Cheers Mr. Cricket/Daytona VetteI will eventually add some more photos from Bloomington Gold 1989 which I know you will like.
Daytona Vette I think the Colin you maybe referring to could be Colin Shepard. I have posted photos of Colin chrome bumper XLT 2.
In the Scratchwood Service days Colin was the club historian a great bloke and a very good heavy plant mechanic and he worked near Junction 22 M25.
The club back then was very small so Russell, Colin Tracy, Keith, Roy Linda, John Sandra, Steve Jan, myself and many others all new each other, I also know Colin and Keith still do some business together on Corvette/American and probably other cars.
Santa Pod. KSB 3 I am 99% sure was purchased by Keith Betchi new and Keith still owns his 1980 Corvette, but not one careful ownerYou can just about see Keiths CCCUK table, other high tech adverting placards and colours available
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........The club back then was very small so Russell, Colin Tracy, Keith, Roy Linda, John Sandra, Steve Jan, myself and many others all new each other, I also know Colin and Keith still do some business together on Corvette/American and probably other cars...............
Do you want to sell the TR6 ?Hi Rosobbc this membership card was the last time I was a CCCUK member, time moves on Scratchwood services can’t be replicated and I have also found my first love again.
Driving my 2004 C5 Corvette is like any other Euro box just quicker, driving the TR6 is like wrestling a Crocodile and it smells the same as when I drove them to The White Bear and The Woodman Ongar about 44 years, the Black 1980 Corvette was more at home at The Retreat Chigwell.
I compare them this way, the C5 is like a beautiful girl friend and the TR6 a slut, and I best end it there before Mary Whitehouse gets involved.
Photos to follow.
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Custom Maid one of our first 10 members David Moore had a business at the back of Custom Maid called Pipe Craft later moved to bigger premises, I remember he had a pipe bending machine that had the latest auto bending technology at the time, David had a nice Blue C2 vert with the reg 2 FLY, he had a few Vettes when I met him (for intrinsic detail his girlfriend had a particular wrist watch, an Omega De Ville Roy King special edition - I am not into watches but it was the female version of mine - A bit Bling now)That building has only been demolished relative recently (within last five years) - that whole section of the Romford/Ilford road and its side roads from North Street Romford (where the one time famous famous custom painter Allan Llewellyn's A & L Autos was based - thru' Deals on Wheels a few doors away from Allens the Ford Dealers - and the football club in Cottons Park where Eastern Cruisers would meet (both in Romford) - past Chadwell Heath station which had Cooks tool shop next door (probably the best tool shop this side of London) - Customville when they were at Goodmayes (now just around the corner in Dagenham - up past Seven Kings station and where Jakes Burger Bar used to be (and the hub for the weekly Sunday night Eastern Cruisers cruise-out to terrorise other road users en-route some of the Essex country pubs) - past another car dealer (Epping Car Co?) who usually had an American car or two - thru' to Ilford with Custom Maid. This whole 3 or 4 mile stretch was historically a hotbed of custom and American car owners and specialists. Those were the days.......................................
Yes, forgot about them.......seemed to come and go though.........................................I remember Competition Cars, and purchased a few small maintenance parts from them
Am I correct or not that South East Corvettes were at Edmonton, if not what were they called I know I went to look at a Corvette in that dealer in Edmonton.
Sorry the TR6 " for sale" was my tasteless joke after what you called herHi Daytona Vette I wish you did not type so quicklyI am adding to my post very slowly, and bam a new post from you.
As for my TR6 not really I have only owned it for 2 years, it cost me quite a lot of money, and although it was a nice car when I purchased it, like all old cars it had a few problems which I have now sorted out.
Although it came with a new NOS block pistons and a replaced cylinder head it still had crankshaft end float, common in TR engines so I had the thrust washers replaced, the wiring was an abortion so with the help of a friend it has been rewired to a very high standard, the original back breaking Triumph seats have been replaced with a lovely pair of new cream releatherd MX5 seats a very common replacement, at the same time I replaced the gear box and hand brake tunnels an absolute bastard of a job.
To top all this of like most TR6's it was a soft-top car, I think they look great with a hardtop so I was very lucky to get one of the last original NOS hardtops and by the time I fitted it, it cost me about £2200/£2400, sounds like a lot of money but I think great value for money, where else can you get a 50 year old brand new hardtop.
Going back a bit further - Woolferace had a place underneath the Staples Corner flyover - and even earlier than that I would travel over to Kalvin Tyre company at Broxbourne for bit's and pieces. Not forgetting the breakers yards for Yankee motors at Heathrow, Blackwall Tunnel, Canning Town a bit later and a whole myriad of them in Suffolk and Norfolk.Roscobbcanother person who reply's quicker than I can type
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Or could it be this stunning Red John Greenwood Spirit of Le Man Corvette race car replica which was completely unknown to me, and seen at Santa Pod.
The original John Greenwood Spirit of Le Man Corvette raced at tracks like Le Man and Daytona.
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Or could it be this stunning Red John Greenwood Spirit of Le Man Corvette race car replica which was completely unknown to me, and seen at Santa Pod.
The original John Greenwood Spirit of Le Man Corvette raced at tracks like Le Man and Daytona.
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No the above Greenwood Daytona is not mineDaytona Vette I remember the name David Moore I must have known David Moore but I can,t recall him.
I first knew of Pipe Craft when they were at Kemp road Chadwell Heath, I don't know for sure but they could have relocated to Basildon.
Do you remember the name of the owner of Custom Maid, I think he started selling American Cars from a very nice car site some where in Essex, and this would make John laugh Saudi 1977 Corvette I think he wore snake skin shoes.
From memory but I could check, I remember seeing a photo of 2 FLY in a book and on a red C2 Corvette and it was owned by a rock star.
As for Jeffs Beck C4 Corvette I am sure it has resurfaced, and I think it was on the CCCUK forum in quite a rough condition, unfortunately as we know the C4 Corvette like the TR7 they are still the poor relation, so may not be worth restoring.
No don't tell me this is your Black John Greenwood Spirit of Le Mans Corvette race car replica, looking at the Corvettes in the back ground this was probably at one of Tom’s New Year open days.
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No the Red Greenwood Daytona is not mine, I may be wrong but I think this one again mid to late 80s was built in Woolwich, has a magnolia interior and the fit and finish of the body panels at the time I saw it were very good, it was running a small block under the low rise hoodOr could it be this stunning Red John Greenwood Spirit of Le Man Corvette race car replica which was completely unknown to me, and seen at Santa Pod.
The original John Greenwood Spirit of Le Man Corvette raced at tracks like Le Man and Daytona.
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