A Mini Day Out

Great day out in Keats today on the North Berwick Rotary Club Classic Car Tour. 140 miles winding down into the Borders, with coffee and lunch stops, and a great array of completely different cars amongst the 60 entries. Some nice compliments coming the way of our Mini, even at the first stop, for coffee at Barony Castle near Peebles, with the bonnet open and steam pouring out of a hole in the radiator.

Thankfully the coffee stop was long enough for it to cool down, for me to add some coolant, and for us to get to a garage in Peebles which sold Radweld. And that held out for the rest of the day, the temperature thereafter sitting exactly where it should.

I'd been pondering changing the radiator anyway. So that's the decision made. 

Had a nice chat at lunch with a couple in an utterly gorgeous Volvo 1800 (in the last of the extras), and as the sun came out just after lunch I took to documenting my favourites, and setting off before many we had time to stop in the hills to get shots of them then streaming by. We tagged onto the back of a little convoy which included a Triumph Spitfire, Jaguar XJS, convertible Reliant Robin, an Alfa Romeo GT 1600, and a Lancia Delta Integrale.

Oh, and we only went and won a bottle of gin in the quiz we were given about the route (with questions primarily based on signs and the like along the route - I was particularly pleased with the answer to the question, "How far to a fruit cake?" and spotting a sign to Eccles...). 29 and a half points out of 30. Done.

Another big run in a month's time, this time just for Minis. Need to get that work done....