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« on: October 29, 2016, 01:07:30 PM » |
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The Chelsea Cruise has been going since the 70s & used to be a huge event. It's on the last Saturday of the month & used to cover most of Battersea & the Chelsea embankment. Custom cars & American classics cruising around the streets all evening. To quote the great John Milner -"Used to take a whole tank o' gas, just to do one circuit". Sadly those days are long gone & the cruise now centres around a static meet in Battersea Park, followed by cruising up & down the Chelsea Bridge. Sometimes it's busy, sometimes it's not.
Tonight's the Halloween fancy dress meet, so if you fancy seeing assorted zombies, driving 50s classic Yanks, head down to the Chelsea Bridge entrance to Battersea Park around dusk this evening.
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2016, 01:16:39 PM » |
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Video from 2013. Look out for a certain Ford Pop' pick-up at 2 minutes 30 & 11.05  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMN_1AdqkQo |
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Tony oily bike
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2016, 08:36:15 PM » |
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You (or perhaps the Manky Mobile) is famous!  Remember when Custom Car first wrote about the "Chelsea Cruise" becoming the "Battersea Park"...... (good play on words), that must have been many moons ago |
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There's nowt as light as a hole, so add lightness.
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Nitro doesn't add power, it multiplies it! Bob Loux, running 10.07 secs @138mph on a 650 normally aspirated Triumph drag bike in 1965!
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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2016, 09:20:02 PM » |
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Yeah, once the local authorities started rounding the cruisers up & directing them into the park -& charging them to go in -it lost all it's atmosphere. I started going to the Cruise with a mate when I was 14 or 15. Used to catch the train from Berkshire up to London & spend the night wandering around the streets of Chelsea. When my mate couldn't make it, I'd go on my own. Wouldn't dream of doing it now. Bizarrely, I mentioned it to my Mum fairly recently & she had no idea that's where I used to go. "Top Gear", 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFGODy-KBM
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2016, 09:36:20 PM » |
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We stopped in on the way back from the bike show, about 7ish. Only a handful of cars there, but a few more rumbled down as we left
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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2016, 09:50:24 PM » |
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Wondered if you would. Good bike show?
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« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2016, 09:48:41 PM » |
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And at 12:53 as well,they must have liked it. That was a good night out.
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« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2016, 06:00:34 PM » |
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We'll do it again, or something similar, in the Spring if you're up for it Bob.  |
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2016, 08:16:05 PM » |
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Always up for Chelsea Andy.
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