Engine Punk

The post scrutineering line up with my Arkleyt-MG next to the Peugeot 205 of brothers Shaun and Scott Adams For this year's Testing Trial, Binky and I proved that it was not practicable to enter a sidecar and a car in the Keinton Mandeville TT and compete in both at the same time. Or sequentially. Binky on the new outfit. We were too pushed for time to take many photos Binky had bought a new sidecar outfit and, after various shenanigans with the Arkley-MG, I needed some road miles and an event as a shake down run. This MCC event in Somerset (within earshot of the Glastonbury festival, no less) on the last Sunday in June would be perfick as Pop Larkin might say. The plan was for me to drive up to the event site while Binks trailered his outfit down from sunny Andover and then your brave boys could indulge in multi-sensory overload on three wheels as well as four. It was not to be. We started off among the outfits and made our stately way round the course intending to...

Unlike previous Vintage Things, I've actually got one of these. I've had my Siva Llama for a few years now and it's currently awaiting removal of the body to allow the chassis to be shot blasted. It's a van variant - would you believe - and I've got all the hardtops and doors. It's just that it wasn't very well put together when it was built and somebody cut windows into the van sides. This wouldn't have been a problem if they'd got the measurements right. On one side they cut the hole too big and riveted in a strip to fill a gap of about 2 cm. They must have got this strip out of the bit they'd just removed. I bet the language was choice. I'm not sure how I'll deal with this when respray time beckons. Anyway, I never bothered with the doors or hardtops. It was always sunny wherever I went and the people always smiled and waved so I never felt the need. Don't judge this claim by the accompanying photos. Some of them might look ...