TDCIR 2012 Sunday 2nd September

[sprint1976]

phew that was easier than i thought pinched off colin from facebook,if i have missed a few there was 2 with errors whilst loading anyway feast your eyes

[JPB]

Good turnout. I had to have a chuckle at this:



I just knew that would happen some day, d'you think maybe they did that to keep us on our toes?

[sprint1976]

i noticed that too although there different than they normally are never seen that combo before

[Mad Mart]

Thanks for that Janette. Especially the first pic. I'm glad to see my 1st resto (JYD) is back on the road again (I wonder if Paul still has my Blondie tape? ).

[blue dolly se]

hi all, just a note from Bill & me, as usual great day was had by all, i think, echo all the thanks to all who organised the show, yet again job well done, Bill enjoyed the cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, worth the trip down, lots of lovely cars and lots of like minded people spending a great day together

[mbellinger]

Overall, a good day and, as Richard said earlier, we were very lucky with the weather as the early drizzle gave way to a very pleasant afternoon.

My feelings were tempered by having to work Saturday, meaning that despite modern BMW power, I arrived very late at the hotel in Crewe. Then on Sunday, half way to the event, I realised I had left my house keys in the hotel room and had to turn back. This would not have been such an ordeal, had there not been a major charity cycle event taking place which seemed to reduce all of the roads in and out of West Crewe to a snails pace.

When I eventually arrived at the show, the TDC guys kindly gave me my free pass as last year and entry was seamless. The show was different this year as the main show field was being prepared for the big Chris Evans event this coming weekend. This had forced the show into the hillside area to the west of the main access road. The organisers had done their best under the circumstances to try and create a display area, a main arena, and then a Club stand area, but this had resulted in the Club stands being pushed well up into the hills. As I wandered around the show briefly later on at lunchtime a delegation was remonstrating with the organisers about having to drive concours cars through prodigious quantities of cow sh1t. One group in particular were very unhappy indeed; but I could see little that the organisers could have done under the circumstances they faced.

The TDC were allocated an area at the back of the other Club stands, but still "connected" to the main show. Personally, I thought this was a better arrangement compared to last year, where we were very isolated from the main event down by the lake. The organising group (they know who they are) deserve our fullest congratulations for managing to create a really impressive tented village and I particularly loved the Dolomite wind mobile. Jeanette, Andy and others worked very hard all day on regalia and we took some memberships as well. The atmosphere was relaxed and friendly and, as the weather steadily improved, it became a really enjoyable day. It was disappointing to see numbers so far down on last year (82 cars versus 53 by my count). I do not know whether this was because it was a repeat of the venue, or for other reasons, but it was a shame nonetheless.

My heartfelt thanks go to everyone involved in organising on behalf of the Committee and membership.

For me, the show ended at 2.30pm as I had to get back to Bromley for a family event that evening. In spite of leaving in what I thought was plenty of time the bottom of the M1 was its usual self, and I arrived at 8.15pm in time for pudding. Not popular.

I took a few general views of the Club area and these are reproduced below. It was a pleasure as usual to talk with so many old acquaintances, and to make new ones of course.

[DoloWIGHTY]

Good to see Simonr's car there, must of been one of the furthest traveled? How did the journey go Simon?

[simonr]

Good to see Simonr's car there, must of been one of the furthest traveled? How did the journey go Simon?

Hi Alan,

Thanks for asking, only one hiccup on the way up when a failed coil brought us to a standstill on the A417 north of Cirencester - luckily I had a spare coil in the boot so was back on the road in 15 mins.

I am pleased to say that BRJ won two trophies :-

3rd in class for 1850 Dolomites

and (yes you guessed it)

Furthest traveled to the show

(by about 5.6miles I think)

I was well pleased with this and, as fully reported elsewhere, the show was excellent with a very friendly atmosphere and some good company on Sat eve.
I will add my thanks to the organisers of the Club stand and display for doing an excellent job and making it well worth the trip, which covered almost 500 miles by the time I had vsited my folks in Wales on the way back.

Simon

[Jamp]

Does anyone have the list of prize winning cars or will this be published in Dolly Mixture? We had to leave before the cups were presented so didn't get to see who the winners were. Same applied last year in fact!

[Col Hughes]

TDCIR 2012 PRIZE WINNERS. Thanks to Jannette Roden for asking me to judge the cars, an extremely difficult task that had me covering miles walking back and forth accross the club area. Rather than do it the points way and mither about what's original and what isn't, what's restored and what isn't, what's got the wrong badge on etc I decided to just pick what I thought were the best cars, so this was more of an opinion than a marking excercise. Sorry to those I didn't pick but I would have if there were more slots! To get 3 Sprint prize winners from a possible 6 + was not easy at all. All cars here can be seen in the photos.

Sprint
1st Vermillion EFR 894W Polly Booker
2nd Mimosa UTU 233M Mike Barker
3rd White UAA 891M Paul Willbraham

1850
1st Ice Blue GDV 355N Danny Vernon
2nd Saffron DCV 848K Ray Iddon
3rd Sienna BRJ 157K Simon Robbins

OHV
1st White 1500HL OPD 716W Matt Cotton
2nd Maple Toledo KYM 403P Darren Amos
3rd Carmine 1500HL YCW 443V Geoff Twiss
4th Honeysuckle Toledo NFV 299M Robert Gibb

FWD
1st Valencia 1300 HTU 442G John Foden
2nd Ice Blue 1500 SAB 243L Danny Vernon
3rd Valencia 1300 BPX 278G Peter Lawrence
4th Emerald Green 1500 MDM 59L Magaret Siddorn

Special Award
Panther Rio MYL 363P Margaret Shankland

Daily Driver
Brooklands Green 1850HL ,owned since 1989, covered 298,974 miles, Eric Noble

Furthest travelled 200 miles Simon Robbins from Fordingbridge

Car of the Day
Ice Blue 1850 GDV 355N Danny Vernon

And to add to these we won Best Club Stand

[simonr]

And to add to these we won Best Club Stand

Well done to the organisers of the Stand.

I think this award is well deserved because they made the most of the "Rugged Terrain" with the cars parked in clusters, not the usual formal line up as seen on most club stands, which made it an interesting and informal stand for the public to wander round.