Drive it day TSSOC/Pilliing Old car club

[John]

Today, a small group of us got together in memory of a friend who died 8 days ago and who usually was involved in our more complicated run outs. It was sunny at 8am, then we met at 1100 at Pilling amenity car park, and it wasn't. It was also sad not to see Little Al's rally Cooper S Riley Elf in the line up.






Then it got worse..




The thin yellowish line level with the top of my roof is the tide out on the Wyre estuary to the left, and the Lune estuary to the right.


The Humber Hawk only made about 12 miles when it killed it's auto box.
I think we caused havoc with the Lancashire Automobile Clubs run ( I should of been on with the Manchester P6 group, sorry Mick), as we were travelling for some of our route in the opposite direction to them.
We did 86 miles in drizzle and rain, and as I type, there is a blue sky and the sunset is beautiful, timing huh?

John.

 

[happy days]

No problem John, I think Little Al would have been proud of you all.
Yes you did cause a bit of havoc, some of us, followed some of you, where some of us shouldnt have been going
Glad you had a good day.

 

[Dave3066]

Sounds like a fun day!

The weather up our way was much the same yesterday and our run was pretty chaotic to say the least. The organisers had set the usual sort of observation quiz for the run and as we reached the first major turning off the main route no-one could find the right road as there were no signs marking it. We all drove round in circles for a bit before I decided local knoweldge was the best course of action and set off in the direction I thought we needed to go. That worked until we got a few miles further down the route to find the next junction was closed completely due to a landslip a few days earlier. We tried to navigate around it but the route took us down a narrow track and through a ford (the river crossing type). The 4x4 pick up in front of us tried to cross it and went up to its axles before reversing out and deciding against it. We decided we'd had enough and went home :roll:

Half an hour after we got home the sun came out

Dave