MARLIN ON eBAY

The Marlin that was on eBay last month is now back on again due to a non completed sale. Looks like a chance to grab a bargain http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marlin-Roadster_W0QQitemZ110307417408QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110307417408&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1345|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

Dunlop Style Bead Breaker on EBay

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I don't find this type as effective as a Stenor but thet are not so bulky.

 

Michael

 

 

MARLIN ON EBAY

The Marlin that was on eBay last month is now back on again due to a non completed sale. Looks like a chance to grab a bargain http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marlin-Roadster_W0QQitemZ110307417408QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110307417408&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1345|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

What future for PCT's

I wonder if I could have some feedback on a situation that has developed over the last few years, please?

I have Clerked for my local A&P club for many years, organising club PCT's most years, that culminate in our National 'B' round of a ten round regional championship and also the ANCC championship too. I have also competed and Clerked in the once hugely popular Ilkley club and national PCT's too. Lately the entries have dwindled to the point where MSA events have had to be cancelled due to having less than a half dozen applicants. Is this a nation-wide trend?

 

When people could run a trials car as a shopping car, Escort, Nova, etc, there seemed to be no problem but as tyres have grown wider and skirts have become integrated with the bodywork, entries have fallen dramatically. The opportunity to run a suitable car exists if you are prepared to buy an older vehicle and trailer it around but it is often a car dedicated wholly to liesure purposes. In fact, there is little difference between owning, storing, towing and maitaining a PCT car from that of classic triallers or sporting triallers. So I would say that PCT's are no longer a 'Grass-roots introduction to motorsport'. (I know they are no longer called PCT's but how much more confusing can the MSA legislation get)? 

 

We have tried to dumb-down the sections so the alloy wheels don't get scratched but there is so little challenge in what is left that we, unsurprisingly, got few entries.

 

What is the situation in the rest of the world?

 

Regards

|John

Northern Classic

If you have already read the latest Restart you will know that The Northern will not run in 2009. With a committe of only 5, loosing 2 members who were the main organising force, left the others in a difficult position and the remaining three decided that we were not able or sufficiently knowledgeable to take on the organisation and do a good job of it. Other club members are located throughout the North and whilst there was a good deal of enthusiasm and valued input in our discussions it would be very difficult for them to be able to take on organisational duties. Reports that a specific team are already in place are premature but we are strenuously looking for a group of people that can do the trial justice and keep it in the position it has gained. However the comment in Restart that "..it WILL return in 2010, brighter and better than ever" does not necessarily recognise the success of the trial to date, nominated as Trial of the Year for 2006 and gaining Trial of the Year for 2007.Any team taking over the trial will have to be pretty good to beat that! 

However for all the Northern supporters, be assured that we are making all our best efforts to continue the running of the Northern in the future with a dedicated team that can do it justice.

 

Myke Pocock

Chairman,

Fell Side Auto Club.  

Dellows at Shelsley

Posted on behalf of Jeff Hardman in response to this piece by Peter Seabrook-Harris on Classical Gas at http://www.classictrials.co.uk/Dellows%20Climb%20New%20Heights%20version%207%5B1%5D.pdf

 

Dear Peter,

 

I was delighted to read about my fathers old car and that the Daily Express win is still remembered.  I actually have the cup.  I will send you a photo of my mother in due couse taken in her 96th year doing a hill climb to our local pub called the Logan Rock in Treen, Cornwall.  Kind regards.

 

Yours sincerely

Jeff Hardman

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