Pendine sands hot rod beach racing

[chinkamon]

I know it's not cortinas an escorts but just thought I'd share a few pics of the weekend for anyone interested, 

There was a yellow Mexico and a white rs2000 on the Saturday on the beach but they went before I could get out of the pits with my camera.

And Sunday was a tasty looking MK2 cortina, but again went before I was free from pit duties ☹️

Lots of cars there, in the pits racing and parked on the beach. All eras and styles,

Of course my cortina was there showing off in the sun ( also creating internal cab temperatures unheard of by man, which smarted when my bare skin touched the leather 😳) 

I drove approx 240miles that weekend. Used a tank of fuel an my rough estimate is around 30mpg, just what the book says, considering its got GT bits chucked on, a custom exhaust, unknown diff, an LOADED to the teeth with all the clothes, jack's, axles stands an loads of tools and food, I was extremely proud of it.

And keeping up with the bunch of yobs you can see all stood by their cars in the one photo, as that was the bunch I went down with, smallest motor out of them is around 5.2 litre 😂 

[Johnny Boy]

looks like a great day out. What is the latest car year allowed to compete ? 

[chinkamon]

1 hour ago, Johnny Boy said:

looks like a great day out. What is the latest car year allowed to compete ? 

Pre 49 I believe

[chinkamon]

1 hour ago, Johnny Boy said:

looks like a great day out. What is the latest car year allowed to compete ? 

And yes weather was scorching, great crowd of like minded people there to have fun.

Definitely going again

[HotRodMatt]

Pre 49 I believe

And period correct mods I think? So no LS motors, turbos, etc.

[chinkamon]

2 hours ago, HotRodMatt said:

3 hours ago, chinkamon said:

Pre 49 I believe

And period correct mods I think? So no LS motors, turbos, etc.

That's it yea, although turbos an superchargers are ok as they were fitted to stuff back then too, it's more like no coil overs, disc brakes, Jag back axles etc,