With the pre season service complete, it was time for a road test. Just a short one and just for grins we decided to take a trip across the river on the Transporter Bridge. It was also a chance to check that the new cam would work OK in the TA.
Everything was fine and the cam worked well.
They pack them in tight!.
The new cam worked just fine.
A new page added, just for fun.
Last year I was given the gift of a patch from the British Car Club of Charleston, South Carolina. The ﻿new page﻿ is dedicated to this patch and the places it visits.
Seven cars turned up at the usual Yarm Station meeting place. Three of the cars were MGs. We were in the MGB GT. We had an pleasant drive and met up with other club members who had gone directly to the museum.
This is a great little museum with plenty to see and it's free to get in. Bonus!
After a quick bite to eat and a cuppa we all spent an enjoyable couple of hours browsing.
Thanks to Pam for some of these photos.
On the drive there I was trying out the new cam and it pefromed as well in daylight as it did in darkness. I also had one of the old cams mounted on the back of the car. That turned out quite reasonable.
Regular readers will know that I don't have much luck with technology and over the years a few cams have given up the ghost. It's a tad annoying so I bit the bullet and spent more money and bought a (hopefully) better cam. It's the Nextbase 302G Deluxe and up to now I'm impressed.
I tried it out on Friday night when we went out to a club meeting. The night vision is great, far better than any of the other cams. We'll find out how good it is in daylight on the next run.
The only downside, if you can call it a downside, is that it has a very short battery life, but it works fine connected to the cigar lighter.
Another useful feature is the GPS link up and the cam comes with software to show where you've been on Google Maps.
Quite often on the runs we do, with Pam navigating and me driving, we enjoy the countryside but don't really know where we've been. With this we can see.
Once again we got an invitation to this superb restoration shop which always has some interesting projects on the go. About 25 of us turned up in a variety of chariots.
Inside there was a veritable cornucopia of exotica. Thanks to Pam for some of these pictures.
This stunning MGB GT was fitted with a K Series engine. It wouldn't have been my choice of powerplant as the K Series lacks the mid range torque that makes the MGB so drivable.
This amazing car is at the start of a very long journey. I don't know what it is and I didn't get chance to talk to anybody who did. The body is magnesium and sadly is past repair so it's being redone in aluminium.
The smell as we walked past these hides was almost orgasmic.