Manky Monkey Motors

January 1st 2011
New Year’s Day Gathering

All classic, vintage and veteran cars are welcome for possibly the largest New Year's Day gathering in the South East! Entry via the Campbell Gate off Brooklands Road for pre-1973 vehicles, whose occupants will receive a discount of £1 off our usual admission prices. Parking in and around the Paddock and on the Finishing Straight for these vehicles.
For those just turning up to look at this wonderful display, as well as the rest of the Museum and its exhibits, there will be parking in The Heights off Wellington Way.
The bar and restaurants will be open for our traditional turkey-free New Year’s Day lunches and snacks.

Went last year and was pretty good.

Brooklands used to have a Vintage Driving Test day (sort of autotest for oldies) on new year's day which was also well worth a visit,  but have moved it on a few weeks the past few years, not sure of the dates for 2011 as yet but will inform the forum when I know.

New Years Day aslo has the gathering at the Pheonix.

Yup, it'll be the Phoenix pub gathering in Hartley Whitney, Hants for me as usual.

Date for the Vintage Sports car Club Driving Tests - January 9th 2011

Taken from the Brooklands Museum website  http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.php?

Some 60 pre-war cars will tackle a dozen different tests around complicated courses laid out on the historic Brooklands track, with drivers competing against the clock while trying to avoid any penalty-attracting mistakes. All sorts of pre-war cars are expected to take part ranging from stark sports-racers to stately saloons and even a few spindly veterans. Tests will take place both morning and afternoon. More vintage cars are also expected to be on display in the Paddock.

Visitor parking is in The Heights off Wellington Way or in the Museum car park at Mercedes-Benz World. Visiting pre-war cars may park in the Paddock.

Contact: Donna Hopton  events@brooklandsmuseum.com  01932 857381 ext 253

As best I know........
STANDARD ADMISSION PRICES

Adult £9.00
Senior Citizen/Student £8.00
Children (5-16) £5.50
Children under 5 FREE
Family ticket £25.00
(2 adults & up to 3 children)


If you're interested, you can become a Brooklands Trust Member for a yearly outlay of

Club - £85
Family - £50
Couple - £45
Individual - £30

which gets you in whenever the site is open simply by showing your membership card****
****Note - There are few events which have an extra charge, but the website explains/shows.

http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.php?/support-us/brooklands-trust-members/





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I went to this last year,
a very good day out, and hope to be back next year. 

This year will be better, I've fixed the heater  ;)

hopefully this !£%*^$" cold/flu will have virtually gone

Here we are with the first Manky (literally) event-report  for 2011.

Set off to Brooklands at about 10.30 on a dry and not-too-chilly new years day, called to Dslam's house for a cuppa, and then set off to Brooklands arriving around mid-day, showed the membership cards so free entry, and parked the bikes in one of the few spaces left.
The place was heaving with people and vehicles, the most I can remember seeing there in all the 20+ years I've been going.
A fair old variety too, ranging from the racing Blower Bentleys  through to the man-in-the -street type of car from the 60's, from a Delorean to motorcycles, from little Italian cars to a '59 Caddy, plus a handful of custom metal.
The event had a really friendly family feel to it with like minded folk wandering around, and then the weather decided it was going to drizzle (well, this is England!!) but most people simply ignored it, the drizzle went and came back, we'd seen all of it, so time to see how the magnetos felt about making sparks in the damp – hefty kick after the British bike starting formalities – fired up a treat, no sweat, so a gentle amble home.

Would seem from the journey home that the damp weather didn't make it as far west as the Phoenix, so hopefully all who made it there had a dry drive/ride.


Car below is a De Lorean (stainless body), production run from '81 -'82, so I guess he went back to the future to get in to the "pre '73" event  ??? ::)

Healey 3000

Lovely original Hudson

A selection of Bentleys

Now that's what I call imposing

Mustang

Mini Countryman

Original early 70's buggy (remember Custom Car Issue #1)

A '32

Morgan look-alike. This one's a Triking with a Guzzi engine.
Triking were the more expensive alternative to the real Morgans, JZR being the other big player, and a fair bit cheaper.

Car to the right is an Jenson Healey GT. (Unusual car, but from the info I have, production was 1975-1976 for the GT)

Rod

This sounded glorious.................

Couple of old Brit bikes

Looks like a fine day out was had by all Tony.
I passed a blower Bentley driving Brooklands-wards on the A3 as I was heading to the Phoenix meet. That yellow buggy may be Mr Goforest's, or one of his buggy boys.
Nice report Tone, thanks. We'll stock-pile any write-ups you lot send in & add them to the main site, along with event photos, once we're fully online again.
Oh, & yup, the Phoenix stayed dry!  ;D

yup it was go forest saw him as he was leaving. far too much modern stuff there. apparently according to entry notice and on the brooklands web site it was pre 73 so i wasn't impressed. didn't take that many pics only about 50 odd.

Mr B, who organises the Boxing Day classic meet in Romsey, has extended the cut-off date for classics from '72 to '76. Makes a big difference to entry numbers apparently. I wonder what my truck will be classed as? It's based on a 1953 Ford, but will have a Q plate. 

by modern stuff i mean 08 09 and 10 plates mercs and a lambo. a new fiat 500. BORING

Reckon the Mercs that were there could be because of the relationship between Merc & Brooklands ???

Looking at the photos I put up, the Triking, Jenson and De Lorean all all post 1973 !!  Rascals!

Overall, we thought it a pretty good turn out............

I asked my mate Bob what year his Triumph was - he said "Which bit?" 
(It's 1950s).

Yer that was me, mustangs me mates had a good day may go to some of the breakfast clubs there starting up

quite a few 'modern' things in the pic

nikkis mk1 2000

granny estate, i can't remember when i last saw the estate version

mustang

jaguar

austin i think its a somerset

chevy pickup

some oldies

bentleys

another chevy pickup

jeep

simca

another ford estate yer don't see many of these either

a pair of new yorkers

super bee

i like these little lancias

clean brg e-type

lancaster

hurricane, they had more kills than the spitfire during the battle of britain

harrier which in my view has to be the best aircraft in modern military history shame they're being put into mothballs

Simca!  I learnt to drive in a Simca - haven't seen one for donkeys years!


Yes but they weren't as pretty!

Found some you-tube footage of the 2011 and 2010 New Year's Gatherings....

2011     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99eCd2iIDT0

2010     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajJ0JGtDpY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL