"Nos Nats" time again & finally, this year, I was ready. The hotrod pick-up I've been building, with much help from Loony & many other fellow forumers, for the last 5 years, is finally registered & on the road. Maybe not completely finished, but definitely driveable.
So I've been looking forward to the chance to get out & put some miles on it & yeah, show it off a little too.
In typically British fashion though, this Summer's been wet n miserable so far & this weekend was no exception. Friday was apparently warm & sunny, Saturday was a little damper, then it poured down on Sunday -guess which day we went.
A bare metal truck, with no glass in the windows, in the rain. Who's idea was this?
Actually the drive up from Hampshire to Warwickshire was dry & quite pleasant. It wasn't till we'd paid our 18 quid entry fees & rolled into the campsite that it started to cloud over. We arrived at about 11.0.clock, all set for a full day's race spectating, but by 1.30 it was all over. The skies had opened & the grandstands emptied as race cars were hurriedly covered over. Shakespeare County Raceway doesn't have track driers & even if they did, it would've taken several hours to bring the track back up to useable condition & racing has to finish at 5.0.clock to comply with local council bylaws.
Ahh well. At least we were there. Nice to see my big brother Brock & his good lady Lesley, as well as Tony, (Cunning Plan), & Scottie the hotrod haulier with his family. Good to catch up with some of the other regulars in the Wild Bunch nostalgia drag club too. By 2.0.clock we'd called it a day & were heading home again -&, of course, the weather immediately brightened up for a dry & pleasant cruise back. Never mind, we were there, in a hotrod we'd built ourselves & we had a good time. We'll be back.
