Brian Damaged
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Morning Glory [pics]Brian Damaged
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Absolutely brilliant shots Bruce, some of those would put pro Rally photographers to shame. Talbenny is just one of scores of ex-WW2 airfields, military bases and suchlike holding single-venue stage events across the UK on most weekends. It's long been my favourite level of the sport, and one which I've spent a good proportion of my adult life involved with in one way or another. Finances are restricting my mates in the Gung-Ho Rally Team from having a full-tilt attack at it in 2013, but they WILL be bringing the Sunbeam to RRG this year.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 23, 2013 20:55:41 GMT
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That's a helluva find. IIRC those picnic baskets were part of the original 'In Vogue' spec?
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Brian Damaged
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Both return pipes were replaced on mine just before I bought it. They'd liberally coated the front subframe in LHM where they'd been leaking. When I bought it I was tempted to clean it all off but common sense prevailed.....at least I don't have to worry about the subframe rotting away now.....
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Brian Damaged
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Oh my, that's lovely. Keep up the good work!!!
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Brian Damaged
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That's lovely. Don't dismiss the auto box out of hand, I had a 205 Auto for a while and it was lovely to drive. Went really well and would still do 40mpg+ on a run.
Great to see a cooking 309 getting some love.
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Brian Damaged
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Apr 15, 2013 16:47:23 GMT
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£500 is about the going rate for just about anything free of major faults with a years' ticket and six month's rent in the window, regardless of desirability.
GTi's aside, 309's have yet to attain anything in the desirability stakes...a shame as they are arguably nicer to drive than their smaller (and increasingly more sought-after in good condition) 205 brethren.
Cooking petrol models are hard to shift to anyone except die-hard Francophiles, especially the earlier ones like this with the Simca-derived 1294cc donkey.
I'd stick an ad on Car and Classic for about £575 if it were mine, and be prepared to come down a bit.
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Brian Damaged
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The problem is the members of the public, dog walkers an horse riders who also used the beach. Probably best you didn't come....... Agreed. Attitudes like that are the main reason there won't be another one. Its got naff-all to do with being a 'jobsworth' or a 'hi-vis', and everything to do with being a responsible adult. The beach in this case is a public facility for everyone to enjoy, not just a few dickheads who think its fun to drive like a twunt in front of families, children and animals. If You want to show off, go to a drift day. That's the last word from me on the Beach Party. Ever.
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Brian Damaged
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I might pop up for a couple of hours, but I'll have to disappear around noon. Last home game of the season for my beloved Rouslers!!!!
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Brian Damaged
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Trouble is that's a public area. If you look at somewhere like Santa Pod where people are spending real money to get in and can get kicked out for bad behaviour, as soon as it gets muddy people are sliding about. So what's to say that having a cordoned off area etc is going to make it any better? Even if someone isn't allowed into that area and they are pratting about outside of it, it is unlikely that they would be there if 'we' weren't and so it still reflects badly on RR etc. This is why it isn't going to happen. The Beach Party, as we came to know and love it, worked fine because of what it was. As soon you start introducing rules, regulations, roped-off areas, pre-booking, marshals yada yada......it becomes just another show. And I have neither the time nor the inclination to start a second career as a show organiser. As I've already said I live 120 miles from Brean so attending meetings etc is a non-starter. Football commitments mean that I'll have even less time when the 2013-14 season starts, too. We had the best of it. Seven quality meets blessed with great weather and great cars in equal and ever-increasing measure. But it ran its course. Later this week I'll have a trawl through my photo archives and post up a decent memorial thread to remember it by.
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Brian Damaged
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It's not a case of 'tarring everyone with the same brush'.
It's a sad fact of life that events like this become victims of their own success, but that's precisely what it had become.
Even without pimping it across multiple forums, even without writing about/photographing previous meets for various car magazines/blogs (I did get asked, but was reluctant to do it for fear of creating a scenario like today), it STILL happened in the end. From the phone calls I got this afternoon and the messages I got via Facebook from various RR stalwarts who were there, the perpetrators were not RR members, so wouldn't have read the repeated warnings I wrote on here asking people to behave. That's the problem.
Those of you with longer memories will recall that after last March's Beach Party 6 I'd got the feeling that it had gotten too large to control without introducing a degree of stewarding/marshalling. It wasn't a route I was prepared to go down, because then you end up having to do risk assessments, liase with local council reps....I live 120 miles away from Brean, it just wasn't an option. But I do appreciate the offers of help I recieved.
So a big thankyou from me to everyone who attended today in the original spirit of the Beach Party, enjoying a relaxing chilled-out start to the 2013 show season.
The Beach party is dead. Long live the Beach Party.
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Brian Damaged
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Five Oh Four [Pics]Brian Damaged
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They were probably the last 'quality' Peugeots ever built. Up until the 1970's Peugeot was a watchword for solid, conservative quality design in the same vein as Mercedes. The cars carried a commensurate pricetag, too. Daddy Damaged's '61 403 Berline cost just over £1000 new, which would have bought you a Mk2 Ford Zodiac loaded with every option on the list at the time.
The 504 was very much an evolution of the 403/404, a lot of the mechanical parts (engines/gearboxes/axles) were carried over in revised forms (apart from the Ti and Coupe, which used IRS). Pops had several Familiale seven-seaters when I was kid, my mother had a genuinely-quick 504Ti saloon, and I ran a couple of 504's as dailies back in the late 80's. They had beautifully balanced handling for a big car, and were insanely comfortable.
Fabulous cars if you can find one now over here. The ones that didn't dissolve ended up being exported to Africa.
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Brian Damaged
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They did stick to the location. I've just had telephone conversations with MM and Brat-Man, about 200 cars showed up. Usual entrance opposite Unity Farm (with the cafe at the beach entrance), the one we always use.
That was the final Beach Party, by the way. Thanks to the goons who screwed it up this afternoon by driving like twunts, your registration numbers were noted, photographs taken and your details are being forwarded to Burnham Town Council/Somerset Constabulary.
My apologies to everyone else who came along to ANY of the Beach Party series and behaved themselves.
Was fun while it lasted.
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Brian Damaged
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Needs a nice fat exhaust pipe exiting the car in front of the NSR wheel. And some race rounders. And nowt else, it looks just fabulous as it is!
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Brian Damaged
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10am.
Met Office forecasting 8c and showers for the area at present. This is Britain, though....
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 31, 2013 22:14:24 GMT
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These are fantastic atmospheric shots. Your dad had some serious taste in motors, especially the Big Fords. Amazing to think that at the time of the Arab Oil Crisis in 1974 they were being scrapped in their thousands, nobody wanted them.
keep on posting, they stand as a lasting tribute to your father's memory, it'l lovely to see them as they were back in the mid-70's when I was a nipper. Condolences to you for your loss, he seems to have been one helluva guy.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 27, 2013 17:24:48 GMT
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Where exactly is the beach party? Sent from my GT-I5800 using proboards I too would like to know this? Brean Sands Burnham on Sea Somerset. Unfortunately (owing to a calendar-related mix-up) I won't be there either now. Should still be a decent turnout if the weather plays ball, though.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 27, 2013 16:47:52 GMT
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I saw this thing looking lovely in the Petrol station opposite the Toby Carvery on the way home from work last night. Looks lovely with those wheels, so nice to see one that isnt battered. Cheers Tim, its inherent straight-ness is what endeared it to me, to be honest. Won't be a regular visitor to the pumps, anyway.... The fuel gauge is FUBAR. So when I collected it on Friday, I could only get £15-worth in. Tried again on Sunday and managed £4, which means I picked it up with about 45 litres of diesel in the tank (about £65-worth). Made it even more of a bargain. I did 79 miles between Sunday afternoon and last night, so filled it again just to make sure. 6.6 litres. I'll save you the maths, that's 54.4mpg. ;D
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 26, 2013 22:42:59 GMT
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Late 50's Chev Apache spotted in a Vegas sidestreet in 2007.
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 26, 2013 11:36:18 GMT
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Thanks but I value my love spuds too much!!
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Brian Damaged
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The f**k-up fairy strikes again.
Unfortunately I'm double-booked that weekend!! We'd arranged to go out with friends in Brum that Saturday and stay over. Wifey only remembered last night, in fairness id got my diary mixed up too. No way I'm driving down to Brean on Sunday having had a skinful the night before.
No need for me to be there though so the revised date of April 7th stands.
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