2012 Event Reports
[ January Pub Meeting] [ February Pub Meeting] [ March Pub Meeting] [ Detling Kit Car Show] [ April Huntingdon Pub Meeting]
[ April Milton Keynes Pub Meeting] [ Stoneleigh Kit Car Show] [ EATOC Norfolk Run]
January Pub Meeting by Giles Cooper
The first club meeting of 2012. Suprisingly for a cold winters night we had a large turnout of members, myself, Griff, David Fiske, Mike Finch, Alan and Eve Whale, Tony and Liz Haggie, Donny and David Williamson, Niall Turner, Gary Brooks, James French and Steve Tuck. Steve was the only one who turned up in a Tiger but as he only lives 3 miles from the pub doesn't really have an excuse not to. As my car is in bits it can't be driven at the monent.
The main subject for discussion was events for the year. I have now updated the list on the events page with the ones that we can confirm - there are others we are planning but until the details are confirmed then they will stay unpublished. We also reqruited a new member Gary Brooks and also got some more members to renew who hadn't done so before the night.
February Pub Meeting by Giles Cooper
The second club meeting of 2012 where the turnout was a lot lower than last month. So it was a smaller meeting and not much to report to be honest!
March Pub Meeting by Giles Cooper
The March pub meeting was a lot better attended. We had Tigers belonging to myself, Griff, James French (only just road legal, David Fiske, and Simon Baldock. We also had another 4 members who didn't bring their cars - Alan and Eve Whale, Tony and Liz Haggie, Steve and Paula Tuck and Mike Finch.
A much better attended meeting and a lot was discussed including the upcoming Norfolk run.
Detling Kit Car Show by Simon Noble
Rightly or wrongly I had high hopes for Detling being a good show. I'd not heard anything bad about it before and thought, since it was run by the same people as Stoneleigh it would be good.
The plan was to go down on a nice sunny day on the bank holiday weekend, look at some cars, meet some people and enjoy the day. But as with all good plans, it didn't all go to plan.
The weather on the Saturday was overcast, windy and with rain showers predicted. But we didn't want to let that stop us. The drive down seemed to get colder and colder with the odd light rain shower and when we got there we were in need of a cup of tea to defrost. The first surprise was that there was no Tiger owners club there, so having been on the forum and seen an invite, I went and parked up with the Southern Kit Car Club (SKCC). There was a familiar face and car there and EATOC was also being represented by Linda and her Avon.
In the time it took us to get a cup of tea and something to eat, take 20 minutes to walk around the indoor exhibits and get back to the car, most of the SKCC were so cold they were going home. Even still this was better than every other car club, since they hadn't even turned up. There were about 20+ cars at SKCC and may not have been that many on all the other club stands in total. Maybe 4 Cobra replicas and a few other lonely cars spread about the site.
So after a 2 1/2 hour drive, maybe 2-3 hours there, it was time to wrap up and go home. We were very glad that we had bought 1 piece motorbike rain suits the day before as it kept the wind and rain off and kept us warm on the way home. We did cause a bit of a tail back at the Dartford toll, when Ali lost the £ 1 coin for the toll down the bottom of the index finger of her glove. I had to hand the glove over with the money stuck inside.
I think I would go as far as to say that the Saturday at Detling this year was worse than the Stafford show 2 years ago when I went!!
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| Panoramic View of the Club Parking Area 14:30 Sunday |
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| Adrian Mace's Cat | Some Tigers |
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| Some Tigers | Richard Wilkins' Tiger |
Huntingdon April Pub Meeting by Giles Cooper
Well it was a meeting of two weather systems. Planning on going in the Tiger I had to abandon this idea when the rain was bouncing about 4" off the car roof. I know I am fairly hardcore when it comes to driving the Tiger but the prospect of 40 minutes driving in that wasn't enticing. However when I got onto the A1 I was met with clear blue skies and completely dry roads - at that point though I wasn't going back to swap the cars over.
Well onto the pub meeting - we had two Tigers arrive at the meeting but a lot more owners. The Tigers were owned by Dave Sams (who only got it MOT'd the previous day) and James French who is determined to get as much use out of the car as possible.
The non-Tiger drivers (and I have to include myself in this list) were:- Alan and Eve Whale, Adrian and Mandy Spriggs, David Fiske, Griff, Tony and Liz Haggie, Simon Bunker and Steve Tuck.
Plenty of topics came up for discussion including the upcoming Norfolk run, and the Stoneleigh show.
We did however have one strange occurance - partway through the evening I got an email from someone asking about where to get a Tiger MOT'd. Nothing unusual with that but it turned out the person lived in the middle of St Ives and was about 2.5 miles from the pub. Steve Tuck then rang him and asked why he wasn't at the pub! (I would have done but my mobile doesn't get a signal out there) It turned out he was looking to sell the car as it wasn't for him so Steve gave some advice about where to get the car tested and we left them to get on with it.
After a good evening we then all left to go home - in the dry and it stayed dry until I got back to Peterborough.
Yes I should have taken the Tiger especially as the BMW was reporting 11 miles range by the time I got it home.
Milton Keynes April Pub Meeting by Simon Bunker
The first Milton Keynes meet of the East Anglian Tiger Owners Club took place on the 19th April at the Caldecotte Arms. The weather was wet but that didn't stop one Tiger and one Morgan arriving. Everyone else came in there tintops.
There were members from the club and the Tiger / Morgan owners who William had chatted to on the forum. In all there were 13 people. Once we had found a spot, at first the pub had said we could sit at reserved tables, only that was for an unconnected club, so we moved upstairs. The evening was a great success and everyone had an enjoyable time. So roll on next month.
The meet takes place on the Thursday after the Hollywell meet, Giles has put all the dates in the calendar.
Hopefully see you at Stoneleigh and the Norfolk run.
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show
No event report as yet - but here are a selection of pictures from the show.
Larger versions of the pictures are available to view or buy at gilescooperphotography.co.uk/stoneleigh2012.
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| John Raper's Completed Cat E1 | Giles Cooper's Tiger Cat E1 |
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| Doug Kendall's Tiger HS6 | Ian Welsh's Tiger Cat E1 |
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| Gary Davison's R10 Race Car on the 750Mc Stand | Paul Dudley's Tiger GTA |
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| Leige Trials Car with extra Mud | Dellow MK2 |
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| Fairthorpe Electron Minor | Rochdale Olympic |
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| Rare Sheleley T2 | Dax Kamala (even rarer than the T2) |
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| Linda Ashby's Tiger Avon and Paul Ashby's Westfield | Reliant Lomax - described as unique |
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| Votex Cars V2 | Hopefully this is unique |
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| Razor Cars | Razor with roof open (or should that be blade extended?) |
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| Hawk Statos Replica | Tiger Avon Demonstrator |
Norfolk Run
No event report as yet - but here are a selection of pictures from the run.
Larger versions of the pictures are available to view or buy at gilescooperphotography.co.uk/2012-05-12_norfolk_run.
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| Simon Noble's Tiger R6 | Dave Sams' Tiger Cat E1 |
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| Malcolm Keeley's Tiger R6 | Al English's Tiger Cat E1 |
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| Giles Cooper's Tiger Cat E1 | John Alyward's Tiger Aviator |
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| Dave Brookes Tiger Aviator | Donny Williamson's Lotus 7 |
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| Niall Turner's Tiger Cat E1 | Steve Tuck's Tiger Cat E1 |
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| Griff's Tiger Super 6 | Malc Brown's Tiger Super 6 |
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| Tony Haggie's Tiger Cub | Simon Burdock's Tiger Cat E1 |
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| Simon Bunker's Tiger Super 6 | Adrian Spriggs' Tiger Super 6 |
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| Newest Club Member Dominic Longhurst's Tiger Super 6 | Parked up at the pub |
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| Either a queue for food or the toilet? | Post meal people find their cars have shrunk |
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| Preparing to leave the pub | Preparing to leave the pub |
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An unplanned fuel stop brings chaos to Burnham Deepdale |
Mind you the garage owner was pleased |
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| Tiger Aviator lurking in the shade | More petrol station chaos |
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| More petrol station chaos | More petrol station chaos |
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| Parked up at Sandringham | It was a good job Steve didn't have a passenger |