Took it to Registers Day and won the ModCon Trophy!

Well pleased!

HOW MUCH BOTTLES OF WHISKY DID IT COST YOU???

NONE!

Obviously the voters were taken by the paintwork, 4x4 conversion and of course your ignition system!

Not surprised, its awesome.

not today, but a bit of a catch up of the month. I was lucky enough to have a couple of weeks off work, starting on the morning of July 2nd, after a nightshift. Although we were busy in the early hours, I still mangaged a bit of time to prep the van - wash, clean the windows, a bit of polish on the bonnet (still original paint), a bit of a tidy up inside and new valve caps.




I then drove down to Andover to join my friend (and a dozen or so Hot Rods and customs) at his sons' school fête:



The following day, back in the West Mids, we travelled out to the local Hot Rod & Classic breakfast meeting and then in the afternoon we had a nice drive up into Derbyshire to see my friends' jazz band - on the way back I stopped off to see Merv Sheldon, who took some rather nice pictures of Hugo:



The next few days saw Hugo and I at a funeral, then at a local (Leics) pub & classic car evening, before going down to Hereford to camp with a few of our friends:



Back home after a long weekend of cider drinking, we had our local (West Mids) 2CV meeting and then I had two days of Morris dancing: the first in Kenilworth, the second back in Leicestershire, where I had managed to convince my local club, Leics-Car-Go! to join me. We had eight cars in total: Hugo the Van, Ian's 350, Frank & Andy's P&C D*lly, Andy & Karina's Charleston, Alf's blue Special, Richard & Narissa's Bleu Tropique, a flying visit from Giles in his yellow Mehari and a very special visit from ex-LIPPS (LCG's previous incarnation) guy Pete Cross in his DY C1T Dyane:



Last weekend I was at Santa Pod with my Andover friends again for the Dragstalgia event (Nostalgia drag rcaing), with their '49 Prefect and '60s Anglia. No pics from the camping field, but I did take one last shot on a Northamptonshire lane as we made our way back home avoiding the A14:



We covered a little over 1000 miles, mainly trouble free; the light/horn switch packed up (fixed now) and the throttle return spring snapped just as I came off the motorway on my very last journey, which made for an entertaining last two miles home! Apart from that, I was very pleased with how he's been running (quick enough) and the fuel consumption seems to improve as time goes on (we were into the high 40s last week; I even dared to travel 330kms on one tank). It's been a year since he's been back on the road after a bit of remedial work in 2014/5, following the winter Shetland trip - we're still having fun!

Next time visit Shetland in the Summer, not Mid-Winter.

Yes, it's probably a more metal-friendly season, but I loved that trip - even the memories of the 30+ hours on the ferries are becoming less traumatic

After a wonderful week in west Wales at Aberporth, drove 180 miles home today all roofless - just what 2CV's were made for!

I blew some bits off my chequered roof with the pressure washer. Damn me and that pressure washer, when will I learn!

So I stuck them back on with PVA cos its all I had, it'll have to do for now.

Got a brand new exhaust crossbox which only took 5 days to arrive, and did so on Friday. Spent an hour or so single-handedly fitting it. Car is now nicely quiet... For a 2CV. Just need to get the gearbox rebuilt, then I won't have whining in my ears. Looking forward to the drive down to Worcester in a little over a month from now.