Every year the Goodwood Revival weekend is the highlight of my September. I’ve attended regularly for eleven years, becoming a club member from 2006. It usually benefits from Indian summer weather – I can only remember two occasions on which it was a washout – and is always a wonderful spectacle, often eventful. This year was no […]
Yearly archives: 2014
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What a day it turned out to be! [youtube=http://youtu.be/BAF1p72Ls2s] The car parking area allocated was so full they had to put late comers in the public car park and beyond. The weather was brilliant and everyone enjoyed the day. Various members of JEC Essex Thameside attended and took advantage of […]
Back in May, some of us – namely Russell and Mandy, Chris and Marise, Roger and Miriam together with Sue and your scribe – ventured down to Yeovil to experience the famous Haynes International Motor Museum. Take a look at Russell’s report in the June 2014 Newsletter for further details. For this […]
The biggest indoor classic car show in the United Kingdom kicked off in fine style on 14 November, with more than 250 club stands and 1700 classics wowing visitors. The show theme was Movie and TV cars and there were a lot of stands depicting this theme. On show was […]
It’s Saturday 27 September and the forecast is for a warm dry weekend; it certainly looks promising as we erect the club gazebo for the last show of the season. The promise is honoured on the Sunday as we arrive at the show in glorious sunshine, a last hurrah and […]
On Saturday 4 October, The Hare in Roxwell Road, Chelmsford, held its last ‘Breakfast Meet’ of the year. A number of members attended to this special event as Channel 4 were recording for a forthcoming programme due out in March 2015, or so we are told. The programme was recorded […]
The local ‘petrol heads’ met again at The Hare on the Roxwell Road, Chelmsford, on Saturday 6th September for Breakfast and a natter. Grange Motors loaned me a F-Type R 5.0L Supercharged for the occasion. And what a machine. At well over £90,000 with extra’s, this machine is something else. […]
Peter Davey’s Jaguar Mark 2 was featured in the September 2012 edition of Practical Classics magazine. Q Nice Jaguar, Peter. How much do you know about it? I’ve got all of the history from new. It was built in June 1961 and dispatched to Henlys London in July but not […]
Stockholm, 1967, on the day that Sweden changed from driving on the left (i.e. right) to the right (i.e. wrong) side of the road. WHY DO MOST COUNTRIES DRIVE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD? Between downpours at the otherwise splendid Chiddingstone Castle event a few weeks ago, the subject […]
As you all should be aware, from April to October, The Hare Public House in Roxwell Road, Chelmsford, have a monthly “Breakfast Meet” on the first Saturday of every month. The landlord opens the pub at 09:00am for breakfast and provides free coffee and danish pastries for those that do […]
12 members of Essex Thameside Region attended the Kent Regional Day at Chiddingstone Castle in the Wealds of Kent on Sunday 17th August. In the early 19th century Henry Streatfeild (1757-1829), son of Henry Streatfeild (1706-1762) and Lady Anne Sidney, commissioned William Atkinson to rebuild the house in the Gothic […]
Thursday 3rd July seemed to arrive with the speed of light. No sooner had we completed the Bristol trip than we were meeting Chris and Marise White in the Nag’s Head Car Park for another jaunt, this time to the ‘Le Mans Classic’. Travelling to Le Mans The trip across […]
Jaguar Enthusiast’s Club, Essex Thameside Region, celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year and, to mark the occasion, on Sunday 3rd August held a bar-b-que at Essex Police Sports & Social Club in Chelmsford. It was an out and out success. Over 90 members and partners attended and enjoyed the festivities […]
Grace and pace, but not much space for luggage. Nevertheless a Suffolk SS100 is meant to be driven and, this June, I travelled to Spain a second time for a touring holiday with seven other Suffolk SS100’s. Organised and escorted by Classics on the Road, last year’s tour of Rioja and […]
The National club’s anniversary event took place at Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire on Sunday 22 June. What a day! Previous events held in the north of the country haven’t been that dry in the past few years. However, for once, the event was held in brilliant conditions and warm sunshine. The […]
Following the St Peters Car Show on Saturday, an early start again on Sunday 15th June, with similar weather as the previous day, as we visited the “Air Britain Fly-In”. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BjOQQx3Vvc] This was a first time visit for the club to North Weald’s annual gathering of small aircraft, whose pilots fly in from […]
Sunday 1st June was a wonderful fresh and bright day and ideal for a run down to Goodwood from Essex. Leaving Chelmsford at 5:30am, the road were extremely quiet and took me just 2 hours to get to the location. Even driving with cruise control at 70 mph was pleasant and saved fuel […]
I passed my driving test, first time, in 1955, driving a 1938 Morris 8 from the Romford School of Motoring – I had six lessons. The test was taken in Romford on market day so it was no picnic! My parents bought me my first car which was a 1934 Morris 10/4 with […]
The day started off fine from my abode in Essex. My car, a 2005 4.2L XK8 convertible had been cleaned and polished to within an inch of its life the previous week. It looked fantastic, even if I say so myself. I started the journey at 06:30am to the starting point at Greenwich Naval College. Heading […]
JEC Essex Thameside AGM The club’s Annual General Meeting was held in Langdon Hills Country Golf Clubhouse on Tuesday 6 May. Chairman’s Report Since May last year, we attended the Maldon Car Show, Cressing Temple, Helmingham Festival of Classics and Sports Cars, the September meet at Battlesbridge and our own November […]
Calling all members Following the articles by Neil Shanley and Richard Gibby (plus one back in the September 2007 newsletter from David Sullivan), why not contribute something about you and your car? It need not be a long article and, perhaps, you may not think there is anything particularly special […]
Neil’s recent post Finding the Cat started with a question. Does the cat find you, or do you find the cat? In my case perhaps neither: like Dr Frankenstein, I created a new cat from a dead one. I’ve always been fascinated by cars. My mother insists that, when just 18 months old and […]
At one of the last club meets, Richard Gibby and I were discussing what made us choose our cars. We figured this would make a good article for the Newsletter, and one which may spur on other members to contribute their experiences. They say that the car chooses you – […]
Saturday, April 5th. It’s 08.25 am and the sun is shining as we arrive with top suitably down at the Hare in Roxwell Road, for the first Classic & Sports Car Breakfast Meet of the year. It’s already nearly full, but after waiting for a ’62 Thunderbird to berth, we […]