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[Kevin Wood]

Faced with an urge to get out of the house on New year's day I decided to check out the classic car meet at the Brooklands museum...

Can't really appreciate the scale of it from these photos but I've brought back a couple for Guy and the first car I came across after walking through the gate... An Opel GT

[Kevin Wood]

Then, yesterday, a visit to an old preserved waterworks at Twyford near Winchester. Very interesting collection of steam, diesel and electric pumping plant with the unique addition of a softening plant complete with lime quarry, kilns and a little railway to ferry the lime and coal around.

Around the turn of the century this was supplying Southampton and the visiting cruise liners which demanded soft water, so it was softened at source.

A nice first outing for the Westfield for 2011 (which went better than 2010's).

[Chris_H]

There's some lovely stuff there Kevin.

More than a handful of Scimitar GTEs.  I wonder what they look like under the plastic?

Time well spent I would say.

Thank you for sharing.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Third piccy down .......an early seventies Toyota Celica.....I remember being driven to school in one...Light years ahead of the British plodders of the period.

[redelitev6]

  looks like a cracking day out!

[hercules]

did i just hear a new box of kleenex being opened in immingham

[tunnie]

Guy is going to get very excited when he logs on to see this 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Those pictures of the cars are great Kevin, and really remind me of earlier days.  The Mk1 Escort, which appears to be of the Sport or Mexico variety in particular recalled my days with  my first brand new company car, a Mk1, L reg, Escort.

As for the pumping house, water treatment plant Kevin, it shows you have the same passion for history as me.  The connection with the great transatlantic liners in particular is a fascinating link, that for me leads on to the great boat trains that fed those liners with their passengers. Also the first class passengers in their grand Edwardian, and later 1950s glamour clothes, arriving in their cars with mounds of luggage.  All would  be fed on the ship by the tons of produce loaded over the preceding days, and the gallons of water piped on from that water softening plant!!

Everything links perfectly, within an historic picture, that I could add to for hours, of grander times

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Those pictures of the cars are great Kevin, and really remind me of earlier days.  The Mk1 Escort, which appears to be of the Sport or Mexico variety in particular recalled my days with  my first brand new company car, a Mk1, L reg, Escort.

As for the pumping house, water treatment plant Kevin, it shows you have the same passion for history as me.  The connection with the great transatlantic liners in particular is a fascinating link, that for me leads on to the great boat trains that fed those liners with their passengers. Also the first class passengers in their grand Edwardian, and later 1950s glamour clothes, arriving in their cars with mounds of luggage.  All would  be fed on the ship by the tons of produce loaded over the preceding days, and the gallons of water piped on from that water softening plant!!

Everything links perfectly, within an historic picture, that I could add to for hours, of grander times

I'm wondering if this could be the very rare Escort twin cam......or possibly the later RS1600 Lizzie...

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Those pictures of the cars are great Kevin, and really remind me of earlier days.  The Mk1 Escort, which appears to be of the Sport or Mexico variety in particular recalled my days with  my first brand new company car, a Mk1, L reg, Escort.

As for the pumping house, water treatment plant Kevin, it shows you have the same passion for history as me.  The connection with the great transatlantic liners in particular is a fascinating link, that for me leads on to the great boat trains that fed those liners with their passengers. Also the first class passengers in their grand Edwardian, and later 1950s glamour clothes, arriving in their cars with mounds of luggage.  All would  be fed on the ship by the tons of produce loaded over the preceding days, and the gallons of water piped on from that water softening plant!!

Everything links perfectly, within an historic picture, that I could add to for hours, of grander times

I'm wondering if this could be the very rare Escort twin cam......or possibly the later RS1600 Lizzie...

Ah yes Opti!  I had  forgetten about that one, and the fabulouos RS2000 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Those pictures of the cars are great Kevin, and really remind me of earlier days.  The Mk1 Escort, which appears to be of the Sport or Mexico variety in particular recalled my days with  my first brand new company car, a Mk1, L reg, Escort.

As for the pumping house, water treatment plant Kevin, it shows you have the same passion for history as me.  The connection with the great transatlantic liners in particular is a fascinating link, that for me leads on to the great boat trains that fed those liners with their passengers. Also the first class passengers in their grand Edwardian, and later 1950s glamour clothes, arriving in their cars with mounds of luggage.  All would  be fed on the ship by the tons of produce loaded over the preceding days, and the gallons of water piped on from that water softening plant!!

Everything links perfectly, within an historic picture, that I could add to for hours, of grander times

I'm wondering if this could be the very rare Escort twin cam......or possibly the later RS1600 Lizzie...

Ah yes Opti!  I had  forgetten about that one, and the fabulouos RS2000 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

Ah yes Lizzie... ....used a humble Cortina lump if memory serves...about 100BHP ...I think..

[aaronjb]

Great pictures, Kevin! I adore the Opel GT and the old Celica (they used to have a stand every year at JAE, which always stood out amongst the sea of modern Japanese metal, for me).. very nice

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Those pictures of the cars are great Kevin, and really remind me of earlier days.  The Mk1 Escort, which appears to be of the Sport or Mexico variety in particular recalled my days with  my first brand new company car, a Mk1, L reg, Escort.

As for the pumping house, water treatment plant Kevin, it shows you have the same passion for history as me.  The connection with the great transatlantic liners in particular is a fascinating link, that for me leads on to the great boat trains that fed those liners with their passengers. Also the first class passengers in their grand Edwardian, and later 1950s glamour clothes, arriving in their cars with mounds of luggage.  All would  be fed on the ship by the tons of produce loaded over the preceding days, and the gallons of water piped on from that water softening plant!!

Everything links perfectly, within an historic picture, that I could add to for hours, of grander times

I'm wondering if this could be the very rare Escort twin cam......or possibly the later RS1600 Lizzie...

Ah yes Opti!  I had  forgetten about that one, and the fabulouos RS2000 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

Ah yes Lizzie... ....used a humble Cortina lump if memory serves...about 100BHP ...I think..

Here you are Opti, for you, me and anyone else interested:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqm-eDG-mrU[/media]


Just listen to that sound, and to think I wanted the company to buy me one!

[millwall]

great pics  especially like the old fords  cortina and the silver capri

[Lizzie_Zoom]

................and further info:

http://www.rsownersclub.co.uk/car_info/esc1rs2000.htm