Author Topic: Retro rides gathering (Read 3620 times)

jmsheahan · « **on:** 01 August 2010, 10:02 »

Anyone popping over to Sparkford next weekend for the Retro rides gathering? Was quite good last year, relaxed day in the sun

dubcheryl · « **Reply #1 on:** 02 August 2010, 11:15 »

hello!

Yup will be popping down to see wats going on

Len · « **Reply #2 on:** 02 August 2010, 11:36 »

Anymore info on this? Website?

Is it at the Haynes place?

dubcheryl · « **Reply #3 on:** 02 August 2010, 11:45 »

yes its at the haynes museum

Len · « **Reply #4 on:** 02 August 2010, 13:15 »

Hmmmm may have to give the Golf a run out! take my old route down from Frome, love that road!

jmsheahan · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 August 2010, 22:08 »

Here's the site with a little more info

http://www.retroridesgathering.com/

It's not a huge show but if you want something interesting that's relaxed to do on a sunday afternoon this is it.

Len · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 August 2010, 09:00 »

Track looks a bit twisty!

jmsheahan · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 August 2010, 22:34 »

Few pics for those who are interested. Was a point and shoot day I'm afraid as my SLR had run out of battery so was stuck with the gf's crappy digi. Straight from the camera, not even deleted doubles

Unfortunately mainly showground too as the the camera was too ****e to keep up with the track action.

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/jmsheahan_44/RR%20Gathering%202010/

Few cars that stood out to me:

Lovely mk1

Just wow, factory condition

Don't know why I kept being attracted to this but you just don't see mk2 cavs anymore.

This was awesome - fairground ride shell, homemade chassis and a moped engine [LOL]

Liked this mini too - not a mini fan but super cool to see the 'downton' badge in the bay. My grandad lived in downton for years and was always talking about downton engineering and their hay day with coopers