Garage Day Buxton Derbyshire

**Bernard** · 26-09-2019, 20:33

Unless anything unexpected happens I will be there
Cheers
Phil

**Bernard** · 26-09-2019, 20:34

OOppppsss.... Just read that back !.........sorry how very rude of me !!!!!!!!.........please can I come ???

**Gordon Caro** · 26-09-2019, 21:01

Phil,
OK do you still have my address
Gordon

Originally Posted by Bernard

Unless anything unexpected happens I will be there
Cheers
Phil

**Bernard** · 26-09-2019, 21:45

Hi Gordon... Could you please pm me your address...thanks

**Bernard** · 28-09-2019, 16:51

Good to catch up with folks there..... we also had some brave souls who actually turned up in a Strato's !!.... well done Robin for venturing out in such carp weather !!

Thanks for your hospitality Gordon..... however your car is toooooo clean under the wheel arches !!...LOL

Thanks for the meat pie's Normy !

Pity about the weather... however I did have a warming thought on my way home in a warm dry Porker........ JD is on his bike ....I thought he should be like a drowned rat by now !!.... Soz John !

Cheers

Phil

**red5** · 28-09-2019, 18:33

Thanks Gordon for the hospitality, coffee and bacon rolls followed by a meat pie (thanks Norm) perfect for a wet Saturday morning.

Robin, hope you made it back with functional wind screen wipers, even though 10 miles south of Buxton it was sunshine and dry roads so you probably didn't need them!

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**red5** · 28-09-2019, 18:44

Not sure how the last one ended up on its side, for some reason I can't delete it!

**john** · 28-09-2019, 18:51

Yes thanks Gordon, great meet up.
What?! No picture of me bike!!
Got back to the boat clean and dry, but as soon as we fired up the 45bhp diesel and cast off, you guessed it, the heavens opened again. Drat!

**Longtimefan** · 29-09-2019, 01:17

Gordon, James and I thank for your hospitality, now home and just catching up, after our first run of any significance.

Nick, thanks for your help, had we turned into Gordon's at the first attempt we may not have suffered the problem as it all happened about 100 yards down the road, fortunately. We realised that everything was going at the time, blower fan flat out, lights, wiper flat out, all dash instruments and the electrically assisted steering, I've had enough cried the respective fuse!!!

Really grateful Gordon that you had a replacement fuse.

In answer to your comment re needing the wiper, we headed for Congleton!! (bad move) And headed into rain of Biblecal proportions, wiper working ok until it stopped !!! however quick as a flash, looking at the dash realised that all the guages were still functioning this time, and seeing that the blade was about to wipe the bonnet, killed the switches. Only loose on the spindle this time. Spanners out, back in the car more than a bit wet, screen fogs up, reluctant to use full fan or screen heat for obvious reasons, so drive through pi...ng rain, cloud and internal fog, just like rallying in the 60s again, although it was the younger generation driving this time, I was shouting the corners!!!

Craig, very pleased not to get wet when in the car, (we only got wet out of it) only the very odd drip through the roof vent, after comments from others that I may need sailing water proofs, very pleased.

Quote:- Robin, hope you made it back with functional wind screen wipers, even though 10 miles south of Buxton it was sunshine and dry roads so you probably didn't need them!