Thames Valley monthly meeting Sunday 20th may at the

The Fox and Hounds

Station Road,

Theale,

Reading,

Berkshire, RG7 4BE

Join us at 12:45 if you fancy having Sunday lunch.

A table will need to be booked, so please let me know if you are planning to come along ASAP or by 1pm on Wednesday 16th May

Or join us after lunch at 14:15 for a chat and a drink.

All Welcome

I've now got the date and the invitation for the Uxbridge Auto Show 2012

Its on the Sunday 15th of July 2012,

Uxbridge Autoshow

So need to know who's interested in going. So a show of hands please

Once again it will be £5 a ticket per car (that's for the car and all its occupants) which gets you a place on the RHOCaR TVH club stand for an excellent day out..

Please note that turning up on the day will cost you £10 from this year. So be wise and book early with me

Deadline for this is the Sunday 10th June to give me time to book the stand.

As normal we will have the TVH BBQ to hand has well as Becks field kitchen for tea & coffee

Extra Meeting North East Area on Thursday the 10th of May will start at The White Rose at Leeming Bar [DL79AY].From Northallerton to Bedale this is on the right immediately

after the two mini roundabouts at Leeming . From the A1 Southbound go for Northallerton/Bedale and immediaely after the level crossing go straight ahead and then right

towards Bedale and the hotel is on the right.Food is available and some of us will be there at about 6.00PM to eat and at about 7.30PM we'll set off for Ian Marr's to kick the

tyres on his long awaited 2B

Hope to see you there

NORMAN

Surrey area meeting

meet at 8:00 on sunday the 13/05/12 at

Millers pub

2 high street

bletchingley

RH14PE

to leave at 8:15 to head down to Wickham for the brickworks show

Easthoods Area Meet.

Our next Club meet is next Sunday 13th May at The Scole Inn Scole from 11am.

Please see email below, I have said that Nick is welcome to bring his car along to the meet.

Hi Martin,

We are doing a rally on 1^st - 3^rd June this year called Barcelona Banger’s rally, which involves buying a car for £250 or less and driving it from Calais to Barcelona in 3 days. Check out the website www.barcelonabangers.co.ukto see more about it. We have bought an Astra Estate and covered it in stickers and are doing it for the Brain Tumour UK charity as my wife had a tumour removed in January 2010. We have a bit of a competition going to guess the number of stickers on the car, £1.00 a go to win £50 for the nearest guess, would it be ok to bring the car along to the May meeting and get some members to guess the amount of stickers? You can have a look at the car athttp://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Brainstorms, and no I’m not going to tell you how many stickers are on it!

Best regards,

Nick

Tiger Supercat

Greetings everyone.

Our May meet will be on Sunday 13th at The Compass Inn, Tormarton from 7:30pm onwards. As usual all are welcome.

There is a small group of us doing the CKC/Omex trackday, Llandow on the 26th May. We are camping over on the Friday & Saturday nights at the site adjacent to the circuit. If there any other Hoodies doing this event or indeed just want to come and spectate you are more than welcome to join us - get in touch if you want further details.

Cheers for now

Richard

does anyone need anything taken down from north east or brought back ,I am goin down to stoneleigh on sunday morning returning home sunday night.

I will be using the new tintop so no old oily engines etc.

cheers Paul

Hoodies,

We Hoodies have been to Barbon Hill Climb a few times in the past.

If you want to see a retired Formula 1 car going flat out up a single track road on a Cumbrian Hillside with nothing but plastic tape to stop it from leaving the road then this is for you.

It's a a good day out and goes a bit like this.

They will be practising all morning and it goes a bit quiet around lunchtime before they get stuck into it in the afternoon. We have been allowed to wander around the mechanics pits in the past (helpful advice from Hoodies is frowned upon) during lunch.

There is a pub in the village & a burger van & portaloo's on the hill.

The hill is exposed to the weather so not much fun if it's wet or windy or both!

We need to do a weather check on Friday night before commiting to meeting up.

Bring a camera or video it's very photogenic. See YouTube for proof.

The proposed details are as follows:-

11.30 AM

Assuming we are all coming over from the A66.

Meet up at Kikby Stephen for a petrol fill up. There are two garages to choose from within sight & sound of each other on the main street (A685) but the first one you come to on the left has space to do some tinkering. (I don't need to tell you this we have been there lots of times).

12.00 AM (I'm being realistic, it's like herding cats trying to get Hoodies to obey a timetable)

Follow the A685 through Kirkby Stephen (Traffic lights, so expect a tail back and lots of admiring looks) tight squeeze through top end of town past locals parked cars on main road (it must be hell living here).

Up the hill and branch off right onto the A683 to Sedbergh. Don't go straight on you will end up in Tebay!

Follow the A683 and Barbon Village is about four miles before Kirkby Lonsdale.

12.30 Pm

Barbon Hill Climb Parking (Follow the signs & directions onto the grass field).

Saturday 12th May 2012

ROUNDS 3 & 4 OF THE AVON TYRES MSA BRITISH HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP

Also rounds of:

TTC GROUP MSA HILLCLIMB LEADERS CHAMPIONSHIP

Y GELLI BOOK AUCTIONS CHALLENGE TROPHY

ANWCC HILLCLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP CHESTER & LIVERPOOL MOTOR CLUBS SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP

The address is:- Barbon, Kendal, Cumbria LA6 2LH

Adult entry was £10 last year with children under 16 free. I cannot find a price for this year.

Barbon is near Kirkby Lonsdale, up the Lune River valley that forms the border between the Pennines and the Cumbrian mountains, so you can imagine that it is unequalled for scenery. The course is one of the shorter hillclimbs, but is consequentially challenging; the ambience is informal but the competition is keen!

Classes

Entrants will be divided into the following classes:

The National A event classes:

A(i) (1) Road-Going Series Production Cars up to 2000cc

A(ii) (2) Road-Going Series Production Cars over 2000cc

B (i) (3) Road-Going Specialist Production Cars up to 2000cc

B(ii) (4) Road-Going Specialist Production Cars over 2000cc

C(i) (5) Modified Limited Production Cars up to 1400cc

C(ii) (6) Modified Limited Production Cars over 1400cc up to 2000cc

C(iii) (7) Modified Limited Production Saloon Cars over 2000cc

C(iv) (Modified Limited Production Sports Cars over 2000cc

D(i) (9) Modified Specialist Production Cars up to 2000cc

D(ii) (10) Modified Specialist Production Cars over 2000cc

E (11) Hill Climb Super Sports Cars

F (12) Sports Libre Cars up to 2000cc

G (13) Sports Libre Cars over 2000cc

H (14) Racing Cars up to 600cc

I (15) Racing Cars over 600cc up to 1100cc

J(i) (16) Formula Ford Racing Cars up to 1600cc

J(ii) (17) Racing Cars over 1100cc up to 1600cc

K (18) Racing Cars over 1600cc up to 2000cc

L (19) Racing Cars over 2000cc1st Jan 1977

M (20) Classic Saloon, Sports or Racing Cars manufactured prior to 1st Jan 1977 No Robin Hoods again this year.

Anyone interested?

Cheers,

Steve

Although it's the day after we return from Stoneleigh the normal evening meet is still on; hope to see a good few of you (with your cars please --the rain is getting warmer ) at

The John Barleycorn, Cadnam for around 7/7.30ish Tuesday 8th May

Thanks Bob Fry.

I have decided to post this to see if anyone would be interested;

KIT CARS ARE NEEDED!!!!

The guy who is in charge of organising this event is a close family friend and my dad and I have been involved in the running of this event every year for the last 15 or so years.

It is an amazing weekend, and each year it just gets bigger and better and the "steam and heavy horse" aspect of the show now only represents about 40% of the entire show as there are loads of different things to see, do and buy....and there is plenty of things a car enthusiast would find interesting (classic cars, american cars, millitary vehicles etc..etc...).

Because this show isn't advertised as well as it could be, my RH sits in the show amonst 3 or 4 other kit cars...but I hope this year we can do better than that!!!

If anyone would be interested in coming to this weekend and showing their RH, I would highly recomend it and camping makes the whole weekend excellent!!! The exhibitors forms are avalible to download from the site and the closing date is the 30th May.

Just have a look....(the gallery photo's and videos only scratch the surface of the many things that turn up for the weekend!!)

http://www.hollowellsteam.com/index.php