Kick Those Shoes Off and Relax. It's the Delta 2017 Tea Break

[jcdeleted]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

I'm told 'Crash & Burn' is being shown again on BBC4 on Monday evening, don't know what time.

Goodwood MM is also on Monday evening, ITV4 at 9pm UK time.

Bet they clash...

Goodwood MM also on ITV4 tonight (Thursday) at 9pm.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by delta

Moving on im up at 4 am as testing at Blyton Park . My first visit .

I read 'Blyton' as 'Bletchley' first time. Couldn't think why you'd be visiting the wartime code-breakers HQ........

[justracing]

Originally Posted by midgetman

I always thought it was Lawrence Tomlinson's concept anyway so that's probably an accounting change.

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Quite right about Laurence Tomlinson, Ginetta announced yesterday that they had taken over Blyton retaining Richard Usher to oversee the day today running.

[delta]

Originally Posted by justracing

Quite right about Laurence Tomlinson, Ginetta announced yesterday that they had taken over Blyton retaining Richard Usher to oversee the day today running.

Richard did drivers briefing . When some **** left his phone on and it rang twice he told him straight to switch off . Blooming good bloke . The track lay out is his design . For an old air field it was brilliant .

[Lancsbreaker]

AROC did a trackday there (Blyton) a year or so ago - enjoyed some entertaining rides around a surprisingly testing circuit. Sure with Ginetta's backing facilities will continue to improve

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by delta

Richard did drivers briefing . When some **** left his phone on and it rang twice he told him straight to switch off .

Wasn't yours then....

[gary396]

Is there anybody that can translate this for me please? I've tried Google Translate but it doesn't seem to work. I think it has something to do with F1 but thought I would post it here for the benefit of the Historic 'Tenthers who still retain some interest in F1.

Credit to Andrew Benson / BBC for the original piece.

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by gary396

Is there anybody that can translate this for me please? I've tried Google Translate but it doesn't seem to work. I think it has something to do with F1 but thought I would post it here for the benefit of the Historic 'Tenthers who still retain some interest in F1.

Credit to Andrew Benson / BBC for the original piece.

Has anyone ever seen Sean Bratches and Ron Dennis in the same room?
(It just sounds a familiar style...)

[grantp]

Originally Posted by gary396

Is there anybody that can translate this for me please? I've tried Google Translate but it doesn't seem to work. I think it has something to do with F1 but thought I would post it here for the benefit of the Historic 'Tenthers who still retain some interest in F1.

Credit to Andrew Benson / BBC for the original piece.

I think he means :

"We have no specific idea about how to make this popular enough to xtract even more money from the masses, especially the young people we need for the future, so we will try everything we can think of and see what happens.

If something works we can "hail" it at a great strategic commercial decision.

Anything that fails will be quietly ignored. Since we have not announced that we will be trying it we can simply ignore it and pretend it was never really considered.

Meanwhile we will take a look at what the Formula E attempts have delivered to see if there is anything we can "borrow" from them."

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by gary396

Is there anybody that can translate this for me please? I've tried Google Translate but it doesn't seem to work. I think it has something to do with F1 but thought I would post it here for the benefit of the Historic 'Tenthers who still retain some interest in F1.

Credit to Andrew Benson / BBC for the original piece.

Ron Dennis has lost his crown!

Sounds like we have a couple of seasons left to 'enjoy' FTA.......

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Ah, 60th for Fiat 500. Thought perhaps they were going to use them for VIP movement during the Classic!

Just had a de-brief with my HF1 neighbours. They reckoned quite busy in the morning, then after the lunchtime passenger rides it all went relatively dead...... Their two drivers almost didn't turn up- fog delaying their (heliocopter) departure from home! Cars survived and didn't break, so a sort of success......





Some of the customs are 'growing on me', if done well. I've watched the odd episode of 'Counting Cars' recently!

There's a Classic dragster meeting at the Pod at the end of April, I think. Bet it clashes with Donington.....

Not sure if I should do this (you can always delete it!) but here's a link to my stuff from Arras. There was a very smart 205 Rallye too. It's a lovely event that brings in anything & everything. http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=16271

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Not sure if I should do this (you can always delete it!) but here's a link to my stuff from Arras. There was a very smart 205 Rallye too. It's a lovely event that brings in anything & everything. http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=16271

Very tidy, although I prefer the look on original steel wheels.........

[Gerard C]

Nice pics/ text as on usual "Jean", thanks for sharing. What is the conversion for the Midget please?
Very popular here a lot of Traction. The example sitting in the Citroën museum was export England one and shows some interior differences with the lhd models with metal parts painted in wood style Ã* la Facel Vega.
Mike, agreed for the 205 wheels!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Nice pics/ text as on usual "Jean", thanks for sharing. What is the conversion for the Midget please?
Very popular here a lot of Traction. The example sitting in the Citroën museum was export England one and shows some interior differences with the lhd models with metal parts painted in wood style Ã* la Facel Vega.
Mike, agreed for the 205 wheels!

Merci pour les compliments!

The Midget was an Ashley conversion, probably the only one that wasn't at Goodwood & probably more genuine than some! I heard a Goodwood commentator say that it is remarkable what you can do with a 70's rubber bumper Midget!

[Gerard C]

Il n'y a pas de quoi, Jean, ça me fait plaisir!
I read this comment too. The pleasure I had watching the Westlake was of type "with no rubber" if you see what I mean…

[Gerard C]

Did you have some CG's coupés in UK? Strange to see that in Arras which is not that far from Belgium they didn't bring more Minerva or Sarolea (quality made) or Flandria mopeds (Flandria made very nice looking baby stroller). May be you should consider a visit to Lille's braderie !!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Did you have some CG's coupés in UK? Strange to see that in Arras which is not that far from Belgium they didn't bring more Minerva or Sarolea (quality made) or Flandria mopeds (Flandria made very nice looking baby stroller). May be you should consider a visit to Lille's braderie !!

I don't think CG's ever made it to the UK, at least not officially.

I'm always amazed at the stuff which turns up at the Arras show. I think mostly they are local, although there are always a few visitors from Belgium, the UK & even Holland.

The Lille Braderie was cancelled last year because of worries about terrorism; they felt it would be very difficult to secure all the little streets. Even the Marche de Noel was surrounded by a high fence & security guards.

[Gerard C]

CG story can be considered as being sad or modest or pathetic. They were said to be Alpine for wussies (Mike please do moderate this if not correct!). Simca Chrysler was a little bit embarrassed with this situation so they had the MC model made. It was in fact a Matra mid engineered prototype in CG guise!!

Probably the braderie will take place this year. And Lille is a town, nothing to see with underwear Bob …

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Mike, agreed for the 205 wheels!

Scan of old photo, so apologies for poor quality..... Car just back from Belgium Peugeot dealer in 1989. Many owners fitted alloy wheels though! I need a set of the wheel centre caps- think they were from a Peugeot van!

Anorak note- Did you know that the German version used a detuned 1.9 engine rather than than TU?

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Scan of old photo, so apologies for poor quality..... Car just back from Belgium Peugeot dealer in 1989. Many owners fitted alloy wheels though! I need a set of the wheel centre caps- think they were from a Peugeot van!

Anorak note- Did you know that the German version used a detuned 1.9 engine rather than than TU?

If you had posted that last week I could have scoured the autojumble for you on Sunday...

[MGDavid]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Merci pour les compliments!

The Midget was an Ashley conversion, probably the only one that wasn't at Goodwood & probably more genuine than some! I heard a Goodwood commentator say that it is remarkable what you can do with a 70's rubber bumper Midget!

Surely no Ashley in period had a boot spoiler / kamm tail call it what you will? My bet is it's Williams & Pritchard, although in any event the bonnet side vents shouldn't be there!
The modern Ashley 're-creation / continuation' by one of the Davis's does have the rear spoiler, only because the original Ashley goes dangerously light on the back end at race speeds.

Here's an original Ashley advert:

[MGDavid]

and here's a W&P one that went though my hands a few years back:

(sorry my editing skills aren't good enough to put all in one post!)

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by MGDavid

Surely no Ashley in period had a boot spoiler / kamm tail call it what you will? My bet is it's Williams & Pritchard, although in any event the bonnet side vents shouldn't be there!
The modern Ashley 're-creation / continuation' by one of the Davis's does have the rear spoiler, only because the original Ashley goes dangerously light on the back end at race speeds.

Here's an original Ashley advert:

I'm afraid I'm not enough of an expert to know - I went by what was on the information board, which said it was an Ashley. Admittedly I did think it looked quite 'modern'.

[Gerard C]

Congrats MGDavid many things to learn here once again. hard to find what was what because you had so many suppliers involved in this business.
Mike c'on, as already said if you need something for your 205 just ask. I guarantee only that I'll try to find. "Jean" I think mike is looking for "enjoliveurs de centre de roue" and that van means in this case "utilitaire".
Are they plastic made with a moulded lion head? Slightly boring to put in place if you want to force them when the 4 bolts are already there?

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Are they plastic made with a moulded lion head? Slightly boring to put in place if you want to force them when the 4 bolts are already there?

Yes, exactly that. Black plastic, lion highlighted in silver. Bolts hold them in place....