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The further adventures of Binky
So as I headed west, warm and snug in a Hyundai 4x4, Binky (Mr Robert Robinson-Collins to you) settled down to wait in the rain with our wounded steed, the Candidi Provocatores Allard. Five minutes...
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Vintage thing No.120.1 - the Reliant Rialtopless
In their gleaming red barchetta (apol0gies to Rush fans) George Osborn and Celia Walton wait in the queue for Tillerton Steep.In floods that were at times of biblical properotions, I renewed ,my...
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Vintage Thing No.141 - Nissan Micra K11 1.3
My neighbour calls it a little grey slug but forgets how it rushed her to a radiology appointment in Derriford, England, when her hospital car didn't show - so that would be a slug as in a bullet...
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No Candidi Provocatores in the 2016 LET but...
Let's hope the weather is this good againTeam Robert won't be in the 2016 Land's End Trial because we still have to sort out the broken halfshaft. Logistically, this happened at the wrong time for The...
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2016 Land's End Trial
Every garage should have one - a Ridge Cannon When we snapped the offside driveshaft on the Candidi Provocatores Allard things looked bad for an entry in this year's Land's End. However, through the...
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Repairs to the Candidi Provocatore Allard
Binky points out what looks like a piece of snapped steel carrot still in the hubThis weekend I whizzed up to Binky Towers to help make good the damage what we done to it in the Exeter Trial, namely...
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Back axle blues
Good old Lee - he'd brought some overalls just in caseWell, we had great plans the other day to fit a luvverly pair of specially shortened drive shafts into the rear axle of the Candidi Provocatores...
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Vintage Thing No.142 - Peugeot 205 Sceptre (Michael Morpeugeot)
It looks so innocentI bought this car with the intention of robbing its engine but during the drive home its fat torque curve endeared it to me and I couldn't kill it. I was looking for a replacement...
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2017 Exeter Trial
From my own phorographic archives (cardboard boxes of uncatalogued old prints) comes this very old photo of the Candidi Provocatores Allard J1 when owned and driven by Graham Greenwell. This must have...
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2017 Exeter Trial (at last)
Observe the Offy heads and ally manifoldAfter a bit of a fallow period, we Candidi Provocatores pulled ourselves and our car together and entered the 2017 Exeter Trial. Binky had done a lot to the...
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2017 Land's End Trial
If you go down to Bishop's Wood at Easter.... (Photo : Richard Davies)In the weeks before Easter 2017, we had very little rain and the Land's End trial look set to take part in the driest conditions...
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150 years since the first ever motor race
The winning vehicular contrivance as built as a rail motorI blogged about it before as When was the first motor race held? and am doing this little update because it is still not widely known that the...
View ArticleDid my mother witness a flying boat crash?
My mother, who is 88 and born in 1929, is writing her memoirs and one of her most profound memories is of seeing a flying boat crash into a hill while she had been evacuated to Otterham Mill near Bude...
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Podgy's successor - Harmes' Bedford YRQ
Here is our old school bus after it had been sold on. Don't those mirrors look small? I found this mage on the net years ago but can't find it anywhere anymore so can't give credit for the source....
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Engine punking on the daily commute
A refurbished 150 Sprinter class (Photo : Peter Skuse)The other day, I started to wonder about what engines powered my commuter train. A hundred years ago they would have been steam engines, maybe a...
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Driving the Candidi Provocatores Allard J1 in the 2017 Testing Trial
I look a bit Afrika Korps in this shot. Ian looks very much at home. What a team! (Photo : Lee Peck)This summer I had the opportunity to drive the Candidi Provocatores Allard J1 in the Motor Cycling...
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2018 Exeter Trial
Norton Selwood leaps to intervene as a sidecar outfit gets to the worst bit on SimmsThe Candidi Provocatores were entered in the 2018 Exeter Trial but Binky caught manflu! He caught it before Christmas...
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2018 Land's End Trial
Wish us luck on Bishop's Wood. And Warleggan (Photo : Richard Davies)After being a non-starter in the Exeter Trial in January due to illness , the Candid Provocateurs will ride again in the 2018 Land's...
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Candidi Provocatores and Team Steampunk's misfortunes in the 2018 Land's End
Still driveable but rolling injuredIt was Stephen Bailey's idea to have a Team Steampunk in the 2018 Land's End Trial and it was such a good idea I wished it had been mine. He invited Binky and me in...
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2018 Camel Classic
At the start, our Arkley-MG and Troll of Terry and Bob Hart look very cleanI missed out on my fix of motorsport this year and, determined put that right, I have bought the Arkley-MG Midget that Ray...
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