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Sunday 6th of December I organised the Club Triumph Norfolk Area New Years Run. Setting of from Norwich, in cold but sunny weather 9 various Triumphs, and a Scimitar drove to Harleston, to meet further Triumphs making a total of 14 cars.
Triumphs in Harleston.
A few more Triumphs in Harleston.
Hero of the Day, Phoenix who had his hood down all day!
We then took country roads for a stop at Southwold for a stroll along the pier and coffee and cakes.
Shoal Bay from Southwold Bay, perfect clear sky.
Chatting at Southwold.
We then carried on to The Eels Foot Inn at Eastbridge for lunch , sorry about the muddy lanes, also sorry for the time it took to get served!
Eels Foot Inn.
The Spitfire Contingent and the sole Stag.
Vitesse, GT6, and Scimitar.
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On the 20th of January we went to the Norfolk Restoration Show at the Norwich Showground, this is basically a classic car auction, with Autojumble, a few trade stands, and some club stands. Main interest for myself was an Audi Quattro and a Grinnal in the Auction, the Audi made a lot of money and the Grinnal did not sell, reaching only £3750, below the reserve.
Grinnal V8
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On the 30th of March, 6 Triumphs from Club Triumph Norfolk attended the first real show of the year, This was Langley Daffodil Day at Langley School near Loddon. Meeting in Loddon we all drove in and parked up together, on a cold, but dry morning. There was enough to keep busy for most of the day with Stalls, Demonstrations in dog handling, dancing, Morris men, and a craft fair inside the school, Tours of the house where interesting, with some nice period rooms with finely decorated ceilings.For those with money to burn Helicopter trips where available.
Club Triumph Norfolk contingent.
Vintage vans.
Nice TR4.
Vintage Cars.
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Bank Holiday Monday 5th May - Broadland MG Owners Club Heritage Run
A great event this, whilst it starts from the same point each year, the finish is a secret until you get your route map, which is very well put together with all junctions marked as diagrams in the road book, including distances. This year the Run ended at Sandringham, with a good route around North Norfolk, along the coast for a while, before turning inland, there was a nice section through a private stately home, and through a deerpark. The event is well attended, we where car 161. the weather was glorious, in contrast to last year. The cars all lined op in Sandringham Park which was a great site. There was reduced entry to Sandringham House, Museum, which contains some interesting "Royal" cars.
Norfolk TRs at the start at Walcot Lighthouse Inn.
Various Cars at the start.
1 in/1 out, there where around 8 TR7s or V8s on the event.
Grand entrance into Gunton Hall Estate.
Gunton Hall.
On the road near Litcham.
The field lines up at the finish in Sandringham Park.
More finishers at Sandringham.
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Sunday 11th May - Henham Park Wings and Wheels Event.
After 9 glorious days of sun wwe expected a weather change for this event, but the day was again Hot and Sunny. This is a large event organised by Halesworth Lions, There was a large classic car display with Club areas, Aircraft displays and flypasts of various types of small aircraft, and wing walking display, then the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, although the Spitfire did not make it due to problems. There was also stalls, food, displays for the kids, and a stuntman display.
Club Triumph Area.
Classics lined up.
A reminder of my Kit Car days, NG TC.
Nice Blue DHC, did not get to meet the owner.
Nice Dolly Sprint.
Aircraft Display.
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Sunday 15th June - Easton Farm Park. Classic Car Show.
A fine, dry day to start, 9 cars met at Bungay for the run to Easton Farm Park, the Club Triumph stand was set up, cars parked, and Gazebo set up. Quite a variety of cars on show and a fair few Club Stands. Event organised by East Anglia Practical Classics Club. There was various displays in the ring including Land rover Owners Club, Kite Flying, Various Judo and Karate, a stunt man. Gill,Jim, and Julie made it into the ring in their TR7 FHC, Spitfire, and GT6. There was plenty of things to see and do in the farm area. Rain stopped play around 4pm, so we all packed up and drove home.
Club Triumph Stand.
Unusual Jag based hand built car.
Some Independant Classic Entries.
3 of the Club Triumph Contingent in the parade.
Gills FHC in the Parade.
Julies Spitfire in the Parade.
Jims Mk I GT6 in the Parade.
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Sunday 22nd June - Club Triumph Norfolk Treasure Hunt
A sunny but very windy day saw 10 cars tackle the Club Triumph Treasure Hunt, leaving Caistor St Edmunds they headed for Loddon via some pretty villages, then turned back through Seeting, Brooke, and the Saxlinghams for lunch at Goodies Farm Shop. 5 teams cleaned up the full 40 points on offer. After lunch there was a faster run accross to Shelfhanger, New Buckenham, Forncetts, Wreningham back to Casitor Hall Hotel. After adding up the points, Pips gang won with all 70 points in their Triumph Stag, after a tie break quiz with both posting 68.6 points Mark RB in his X19 came second, and Shuey came third in the TR6. Well done. I think most enjoyed it and hopefully we will do another next year. Proceeds on the day from raffle, pin badges, and entry fee where £166 which will be donated to East Anglian Air Ambulance.
Contestants at Caistor Hall Hotel.
A couple of the later starters.
Lunch stop at Goddies Farm Shop.
Setting off for the Second set of clues.
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5th/6th June 2008 - TR Drivers Club National 2008
Great to see 70+ TR7's at the TRDC National Weekend held at Billing Aquadrome, Northampton, it was good to put faces to many Triumph TR7.com forum names. Saturday was the best weather, very windy, but sunny . A good 35 mile road run was held round some lovely Northants roads and villages with a pub stop at the Falcon, Castle Ashby. Saturday evening there was a quiz, which was very hard, followed by some good Triumph Video Footage. Sunday was quite drizzly, but 70 cars turned out on display, some intersting machines, including displays of Pre-prod and production TR8's and 4 Rallys Cars. Beer and Food was available in the marquee, and Rimmers, Robsport, and S&S attended with spares. 10 cars where chosen for pride of ownership awards, and the car of the show was an awesome V8 4,5 litre convertible. Thanks to all who attended.
Cars lining up for the Road Run.
Totally filled the Falcon Inn car park at Castle Ashby.
More TR's at the Falcon Inn.
Loads of Wedges.
Rally cars.
A good line up of 7's
3 of the 16 remaining Genuine UK Production TR8s.
Display of Prototype/Pre Production/ Production TR8's.
4 Excellent Rally Cars.
Heavy rain finally caught up with us on the way home.
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12th July 2008 - Schole Village Fete
We displayed 4 Triumphs at Schole Village Fete as one of our members was organising the fete. Typical British summer day, overcast mainly, some sun. Opened by Rick Wakeman of Yes fame, decent guy, he went round all the stalls and novelty games with a pocketful of pound coins, paid up, and tried everything, chatted to everyone, not your usual stuffed celebrity. Showed interest in the cars on show too.
Good line up of classic cars for a local village fete.
Some old Austins.
Rick Wakeman browsing the antiques stall.
Duncans BMW and Teds Spitfire.
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July 20h 2008 - Lowestoft Classic Vehicle Club Rally - Ditchingham, Bungay
Another typical summer Sunday, cloudy, windy! Good attendance on the Club Triumph Stand, approx 150+ classics of all kinds at the show. Autojumble and car boot and the usual tombolas and food stands.
Club Ttriumph Stand.
Julies very clean Spitfire.
Fleet of wedding cars.
Trio of Triumphs.
Something different, a restored milk dairy sidecar combination.
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3rd August 2008 - Helmingham Festival of Classics
This looks like it could be a very good event when the weather is fine, it started of fine, but then there where 2 heavy showers which spoilt the day. A good selection of classics and muscle cars where on show, with demonstration runs of some of the concours cars and supercars.
Very nice Jaguar.
A dribble of Deloreans, do they have to use solvosol autosol every time they get wet?
An Asqith Coach, looks ancient, I used to make these in the early 90's, Transit chassis, GRP body with timber linings.
Nice collection of earlier cars.
Something more modern, Tesla Electric Car developed with Lotus.
Study of TVR front ends.
Club Triumph Contingent, good job we took the Gazebo to keep the crews dry.
My favourite Lotus, wedge shaped Esprit.
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31st August 2008 - Norfolk Police Gala - Norwich Show Ground
Again a very good event, blessed with great weather, a few of us got burnt in the sun as we where unprepared after a the rest of the awful August weather. We had 19 cars on the Club Triumph stand, would have been 20 but some jobsworth stopped Glen in his TR7 V8 4ltr even though he was in the ground before the site roads where shutdown at 10-30. Plenty to do and see as usual, good demonstrations by the police dog handlers, underwater searches, and plenty of road and safety info and advice by the police.
While waiting at the gate the officer directing in show cars told me there was around 1500 classic and sporting cars through the gate.
Club Triumph Stand.
Nice Mk1 sporting escorts on the way in.
Nice example of a Ford Escort RS2000 droop snoot.
Sunbeam Stilleto Imp, First car I had when young.
Glens TR7 V8.
4ltr Rover V8 power, awesome sound.
Couple of classic Triumphs entering the showground.
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Usual fantastic event, blessed with glorious weather again, Saturday saw 157 cars on show at Broad Farm, Fleggburgh, some fantastic Triumphs where around, with all ranges on show, minority being Dolomite and Toledo, there where 8 TR7's which was great to see. Club Triumph members gained 5 trophies in the concours with Julie getting best Spitfire and Car of the show, Jim best GT6, Lee best 2000/2500, and David getting best post 1976 with his AC 3000, reputeably containing Triumph parts. The sun shone all day and it was great to catch up with everyone at the last show of the year.
Club Triumph Contingent.
Powerful, Patriotic Spitfire.
My TR7 on show.
A couple more TR7's in the field.
Jims Class winning GT6.
The reason Julie was best Spitfire and Car of the Show, imagine having to polish that!
Julies Car of the show.
Davids Post 1976 AC 3000 class winner.
Lee's class winning Big Saloon.
Essex area TR's, interesting TR6 had a "chevvy" engine, one to P--s off the purists!
Saturday night was spent with other TR7 owners in a restuarant overlooking the Yare marshes with a great sunset over Berney Arms.
Sunset view over to Berney Arms windmill.
Sunday was the convoy to Great Yarmouth sea front, after lining up at Broad Farm we set of to Yarmouth, then lined up for the measured mile.
Lining up, convoy of 7's.
Field filling up ready for the convoy.
View of the convoy through wing mirror.
Lined up on Great Yarmouth Sea front.
More of the line up.
Oil rig supply vessel leaving Great Yarmouth.
Caught up with Teds Spitfire on the way home.
Seconds later, eating dust!
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Not a Club Triumph Event, but whilst at Newark Air Museum we spotted the Nottingham Classic Run which had started in Nottingham, there where some nice cars on view.
2 Genuine Lancia Stratos Rally Cars.
Early TR and Anglia.
Cant remember what this is, AC or Bristol?
Classic Line Up.
See you all next year.
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