Good to see lots of people enjoying their convertibles today.
I ventured south from the caravan towards the even more prosperous part of North Yorkshire between Ripon and Harrogate.
The outstanding cars were a newish red Ferrari convertible with the hood down, and a 59-reg Bentley convertible with the hood up.
I saw a couple of Caterham Sevens, and several each of Mini, Beetle and Astra drop tops.
The most common car was the MX5.
Some oldies too, three or four Stags which were quite close together, so probably a club run.
Most unusual was a large 1960s convertible which I couldn't recognise.
It had a long bonnet and an upright radiator, so might have been a Bentley.
The car I didn't see was one like my own.
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Lovely old Moggie 1000 on a pre 63 reg making stately progress up the M1 20-21 around 13:30. Post split screen but old enough for indicators to be seperated from brake/tail assembly.
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I drove my Morris minor convertible from Duncan Towers to Blackbushe Airport to Fairoaks Airport and then back home after dropping our friends off.
Quite a lot going on, particularly at Blackbushe - helicopters, fixed wing aircraft including a Tiger Moth, plus a microlight.
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I was at fairoaks yesterday, egg and bacon roll in the hangar cafe, and then a walk past the mclaren technology centre and factory with the dog.
V Pleasant.
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>> I was at fairoaks yesterday, egg and bacon roll in the hangar cafe, and then
>> a walk past the mclaren technology centre and factory with the dog.
Funny. I did virtually the same thing a couple of days ago, except I was on my push bike.
Oh and I had a BLT, not a bacon and egg roll.
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Bit chilly this am...only 3 degrees...luvly drive over to Caton then a 21 mile amble over the west Bowland fells before a quiet drive home. Sunburn too. Ouch.
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I was on the knocker all morning and early afternoon. No chance for any motorised fun :-(
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i saw a convoy of royces today all with tops down.
several new phantoms but also a very pretty corniche in red with white roof and white leather interior
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The Beast only goes out with the top down.
We got in a bit of bother yesterday. I decided to celebrate 'drive it day' over here with a visit to a car boot sale 40 kilometres away that had an old cars display tacked on. When we got there the car was a bit warm so I followed the handbook instruction and ran the engine fast for a quarter of a minute. Unfortunately, the engine fans are ginormous and I blew a huge cloud of dust from underneath over all the old cars around me.
I had to go around apologising and it took an hour later on to get off all the dust and sticky finger marks.
Going home we saw a Stag going the other way - the first one I've ever seen in France. It had the hardtop on though.
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>> I was on the knocker all morning and early afternoon.
Way Hey ! - I remember Sundays like that, before kids of course !...
:-)
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When I saw the title of this thread, I thought "Shouldn't this thread be in Non-motoring?" Then I saw that it related to cars tops being droppped :-)
I shall roll back the 2CV roof on the way to the MOT tomorrow if this fine weather continues.
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A lot of tops dropped today - Bromptonaut
