18-12-2019, 08:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-12-2019, 08:45 PM by Steve Jones.)
I think everyone of us who's done a Measham or two has a story. Malcolm will remember the episode with the car that had switchable rear lights and the driver's conversation at the half way halt with the DSO who knew exactly what was going on but as an old road rally man himself couldn't admit that he knew. We couldn't stand up for laughing 
. I did it one year a very long time ago in a 30hp Crossley saloon. We had a driver and timekeeper in the front and I sat in the back with the maps and a speaking tube! The car had just been re-upholstered in very expensive green buttoned leather and it was a bit like going rallying in a Gentleman's Club. I can still vividly see the marshal as we crossed Caydale Mill Ford. The road here crosses a ford but the in and the out aren't, quite, in line with each other. The beck was in spate and it would have been quite possible to turn to the right in the middle and head upstream. As we approached, the lights picked out a marshal wearing a full set of fisherman's waders standing on point duty in the middle showing us the way to go. This all at about 2am in the morning. A brilliant event. Do it if at all possible. The sense of achievement if you finish is immense. Anything else is a bonus.
Steve
. I did it one year a very long time ago in a 30hp Crossley saloon. We had a driver and timekeeper in the front and I sat in the back with the maps and a speaking tube! The car had just been re-upholstered in very expensive green buttoned leather and it was a bit like going rallying in a Gentleman's Club. I can still vividly see the marshal as we crossed Caydale Mill Ford. The road here crosses a ford but the in and the out aren't, quite, in line with each other. The beck was in spate and it would have been quite possible to turn to the right in the middle and head upstream. As we approached, the lights picked out a marshal wearing a full set of fisherman's waders standing on point duty in the middle showing us the way to go. This all at about 2am in the morning. A brilliant event. Do it if at all possible. The sense of achievement if you finish is immense. Anything else is a bonus. Steve