Race to Le Mans

All too soon it was necessary to pack up and leave, what was in all a fantastic weekend. The weather hadn’t put anyone off and people were already talking about

The Le Mans Classic weekend was everything I expected and more. Even the weather, which was appalling at times. This limited what I thought were good photo opportunities, what with

After a good night in the Hotel Ermitage Bouquet (Rouen is a fantastic city)  we got up to quite a bit of rain and things didn’t look good for camping

Disaster in Abbeville…. We were straight out of the tunnel onto the A16 heading out of Calais and south. Traffic was light and the weather was stunning, I was glad

From Norfolk to the tunnel, well mostly… from Jalopy on Vimeo. Into the tunnel from Jalopy on Vimeo.     

The trip down to Norfolk was largely uneventful, except the squeaky noise was back, meaning that I would have to do something about it sooner rather than later. I’ll take

The last two days were spent (around working) getting as many odds and ends sorted as possible. One of which was to put up the tent. I hadn’t unwrapped it

Today has been somewhat of a success with the biggest item a coolant change. I figured it’s been a while since that had been done so I got onto that

Some things had started to come together, but there were unforeseen hold-ups. For some reason Parcel Farce delivered my new serpentine belt and water pump to the nearby town Post

Progression was taking place, more in the way of time than achievements. Luckily I’d given the car a service at the same time I took it for the MOT, so

The race to Le Mans is well underway, with the list of things growing at an alarming rate. Some of the things to do included changing the engine coolant and