Ahoy, Me Hearties

 Saw a meet advertised down in Portsmouth (Port Solent car meet) and decided to go check it out. With my son driving sideways behind me, as usual, we had a good run down via the regular small roads in that direction and the meet was pretty good, with a nice selection of stuff:

I put my roof down later but it was too cold first thing:

If i was going to get a classic, i do fancy a Sunbeam Alpine:

This is Ramos and his very loud GT4 - he's part of the Surrey Porksters group but i've only seen him once before out with us:

I quite fancy one of these as well - Triumph Bobber:

We then stopped off at Caffeine and Machine on the way home - some really nice stuff there as well:

The final run home was awesome; light traffic, some great roads- loved it. Great day, overall. 

Dodging Ducks

 Another weekend, another event booked (Piston Heads Meet at Thruxton) and having failed miserably for the last 2 weekend trips, I was determined to go to this one, despite solid rain forecast all day - and for a change, they were right.

With such bad weather, I just decided to take the fastest motorway route to Thruxton in the hope the weather improved and I could have some fun on the way back.

The meet itself wasn't great - just a car park in the middle of the circuit with some interesting but fairly average cars:

I guess this must be some company who rent Alpine's for the track?

Lots of GR Yaris's:

Covered in xmas lights:

Never seen a BRG Ferrari:

Possibly my dream car:

Glorious sounding Aston:

Weird body kit:

I did get a nice bacon and egg bap, however 😋

The weather was still junk but I set my satnav on some interesting roads and actually had a surprisingly fun run, mainly because the weather meant there was much less traffic than normal.

Stopped off at C&M - a few nice cars but nothing too exciting:

Even with heavy rain, huge puddles everywhere and traction control off, Barry is such a well-sorted car. Obviously I was driving slower than usual but not by a huge amount and not one twitch from the rear ( a couple of aquaplane moments) - really good fun.