Event Coverage Great British Northern Flathead Meltdown run

As you know there are some of us that run in the flathead meltdown, well Odgie & Miss P thought it would fun for a few of us (me & Taildraggin in the T, Nifty & Nutrocker in their roadster and Mark & Jill in their Sports coupe) to have a little reliability run out round the North, with a few extras thrown in.

Here's a few pics of what we got upto.

Firstly it was a 200mile trip up there for me and Taildraggin. So it was a bit of a reliability run to get there.

We met up with a couple of others on the way and it took us over 7 1/2 hours just to get there, but the scenery was amazing.












This is the view once we got to where we were camping!! It was in the middle of nowhere



There's more to come.

 

Pics make me a bit homesick!

Great shots though!

 

Next morning we woke up to this. Which being ooop north is a bit of a rarity(the sun being out)



Whilst driving round the field (we were camped on top of the hill) we noticed there was a motocross track



and before we knew it Nutrocker had decided to try it out followed by Mark and with us in tow, now at this point we had no idea where the track went or if we would even get round it. We just saw it went up to where we were camped.





Once at the top we were ready to go out on the run Odgie and Miss had organised for us.

 

all day we took in some amazing roads and scenery.












Unfortunatley at this point Miss P's car was having serious fuel problems (as it would cut out up hills) so we left it at this nice family's home.



Mid morning we stopped at a Steam Musuem.




After tea & biscuits and a guided tour we headed off to our next stop, which was a pub lunch...
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Once we were fed, watered and warmed up, (damn it's cold up north), we headed out for our afternoon jaunt. Having no idea what route had been planned (we did have a rather nice booklet showing where we were going but seeing as there was only a few of us we just followed the car in front and enjoyed the scenery)









from one water road to another!!

 

awsome pics thanks for sharing

 

Restroom stop and stretch of the ole legs.





Off we went again

 

Mid afternoon stop to stretch the ole legs and boy what a view







Then a short driveback to the campsite.
Just got back and by chance (couldn't believe it seeing as we were in the middle of nowhere) there happened to be an Austin7 club out on drive and popped in the field to say hi.

 

Cool pics - what was your route? and can you tell us more about this one? TIA.

 

Great pics, thanks for sharing ! One word comes to mind when I see your cars through water and in the open landscape.....DRIVEN !
/ primerkid

 

Bloody excellent!

 

We then thought it would be a good idea to go down the bottom of the Motocross track to take some photo's of how steep the track was otherwise noone would have believed us. This time we realised that in the morning we had only driven up half of the track, so before we knew it we were driving up it again.

 

Seeing as the boys were having all the fun i decided i'd have a go with Taildraggin being co-pilot, which was going well untill he gave me some bad navigation.....







Well and truly beached couldn't forward or backwards!!!!



had to get Nutrocker to tow me off the tump!!




Once cleared i did go round and finish the course. We then thought we better cut our loses and give up for the night.

 

Great pics.Looks like you all had a great time.
Mark's certainly putting the miles on his Sports Coupe recently!

 

That's brilliant, makes me miss England even less seriously great photos , excellent weekend by the looks of it , you guys are tough. the Full fendered Model A roadster is the Bollocks you nailed that one.

Thanks for Sharing

 

Sunday woke up to a bit of rain and bloody hell wasn't it windy but you trundled down the pub for breakfast and we got back Odgie had set out a time trial track for us to be timed on.....















Taildraggin took fastest lap and took overall consistancy trophy!!! What a pair of mugs!!!!


Come lunch time tents were packed up and we all headed home, another 8 1/2 hour journey (with a few stops).

I couldn't believe a whole weekend could be packed with such fun. It was a blast.

Hope you enjoyed the pics.

 

Awesome pix/roadtrip !!

Rat

 

Ace weekend was had by all

 

You guys are insane. I sure want to get my car over to Europe (and those big islands just west of it) some day. Gary

 

What a fantastic adventure! Thanks for taking us along. Many classic pictures!! Awesome thread.

 

Thanks for sharing your great adventure. The countryside is beautiful, the cars are cool, and it looks like a lotta fun...... it makes me want to plan a roadtrip!

 

I miss the British countryside.
Looks like more fun than should be allowed.

 

Road trip. Fun with old cars, thats what it is about. Loved the scenes, good stuff.

 

the pair in the A roadster sure are ugly

 

Looks like a Blast!!

 

Great pictures Becs, I just wish I had a bloody car on the road to have taken part!

Nick.

 

Hi Becky,
Great pics,looks like you all had a real blast!
Love the colour pics of the lads on the track kicking up the shit! very cool.

Oh...
thats the first time i've seen Pete's A with fenders,ultra cool!!

and the first time i've seen your T stuck in the mud! lol

 

Wow!

Looks like an awesome time!

Thanks for taking the time to post the pics.

 

Great pictorial essay and proof that all it takes is a handful of like minded lunatics to have fun!

 

We all had such a blast, the drive up there was great and not in any hurry or stress, the views are some of the best this country has to offer and the track was just mental. Not being able to see the whole track and not knowing if we could get round and if we couldn't how would we get out just never crossed our minds enough to stop us.
Big thanks to Odgie and Miss P for organising it and inviting us and thanks to all who went and made it the weekend it was.

Pete