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MG MGA - The Norfolk Riviera Run

Gave the old MGA a 180 mile airing today. My daughter and I set off at 08:00 this morning with a wind-chill of -7C, but despite that and intermittent rain on the north Norfolk coast, the hood remained down! A very large turn out, but ours was the only MGA and the only car with the top down. It ended in sunshine, but it was still very cold!

Lindsay Sampford

And another.

Lindsay Sampford

Good on you Lindsay. Sports windscreen next!

Steve
Steve Gyles

Lindsay, doesnt your local Hospitals Accident and Emergency Department now refuse to treat self-inflicted frostbite injuries? :-)

Well done for even turning out.

My MGA was snowed into the garage here in Yorkshire and so I just bade it a Merry Christmas, put the covers back on it and went back indoors to my mulled wine.
( It was -3 degrees C here this morning or 8 degrees below in Farenheit, with salty and greasy roads. Time to get out the videos of last Julys Pyrenees tour I think!)

Have a great New Year

Colyn
c firth

180 miles, well done Lindsay (and daughter). I'm impressed.

I went to the Sprint at Oundle on the Northampton Cambridgeshire border. I entered in the MGA but the event was oversubscribed so used an old Mercedes saloon instead. We were frozen when we got back to the car and I was pleased we didn't use the 'A' as it doesn't have the best heater.
John Bray

Well done. Guess no trouble with overheating?
H L Davy

You wouldn't believe it, but I had vapour lock when I restarted after about 15 minutes, for the start of the run!
Lindsay Sampford

Goodness Lindsay, how did you manage that? In the same weather I could not get the engine temperature above 170.

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve, no belt-driven fan and an electric fan that cuts-in at 210F. On the road at speeds of around 70MPH it was running just short of 190F, but after standing in the pub car park with the engine stopped, the temperature climbed to 212F. When I turned the ignition on, the electric fan started. Not a lot out of the heater, but enough to stop our legs from freezing. Big classic car meet on the green at Barrington tomorrow, will probably go if it isn't p-ing down with rain like it did last year!
Lindsay Sampford

A miserable day for the annual New Years Day Classic Car Meet on the green at the village of Barrington about 8 miles south of Cambridge, but despite the chilly breeze, filthy roads and a hot sausage in a bun at £5 a go (I can remember when you could have a jolly good night out for a fiver and still go home with change in your pocket!), a huge turn out including everything from a road-going D-Type Jag to a pair of Austin Chummys. Below is a general view but there was lot more.

Lindsay Sampford

My car in the good company of a DB6.

Lindsay Sampford

...and a big Roller.

Lindsay Sampford

...and this was just delightful!

Lindsay Sampford

The picture with your MGA next to the DB6 says it all Lindsay.

The value of the DB6 may now be 10 times that of the MGA but notice how everyone seems to be looking at your car!

Colyn
c firth

Very well done Lindsay - especially for getting up at 8.00 in the morning - you have my admiration! I had given the matter some thought especially going across to Stony Stratford - though that would have been an hour plus journey from Warwick.

My three girls and their partners were home (but out) and I met up with them in the pub having being relesed from baby sitting duties by wife just after 10.00pm. I was only going down for a quick pint ... we left at 12.30 and walked home and my youngest daughter and partner had just come back from a wedding. So about 10 of us had a few drinks, turned the Jukebox on...danced and sang (and the grand children remarkably didn't wake up) and then crawled to bed at ten to five.

I woke up early enough, and with no hangover, but the the thought of the alcohol in my system meant that even if it was feasible it wasn't going to happen. Moreover, none of my daughters would have countenanced the idea! So something that I must plan for in the future.

As a footnote all my daughters and their partners are on the wagon and of course common sense says that at my age (68) I too shouldn't be drinking... so it's back to an evening sherry with Jo each night. Er.. there's a party we are going to on Friday and Saturday evenings .. so it'll have to be Sunday when normality is resumed.

Very impressed though Lindsay and especially getting your daughter to come along with you .. wow!

All the best and a Happy New Year to you and all other listers!

Sincerely

Jerry
J P BIRKBECK

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