Kit Cars and Kaboodle

[MOC Chair]

I went to the kit car event at Great British Car Journey where we had a good turnout of Marlins. We were only beaten in numbers by the Westfields.
Two mk1 Roadsters, two mk2 Roadsters, one Sportster, one Hunter, one Cabrio, one Berlinetta and one TVR were present.
Thanks everyone for supporting the event.

[billjackson54]

What did I do? I went to the kitcar and caboodle as well. A bit of a trek for me at 140 miles each way requiring an overnight stop. I tend to avoid the motorways in the Marlin as the constant unvarying wind battering is exhausting....so I drove up on Saturday afternoon, hood down, 4 hours 10 minutes. Sunny and hot, but the car sang all the way arriving in Derby about 5.10pm. I'd not been to the Great British Car Journey before....a substantial museum on the banks of the Derwent ...it has a huge carpark, plentiful catering facilities and today Marlins were well represented as Doug has explained. The Westfield contingent was bigger, and they all drove off at lunchtime, in convoy, so thereafter it was just the MOC and some others, including a lone Quantum 2+2 and a lovely TVR.
I left at 3 for the run back with an ETA of 7.10pm, and I nearly made it. It was cloudy the whole way and the temperature dropped the further south I got....gloves and scarf and roof up by the time I got in sight of home territory. What have I discovered? For the VERY FIRST TIME in nearly 40 years of kit car ownership I have AN ACCURATE FUEL GAUGE!!! It was reading almost empty when I filled up at the "cheap" (E5 at £1.41) local fuel dump and the tan took 37 litres. I believe its supposed to be an 11 gallon tank, (50 litres), so to read Full when it is and to take 37 litres when it says its empty suggests that it could still have 13 litres "in reserve"....and I'm never likely to run it down far enough to suck all the inevitable grot through to the EFi. I got in at 7.15...Good for Google!

[A_Hogg]

Good to see you again Bill!