Very short trip this year (one intrepid participant won one of the Number Plates for completing the shortest ever distance to an MOT, of just 19 miles on the road from his home to the site!). Having missed out on MOT last year after being carted off to hospital with peritonitis, I was glad of the opportunity to get back in the saddle. Completely uneventful trip – always a bonus – and arrived on site lunchtime Saturday. That evening was the usual Welcome Drinks, and as usual there was a …

RALLY REVIEW – our holiday by Ian and Sue Portsmouth
It doesn’t seem to matter how much you plan for an MOT, deciding on the route to take, getting the car prepared; it is rare that all goes according to that carefully formulated plan, and so it was with us. Sue and I travelled through the Channel Tunnel on the Thursday afternoon, and booked into the B&B Hotel in Calais that we had arranged months previously. Our fellow travellers, Lynn and Dave Portwood, with their daughters Philippa and Jessica, travelled the …

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Imagine you are the Dutch-speaking manager of a riverside campsite in Diekirch, a little town in Luxembourg: last summer you accepted a large group booking from some pleasant English people for a car rally in May 1988. It is now Friday, 26th May, 1988 and it has rained heavily for 48 hours. You have just realised that the arrival …

Mary’s Rally Review appeared in the Sept/Oct 1985 issue of Minor Matters
Sitting here with a glass of wine and a pile of photos, memories of the Swiss Trip flood back – convoys of Minors – picnics – pouring rain – alpine flowers – sunshine – JT’s snores blasting out of his tent – Fritz the dog – Aubrey Batt’s shorts – the superb banquet – Amanda’s hangover – where do I start to write the allowed “two pages please, no more no less”?
So, we met at Dover. 90 odd Minors …