BMC Show at Peterborough

Is anyone planning on attending this show from the club??

I personally cant make it, but its a good show to attend. I know that Ian G from the club is attending but so far its a 1 car clubstand!! lol


Craig

I'm going and planning to drag Wingnut along in both the Mini and Jaguar. We haven't got a stand booked but KLMOC say we can go on their stand.

ok. I'll let Ian know tonight if I see him.

This is the next local show, held at Ferry Meadows, Nene Park in Peterborough.

I personally cant make this one, but its a fairly large do with a very good selection of autojumble.

I will be on the Austin Rover.co.uk stand. Biggles is welcome to join us along with anybody else from the club.

I am picking Wingnut and a friend of his up from his compact and bijou residence at 7-30 am.
Anybody else up for this show ?

did you want to meet up with Biggles in Lynn (Tesco's)?? I'll have words with him tonight at work if I see him.

We are blasting along the A11/A14, then north to Peat Bog Horror on the A1. I will cruise at 90 mph, if I let Wingnut drive it will be nearer 120 mph.....
Tell Biggles we will meet him there. I hope Richard Mortlock will join us as well.

We are back from Peat Bog Horror. Great day out, great weather and great food from the burger van !
Pics to follow.

Our smooth and refined heroes arrive in their smooth and refined car just after 9 am.

glad you had a good day. Did you see Biggles???

I had a brilliant day playing in the mud with my jeep

We saw Biggles. He parked with the Dereham Mini club in the end.

Technicaly the most interesting car was this Morris Marina Coupe 1-8 litre.
It was fitted with a Ford Type 9 5 speed gearbox mated to the usual 1798 cc BMC/BL B-series block. But the cylinder head was a Ford Zetec 16 valve twin cam unit. Fuel injection was by Canems of Lincolnshire, who were featured in a recent edition of Miniworld Magazine.

MINI'S !!!

I've focussed on the non club cars. The first is the orange car once owned by journalist Richard Gunn, which he thought was an unreliable shed. The new owner has fitted it with an MG Metro engine, whilst retaining drum brakes and claims all its problems are sorted. It is for sale for £950.

I liked this Minivan. It appears to come from Scotland.

A real rarity !!

Minissima was styled by designer William Towns, who had worked on various Aston Martins. It used Mini automatic components and was intended as a town car. BL bought the design rights and did nothing.
One prototype is in the Gaydon museum. Where this one came from, I don't know.

No trip to Peterborough would be complete without a pic of this.
I love it !!!!!

Ian Nicholls wrote:A real rarity !!

Minissima was styled by designer William Towns, who had worked on various Aston Martins. It used Mini automatic components and was intended as a town car. BL bought the design rights and did nothing.
One prototype is in the Gaydon museum. Where this one came from, I don't know.

This car was at the 2007 London 2 Brighton.

some good photos Ian, but can you put them in the correct section of the forum next time!!

Please accept a thousand apologies oh great one !!!!

Ian Nicholls wrote:Please accept a thousand apologies oh great one !!!!

I'll let you off this time!!

It was a great day out. Wingnut's friend Julian was a great guy. The trio of us hope to go to Stanford Hall in the Jag.