Engine Punk

Our nighbour in the camping area this year was the supercharged Rawson Riley As usual I went to the VSCC hillclimb at Wiscome Park this year. I met up with my old mate Pete Low (he who constructed the Super Vee ) and we made a weekend of it. The weather was wet but still better than last year when there were rumours of the meeting being cancelled - although nobody really took these seriously. Besides the cool, dense air enhances power and the track soon dried out. In fact I even manged to get surnburnt on the Saturday. Slippy slider in the wetty gripper as Mr Stanley Unwin might say As usual, the paddock was bursting with interesting stuff on 2,3 and 4 wheels. The sun shines on Miss Bacfire I could stand and stare at the constructional details of Formula 3 500s all day, it seems. It's always good to see RIP An old favourite is RIP or the RIP special. Described nowadays as a four wheeled Morgan, it's going better than ever and Charlie Martin's derrin...

Some Dellows await their turn by Wiscombe House. They do as well on tarmac as on the trials sections, just adding to the confusion about trialling and hillclimbing. A little rain on the Saturday post meridian put nobody off and was the exception rather than the rule despite dire weather forecasts. I think the moral here is use your classic machinery in the way its creators intended and the gods will smile. The plan had been hatched months before the event by Pete Low and me for a trip up to East Devon for the annual VSCC hillclimb in this wonderful part of the world just inland from Branscombe. It was a trip down for Pete, though, because he lives in Essex, an area where there are few hills worthy of climbing quickly in a mechanical contrivance, and we camped at Wiscombe so that we wouldn't miss out on the derring-do. I prefer two seater sports cars to the GP monopostos but F3 bolides appeal hugely to me. Any bigger, though and it ought to seat two. It's good to share bu...