Finally, after many years, on Sunday just gone I went down to Strawberry Fields in Lifton for the SW Corvette monthly meet up. Managed to fight through all the really bad driving rain on the A30, but felt reassured just before I turned off as I saw a nice Silver C2 that must have just missed the junction as they were heading eastbound (me westbound, about to turn off).
Turned into Strawberry Fields (just off the A30 dually) and couldn't see any Corvettes.
It didn't take me long before two things dawned on me:
1) I was in the wrong car.
2) It was the wrong weekend.
So in the end I had lunch with a nice elderly couple that just happened to share the same surname as me.
(FTOs first big outing after respray and fixing sunroof and putting all back together and it was "end of the world" style heavy rain)