White Lion Austin Day - and TOO MUCH CARDBOARD!!

November the 9th - Austin day as planned. Fair few Austins, was cool to arrive and be directed to park up in a Marque reserved space rather than just finding any old spot. Arrived earlier than normal for exactly that reason

Bright sunshine, dry, brilliant!

Got in a nice Counties line up, the 16 on the left is owned by an acquaintance from the club, the Devon pickup has been there before. My Somerset as usual, on the right. The Cambridge next would have been nice to see some sort of evolution. I think it was a departure from previous would have been interesting to see side by side.




Arrived in a small flourish of steam coming from the radiator cap!! Over did it by covering the whole rad, thought there would be enough draft around the sides but clearly not, ripped off half for the journey home and no problems.



Starter motor bendix got stuck when trying to start up to leave, but it's handy that I know exactly what I'm doing when that happens nowadays. Starting handle out of boot, turned over engine once, calmy put the handle away got back in and started up no problem - away she went! (That's my favoured method of freeing it up I know there's the "rocking it in gear" method and also taking a spanner to the starter motor but I just find the starter handle is the easiest and most consistent approach) Some onlookers also knew exactly what I was doing, some however must have expected I had problems. Nope.. no worries!

Both the kids came with me, partly as a ruse to keep them out of the way whilst the wife picked up our new puppy!! Isabelle started to get bored, but it was about right. We were there for a couple of hours. Rest of today is going to be spent playing with "Reggie".

A classic car is for life, not just for Christmas - that is what I said last year, this year it was the wife's turn - and a dog it was!!