What have you done today
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Chuffer
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Had a great day at the annual Daventry MotorFest today and fabulous very warm sunny weather all day for third year on the trot . The venue is a public park in the centre of town and always has a good turn out of interesting cars and lots of attention from the public as access is free for them . Two other Corvettes were there , a big block C3 and a very smart black C5 . Both CCCUK members . LDV was popular with Joe Public and plenty of kids had happy smiling faces having there photos taken sitting in the drivers seat. My grandson payed a visit with his girlfriend who lives in Daventry and she was soooooo in love with the Vette and and sitting in it for selfies and photo calls . I am promised to take for a blast in one day ! No shortage of Mustangs there 
but a few rarer Yanks such as a 1991/92 Chevy Caprice police car and a Chevy El Camino with a detachable flatbed hard top . The three Scorpion light tanks all arrived by road and must have been quite a sight on the public roads . They probably stopped at every petrol station en route !! 
but a few rarer Yanks such as a 1991/92 Chevy Caprice police car and a Chevy El Camino with a detachable flatbed hard top . The three Scorpion light tanks all arrived by road and must have been quite a sight on the public roads . They probably stopped at every petrol station en route !! 
Chuffer
CCCUK Member
Totally agree . It`s long standing club member Roger Thornton`s car . Looks and sounds fabulous .
Chuffer
CCCUK Member
General Motors 1980 meets London North Western Railway 1862 . Revisited the Milton Keynes Museum today having been so impressed during an all too brief visit on National Classic Car Drive It Day last month . Needless to say there are plenty of railway artifacts to keep me entertained with the worlds first Railway Locomotive and Carriage works having been just down the road at Wolverton . But never imagined that Stony Stratford now part of greater Milton Keynes had a boat building yard seeing as how it`s as far from the sea as you can get in the UK ! They built tug boats that were shipped all around the world . Lots of archeology too , found in the local area .
There is a well stocked hall dedicated to transport with all exhibits having local connections from vintage trams and cars and commercial vans to Sinclair C5`s . It was also a living history weekend with demonstrations and re enactments from the stone age with flint napping to Bronze Age smelting and casting spear and axe heads right through to the Roman occupation era , the Norman conquest and the English Civil war . Plus a group of admirers around the Corvette taking photos
when we got back to the car park ! 
Well worth a visit if you are in the area .
There is a well stocked hall dedicated to transport with all exhibits having local connections from vintage trams and cars and commercial vans to Sinclair C5`s . It was also a living history weekend with demonstrations and re enactments from the stone age with flint napping to Bronze Age smelting and casting spear and axe heads right through to the Roman occupation era , the Norman conquest and the English Civil war . Plus a group of admirers around the Corvette taking photos
when we got back to the car park ! Well worth a visit if you are in the area .
Chuffer
CCCUK Member
Early start today for another day in the BIG TOYS BOX and another step closure to `D Day` ( aka deadline for diesel day next Friday ) . Up at 6.30 am , on the motorway by 7.30 am and signing on for duty at Loughborough Loco Shed at 8.45 am . All quite on shed this morning steam wise with these two black beauties basking silently in the morning sun .
Meanwhile in the workshops the days task was to paint the cab control panels in black gloss including carefully painting the drivers side gauge bezels with a fine tipped artists brush . The various brake controls on both the drivers side and second mans side of the cab were then treated to a coat of light grey gloss , all colours and details prototypical of when the D6535 was built in 1961 . Note the `dead mans ` treddle on both sides which automatically apply the brakes if not constantly depressed .The bodywork is now completed in British Railways diesel era blue gloss and the Hi Vis yellow cab ends have received their final gloss coat . The north facing cab end has had its windows refitted with new rubber seals and the south facing end is awaiting its windows and seals to be fitted in the next few days
. All in all it is now looking very spiffy !
Meanwhile in the workshops the days task was to paint the cab control panels in black gloss including carefully painting the drivers side gauge bezels with a fine tipped artists brush . The various brake controls on both the drivers side and second mans side of the cab were then treated to a coat of light grey gloss , all colours and details prototypical of when the D6535 was built in 1961 . Note the `dead mans ` treddle on both sides which automatically apply the brakes if not constantly depressed .The bodywork is now completed in British Railways diesel era blue gloss and the Hi Vis yellow cab ends have received their final gloss coat . The north facing cab end has had its windows refitted with new rubber seals and the south facing end is awaiting its windows and seals to be fitted in the next few days
. All in all it is now looking very spiffy !
James Vette
CCCUK Member
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