Volksworld Show 2013

Last weekend was the Volksworld Magazine show, probably the biggest VW show of the year. Being owners of a couple of old VWs we've been for the last few years. We have made some great friends through these cars, and the weekend is as much about meeting up and having a laugh as it is about the cars for us. Mind you, there are some very serious cars there too. Not least the stunning Ruby Red '62 Bug built by our good friend Ben Lewis and owned by another friend of ours, Wayne McCarthy, which deservedly won Best of Show this year. We are going to cover that car and a couple of others in their own posts, but in the meantime here are some photos that hopefully give you a more general idea of what was there. You can read the full list of winners here.

Kindred Spirits: Motoring Con Brio

I recently came across Motoring Con Brio, clicking through from a couple of other blogs I follow. Amongst other things it seems they share our love of Grey Cars. I'll certainly be checking it out more often, and if you don't already, I'd suggest you do too.

When we’re not driving, we’re thinking about driving. Or about cars— good cars, interesting cars, cars we’d love to own for the purpose of driving them. This is us thinking out loud. This is about the stuff we love.

Keep up the great work guys.

Evening Cruise

More Breakfast Club

Here's a few more pics from the Goodwood Breakfast Club, in glorious black and white (I blame Bob for getting me thinking about black and white again).

Why Do Cars Go With Coffee So Well?

There's something about breakfast that really suits a car meet. I'm sure what it is, but bacon, coffee and cars just seem to go together. But certainly meeting up early after a drive across country and chatting about all things car related is a solid way to spend a Sunday morning in March. And so there we were this morning, for the first Goodwood Breakfast Club of the year, the theme being pre '73 cars. I had a funny feeling it was going to be a massive turnout, and I wasn't disappointed. What the Goodwood breakfast clubs always seem to deliver on is variety – all kinds of car nuts, with all kind of cars turn out. From rat rods to classic Ferraris, stock British classics to the fully rally prepped. And of course the bacon sarnie isn't bad either.

NEW TIMES

We have let the blog sit quiet for a while. The reason is simple, there isn't much car related stuff going on in the deep of winter here. We've quite lazily let the likes of Bob Tilton and Dutchman (and others) keep us inspired though the bleakest months with their superb stuff.

Through the sharp cold of the past couple of weeks however, things have started to get going again over here. This coming Sunday is the first Goodwood Breakfast Club of the year, let's hope the Weather Gods shine favourably on it. And, in the meantime, we've acquired a new little toy to help us make the most out of what will hopefully be a nicer summer than last year (don't jinx it man!).

Up until now all the pictures on here (that aren't obviously iPhone Instagrams) have been taken with our trusty old warhorse Canon 350D. It has served us well and been with us on many an adventure, but we have started to feel its age. Now, I'd be the last to blame my tools for any inadequacies – we are far from proper photographers – more enthusiastic car nuts who happen to carry a camera (I've worked with enough really good photographers in my day job to see there is a massive world of difference). We've tended to rely on photoshop to try to get closer to the results that are in our heads. But it felt time to move onto camera pastures new, and into the big, wide world of full frame. So we've bagged ourselves our first full frame camera, a Canon 6D, with a simple 24-105 L series lens.

By the time we got it charged up out of the box yesterday it was completely dark outside, but desperate to try it out, we headed down to the car park where we keep a couple of cars to give it a test run. We were expecting it to be quite a noticeable upgrade on the old 350D, but I think it's fair to say the combination of the full frame, the more modern technology and the D6's low-light performance still surprised us. The shots in this post are in a garage lit only by the sparse fluorescent strip lights you can see dotted around.

Anyway, hope to have you along for some more car-related adventures over the coming months.

Happy New Year!

Once again we started our new year bright and early with a drive over to the Brooklands' New Years Day Meet. It's a great event whatever the weather, but this year the sun shone all morning so it was packed with an amazing selection of motors and we actually got to take some pics...

The diary is already filling up with car show dates and we can't wait for those track days to start! Here's to a great year.