Taking my Triumph Vitesse 2 Litre to Thorpeness Classic Car Show 2024
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Join me as I take "Tess" my 1967 Triumph Vitesse 2 Litre to this delightful village classic car show. En-route we take a quick tour of Aldeburgh and and explore the history of the Fantasy Village of Thorpeness of the Suffolk Heritage Coast before taking a detailed look at some of The County's Old Cars.
Apologies everyone. The Audi coupe is apparently the real deal... Fire up the QUATTRO!
A sunny Sunday morning driving an open top car through a quintessentialy English village with church bells ringing. What more could one want! Couldn't get to Thorpeness this year but good to see the cars.
Thanks John, it was a perfect morning. Hope all is well with you.
Great video, very nice put together. The show looked good. Hope to catch up with at some point, still knee deep in un-packing boxes and tip runs, The Stag is being used more now we moved and makes me happy and de-stressed after a nice run around the lane here in Oxfordshire, you would like some of these drive, so try and make it to the last Bicester Scramble of 2024 on the 8th of October. Hope to see you then. All the best Bob
Thanks Bob. I am so pleased that your move has been successful. I am just delighted you are getting to drive your lovely Stag more. I will try to get to Bicester this year. If I do manage it I will let you know in advance.
Best wishes, Sean
I miss the Church Bells, I miss England.
@@lordleonusa Me too.
The warning on the back window of the Wolsely that "this car uses trafficators" made me chuckle a little. I doubt if most modern drivers would even know what a trafficator is. Let alone be looking for a strange orange pointer thingy popping out from the 'B' pillar.😂
It's still a considerate gesture evenso. Maybe the owner is hedging a little self-preservation, too.
Great video. I very much enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
So pleased you enjoyed this. Trafficators or semaphore indicators are things of comic delight and lovely lost automotive features.
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That Vanguard thou' such presence, so solid, tough as old boots, remind me somewhat of a battleship, especially in grey, I do like the Beetleback version.
Astonishing cars for their time and like the Humbers and MK1 Jaguars and even the little Prefects, they feel over engineered but perfect for the roads of Uganda etc. at the time. It's sad that Standards like Rootes cars seem to have vanished from public consciousness.
Hello Sean, thank you for another interesting and pleasurable day out! Perhaps, sometime, you can take us to some of the mediaeval places of interest in Aldeburgh and Snape. Best wishes, C.
Thanks Colin. I think winter drives are the answer when I can show you more. 👍
@@seanhumfrey Thank you, Sean. That's a good idea! Stay well.
Lotus 7s AND mini mokes!
I really will have to try to get there next year Sean! I’d have trouble deciding whether to drive off in the Packard or the Tiger (I should be so lucky…)
Wonderful video as always, thanks ☺️
As for Tess, fingers crossed she’s cured. Did you replace the condenser in the end? I found mine played up erratically when the engine got hot.
I think if you are taking the Packard then you need your own chauffeur Peter. Happy to oblige!
Actually Tess is on luminition ignition, but that has probably done about 40,000 miles so I imagine it will be up for review at some point.
The Tiger is hard to resist, isn't it. But for the money I would be greedy and try to grab the Jensen And the Alpine instead!
It’s a ‘full blooded quattro’ with a 2.2l turbo charged 20 valve 5 cylinder engine (RR designation) putting out 220 bhp in standard form
Fabulous, ❤️ I will pin your comment. Beautiful car 👌
**THORPY AND THE THORPETTES!!**
So sorry YT doesn't allow me to film or record live music because of copyright issues. But here's a shout out 😍
Apologies. Not true, as I realise I have actually done so in another video. But I did require permission from the performer. I hope church bells don't come under the same category 🙏
The 4 door white Rover BPW495 was first registered in 1937
Was it?! That really is interesting.
I wish they'd bring back overdrive on third and fourth
It does make driving so much more fun 👍
The Red Packard HPB117 was first registered September 1938
That car really is something. Such an ignominious end for such a magnificent brand
Driving down those country lanes, if the car in front gets past the oncoming traffic, then you KNOW you will fit, because all the moderns are wider than the Vitesse!
A lot of those just post war cars, didn't have Chromed trim, it was often painted silver because of post war austerity, indeed, even getting a new car in those early post war years was nigh on impossible, unless you were a certain profession, such as a Doctor etc
Austerity of that kind is hard to relate to in England in the 21st century. I know that the same thing applied to building materials.