War and Peace 2011

[kevin powles]

Hi, Here are a few pics from war and peace prior to the weekend, lots of fun and good weather during the day.

Shaun, Many thanks for putting us up in the tent, I had to dash off to beat the traffic, thanks for the introduction to your group.

Rick, Great carrier and great use of modern materials.

Barry, Let us know when the exhausts are fitted, great to meet you at last.

Ben, Nice to meet you and put a face to a name, best to come over this coming month.

kevin.

[Ben]

Yes It was good to meet, I'll pop over for sure, I'll send you an email.

Too much to see and not enough time, shame I missed Rick's first outing in welland. I saw it at Christmas, he's done well to get it running so quickly.

Ben

[eddy8men]

shame i missed you too ben, (there's always next year) and good to meet you kev, i'm glad you liked my use of plywood and upvc plastic on the rad shroud, you never know it might catch on when the others see it.
even though the carrier was a long way from being battleworthy i'm glad i took a chance and went to beltring with it, i had a great 4 days and met some good people along the way, although it got a little stressy at times with the odd fault showing itself such as poor steering, poor brakes, no charging, carb not set up right, random gear selection regardless of stick position resulting in total loss of gears during arena display , no instruments, no tank breather and last but not least a loose nut on the steering wheel. other than that it was fine.

looking forward to next year

rick

[Ben]

As long as the loose nut was on the steering wheel and not behind it!!!

Sorry we couldn't catch up, like you say, perhaps next year if not before.

Congratulations on getting it there and getting it running. Teething problems are all part of the fun and challenge. It least there were plenty of people at the show with carrier experience to help.

All the best.

Ben

[Ron Pier]

Rick I was stood right next to your carrier at one point. You were doing a 180'
turn from Shaun's area to the opposite field. You looked a bit stressed, otherwise I'd have talked to you. Ron

[eddy8men]

sorry ron but don't let that angry look stop you from saying hello as that's my normal expression, you should see me me when things really go wrong. funnily enough i actually realised at beltring that i need to take a step back and not take things so head on and serious and despite the odd setback i actually came away refreshed and ready to carry on with the restorations (at least for now)

all the best
rick

[Marc van Aalderen]

Hi Folks,

My future son-in-law posted some vids of the Arena appearance of Puddle Jumper and Jeane.

Here are the links: PART 1 and PART 2

Also a short vid of Paul's beautiful Loyd: here

Cheers,

[Higgins]

only notes, I was again on Beltring show and see carrier on the road,

run,run,run my dream , i make only one picture.... nice vieu!

and others carriers

Higgins

[shaun]

Marc nice videos, Higgins if you spotted a carrier on the road friday evening that would of been us off down the chinky in paddock wood for a meal. its the only way to travel !!!

[eddy8men]

thanks for posting up the pics guys and you were right shaun it was a great show and i'm really looking forward to next year

all the best

rick