be there from 6pm. Dan

Has anyone got a spare pair of vitesse front springs, as long as they aren't completely shot they will do for the dry build of my straight 6 engined Bond GT4s

Can't be helped Mike, hope you both have a fantastic anniversary. Dan

Regulations and entry form attached The programme of the meeing will be as follows:- Scrutneering starts at 10.00 hrs, individual times of Scrutneering will be notfied in Final Instructions , any compeitor not signed on by 10.45, may be excluded. The First Car will start at 10.45 hrs. Maple Garage Autotest Entry Form.docx Maple Garage Autotest 2023 Regulations.pdf

Maple Garage B1238, Sproatley, Hull HU11 4NA More info as I get it.

Club Triumph are invited to join North Humberside Motor Club for the Maple Garage Autotest on the 19th of March 2023, they have been holding this and other autotests for some time, so it should be well organized, they have added a road going car class for us, I was hoping they could put an autosolo on at the same time but this site is quite small it can't be done. More info to follow. Drop me a message if your interested. Dan

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I push out a Google map of the route a week before the event so people can print them off, or run the route on their phone, so we have no entry cost. But I was thinking of doing them as tulips, so I will have to make a charge for printed maps. Dan

As you know, I organized a drive out on Sunday, thanks for letting me know you couldn't attend. The guy that asked me to put the run on, who wanted to go out for a drive in his new car pulled out at 6pm the night before!, I had another message me to say the weather wasn't great, so he didn't want to come out (there was a bit of drizzle for the first hour, and it remained dull all day). There were 2 cars in total nether of them triumphs, we still had a good day out and ill put on another next month, it's just the way it goes. Dan AO Hull Area

Myself and Barry McGrath will be attending.

Ch4 The Kindness of Strangers or Falling right on my feet like a proper jammy bastard The day the bond got here I was pretty sure that I did indeed have something a bit special, the nose in the bonnet looks quite different to a normal GT4s, it's styled very well, and from what I can see unmolested, 64 was the first year of production, could I have a very early one, I ran the reg number on car check website for £2 and got a preproduction date back...... Oh carp, it is a pre-production prototype. Now I have to put it back to original, there is no way I destroy something so unique. Saturday night I joined the Bond owners club, and let them know what I have discovered… First thing Sunday morning I had a reply, the data I gave them doesn't make sense, but they will put me in touch with more knowledgeable people to see if they can make sense of it. A couple of hours later I had a phone call from a really nice guy called Guy, and all the answers I needed, yes the car is known to the club (and has been for many years). Most importantly, NO not it's not a pre-production prototype. The site I used gave an incorrect date according to the register. Maybe the bonnet is a prototype of some sort, but the car isn't, now that's music to my ears. I got chatting with Guy, and he says he knows a chap who's probably has all the bits I need, would I like his email address? In a flash I did the internal check list. Did I just hear that right ✔ Bears poop in the woods ✔ priests like little boys ✔ Would I like to find all bits I need in one place ✔ Erm, that would be a yes please, then. Sunday evening I have a reply and his phone number, so I give Phil a bell, only to find he's another top chap, and he should have everything I need. Everything seems to be falling in to place.

Ch3 A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma The PO has done something very odd to the bonnet. The grill delete. The line from the body side moulding has been brought down and round the lights to form a grill outline. it should look like this I'm not a GRP expert, but it does not look, from the inside, like this has been a patch up job, has it come out of a mould like this? The only reason that makes any sense to me is, one of its previous owners had a vision. At the time, (probably some time in the mid-nineties), Cans of instant tire repair weren't available, so carrying a spare was a really good idea, the problem is the boot is not big and odd shape, Remove the large silencer that's under the boot floor and fit a wheel tub in the floor. Bigger boot ✔ (unless one fits a second tank at the same time) but this would mean less exhaust silencing. X To achieve this, a hood (for want of a better word) was fitted in front of the radiator(missing in pic) with a hoop to carry the spare tyre. A rubber lip fitted under the rad to scoop up the air and direct it through the radiator. Did it work? Probably not but I really respect the PO's work

I got some of the glass thescrapman, just in small pieces all over the floor unfortunatly. I can but hope Howard, Fingers crossed Rosbif at a guess a few months seems like a fair time scale.

Ch2 Journey in to space 8am mrbadger rocks up and loads the floor jack in the back of the car (my back is still not right) and set off to get the wheels, we pull up in a small village in the middle of nowhere and wait for Dave to take us to the wheel stash, the rain starts...... the rain gets heavier...... phone Dave no answer.... Dave turns up a few mins later, and takes us out of nowhere and in between the fields down a track to the shed, only to find the tyre pile sans triumph wheels that will hold air. Dave is a proper top bloke, he took wheels off his spitfire and from his almost pristine 1300 FWD to lend to this quest for utter awesomeness at bargain-basement price. Thanks, Dave. Onward to free the bond brakes. The satnav takes us off the Main Road down a single lane driveway for what seems like a couple of miles, towards some BIG sheds. And there is the Bond yes it's a mess, but that shape oof sit rep, it's raining pretty hard, I need this thing to roll, so I can call Jeff with the trailer which is back in Hull an hour and a half away. We were just about to get the trolley jack out to get the wheels off, and I asked if they would mind getting the fork lift out? (it had been offered to load on to the trailer if required) “ do you want it on the hardstanding?” I reply “Thanks that would be great”, Richard says “why don't we put it in the workshop?” two mins later we are in the dry, I back the CRV in behind the forklift get out and pick my jaw up off the floor in front of me is the biggest radial arm drill I've ever seen it must be 12ft tall or more. Anyway, back to business. [10:47] txt Jeff to tell him I've arrived , impact out square wheels off unbolt the calipers tap gently with BFH till they're off, cut brake hose chuck in back of CRV, round wheels back on and free. Gently massage the drums with the BFH and a pry bar till they're off, put round wheels back on. [11:04] txt Jeff all free and rolling Now I've got an hour and a half to kill. I have a good prod around the chassis, and it looks pretty solid, then Richard took the square tyres off the rims for me. At this point I have to stop and say a huge thanks to the guys at “the Saturday morning club” I'm sorry I can't remember every name and who was in the club of just dropping in as they smelt the kettle, they showed us around their sheds and treated us like friends, classic bikes, cars, trucks, stationary engines of every size, and a huge 5 cyl crude oil powered generator that's wired up to one double socket. Here are a couple of pics for a taste Then Luke asked if we wanted fish and chips, he even checked they did gluten-free for me, before jumping in the car to fetch them. Then Jeff turned up, and we got loaded up, he didn't mind waiting for the food to turn up and for us to eat and took his dog for a walk. After an excellent fish and chip lunch, we said our goodbyes and headed off, A completely uneventful trip home, we unloaded, had a brew and I got to have another look at my new car. But that will have to wait for another day. Dan

Ch1 The unexpected eBay win. I've been after a Bond Equipe GT4s for 15 years or more. In that time there have been many outside my shoe string budget, but the couple that have come up, and been affordable have been in the far reaches of Scotland or on the south coast, (I live in Hull) Bizarrely, this one didn't come up in my eBay Bond Equipe GT4s saved search but, in a, "you might like" under something completely unrelated. After looking at the pics and the price was £100. I was thinking it's going to be in Glasgow, then nearly had a trouser accident when I found it was just 50 miles away in York. Without even thinking, I pressed the submit bid button. I'm not going to win it anyway, not for that much. Lol and didn't think anything of it, the next day I checked aaaaaand I was still winning, glancing at my phone throughout the day, thinking it “finishes at 7, nahh no chance, someone's going to bid on it” at 7.20pm on Thursday I won it with the customary, “Oh carp now I have to tell the Mrs” so immediately phoned my mate with the car trailer to ask for a lend. “Sorry I sold it last month...” luckily a friend of a friend has a trailer and Jeff was able to go on Saturday but only if the brakes were unsized, and it would roll. So ill call him as soon as the brakes are freed off. After a quick ring round Chris or mrbadger as some know him, volunteered his services, and another mate offered to lend some wheels and his place was on the way, everything fell into place, but I still had to tell the Mrs. once she got past the initial “you've done what stage” she seemed happy I had found the car I had been looking for so long, one in one out, so I have to move a project on, but I'm not bothered the V8 herald pick up project is getting canned, I've got a Bond YAYYYYYY

You can add me to the list Dan Wilmshurst Acclaim

If you turn the knob and it feels springy the the fault is normaly the acuator under the headlamp has seized, it is possible to free them off, dont try taking ghem off tbe bracket but remove it from the car and see if it wants to move, careful what you spray on it is rubber safe and when you get it moving pack it around with red rubber grease. Dan

Im currently tring to get hold of the factory drawings if not ill have to send samples. Dan

Oooh look at you and your posh coolent blend..... lol glad the hoses fitted so nicley Have you contacted the company about screen seals or should i? Dan

Ill definitely have a pair. Ill probably have some for patterns if they need them. Dan

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Nice detective work. I look forward to seeing how they fit. How much were they? I wounder if they made the windscreen seals too Dan

I have a larger vented disc upgrade sat in the corner of my garage awaiting frank to be finished, the exact numbers elude me at the moment but its mg rover parts bin, i think its mg zs 180 carryers and mg zs 140 calipers which are 54mm dia pistons insted of the acclaims 51, and i think 262mm disks. They dont fit standard wheels but might with a touch of grinding, and the pads i got that matched the calipers needed reliving for the hub, but i think i found some vauxhall corsa ones that shoukd fit straight in.