East Anglia Region Newsletter. July.

[dinosoar]

Hi,

Newsletter cut and pasted below.

Andy

the newsletter of the

Cobra Replica Club

East Anglia region 2008

July 2008


Hello all,
The calendar rolls on. July is here and has brought the prospect of yet another ‘jolly’ through the French countryside to visit Le Mans once more. This time a slightly different group of East Anglians will venture across the channel to attend the Classic event at Le Mans. I have been beavering away in the workshop and managed to get the Aston V8 up and running for the journey. Guy has modified his Sumo in preparation for the trip. We have a V8 lueago (or however it is spelt) a track ready Monza and a Support vehicle in the form of Steve’s Vauxhall as Eileen’s Trans Am is unfortunately no more.
I can now report that the journey went well except for the rain on the way down. We did seem to pass a good number of Triumphs parked at the side of the road with their bonnets raised as well as one 427 with a pair of feet emerging from under the rear end. The rain was not too much of a problem in the roofless Aston.
As I reported last month. There is space for two or three keen club members to run a CRC Club stand in the hall at Peterborough Kit & Car Builder show. We have been offered this as it falls on our patch but as there has been no interest so far. It will be offered to the West Midlands lot soon. So be quick if you are interested in attending this new show with your car to promote the club. I am unable to commit as I am usually driving a combine harvester at around that time of year.

Last Month.
There were a few souls left on this side of the channel last month and some of them visited the Poacher at Cratfield. The official report of Andy’s progress with the Euro 427 was “he has still got a fair bit of work to do”. As well as “there are enough parts there for at least one and a half cars”. I suppose we could arrange for all of the bits to be transported to the Peterborough show and put it together over the weekend…

Workshop News.
As already mentioned above, the Aston V8 is up and running. The first public appearance was at Hevingham Hall Country Fair. It was nice to stand back and view the car outside of the workshop environment. There was loads of interest, with folk asking all sorts of questions. I have been looking at the local car show calendar and have booked Helmingham Hall Classic car show, Roughham classic car show, Norwich Union MSA classic run and Silverstone classic as well as the full trade stand at Goodwood Revival. The next set of Aston bodies have arrived along with some donor S-Type Jags.


This Month’s Meet. May 18th.
The Ship Inn, Dunwich. Details below. Great place to enjoy a pint of Adnams and some fish and chips. Book early for food to avoid disappointment.
Monthly Meets. (Third Sunday 12:00ish)

July 20th.
The Ship, St James Street Dunwich, Suffolk. IP17 3DT. Tel: 01728 648 219 shipatdunwich.co.uk
August 17th.
Hill House, Happisburgh, NR12 0PN. Tel: 01629650004.
September 21st.
Stand 21, Goodwood Revival, Sussex.


Events.

Silverstone Classic Silverstone Classic 25th – 27th July

East of England Kit & Car Builder show. www.kitcar-shows.co.uk/peterborough 9th, 10th August.
Space on club stand in the hall for two or three keen East Anglia CRC members cars if you are quick!

Rougham Airfield
Classic car show 16th, 17th August
Classic Car and Sports car Show 4th, 5th October
Tel 01359 270524

Helmingham Festival of Classics. Helmingham Hall. 3rd.August. Helmingham Hall Gardens

Lavenham Rare Breeds Car Show 25th August
Tel 01787 247659 email jane@asandwhen.co.uk

Norwich Union Classic
Navigational Run with track time finishing at Silverstone (recommended) 12th October
email tony@msaclassic.co.uk
Norwich Union MSA Classic - Sunday 12 October 2008

There is a good list of local events to be found at Snaketorque - the cobra replica forum and message board - Index , the South East regional forum.

I would like to put together a list of local events for the coming year. Please contact me if you know of any events that would be of interest. Thanks go to Mark Bright for some of the info listed.

Many thanks and Bye for now.


Andy.


My contact details are as follows;
Home: 01473 250 295 Mobile: 07909531816. Workshop: 01379 688 356 E-mail: andrewsoar@yahoo.com