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Wings & Wheels at Dunsfold , Cranleigh , just South of GUILDFORD is this coming weekend 23rd & 24th August . It's where TOP GEAR film their program from . There will be many interesting cars and stands of various connected clubs and business's plus aircraft displays . I'll be on duty on my motorclub stand / FDMC on the Sunday with others and their cars . I wont be taking mine as there's no tarmac opportunity , as I understand there has been on other years --- demonstrating your car with rides for passengers if they fancy it Seemed a waste to load/sheet it up and trailer there just to sit on the stand , especially if the weather isn't great .
Anyone plan on coming
Monday Bank holiday , I'll be taking my classic Wolseley 1947 12/48 series 3 , to exibit at the Pitstone Farm Museum , a very leisurely affair ---- but nice day out if the weather's with me/picnic/bottle of wine etc , along with other various slow moving vehicles (tractors , army trucks and vintage cars) Only 15 minutes from me so couldn't resist it

Not quite certain what happened yesterday regarding '' no tarmac car time '' because there were loads of cars going out on tarmac , some FDMC members too Many went out with passengers on board as well and allowed to blast to their car's max up the runway The only reason I didn't take the Stylus was that it would just be sat on the stand but no demo opportunity. Maybe it was more that ' my ' car wasn't required as the day's focus on the stand was to recruit members into motorsport with FDMC , either as admin , marshals or competitors with low cost in mind --- auto testing , solo's etc.
It stayed warm and dry and the aircraft flyovers / demo's was awesome . Red Arrows , Lancasters , Spitfire , Hurrican , Mustang , Vulcan plus a host of others I don't know the names of . The helicopter demo's were very impressive , going straight up vertically then directly down vertically in a twin rotar looked positively dangerous
Cars speeding up the runway were from a V8 Morris Minor to a stunning Fraser Nash and every sort of classic , road and modified cars in between.
I don't think I did anything to increase FDMC membership though , although many were interested to talk about our activities . The solo and autotest members did better I believe

Today's little outing in the Wolseley was a wet one so underneath the chassis's going to need a hose pipe job before I put it away for the winter . Got there for 11-00am and was the only car there other than an Army Jeep with all ammo boxes and machine gun on board but he only arrived 1/2 an hour before I left at 3-00pm and still left before me . Very few people ventured out so most of those who asked about the car were the volunteers on other stands. Once home and still raining a bit , I quickly leathered it then put the cover back on while some wet was still on the car --- it's supposed to be breathable so hopefully ok till I wash and polish it on the next dry day.