`A WEEKEND OF DRIVING THROUGH SOME OF THE COUNTRY`S MOST SCENIC ROUTES!`
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2007
The evening was spent having a meal in the club house which was Ok and the entertainment
was family orientated but we just drunk beer and talked amongst our selves in the company
of some really friendly Rodders many from Scotland.
Saturday was to be a 10 o'clock start and to be honest I cant remember if we set off on time
or not I think we did as most were eager to get out into the lakes. I finally got to meet Paul
Burgess, I have swapped e-mails with Paul for several years previous, though never met
him. He had come back to the UK after living in the Philippines for years and he was in a
Rodded 34 Morris that he had built over here over the last 2 1/2 - 3years and what a cracking
job he has made of it.
The Rod Run route Craig had planned was a drive round Thirlmere using a little known road
then onto Ambleside and up over Kirkstone Pass, round Ullswater and back to camp about
70 mile. Shaun Wilson had managed to get the run a part of the NSCC points rounds and so
there were a quite a few very quick cars proving they are real street driven cars to and not
just in name, Big Al Williamson's potentially 10 sec Truck was one notable and a 427
powered 100E stuck in my mind. With the NSCC cars involved it made for a varied selection
of cars, with a modern Mustang an 80's mustang, 60's mustang and Capri's with V8's and
Pops.My mate Bakey's was there in his cool 80's Pop and a couple of ones I don't think I
have seen before, a modern Dodge Truck with a Billy Connolly look alike and his stuning
wife a Couple of mid Fifty Yanks and a real nice Low Lead sled style car, a massive and I
mean massive Scots guy in a ratty Pink Mercury Marquis. A couple of Model A's a sedan
and a Delivery an F100 and the afore mentioned 34 Sedan's and 32 Roadster and various
other styles and makes.
On the drive out we all managed to stay pretty much together and the scenery that Craig
took us round was mind blowing stuff and the ride over Kirkstone never fails to impress and
the sight of a 10 sec ( ok 11.01 PB without the nitros) Truck trundling down Kirkstone will be
a sight that will stay with me a long tme. Also the guys in the big Yank tin impressed me
they didn't bottle it and proved you can do the lakes in an aircraft carrier.
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