It’s The Latte Latte Delta Tea Break 2018

[Peter Mallett]

I got used to them pretty quickly.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

My HANs is pretty old, it's carbon fibre but it must be ten years since I bought it.

Same for me. First homologation number for the early types shows 8858-2010. New ones seem lighter and more efficient too (side and front). Its sometimes hard to buy something from the fantastic DT catalogue but can't explain why.

[Lancsbreaker]

Originally Posted by midgetman

I'll post the following in "Drivers" Forum, but in case some competitors don't get over there, I've had a missive from TRS regarding harnesses for 2018 that may be relevant:

FIA have introduced a NEW standard for harnesses, 8853:2016. For FIA regulated motorsport, NEW harnesses purchased from January 2018 must be to the 8853:2016 standard. They will also be identified with a Gold coloured FIA hologram label.

Yeah, thanks for posting Max - not your fault of course, but isn't March a bit late for news of this sort of reg change to be leaked out? What is up with the sport's regulators these days?

[morninggents]

Too busy appointing liaison officers for this, that and the other and pushing the latest in data protection issues than informing actual competitors of new regulations. Don't forget we are the 'cash cows' here.

[MGDavid]

Looking after a novice racer at a cold, wet and soggy Silverstone; cheered up by discovering we're sharing a garage with Al Weyman who seems in good spirits :-)
Happy days

[Alfaholic]

I'll be there tomorrow - CTC & BARC seem to have decent grids for the majority of the races except the Clio Juniors.

Trip to Brands Hatch today - total of 5 hours on the road for a 3 hour round trip thanks to a morning accident closing 2 lanes on the Dartford Bridge and goodness knows what closing one of the tunnels this afternoon.

[Lancsbreaker]

Been monitoring both Brands and Silverstone today courtesy of TSL - Brands because a couple of mates are racing tomorrow in BMW Compact Cup and were practicing late today, and Silverstone to keep an eye on Al, and various Alfas spread around the pre-66, pre-83, and pre-03 races

Glad to have the season starting again!

[Mike Bell]

There were lots of Mods (as in parka wearers) on appropriate machinery in the Norwich area today. Most looked like they were Mods in the original period as well. No idea what was going on.....

[Lancsbreaker]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

There were lots of Mods (as in parka wearers) on appropriate machinery in the Norwich area today. Most looked like they were Mods in the original period as well. No idea what was going on.....

A couple of period-looking Lambrettas zapped round a roundabout in front of me in Tenerife yesterday......fair took me back Although wearing a parka out here might be a little OTT......


Oh and well done to Al Weyman for a storming race in Bumble today - unlike yesterday when it was damp he could obviously get the power down, and passed two cars on the last lap for a 6th place!

[Colin McKay]

An auction I was watching has just seen a first edition Harry Potter book sell for £22K + fees!!!! Really??? Nothing exceptional about it, in fact it was quite tatty. Perhaps that adds to the value. The world's gone bleedin' mad.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Colin McKay

An auction I was watching has just seen a first edition Harry Potter book sell for £22K + fees!!!! Really??? Nothing exceptional about it, in fact it was quite tatty. Perhaps that adds to the value. The world's gone bleedin' mad.

Difficult to argue with that.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Colin McKay

An auction I was watching has just seen a first edition Harry Potter book sell for £22K + fees!!!! Really??? Nothing exceptional about it, in fact it was quite tatty. Perhaps that adds to the value. The world's gone bleedin' mad.

I've got a box full of Harry Potter books to dispose of - perhaps I had better check what edition they are. They are certainly not tatty...

[John Elwin]

Speaking of strange prices, wandering around the private sales area at Techno Classica Essen, I discovered a Renault 4 for a mere 14,900 euros! For 1,000 euros less, one could buy a Rolls Royce!

One of the dealers had a tiny little Goggomobil van with 110,000 euros on it.

[morninggents]

The world certainly has gone mad. This month's Classic Car has an ad for a 1964 970cc Mini Cooper 'S' for a fiver under £85,000. In pristine condition sure, but £85 grand?

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by morninggents

The world certainly has gone mad. This month's Classic Car has an ad for a 1964 970cc Mini Cooper 'S' for a fiver under £85,000. In pristine condition sure, but £85 grand?

Agreed, I remember when I worked in an Austin/Morris garage in the early 60s a brand new Std Mini was around 500 quid. I can't remember how much the S variants were in the day but I can remember the owner on the garage's son had a new 1275 one to impress his friends.

[Mike Bell]

Did anyone watch the Beeb RAF documentary that was on last night? Just caught up with it and it’s a gem- and very moving.... My favourite bit (but it’s all good) was listening to the two ladies of the Air Transport Auxiliary. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Coincidentally when out cycling this afternoon a Triplane flew over, probably a Fokker replica, sounding suitably agricultural, and I also passed a group of people gathered on the site of a WW2 airfield (now farmland again), singing. Not sure what that was about....

[Lancsbreaker]

Missed it Mike, but intending to catch it on i-player when back in Uk next week.....thanks for reminder.....

[MGDavid]

Originally Posted by morninggents

The world certainly has gone mad. This month's Classic Car has an ad for a 1964 970cc Mini Cooper 'S' for a fiver under £85,000. In pristine condition sure, but £85 grand?

a similar-sounding 970S went for £41k at auction over the weekend.
More reasonably a later 60s 1275 Mini competition car with lots of the right bits and ripe for recommissioning (but not a total rot-box resto) went for £6100 on ebay the other day.

[Mike Bell]

I think a 970S will always be worth more as it was made in much smaller numbers and was a homologation special. But agree about that price- I’d be well pushed to justify spending £85k on one! Makes an RS1600 cheap....

[Mike Bell]

Here’s a bit of good news for John Elwin...... Geely, owners of Lotus, have appointed Peter Horbury in overall charge of Design at Hethel. He is of course well known for his work at Volvo!

[andy97]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Did anyone watch the Beeb RAF documentary that was on last night? Just caught up with it and it’s a gem- and very moving.... My favourite bit (but it’s all good) was listening to the two ladies of the Air Transport Auxiliary. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Coincidentally when out cycling this afternoon a Triplane flew over, probably a Fokker replica, sounding suitably agricultural, and I also passed a group of people gathered on the site of a WW2 airfield (now farmland again), singing. Not sure what that was about....

Must admit, I didn't think much to it. Some good bits, the aforementioned ATA Ladies, the Spitfire pilot talking about ghosts in the cockpit and the interviews with Dave Morgan and the Vulcan crew but generally I thought it was too trite and too much about McGregor. The build and flight in the Eurofighter took up nearly 1/3 of the programme.

Nothing really about the ground crew and engineering, nothing about AT, AEW or Nimrod, nothing about SAR, nothing about UAVs etc. Of course 90 mins isn't long to do a single programme about the history of the RAF - should have been a series - but take McGregor's gushing out of it and they could have fitted all that in. Sorry! I must be getting grumpier in my old age!

[andy97]

On a completely different note.

If anyone is thinking of using the M1 on the weekend of 11 May through Junction 23a and J24 (Donington Park, East Midlands Airport, A50 to Stoke), don't. The motorway is to be shut ALL WEEKEND for the installation of a new bridge from 20:00 on Friday 11 May to about 1500 on Sunday 13 May.

I think there is an endurance bike meeting on at Donington that weekend.

There is supposed to be a diversion along the parallel A453, however, I can foresee chaos.

[bauble]

Originally Posted by andy97

Must admit, I didn't think much to it. Some good bits, the aforementioned ATA Ladies, the Spitfire pilot talking about ghosts in the cockpit and the interviews with Dave Morgan and the Vulcan crew but generally I thought it was too trite and too much about McGregor. The build and flight in the Eurofighter took up nearly 1/3 of the programme.

Nothing really about the ground crew and engineering, nothing about AT, AEW or Nimrod, nothing about SAR, nothing about UAVs etc. Of course 90 mins isn't long to do a single programme about the history of the RAF - should have been a series - but take McGregor's gushing out of it and they could have fitted all that in. Sorry! I must be getting grumpier in my old age!

And not a mention of LAC Bull.

[bauble]

ACE CAFE CELEBRATES ITS
80th BIRTHDAY AT THE SILVERSTONE CLASSIC

[andy97]

Originally Posted by andy97

Must admit, I didn't think much to it. Some good bits, the aforementioned ATA Ladies, the Spitfire pilot talking about ghosts in the cockpit and the interviews with Dave Morgan and the Vulcan crew but generally I thought it was too trite and too much about McGregor. The build and flight in the Eurofighter took up nearly 1/3 of the programme.

Nothing really about the ground crew and engineering, nothing about AT, AEW or Nimrod, nothing about SAR, nothing about UAVs etc. Of course 90 mins isn't long to do a single programme about the history of the RAF - should have been a series - but take McGregor's gushing out of it and they could have fitted all that in. Sorry! I must be getting grumpier in my old age!

On the upside, it was good to see the Photographic Interpreters get a mention as I used to do that!