Got car back to jbt's for check over and silicone hose kit fitting paul... Big THANKS to nigel for spotting steam coming out of back of car and stopping me striaght away .

Jbt for repairing hose and johnny for following me with jbt to leicester

And paul for sorting me some coolant to get car back to jbt's

Looks like i owe a few beers here

and you still reckon yours sounds as good as mine speedy????

can't wait to see/hear Nigels' sons' clips

Hope he's got a video of my chod letting go eh proccy

Proccy your's sounds the mutt's nuts mate

oh mate, my heart sunk when porky told me what had happened - i really hope you managed to catch it in time it's a lovely car


@ Rob - cheers mate, i've still never heard it properly myself, only from inside it which isn't quite the same....yours sounds as good as it looks too, and that torque!!!! you caught me up like i was parked!!

I've driven your car before proccy, so will do again one day if you like, so you can hear it from the outside. Didn't realise you'd never heard it properly yourself. I'll do some laps around Burton for you, while you stand outside a pub or Maccys

Yes, agree that Robs is an amazing car and you really have to keep looking in your wing and rear view mirrors when out on a run with him

Just transferring the video content to a memory card so Matthew can play around with some editing - definitely got a few seconds of Speedy's CHOD going, although by that time of the afternoon, the sun was very low, and it was causing some problems with the bullet camera

BTW - having waved the convoy past on a couple of occasions, the unofficial loudest car award goes to Proccy - truly amazing sound - must be great when you're in the mood and bloody awful when you're not. Having said that, at least four of the cars were very close in terms of engine note and volume

Finger crossed speedy.Exact same thing happened to me from the last mids meet. Except i carried on for a further 10-15 miles and cooked her.
Positive it will work out as you caught it quick.

I reckon there's almost zero chance of any engine damage - as soon as I saw the steam coming from underneath the car, I started flashing my lights at him, and he pulled up in less than a minute

Bit of a fluke really, as Speedy was at the rear of the convoy, but about a mile earlier, I'd decided to take up the rear in order to get some more video footage

Other than that slight mishap, it was a really good day - the only other downside was buying two burgers and two drinks at the Cat & Fiddle and being hit for £19

Have they done away with the Sunday carvery up there then Nigel?

No, that's still avaiable and would've been quicker tbh but the portions were good, I couldn't finish mine!

Nice to know it's still available and that the portions were good

Hope your car has turned out to be ok Speedy

Matthew is just finishing off a couple of quick videos of Sunday's jaunt around the peaks - sadly, the low sun means we didn't get much and even worse, we found that holding the microphone out of the window through the tunnels meant that we got nothing but wind noise - amazing, given the volume of the cars going through, but hey - live & learn.

For now though, a few stills for you....

Quick call at the local Fiat / Alfa dealer



To see a rather nice 8C Competizione



Formation parking



Regroup, ready for the next stage..



Speedy's car bleeding all over the road



...and JBT doing his usual trick of working when he's supposed to be playing

...and a video

This is Matt's first attempt at a video extracted from a camcorder, but I have to say its really good. The only bit he's less than happy with is the inability to fade the music out, so it ends a bit abruptly

There's another, shorter video that we're trying to upload that's also pretty good - watch this space

Photobucket video

Matthew, absolutely brilliant and great choice of music

Glad you like it

Fantastic Matt and Nigel, loved the music.

A bit more steam than i remembered there Nigel and Matt...

Must have been the engine oil in my eyes from somewhere

Compression test done on engine and its fine

By that was close call overtaking on the bend

Fantastic news speedy

Excellent news about your car speedy

Excellent video and pictures, even though it looks like there was some dodgy driving

Shame not to have had a Sprinty in that line up of cars

Great vid, awesome engine notes

Glad to see your car is OK Speedy. Must remember to watch rear view mirror more than what is in front when I get to go for a drive with you all

Rob, maybe we could do a mini convoy to a meet sometime. Don't seem to be many of us up this way. I am only on the other side of the lakes to you.

T there was a sprinty,

Johnny turned up after the pub for a short while but followed me beck to johns after my chod went..

Nigel and Matt may have him on their footage....

I've just had a skim through of the footage and there isn't anything useable of Johnny's car, just a fleeting glimpse every now and again - but it was nice to see one.

Unfortunately, the pass that we did through the tunnel (up to 70mph exactly, and nothing more ) was ruined because I stuck the microphone out of the window, so all of the noise I captured was just that of wind, and no engine noise - a little gutted, but c'est la vie..

I think you'll find that it was a 50mph limit through the tunnel, so you must be mistaken - I only did 50, as anything more would have been breaking the law

Clutch must have been slipping though, as I was in third gear, but the revs were somewhere near 7,000

i think i was doing somewhere near 150 too

Sorry couldnt make it, shame about the 2:10 madness

Good vid though!

chicken

Jesus christ i didnt know Carlito was that close to stuffing that car the other way.
Thats the sort of overtaking i would expect to see from crazy johnny in the sprintey.

This is one of the disadvantages of bringing up the rear of a convoy - I get to see all the "enthusiastic" driving

Would have loved to come, looks like you all had a blast! Got heaps on at the moment and also would have had to park a mile up the road at the Fiat garage as to not dampen the cred with my dull pink Coop!

Fingers crossed, she'll be in a more spangly condition by the time the sun is high in the sky again

Lucky CHOD catch there... whew!