Looks like Southchurch Park to me. With the big houses in the back gound.
Pics definitely not from the Grays Show......
We couldn't afford a marquee!
[quote=Martyn B;227695]The young lady (in the photos) entering the tent with Bob is Liz (Ian Walkers wife to be).
MY GOD, THATS SOMEFIN ELSE IVE LEARNED!, I WILL BE SEEING HIM SOON, HAVE TO LET HIM SEE IT!!
Yes thats Humphrey in the schoolgirl outfit.
Now here's a poser for you,
Who remembers "The Secret Rodder's Ball"?
1st year the CDSRC put on a run, but forgot to publicise it!!!
Result: hardly anyone turned up!!
The EPF turned up on Sunday and doubled the attendance figures!
So for the next year, I renamed it and let everyone else know about it!!
The brain cells regarding that event have been long since deleted, apart from the image of Archie & Ray from The Brighton Lot, doing a human tank across the field!!
Has anyone got any photos or memories of these runs?
[quote=The Pop Shop;227681]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?
FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT, THATS THE FIRST ROD RUN I WENT TO AS WELL, ORGANISED BY MARTYS GANG THE EASTERN CRUISERS, IT WAS HELD AT THE CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE IN ARDLEIGH, AS YOU RIGHTLY SAY JUST OFF THE A12, 26TH OF JUNE 77 WAS THE DATE, HERES SOME PICS....
ALL I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THESE IS THE WHITE POP IS VANILLA OLAY & THE RUBY IS AL MCNAMARAS, NO DOUBT MARTY WILL KNOW THE REST...
Cool pics of the Ardleigh run, Vanilla OLay was my Pop!!
I was rudely woken at about 8.30am on the Saturday morning by Electric Funeral revving up right next to my tent. Best alarm I've ever had!
Was that the run where we had lawnmower racing Grand prix?
Yet more old snaps!
These are from the Arleigh Run in 77
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GOOD, FINALLY GOT TO HUMPHREY, YES I REMEMBER THE SECRET STREET RODDERS BALLS, (OO-ERRR!) I WENT TO I THINK 2 OF EM, I HAVE A FLYER IN BOBS BOX, & A LOAD OF PICS OF MY OWN , BUT NOTHING ON FILE, I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED ON THE DATES, I HAVE A NOTE THAT THERE WAS 1 IN 82? (this is probably the lack of advertisiments one cause i cant confirm it?), & THERE WAS DEFINATELY 1 ON THE 13TH TO 15TH OF JULY 84, I KNOW THE SECOND ONE WAS HELD AT GILSTED HALL, COXTIE GREEN ROAD BRENTWOOD, THIS WAS MENTIONED IN CUSTARD CART JUNE 84.
DEFINATELY BE BACK ON THIS ONE, KEEP REMINDING ME IF I FORGET.....
I'd forgotten about you using the Coryton road as a test strip Marty!
I always used that same road as a test track whenever I did any work on my cars too!
Ranging from try outs of the MG1300 engine we put in my brother's Mini, to an all out attempt to grenade the Dolomite engine in my Pop, before I swapped it for a 2000 pinto engine. (I failed!) Just goes to show what a great little engine that was.
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awesome pics, yes it was where the mower racing was, (ardleigh by the way) although i didnt see it, forgot you owned vanilla olay, ive got a pic somewhere of a wedding at broomfield church, im sure its on that pic, kens 55, goldust, bobs y etc, dunno who was getting married??
Heres the last pics from ardleigh...these were also the first photos out of my new 126 camera, my very first camera, films were expensive to get developed, always used to get them done at the chemist by the stone bridge opposite where Caters was in Chelmsford.....sorry starting to waffle....!!
Thats a pic of Geoff Caves (Sit Up 'n Beg Pop) - Chief EPF macho image destroyer!
Did someone mention LAWNMOWER RACING.............![]()
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These snaps are taken from Marty Babbs excellent cine film from that Ardleigh show
Is that one of them defuser thingies I see on the mower?
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My Pop was last seen heading towards Colchester on a trailer in 2000.
It was Red with gold & silver graphics then.
It is still registered with DVLA but dunno if its on the road.
I have asked before but nobody has seen it....![]()
Last edited by The Pop Shop; 20-04-09 at 01:45 PM.