13-07-2022, 12:56 AM
Hello Daveg.
I'm afraid I don't recollect working on your wheels,but I⁶am flattered, not to say say astonished to hear that you had an apparently polite hand written letter from me some 40 years ago about a crankshaft.
That must have been my good day.
Ten years before that,at the Golden Jubilee Rally,after the event at Longbridge(,rather than the luxurious Fire College,into which I an booked next week)many of us took our tiny old fashioned tents to stay the night in Cofton Park,a very open public park nearby,in which I recall I felt very unsafe.
At the time we did in fact own 5 Austin Sevens,four of which we still have.
These cars cost a total of approximately £750 and were all used as daily transport with cannibalism rife in the middle of the nights to ensure that my wife could get to her teaching job in Bristol, and me to my crane building work in Nailsworth.
Times have definitely changed,but I don't recall any massed whingeing about either the rally site,nor the camping.
I suppose that many of the cars coming next week cost a good deal more than our £750 ,but it doesn't give anyone the right to berate the volunteer,unpaid and as far as I know expenses free organisers.
We should count ourselves very lucky that anyone would take on the task,and as I am now 50 years older,and slightly more wealthy I am delighted to be tucked up safely in a cosy room.
For those of you unhappy with the current
situation,or perhaps stuck in tents next week,plan ahead for the onehundredand fiftyith and make sure you don't make any mistakes.
After all, you can see what will be expected of you.
I'm afraid I don't recollect working on your wheels,but I⁶am flattered, not to say say astonished to hear that you had an apparently polite hand written letter from me some 40 years ago about a crankshaft.
That must have been my good day.
Ten years before that,at the Golden Jubilee Rally,after the event at Longbridge(,rather than the luxurious Fire College,into which I an booked next week)many of us took our tiny old fashioned tents to stay the night in Cofton Park,a very open public park nearby,in which I recall I felt very unsafe.
At the time we did in fact own 5 Austin Sevens,four of which we still have.
These cars cost a total of approximately £750 and were all used as daily transport with cannibalism rife in the middle of the nights to ensure that my wife could get to her teaching job in Bristol, and me to my crane building work in Nailsworth.
Times have definitely changed,but I don't recall any massed whingeing about either the rally site,nor the camping.
I suppose that many of the cars coming next week cost a good deal more than our £750 ,but it doesn't give anyone the right to berate the volunteer,unpaid and as far as I know expenses free organisers.
We should count ourselves very lucky that anyone would take on the task,and as I am now 50 years older,and slightly more wealthy I am delighted to be tucked up safely in a cosy room.
For those of you unhappy with the current
situation,or perhaps stuck in tents next week,plan ahead for the onehundredand fiftyith and make sure you don't make any mistakes.
After all, you can see what will be expected of you.