Manky Monkey Motors

i was told about this event tonight at the club meet. tony thought i might be interested as they might have a dragster or 2 there doing their thing.
Sevenoaks and District Motor Club is pleased to announce the Ancaster Group as title sponsor of Motorsport at the Palace, a two-day motorsport festival at Crystal Palace, running 30-31 May. Ancaster’s dealers have been selling cars in the South London/Kent area for over 50 years and like most locals, they are proud and excited to see racing return to the Park.

http://www.motorsportatthepalace.co.uk/index.htm

Sounds interesting Dave.

came across this on you tube lotus tinas don't arf shift. if i had the money that is one car i would have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWp-0TuY4Sk

and this from the early 70's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5zdnGvT0c

Hello All,

The sevenoaks motor club ran their 1st Crystal Palace Sprint back in 1997 (think it was 25 year anniversary of something but forget what), it was pretty good too as it featured motorcycles as well as the four wheelers, where as subsequent meeting have been car-only. Think they ran from '97 - 2000, and this years is the first since then.
I was lucky enough to have had a bike entry so got to blast round a very limited amount of the old track on 650 TriBSA hillclimb bike, and then watch the cars do their thing.
The entry had a variety of machines from some wonderful 'historic' cars to the rather mundane, but a friendly event.
Could make a nice day out.

Cheers

2011 date - May 29 & 30th
http://www.motorsportatthepalace.co.uk/

off in about 10 minutes to meet up with chippy micky, gonna see if i can get a bolt for the drainhole in the bottom of the rad whilst i'm there. weather looks like it might be good from midmorning onwards. photos to follow mr monkey. now what size is that thread

just got back now to sort the pics. stuck on the m25/m23 junction for hour and a half. took quite a lot of pics andy and some video for youtube

spent the evening and most of today going through the action shots and finally got things that look ok or bloody great. my favourites of the day were the mg magentte za (powered by a mercedes wtc engine) no wonder it was quick and the vette.

the tower

triumphs 4 of us a tr8, spitfire, vitesse and mk1 2000

mini roof

oldsmobile

rat talbot, thought to meself i wonder if yer can squeeze a v8 into that  ;D

early lotus 7. the old guy in the picture owns it.

sunbeam tiger

v8 zephyr 6

another zephyr

wartime aa

pair mk1 lotus cortinas, took pics of the fronts of them both different grilles and sidelights

how about this for a 2cv  ;D

standard vanguard a bit slow took over a minute on the time trial must be bog standard no pun intended  :)

the woman standing by this was the driver. its a rapier

that mg mentioned earlier

that vette mentioned earlier pictured in the paddock area, got some ace pics of it in motion. rather pleased with 'em considering its just a point and shoot type, seemed to work well on that occassion on continuous shoot. only prob with that you cant see where yer pointing  :( that black thing sticking out starts and stops the timer

one of them modern italian sports cars type things

he had to brake hard

changed some to black and white

the vette prior to smoking

the vette smoking

2cv the keyboard player from level 42 also drives this sometimes hence level 42 on the side

another black and white pic

finally a quick black mk1 escort. got about 500 odd pics for yer andy

Looks like a grand day out Dave. I've never been to Crystal Palace. Some interesting machinery there.

Dave's photos here:

http://mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/Photos/crystalpalace30.5.10/index.htm

HI Andy dont know if its my end but all i get is a blue mini and a big tower behind

Huh?
That's the first photo in the gallery. You mean the thumbnails down the left hand side aren't loading?
Just checked it here & seems to be working fine. You still getting a problem?

Hi Andy its ok now must have been my end thanks