Had a great day yesterday racing up the hill at Saltburn North Yorkshire here are a few pictures from the day on Andys Arty Autos face Twitter site thingy.

https://www.facebook.com/AndysArtyAutoI ... 3&theater#

Jamie.

Looks like fun. Some nice stuff there.

Jamie,

I'm not on facebook so do you have another link to the pictures?

I used to holiday in Saltburn as a nipper -- great pier, miniature railway in the park -- sorry Italian Gardens, palm trees (oh yes oop north!) and the 1in4 hill to the beach. Used to spend hours watching Morris Minors axle tramp round the hairpins -- sad or what?

Steve

I'm also not on nosey book but the wife is , I think if you search Andys arty auto images in a Google search I'm sure you be able to see them as I think it's linked to other pages, he takes photos for some of the classic car mags.

Jamie

Oh and you didn't mention the funicular railway, by 'eck lad, looks 'tha.

Lol

Jamie

The missus reckons she can get to the photos from her facebook page -- she's much more connected/sociable than me.

How did I forget the funicular railway??? -- does it still run? -- there's one near here in Bridgenorth than I must give a try. Our holiday used to start with a train ride from Darlington to Saltburn in a multiple unit affair -- if you could sit up front you could see that the tracks wobbled in and out on the stretch past the ICI works -- standard gauge pah! What glamorous times.

Steve

I thought I was the only human not on facefart,

I'm not on facebook either but the link works for me - maybe after a while it gives up an lets you look anyway?

That Black Libra does look very shiny. Is that an aeroscreen in front of the windscreen though???

Nice car, wheels are different too

+1 'cos I'm an old b*gger

Finally got there on the wife's facebook. Looks like a brilliant day out. Jamie's Libra looks great and I particularly like that rather mean looking Imp. Saw a car very like that on the A49 near Ludlow last week. Also a Triton cafe racer -- my cousin had one in his youth with an enormous megaphone exhaust -- his wife used to know when to put the kettle on for his tea because she could hear him coming from about 5 miles away!

One thing puzzles me -- was this a competitive meeting or a "demonstration run" affair? -- the crowd at the cafe looks very close to the action.

Steve

Yeah unfortunately it is just a demo day as some years ago some old local tw&t looked into road bylaws and reported to the authorities that roads could not be closed for racing purposes, the timed racing and the event was binned.
Then after a trip down to Downing Street with a weighty pertition and on the back of "how come you can close roads for Lycra clad cyclists" (tour de Yorkshire etc) it was allowed to continue but only as a demonstration event, as yet! The motor club are still campaigning for the timed event. It was predominantly a motorcycle event where people came from Europe with their vintage bikes and camped the weekend. Shame

Oh and that is a GT40 esk bug catcher, it really does push air upwards and deflects flies from the windscreen.

Jamie