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Early morning at Big Bang.

This week

Spring Riot at the Ace Cafe this Wednesday

DJs: Little Carl & Jimmy Guntrip

Band: LAST TRAIN FROM MEMPHIS

Entry Free

Win tickets to Dragstalgia at Santa Pod
www.santapod.com

Win tickets to Enfield Pageant of Motoring
www.whitewebbsmuseum.co.uk

Win tickets to the National Hot Rod, Custom & American Car Show
www.hotrodandcustomshow.co.uk

Spend £5 or more over the counter and receive a raffle ticket
Draw at 10pm

Big Bang

It's just a week to go until the first weekend show of the year, Big Bang, at Santa Pod.

All the usual weekend fun, on the track there's VW only RWYB on Friday and Saturday, championship drag racing from the Super Mods. Outlaw Anglias, 8.50 & 9.50 bikes, junior dragsters and the 'DRC will be running their Daily Driver challenge.

Meanwhile, off track, there's Rust & Rat show on Saturday and the Show & Shine on Sunday as well as kids' entertainment, circus, Jet car, monster truck, fun fair etc.

As for evening entertainent, not so good. Friday offers a Take That tribute act in the marquee or a soft rock disco in the Fuelers Bar. Saturday night has an Indie Tribute band or a Family Disco.

Long term forecasts aren't brilliant, ranging from cloudy to showers so be prepared!

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be making a fly past with a WWII Dakota on Sunday.

Tickets are £40 on the gate

RJH Automotive

As mentioned a few weeks ago, Ross bought himself an LT Beavertail and has set up RJH Automotive offering a fast, reliable car collection and delivery service, with short term storage if required, to anywhere within the UK.

Recent clients include ginga, Robin and Dannyboy.

For more details, or a quote, visit

www.rjhautomotive.co.uk

or phone

01869 600920 / 07967201677

Moving Day

For a car that's been off the road for 17 years, Howard's Beetle has racked up the miles in recent times.

Last weekend ginga and Howard moved it, again. This time from the Top Secret barn to ginga HQ in an effort to get it out to shows this year.

Hitched up & ready to go

Freshly landed in Bicester

Howard insisted on "cleaning the car" - whatever that means

In its new home

The theory is that having 2 projects side by side in the garage will encourage them to get on it, on the other hand ginga may prevail and they'll never be seen again!

Next step - fix the Caddy, d'oh!

Random Blah

First up, DannyBoy has set up a blog to chronicle the happenings at Turbonutta HQ. For a peak inside Danny's mind (be careful!) visit turbonutta.blogspot.co.uk where you'll find things like:

ginga once installed a webcam in his garage but it died of boredom.

Next: Gaz, the Gemma's other 'alf and Phil Collins obsessive, has launched Affordable Video offering his skills for Web, corporate and music videos which is a good excuse to put this, from his FPSD alter ego, up again...

Lastly, Oxfordshire County Council now has an online Fix My Street page to report pot holes and other road damage. Visit fixmystreet.oxfordshire.gov.uk and give em hell!

Wheels Day 2013

Despite warnings of snow and the end of the world, Wheels Day went ahead and was as packed as usual with still a 45 minute queue to get in at noon.

There was the usual 'Ooh Aah' shiny stuff...

 

 

But Wheels Day also brings out the "interesting"...

 

Beetle panned Golf in rare not surrounded by the curious moment

 I have absolutely no idea, not a one...

 Crew Cab Ford P100

Bootled Mini with removable hard-top

 No idea on this one either

Be cooler than Greg for only £8500

 The UK Mini Truck revival starts here!

Citroen CX Roadster 

How to destroy your clutch & flywheel...

This Friday

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Dragged from its slumbers...

Today ginga's Variant, a.k.a. Eddie Valiant, basked in the glow of daylight (well, as much daylight as snow clouds will let through) for the first time in twenty years. It was parked up in early 1993 when the tax disc ran out and has been waiting patiently all this time. The garage door has been up barely 10 times in that period. How it looked in 2009.

After a two vans full of junk carefully accumulated top quality replacement parts were removed the poor old dear was dragged out backwards until the brakes freed off, then the tyres were inflated and it was loaded onto Ross's LT.

 

Genuine early 90s stickers and grafitti including a list of shows attended in 1992 including Spring Championships (RIP), Detling (RIP), Stanford Hall, VolksFest, Stonor Park, Bug Jam 6 and a bunch of others too faded to read.

 

 

 

On the road, sort of.

It's now waiting, again, in a barn with ginga's Fugitive and Howard's Beetle. Well, you can't rush these things!

To have Ross move your car, for a very reasonable fee, call RJH Automotive on 07967201677

This weekend: VolksWorld Show

You know the score, all the usual top show features: massive queue from the M3, crowded halls (they'd fit a lot more people in there if those pesky old cars weren't in the way!), people with push chairs and/or backpacks, long queues for food & drink...

If that wasn't enough you might also find time for Top VW show cars from UK, Europe and the whole wide world, club displays, traders, Tech talks, Bug Stuff, etc...

Tickets are £12 a day for adults and £3.40 for kids under 16.

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