Pershore Plum Festival 2015

Via Hallow or duel carriageway?

I desperately need to change the gearbox oil before the Pershore Plum Festival show on Bank Holiday Monday. 

It is a long way after all!

Pershore Plum Festival 2013

A fantastic show, (fairly) well organised, hundreds of cars and thousands of people, sunny weather; excellent! 

Wyre Forest District Council, take note. Pershore's traders must have made a fortune today.

Drakes Broughton

Lots of pretty TRs!

Hartlebury Museum

Rain on the Malverns!

Worcestershire TRDC joined in with Classic Ford show at the The Counties today. It rained, sunned and winded, typical of the Malvern Hills. Thankfully somebody remembered the gazebo! Nine cars, must be a record!

The Beast is far left

Droitwich Spa Classic Car Show (05/05/2012)

Simon RP came as my co pilot and we had a good turn out: Pete, Paul, Simon, The Other Spider Bloke, John and I. It all sounded very good - the roads were to be closed once we were in and ready to display. It did happen, but we were in the High Street with a billion MGs behind. It was damned cold up there - a wind tunnel, although the bacon sarnie shop helped!

Round the corner in the sunny bit of the "square" were the old Austins and Mercs etc. Nice cars in the best spot. Where we were, there was no place to sit, chat, talk to the punters, just freeze to death and stand around. Simon and I bailed out erly, just when some arsey old cow in a wheel chair whined about me parking over a kerb ramp, where the marshals had put me, about 10 yards from another kerb ramp. I shall not be doing this one again. 

Oh, and the car? Ran rubbish as usual, missing 2 cylinders again, running very hot. One step forward, two steps backwards.

Pershore Plum Festival 2011

Set off at 8 and met up with Pete for the latest Beast adventure, this time to the Pershore car and plum and hippy stuff festival. After meeting up with Mike, Sheila and Paul, we got onto the field at about 9. Here is a crap picture of the 5 cars...

The fields soon filled up with loads of makes and models of cars and billions of people gawping at the pretty cars whilst chomping their plums, ice creams and pork roils.

And the Beast? Behaved perfectly.How I ever doubted my little car! MOT due soon mind...

Sunday 31st July

The 12th Malvern Classic Car Show and Classic Ford Day (including Capripower National Day  at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern) is today. I picked up Simon (to navigate/mechanic/push/amuse me) and we then met Pete (TRDC) at the Rose and Crown in Stourport. 

The temp gauge is already at half. But I am not putting the fans on, I want to see what happens. We "zoom" off up the Worcester Road A449 towards the motorway. The Beast has now done the longest journey sine I had it 3+ years ago! After a junction of the M5, we pull in and wait for the rest of the TRDC. It's very hot, so the fans now go on, which is just as well as the Worcester bypass to Malvern road thing is always packed. We sat for ages and ages and I was fully expecting the Beast to explode, but no, it soldiered on.

By the turning to Malvern, the traffic became even denser due to a blonde chick breaking down in a crappy Ford Ka. It was at this point that I tempted fate, turning to my co-driver and suggesting she ought to have bought a reliable Triumph instead. I then managed to stall. And it wouldn't start again. Simon pushed, and I managed to bump it. Off we continued to the showground.

When we got there, we had a look around the piles of rusty crap/stalls and a few of the other cars. I then asked old Mike (TRDC) if he could help me put the bonnet scoop/fresh air thingy back on as I hadn't managed to get the bugger on. "Never mind that. What's happened here?". Oh F*ck. I hadn't filled the dashpots nor put the pistons back in, hence the earlier picture. They looked as good as new after they had been (almost) straightened with a trolley jack handle and a pair of pliers! And Mike and Rich even managed to put the bonnet scoop/fresh air thingy back on.

The  return journey was uneventful. I now have faith in the Beast to take me on any (short) journey. I now even go home from work (when sunny) the long way. The temp gauge still sits nicely on half.