Jump to content
Click here if you are having website access problems ×

SBD762

Account Inactive
  • Posts

    520
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Blog Entries posted by SBD762

  1. SBD762
    2015 Blats
    Hello everyone.
    This is early notice of some stuff I am planning for 2015. Dates and times will be confirmed in advance. Most will be at weekends.
    2015  Dates / Time TBC, events organized by me
    Big Blat – A day Blat across Devon and Somerset with lunch Haynes Motor Museum visit and use of their Track (if enough interested) Moretonhampstead Motor Museum visit Breakfast Blat at a South Devon Pub  TBC Jamie’s Cream Tea Blat TBC The following are open to anyone and everyone so I will keep you advised on these events. They are opportunities for us as club members to meet. You Blat yourself there - i.e.it's a Clat!
    Castle Hill Car Festival Filleigh meet August? 2015 TBC PowderhamClassic Car Show meet September?> 2015 TBC Exmouth Car Show meet August? 2015 TBC Thornfalcon Car Show meet  1st Sunday in September? 2015 TBC combine with our Somerset colleagues Wiscombe Park Meet – April through to September 2015,l various meetings TBC All the best
    Steve
     
    30th December 2014,
    Was this possibly the last Devon Area Blat of the year?
    Who knows.
    Anyway 5 drivers and one passenger braved the day in North Devon.
    My start was a 6.15am alarm, Then of at 7.15 I headed off from sunny? Exmouth to Great Torrington to meet up with Andy. A quick 'pee' stop for me and we were off,  well Andy was,  like a bat out of hell!
    1/2 a mile later I round a bend and there he was waiting, and asking if I was OK? I was, but just too slow!
    I had just spent and hour and a half tippy toeing through ice laden roads trying to protect my pride and joy and here he was, fearless!!! along some of the best roads going.
    Ah well, what the hell I just followed him.
    Stop off at Umberleigh to be joined by Jonathan and we the sped off to Bampton to be joined by Jeremy and Claire (Outsiders from the Somerset lot!!), but we are open to anybody joining us!
    Once again the famous Caterham Bladder stop was necessary, so we all piled into the loo - not together of course.
    Some brilliant roads and ice, snow and slush later we are joined at Tiverton by Dave, from there on we had the best Blat stretch of  road (in my opinion) the one from Bickleigh to Crediton. Fast and challenging - great stuff!
    So there we were 5 cars up and motored on back up to Torrington stopping off for a warm up and bite to eat at Rosemoor Gardens, where our cars were welcomed with delight from the many visitors enjoying the gardens.
     
  2. SBD762
    Hello everyone,
    I have set up some Blat/Clat dates for 2015. Rather than have Blats announced ad-hoc by me, I propose the following Blats/Clat Dates for this year.
    It is difficult for us all to meet up regularly. However I have chosen The Elizabethan Inn (Elizabethan Inn Restaurant & Bar Fore Street Luton Nr Newton Abbot Devon TQ13 0BL) as a Clat/Blat location. Let's try this and see how it works. I have arranged with the Proprietor (Nick Powell) to have Full English Breakfast (Including Tea/Fruit Juice, Full English and more) for £8 as part of their F1 Club facility. This usually costs £10.
    This is a great venue - OK the last mile and a bit is "down the lanes" - but the Pub is fantastic and the owners are committed petrol heads and more specifically they are F1 fans, hence we can join them for their popular F1 Breakfasts at the same time the GP's are shown on a Big Screen. Stay if you want, but it's not compulsory. If you have a mind to, you can join the F1 club at The Elizabethan.
    The rest of the dairy is self explanatory. However I really do need you to let me know that you will attend the proposed Clats/Blats, particularly the Saturday Breakfast as Nick will open up just for us.
    That said I would like to know if you are able to attend the Clats/Blats anyway - If not then we won't be able to run them.
    I have also included some non blat dates for your diary, local events which I am likely to go to, so again if you are going, let me know and we can meet up at the venue.
    I'll put all this on Blatchat - see Devon Area Events etc.
    Lotus Seven Club – Devon Area - 2015 Events
    Date
    Devon Area 7’s  - 2015 Blats
    Blat / Clat #
    Date / TBC
    Sunday March 29
    Meet for Breakfast at The Elizabethan
    Stay for the Malaysian F1 GP on the Big Screen
     
    Clat#1
    Fixed date
    Full English c.£8
    Sunday
    April 12
    Meet for Breakfast at The Elizabethan
    Stay for the Chinese F1 GP on the Big Screen
     
    Clat#2
    Fixed date
    Full English c. £8
    Sunday
    May 17
    Clat to Moretonhampsted Motor Museum. Meet in car park opposite at 11.30am for visit to the museum – lunch after?
     
    Clat#3
    Fixed date
    Sunday
    June 14
    Devon & Somerset Borders Blat
    Devon and Somerset 7’s Day out Blat
    Blat #4
    TBC
    Sunday
    July 5
    Clat to Haynes Motor Museum Sunday Breakfast Club Meet at 9.00am
    Clat#5
    TBC
    Saturday
    August 8
    Breakfast Meet at The Elizabethan – Luton, Devon. No F1 at this Clat
     
    Clat#6
    Fixed
    Full English c.£8
    Sunday
    September 20
    Jamie’s Cream Tea Blat
    9.30 am start
     
    Blat#7
    TBC
    Sunday
    September 27
    Meet for Breakfast at The Elizabethan
    Stay for the Japanese F1 GP on the Big Screen
     
    Clat#8
    Fixed
    Full English c.£8
     
    I am not responsible for accuracy of the following dates
    Please ensure you check for yourself
     
    Date
    Diary Dates
    Likely Attend
    Date Fixed / TBC
    21 June 2015
    Great West Jaguar & Classic Car Day
     
    Fixed
    11 & 12 July 2015
    CBCCC Classic gathering at Powderham Castle 
    XFixed
    30 August 2015
    Classic Motor show Devon – Ugbrooke House, Chudleigh
     
    Fixed
    31 August 2015
    Aveton Gifford Classic Car Show
     
    Fixed
    6 September 2015
    Thornfalcon Car Show
    X
    TBC
     
    Wiscombe Hill Climbs - 2015
    X
     
     
    April 25/26,May 9,May 10, May 16, May 17
     
    Fixed
     
    July 25/26,September 5/6, September 12
     
    Fixed
     
    September 13
     
    Fixed
    NB Website for http://www.elizabethaninn.co.uk/f1-club Nick Powell - Proprietor
    Regards
    Steve (Devon Area Rep)
×
×
  • Create New...