I have had an email to ask if I am still about on my blog. The answer is a big yes, of course I am. Last weekend I was with the Mustang Maniac guys at Santa Pod for a Classic Ford meet. Yogi took his ’69 Mach1 down the strip a few times and set some impressive times even though he had wheel spin all over the place off the line. We camped overnight on Saturday and that was a laugh as I hadn’t been camping for nearly 40 years! It was still as bad as I remember it, only made up for it with the steady supply of beer, only to help make us sleep of course. It was share a tent time and I left my shoes by the zip exit to the tent. Yogi got up in the night and tripped over my boots and feel out the door in a most undignified manner! I shouldn’t laugh, but I did. Sorry Yogi, but it was funny. There was some great cars there and I have borrow some of the pics from the Mustang Maniac Blog, click here for the full story and some videos of Yogi racing.
Some of the drag set up cars couldn’t match Yogi’s Mach1 times, and that is almost a fifty year old car. I was very impressed with that I must say. Running in the eleven and twelve second range for the standard quarter-mile.
The Week before that was the Enfield Pageant Of Motoring which is the Mustang Maniac show of choice. I was there this time with my completed car on Saturday & Sunday, stopping overnight in the big motor home Adam has for the hospitality. I was not disappointed and Adam can rustle up a good breakfast too. There was so much to see at the show, but I have noticed that there are more and more new stall traders creeping in rather than the old skool auto jumble. I arrived early in the morning at the Mustang Maniac yard and helped out where I could and followed the guys in convoy to the show, literally about twenty mins down the road. I parked up with some of the other cars already there, Ranchero, Yogi’s ’69, Ian’s fastback, and mine for now. What was great was that people from last year recognised the car where it was unfinished.
As the time grew closer to opening times more cars arrived to show on the stand. Paul turned up with his ’66 coupe to complete the line up of old cars. The new cars where out in force with a couple of GT’s and a Saleen. The stand looked brilliant and attracted the usual crowds to the old and newer cars.
Sunday saw Spence in his convertible take the place on the front row to provide a different display along with a new 2016 right hand drive black Mustang which was quite cool.
Monday was mix and match day with Lance bringing his ’65 coupe down to replace mine in the Classic section of the stand.
The weekend was a lucky weekend with the rain holding off most of the time with only a few spots of drizzle.
The Car:
I have been driving her around now and enjoying every second of it and put almost seven hundred miles on the clock driving to and from car shows. Adam now wants the car back to give the car and check over and make sure all the bolts are tightened up again and re-grease all the points that need them. There is a sweet spot of sixty miles an hour where the exhaust quietens down and is a pleasure to cruise. But if you stamp on the gas it soon makes a noise again.
Miles per gallon?
I am always being asked this and not really had a chance to work it out so far. Now after a few tank full and recording the mileage on my phone app, it works it all out for me now. If I drive it like an old lady and be very, very gentle with it down hill I get a max of 25mpg but if I drive it like I stole it I get 14mpg. If I am on a run I get about 20mpg. I can’t complain at that at all.
I just say: “It’s not miles per gallon, it’s SMILES per gallon”.
So it has been a very busy couple of weekends where I have just had the chance to catch up a bit and recover. Mostly I now appreciate just how comfortable my own bed is! There are more car shows coming up and hope I will be a little quicker getting the blog posted up.
What fun! I take it you didn’t try a drag run with old blue? I love drag racing. The photo of the van doing and wheelie is great. Fuel price in dollars is $6.94 per gallon. I paid $2.56 per gallon for premium yesterday. The only difference between gas prices at the pump world-wide is taxes. You my friend are paying a lot of taxes every time you fill up your Mustang!
Thanks Timothy, they was a fun weekend all round and enjoyed them. As it was a run what you bring, if I broke or blew something up it would be a nightmare to get home again. I was very tempted, but thought better of it.
As for the fuel it’s ridiculous, we pay income tax, then pay fuel duty. Then pay vat valuable added tax on the tax we just paid. We yhen pay road tax all of which are not put back into the roads and spent on giving it scroungers in other countries. Motorists in the UK are nothing more than cash cows for the government. Rant over. 😂
I know how you feel. We get the multiple taxation, also, just not near the level that you get it. Oh! So then they try to push electric cars on everyone, and want to start taxing all cars by the mile driven because of the anticipated drop in tax revenue from drops in fuel sales.
Funny that, we can’t win what ever we do. I got a good mind to go to our parliament and do a few burn outs and doughnuts just because I can. Politicians are only in it for themselves. Power and money.