Sporting Car Occasionals

Where I used to work in air traffic control near Heathrow there were a group of us who owned various MG's so I organised a run up to the old MG offices in Abingdon. Word spread around friends so there was quite a few of us in the end which everyone seemed to enjoy.

Having come up with the name Sporting Car Occasionals I organised an annual run for several years. Once to the transport museum at Gaydon, another treasure hunt ending at a small museum near High Wycombe and the final event which was a reliability run starting at the Phoenix pub in Hartley Wintney, each team had to guess what their average speed would be over the route I had planned. they set off at one minute intervals. The finish was at Popham airfield where we had an autotest followed by a barbeque.

We were attracting quite a lot of cars by this stage, even having a report in a classic car magazine. The police turned up at Popham before the first arrival to ask what was going on! So we decided to halt the annual run although a few of us did start to tour abroad (see Germany).