Southend Cruise and Custom Scene

Hi Mopar,
Humphrey was a junior member of the CDSRC. (Chris Monk). He used to come to the meetings on Mondays, back in the 70's/80's. And also came to many runs and race meetings. He was both Bob's and my "Shotgun" on rod runs, until he passed his test and bought a monstrous American thing and painted it ala Starsky & Hutch!!

He is the one dressed as a schoolgirl in your photo!!

I think the Southend pics of my Pop were either 82 or 83, not sure though!

I painted it Red in 84 so that discounts that year.
I think I painted it yellow in 81.

Blast! There goes another brain cell......

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...an/BobJohn.jpg

Bob Nixon & John Hockley, rescuing 2 Pops from a restorer!!

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...n/wildride.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../922fvwred.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../mypopyelo.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...an/EPFsign.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...man/NigelT.jpg

Nigel from Canvey Island in the old Tim Cook T

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../moondust2.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...n/rayirish.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...geoffcaves.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...bNixonsPop.jpg

Who's Pops were these....? (I know)

And now......

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...rods/CDSRC.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...%20rods/T2.jpg

The Prisoner T and Barry Georges T

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...rods/mrbsT.jpg

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...ds/BobJohn.jpg

And to finish.........

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/kenchevy.jpg

Kenny, removing the bacon to put in his sandwiches

Geoff Owen's Pop
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...offowenpop.jpg

Oh, btw, Wild Ride was White, Grey primer, then Yellow then sold! Painted Black at a later date

Eric Cornes Model Y Sedan Delivery, a lovely car, made with the help of Eric's metalwork students!!!

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...ods/EricsY.jpg



http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../TimCooksA.jpg

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Originally Posted by the pop shop

hi mopar,
humphrey was a junior member of the cdsrc. (chris monk). He used to come to the meetings on mondays, back in the 70's/80's. And also came to many runs and race meetings. He was both bob's and my "shotgun" on rod runs, until he passed his test and bought a monstrous american thing and painted it ala starsky & hutch!!

I think the southend pics of my pop were either 82 or 83, not sure though!

I painted it red in 84 so that discounts that year.
I think i painted it yellow in 81.

Blast! There goes another brain cell......

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cheers for the show possible year, as i said i was thinking 82, dont know why i cant find a programme, any way could this be humphrey In the first 2 pics, bet hed like to see that 1st picture now!!, the rest are of dear old bob (rip), dont know who hes going in the tent with though!!?

pics are courtesy of ian walker, bob rothwell & marty babb....

bloody brilliant pictures ron, now then i have a few questions which may help me in my never ending rodding research, i am slowly putting together a chelmsford club history photo file & a bob rothwell one (i have all bobs pics,) getting them in order is a major task, some of our pics may help.

whats tthe red pop next to vanilla o lay? & where/when/what show?

where/when/what show is the prisoner at?

dito bobs y

& dito ken cooking the bacon!!

& whilst we are on the subject of roger....

This is Humphrey (Chris), and Rob Hall, our Rockabilly "mascot"

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...umphandrob.jpg

whats tthe red pop next to vanilla o lay? & where/when/what show?
I think that came from Enfield way. Possibly a show in Hatfield?

where/when/what show is the prisoner at?
Prisoner pic was from a Car Show I organised in Grays, in aid of Save The Children Fund

dito bobs y
Bobs Y was at another show I held in Corringham, at my old school Gable Hall. Bob Nixons Pop photo was from the same show.
I remember one of the CDSRC guys who had a GTO "Widowmaker" was there and he did a huge burnout when leaving, but didnt realise that school playgrounds are made of soft tarmac! He offered to pay to repair the rather large hole he left!! I'm sure he also used to do handbrake turns through the traffic lights in Chelmsford, outside the burger bar owned by the guy who had the black race 69(?) Mustang.

& dito ken cooking the bacon!!
I think this pic is from Knebworth Nationals, dunno the year.

How is Roger these days?
Have the wooden pistons fallen apart yet in the 327 I sold him for his T?

Brilliant pics from Bob's box!!
He was a real gentleman

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Originally Posted by the pop shop

whats tthe red pop next to vanilla o lay? & where/when/what show?
i think that came from enfield way. Possibly a show in hatfield?

where/when/what show is the prisoner at?
prisoner pic was from a car show i organised in grays, in aid of save the children fund

dito bobs y
bobs y was at another show i held in corringham, at my old school gable hall. Bob nixons pop photo was from the same show.
I remember one of the cdsrc guys who had a gto "widowmaker" was there and he did a huge burnout when leaving, but didnt realise that school playgrounds are made of soft tarmac! He offered to pay to repair the rather large hole he left!! I'm sure he also used to do handbrake turns through the traffic lights in chelmsford, outside the burger bar owned by the guy who had the black race 69(?) mustang.

& dito ken cooking the bacon!!
i think this pic is from knebworth nationals, dunno the year.

How is roger these days?
Have the wooden pistons fallen apart yet in the 327 i sold him for his t?

Brilliant pics from bob's box!!
He was a real gentleman

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cheers for that ron, sorry dont recognise humphrey, id like to know who that other cheeky chap is, i will find out soon, i know someone who will know.

I was curious about that red pop as i didnt recognise it & it looked a good show car.

Would that grays show be the one at the ilford sports & social club on 26th of november 77??, i have the programme in bobs box downstairs?

I dont think i have any records of the corringham show, strange as i have notes on all the local shows, perhaps it werent advertised?, like to find out a bit more about that one..

The widowmaker, well ive heard of that but cant picture it offhand, but the guy you are on about is andy grimwade who ran tramps burger bar, i remember at a cdsrc show a latge b&w pic of him burning out down chelmsford high street, dont think you could do that now!, the mustang was called the tramp, i think andy went to thailand or somewhere similar?

Roger is fine, laughing as usual saw him today, i will have to ask him about those wooden pistons though!!

Cheers ron.

The Grays show was held on the local playing field, in Grays!

The "Ilford" show was held in Basildon, I used to have a pile of photos from that one but having moved home so many times, who knows where they are now? I vaguely remember interviewing Micky Kemp in Silver Surfer, for Basildon Hospital Radio, or was it just a dream?

The Corringham show was publicised in the mags and with flyers I took to other shows. We had about 30 cars there for the afternoon, no programme made though.

I was in Andy's Mustang for the Chelmsford Carnival procession one year. I spotted Valerie Singleton, judging the floats, and pointed that out to Andy, who stopped right next to her, and proceeded to wear his tyres down to the canvas!! Oh how we laughed.....

Rob Hall lived in Stanford le Hope and was about 14 when we first met him. He used to come round and pester John when he was building Wild Ride!

I also vaguely remember going to the Essex Clubs Run too.... I'm sure thats where Bob & Humphrey donned their schoolboy/girl outfits

Great pictures Ron and Mark. Love that one of Bob Nixon and John sums it up.

Yet another carrier bag reveals its secrets!!

These are a few more shots taken at the Charity Show in Grays

Bob's Y seems to be in every photo on this thread! It shows what a dedicated rodder he was.
Ray Bennis's TR7 "getting in the way of the shot "

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...ybennisTR7.jpg

Roger's wife KATH on the right. Is this you with the CDSRC shirt on?
Rogers Corvette to the left. He seemed to think it would work better if he only used 7 pistons.....(Nice pinstriping on it though!!)

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../graysshow.jpg

Best in Show Winner. Barry George's T after he sold it

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...graysshow2.jpg

And the trophies.......

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/trophies.jpg

Here's a selection of my old mate John's build ups.

Wild Ride at Belle Vue

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...debellevue.jpg

Wild Ride being adjusted so he wouldnt have to pay to get into car parks

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...idechopped.jpg

Run What Yer Brung - Santa Pod

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...rkingoncar.jpg

John's Chevy C10 Stepside - It used to be brown....

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../chevyC101.jpg

I did the masking, but wasnt entirely happy with the colour blending, still looked frightening in your rear view mirror though!
An unlucky Rolls Royce owner got the benefit of John's line lock one night when he hooted at John to get out of the way. Another, "down to the canvas moment".

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../chevyC102.jpg

This first one was taken at the first ever rod run I went to, just past Colchester on the A12, 1977

Gold Dust & Moon Dust together - Clive's Austin 8 - Electric Funeral's bonnet to the left - my white pop - Raspberry Shuffle............and Bob's Y!!
Is that you Marty, in the yellow jacket?

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...hestershow.jpg

A UK built 37 Woodie we rescued from a barn near Maldon. It got sold to a number plate dealer on the South Coast. but does it still exist?

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/37woodie.jpg

And a certain Mr Caves, trying to fool the beach babes that he was a Pro Surfer, Skewjack 1983

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...fsurfboard.jpg

Where is Bob's Y now?

p.s.
Check my posting on the main History thread about letting us stay on here

The young lady (in the photos) entering the tent with Bob is Liz (Ian Walkers wife to be).

Interested to hear that Mopar trundled round on a pushbike sans apehangers etc yet didnt know of Humphrey who's first regular mode of transport was his own modified pushbike with apehangers, extended forks, fat rear wheel etc long before you could buy such things. I sent some film to timetravel recently which included several Chelmsford shows and Chris (Humph) appears regularly grinning cheesily at the camera. No doubt this will appear soon on his DVD lists.

Mention of Corringham reminds me that I used to use part of the dual carraige way to Corytown as a test track for the rail. There were a number of old oil drums left by the road builders so we used to block off one carraigeway with those plus some appropriate signs, whip the car off the trailer, do a few checkout runs with adjustments and refueling between,generally there an hour or so and then trailer up and go before the feds arrived. Those were the days...

Ron the Y is now in the hands of Pete Robinson and Twinkle. They bought it off the chap Bob sold it to.

This is a brilliant thread, the pictures are literally priceless, thanks.

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Originally Posted by the pop shop

this is humphrey (chris), and rob hall, our rockabilly "mascot"

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...umphandrob.jpg

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i thimk this could be humphrey!! (chris?)

anyone got any idea where & when this show was??

This is a marty babb picture, it says on it chris, bob rothwell, me (marty) & eric, cheers marty...

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Originally Posted by the pop shop

yet another carrier bag reveals its secrets!!

These are a few more shots taken at the charity show in grays

bob's y seems to be in every photo on this thread! It shows what a dedicated rodder he was.
Ray bennis's tr7 "getting in the way of the shot "

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...ybennistr7.jpg

roger's wife shirley on the right. Is this you with the cdsrc shirt on?
Rogers corvette to the left. He seemed to think it would work better if he only used 7 pistons.....(nice pinstriping on it though!!)

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m.../graysshow.jpg

best in show winner. Barry george's t after he sold it

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...graysshow2.jpg

and the trophies.......

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/trophies.jpg

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now then ron, you or anyone else thats paying attention may be able to help me out here, the photos below are all from the bob rothwell box (rip), i think they are all from the same show, now u have been trying to id the show for a long time now & have been told by various club members it looks a show at southchurch park, southend, i have been studying the pics above mainly looking at the house in the background of pic 1 & the wooden fence & they do look very similar?? although the cars seem to be positioned different?? Could these pics be from the grays show?? Please someone help me get this history sussed, i may not get the chance after the 24th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, anyway must get back to watching my new dvd ive just made with more than 700 pictures of shows from 75 to 85, would be nice to carry on sharing them...by for now..

please help someone must know..

heres the last one from that show, sitting in the silver surfer are (left to right) tim cook, sharon kemp, little mick kemp & rob? all are still active cdsrc members, cant remember robs surname though, tata for now.