Manky Monkey Motors

Trucks are finally in from the states so thought we'd have a breakfast morning on 23rd Jan from 8.30. Be great to see a few of you guys... if you have any parts you're selling, bring them along....we'll start a micro swopmeet. Failing that we'll just eat some bacon butties, drink coffee and talk cars!
Venue GU8 4TF Surrey  (weather permitting)

Hi Del. Taz is working 7 days a week at the moment, so might not be able to make it, but count Lunatic & me in!
Gonna show us what you've just imported then?
For those who don't know Derek & Pat, they belong to the Surrey Street Rodders & run a catering business, serving burgers & drinks from a selection of auto themed trucks & trailers. If you've been to any of the big custom shows recently you may well have seen their big black vintage Diamond T truck, complete with "5th wheel" & trailer, converted into a catering unit. Del's actually drag raced this, complete with fully laden trailer, down the strip at Shakespeare County Raceway -proper fast food!
They live in several acres of woodland, just outside Guildford, Surrey, (about 30 miles from London). The place is like a theme park for petrol heads with all sorts of machinery tucked away in barns & sheds. Very cool. Del & Pat are the nicest people you could hope to meet & as they do it for a living, the hostiest hosts too.
I'll have a rummage in my spares heap Derek. Got some brand new parts we could do with shifting so will bring 'em along.

be great to see you-the more the merrier! Will take some pics when we get the trucks home...unloading tomorrow. A bit of variety coming this time: 49 chevy extended panel, 69 pontiac le mans, 66 fastback mustang, 50 chevy sedan delivery, 51 ford pickup, 66 ford chassis cab, 35 chevy pickup & part of a 48 ford pickup. Plus a few engines (454's)  squeezed in. Vehicles in various stages of resto!  All that AND a bacon buttie.....cant be bad!

would like to come if i may, can i follow you up there mr manky, if its not pissing down i ll give the rod a run, other wise the zephyr,  ;D

Yep, come along....as I said, the more the merrier! Look forwards to seeing you.
Derek

Been to your place twice now Derek & still haven't got a clue how to get there. Taz is the navigator, but I think she'll be working, so I'll check your postcode on t' web.
Dave, it'll be the blind leading the blind, but you're more than welcome.  ;)

Del's sent me this piccie to post on his behalf.
1950 Chevy sedan delivery.
-don't ya just hate him!

Next.
1935 Chevy pick-up.

Hi deadly. is any one aloud to come. to the breakfast morning. or is it just for the 4 wheeled crew

Derek says:

yes, anybody who is interested-we're not fussy!!

a friendly meet this morning plenty to look at in the various sheds etc, not forgetting the drinks and munchies. several familiar faces there.

cafe

i do like this

opps pop a top hose

model a

Very very nice...I started to drool when I saw that Chevy Sedan.....Voodoo.....

morris 10 panel van

morris 10. yep my old heap in the background

i do like this chevy panel, i took quite a few pics of it at windsor
chevy pics here http://www.renegade53.co.uk/2010may2rwfsccs/index.htm

rest of derek and pats breakfast meet here http://www.renegade53.co.uk/2011january23dapbm/index.htm

excellent pics, thanks for posting.

cheers chris.

thanks chris

Yup, many thanks to our hosts, Pat & Derek, for another visit to their sprawling homestead of petrolhead heaven.
Although their business is commercial catering, their passion is ...well, just about anything with an engine -& the bigger, louder & crazier the better.
I drove my little commuter car the 40 miles from Guildford in Surrey to Basingstoke in Hampshire this morning, picked up Lunatic, then we drove back again, stopping off in a petrol station near Farnham on the way to meet up with Dave & Keith in Dave's newly acquired all steel, Cadillac engined 1930 model A Ford. First time we'd seen the coupe in the flesh -very cool. Suprisingly quick too with that Caddy motor nestled up front, though it felt kinda like sitting in a phone box when we tried it for size. Primitive, but a lot of fun -much like Dave in fact.

Plenty of interesting machinery to browse once we arrived, with hot coffee & bacon butties to keep out the January cold, courtesy of one of Del & Pat's fleet of catering wagons. Maybe 2 dozen visitors calling in for breakfast during the morning, almost outnumbered by Derek's own array of motors.

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Whiff's coupe.

That Renegade bloke's Triumph.  :P

As well as the boys of the Surrey Street Rodders, all the usual suspects were there, including forum members Justine & Neil, Calvin, Chevy Rick, Renegade, Digger, 53 Catalina, GoForest, Deadly Derek of course, plus Dave_postie, Lunatic & myself, so not a bad turn out from the Manky ones.

Pat & Derek threw the event to show off their latest Stateside imports, all of which are up for sale, at £6000 a piece. Several more vehicles still waiting to come over from the other side of the pond.

Loony & I both fell in love with this 454ci Pontiac Le Mans street n strip car. This is exactly how I'd build Taz's Dodge Charger if I had my way.

The star of the day was this gee-orgeous 50s Chevy sedan delivery. So curvy, so stylish, so effortlessly cool. Again, yours for 6 grand if you fancy it.

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How long's this number plate been here Derek?!

Calvin & Klein, Rick.

Justine & Neil's Chevy.

Nice little Morris Minor convertible runs Fiat power I think & a fibreglass "Willys" flip front.

V6 Ford Pop. If I'm right, (no guarantee of that), this is recently rebuilt after a major prang.

We eventually said our Goodbyes & ambled off homeward around lunchtime.
A very pleasant way to spend a chilly January morning. Again, many thanks to Pat & Derek for their unfailing hospitality. I know it's what they do for a living, but they really do it well.
Although their catering business takes up much of their time, Derek's also a very talented engine builder & plans to drag race Pat's red Mustang soon, hopefully building up a name for himself in the racing fraternity -he'll be the very man to rebuild Taz's Charger engine then.  ;D He can use his expertise for building catering units to build race transporters too.
Del & some of the SSR guys will be paying Loony & I a visit at Loony's workshop in Basingstoke in February, to give us a hand to get my truck running. They're also keen to join us on our annual pilgrimage to MonkeyWorld in April, so we'll be seeing them all again soon.
Thanks for the breakfast guys.  ;)

Dave & Keith now travel everywhere in monochrome. I know that road's got a 30 limit guys, but it doesn't mean 1930.

Yep thanks for the hospitality 8)

hey, its not my fault ya cant keep up, ;D brilliant day, many thanks to derek and pat, lovely people. by the way manky, im a bit concerned about your knowlege on dogging spots. you hav nt got a dog. ;D ;D

You were the one who stopped there & ran off into the woods with Keith mate, not me!  :o

Yep as others have said,Great food,drink and people.Thanks again to Pat & Derek  ;D

so would you if you were being chased up the hogsback by two strange men in a small silver car. ;D

If you're wondering what the hell he's talking about, Dave & Keith had to make an impromptu loo stop on the way home -something about too much coffee & being shaken about in an 80 year old jalopy apparently. The Hogsback is a well known local road & the trucker's layby they chose to stop in is a notorious gay sex site -so I'm told. Seconds after they pulled in, a Police car arrived & the driver disappeared into the same woods as Dave & Keith -presumably brandishing his truncheon at them. Loony & I made our excuses & left. 

is that in case the copper recognised you from last time. ;D ;D ;D

Bugger >:( Forgot about this one.
Looks like it was fun, lots of interesting things to drool over ;)

 ;D Hey Pat and Derek many thanks for your hospitality nice bacon roll and a lovely cup of tea  :)

yep thanks for the bacon butties etc.

Glad you all enjoyed it-thanks for coming guys. See you in a couple of weeks ;)
derek