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Lancs June News
Weekend 27th/28th April was our annual weekend away, where we invaded the Yorkshire dales again. But this time staying at the Rose and Crown hotel in Bainbridge where we had booked 9 of the 10 rooms available. In years gone by we have had members of the Pilling car club join us. Paul (MGB/GT), Henry & June (MG Midget) did so again this year. We were also joined by two TR7/V8’s from Club Triumph members, namely ‘Chris and Sarah’ & ‘Les and Pam’. So with our lot, Maria/Tony (GT6), Debbie/Leyland (Stag) Me & Fran (Vitesse) Norman /Angela (Daimler Dart) and Dennis and Julie (Astra) we arrived at the hotel/pub Friday afternoon. The only problem on the horizon was the storm ‘Hannah’ that was due to hit us. Not phased by this we had our evening meals and drinks, and following breakfast Saturday morning we set out on a 90 odd mile run around the dales. All was going well until I noticed that the Stag was no longer behind me, I stopped and waited at the next junction but after a few minutes I doubled back to find the Stag with the bonnet open (GT6 & Astra in attendance). They’d already found that fuel starvation as the problem and had discovered that a fuel filter in the boot was the culprit (see picture). Fortunately, I had a spare with me and once Leyland had swapped it out we were all mobile again. Over the moors past Tan Hill and onto our stop at Barnard Castle (nice town) for some ‘retail therapy’, then onto Raby castle for a drink and a snack. Up to now the weather had been on and off rain which wasn’t great but coming over the tops from Mickleton to Brough storm Hannah made driving ‘a challenge’. Most of us skipped out on the second scheduled stop in Hawes and headed straight back to the ‘warm and dry’ hotel bar.
Following our evening meal we counted the voting slips for the ‘car of the weekend’ which was a close call between five cars, with Maria’s GT6 scooping the honour. Leyland & Debbie won the quiz that Dennis had prepared, and numerous people won raffle prizes. So not a bad end to the day.
Sunday morning, and blue sky’s……don’t you just love the British weather!!!!.
30th April – our monthly meeting (at the New Hall Tavern) this was planned to be our last evening meeting until autumn. For the summer months we plan to meet on a Sunday morning.
Kevin