The Magazine of the Fairford Classic Car Club
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The Magazine of the Fairford Classic Car Club SUMMER EDITION July 2013 WHAT’S ON FAIRFORD CLASSIC CAR CLUB Member of the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs A summary of motoring events with Club activities highlighted . Check the Club Website Quarterly Magazine FC3 Summer 2013 and Newsletters for details, changes and information. If you have a question about any event, please call Bunny Lees-Smith (01666) 577 275 In this issue FCCC WHEN WHAT WHERE WHO REGULARS What’s On 2-4 August Steam & Vintage Rally South Cerney Barry Cooper Editor’s Welcome Fri - Sun 01285 851 821 From the Chair 11 August Wiltshire Valleys & 100 mile run through Info (John Rogers) Page 3 Sunday Villages Classic Tour the countryside 01225 782 358 Quiz Corner 17 August CSMA Big Weekend Thruxton Ken Hinton Motoring Musings Saturday 01285 712 522 Tappet Clatter 18 August Fairford Steam Rally Poulton Ken Hinton The Membership Secretary Sunday 01285 712 522 Welcome For The Record 28 August RAF Cosford Cosford Bunny Lees-Smith FEATURES As life evolved on the farm, the Wednesday COACH TRIP 01666 577 275 more equal of Orwell’s animals changed Chez Grosset 7 September Oakridge Village Festival Oakridge Mike Scott the maxim to “Four legs good, two legs Saturday 01285 760 315 Atwell - Wilson better!”. Had George been a petrol-head, Land’s End Revisited we know where this would have gone. 7-8 Sep Beaulieu Autojumble Beaulieu info Boys’ Day Out This issue features some of the two Sat - Sun wheeled aspects of our Club. John Payne One Man’s Obsession and his Clyno are in their tenth decade and 8 September Tetbury Classic Car Tetbury Barry Cooper Cutting Out Sunday Show 01285 851 821 we are delighted to recount their epic journey to Land’s End. Malcolm has 12 September Club Natter Malcolm Cutler The Crown of Crucis Front Cover dragged his Norton Big 4 into the shed and Details TBA 01285 712 173 onto the new work stand and Rob Bevan The Goodwood Festival of Speed - the sends us some historic bikie photos with 13-15 Sep Goodwood Revival Goodwood info world’s best automotive garden party. a personal connection. Fri - Sun John & Tim Payne and their Clyno. See Page 8. After the winter and spring we’ve had, it’s 21-29 Sep FCCC Away Week Northern Ireland Malcolm Cutler 01285 712 173 wonderful to see the warm weather filling Centrefold the roads with classic cars and bikes. The 3 October Visit to Nuffield Place Huntercombe Dave Chambers The Clyno and John at the end of England. Club has truly been out and about the last Thursday Details TBA 01608 658 603 few months — an epic St George’s Day Back Cover Run, Hunters with our Annual Concourse, Motorcycles ! The boys arms are too the Meysey Hampton Festival, roasting RAF Cosford short. ourselves at the Atwell-Wilson Museum FAIRFORD STEAM RALLY There are a few seats left , if you would like to see and a few of the lads had a nice day out at Sunday 18 August in Poulton at close quarters the oldest Spitfire, the Lincoln the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Summer bomber, the only remaining TSR2, the Bristol type FC3 is published quarterly by the Fairford is not over by a long way and there are 188, a Hastings, and a Comet 1A, plus a huge col- Classic Car Club and is free to members. lots of events and outings yet to come. FCCC has a display Love to see you on four wheels or two. Or lection of other aircraft, this is the trip for you. Web: www.fairfordclassiccarclub.org.uk three . stand of six cars Ring Bunny on 01666 577275 right now. Great value at only £24 ahead. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ Dave fairfordclassics/sets FC3 is printed by Busy Fingers, Cirencester. http://www.busyfingersprinting.com/ 2 3 events such as the FROM THE CHAIR lunch runs, some- PAGE 3 Malcolm Cutler times involving visits The only topless here is the cars! (It’s really page 5 but, well, you know …..) to historic houses, open gardens etc are This FC3 issue is packed with great articles, central to our Club’s Christopher Chadwick Triumph GT6 Mk III none more so than the report on John activities. Over the Payne’s trip from Staines to Land’s End on I have owned the GT6 since 1980. A big part of my life with this car was it’s restoration past five+ years we his Clyno combination, with his son Tim. It through my own efforts and those of Barry Cooper of Cooper Motorsport Ltd. in Petersfield have seen an in- was an epic trip and a well written story . between 1998-99. The first job was the chassis. After shot blasting, the rust was cut out and crease in the number You will see from the ‘Your Committee’ list new bits welded in. Barry built a jig and the work was done of other, static (Page 20), that there has been a reshuffle to a high standard throughout. We moved on to the events where FCCC and hopefully, greater clarification of our brakes, suspension, drive train, new bonnet, two- has been invited to ‘show’ its cars. These duties and responsibilities. I should stress pack paint job, stone-chip underneath include local village fetes, specific classic car that these changes still have to be confirmed and then fitting it all back together. shows and recently events in other parts of at the next full FCCC Committee Meeting and I got the engine from a the UK and overseas! As a Committee, we also the next AGM (date still to be con- breaker in Malmesbury who was feel that whilst we should still support spe- firmed). The changes have come about due dismantling a GT6, buying it on cific shows e.g. Churchill (of course!), Atwell to a combination of circumstances including the strength of its appear- Wilson, South Cerney and Fairford Steam a need to simplify/clarify how we communi- ance and that it had been running events, we cannot support every event we cate, both within and outside the club. Also, when the car was brought in. Kent Cams supplied a TH5 profile are invited to. If we did so we will not have a recent discussion with Barry made clear his camshaft giving a 25% power increase to 130 bhp. The bores are 20 thou over- the time to organise what we really enjoy wish, due to the ever increasing use of elec- sized and I uprated the engine lubrication. I did the carbs myself choosing the Strom- doing i.e. using our cars, not just siting and tronic communications i.e. web, e-mail, and berg 175 twin carbs from a TR4 because I wanted to recreate the old SAH stage 2 kit that looking at them! Expect more runs in 2014. his other, aviation interests, to ‘stand down’ was around in the 60s and 70s. The old car burbles along quite happily without overheating The proposed changes in committee mem- as Club Secretary. Apart from myself, Barry and is worth preserving and using because it has so much character. ber’s duties involve Geoff Tebby taking over is, I believe, the longest serving member of the role of Secretary and specifically being the Club and of the Committee, and we have the main club contact for people outside the been very fortunate that he has given so Chez Grosset club e.g. inviting the club to events, enquir- much time and effort to the club over the ies etc. He will also continue to circulate Some of us may remember the Club’s June 2002 expedition to Chateau de la Ranconniere at past 25+ years. However, every cloud has a th general internal club communication via e- Crepon near Creully, Normandy for the D-Day anniversary. Next year will be the 70 and silver lining and, whilst he will still be on the mail and hard copy. Bunny Lees-Smith will perhaps the last one. You may recall a wonderful party at the home of Paul and Eliane Committee, he will now be able to concen- be the Events Coordinator working closely Grosset at Coulombs. We enjoyed fabulous hospitality at Paul’s garden garage. trate his efforts on organising his ever popu- with Geoff to identify club events, who will This recollection spawns two thoughts: lar Cotswold lunch runs. I believe that be the person responsible for organising the th event on behalf of FCCC, and providing sup- Perhaps a repeat visit to Normandy for the 70 Anniversary ? port where required. David Chambers will An opportunity to pursue the resurrection of a 1968 Renault Caravelle lying dismantled take on the role of Membership Secretary in Paul’s garage. Last on the road in September 1985, the Caravelle Coupe convertible ensuring that the membership list is kept up requires a saviour who is prepared to pay Paul a reasonable price for the opportunity of to date and circulated, sending out subscrip- re-commissioning an extremely rare motor car. There is a lot of work to do! On the plus tion renewal notices and welcoming new side, all of the rot has been attended to but there is still some not too serious surface members. Dave Barton (Editor), Jill Cutler rust. It’s dismantled so a container to a suitable restoration work site would be needed. If interested, call me (01285) 712775 or email Paul direct on [email protected] (Treasurer) and myself (Chairman) will con- tinue with our present duties.