D I D Reports 2011

We would be pleased to receive reports and photos from this year’s Drive It Day on Sunday 17th April which can then be published here.

Please send brief details and any photos to the FBHVC Secretary

All indications are that many clubs had a wonderful sunny day for their Drive It Day events. A selection of photos already received are shown below

The Secretary represented the FBHVC at the Royal Oak in Bishopstone once again, at the kind invitation of Tim Finney, the landlord, who is a classic car enthusiast himself. It was a record breaking day with well over 150 vehicles of all kinds attending, from at least 40 FBHVC member clubs. There were motorcycles, military, commercial, VW campers, a micro car, and cars of all ages, sizes and degrees of rarity. A great time was had by all, sitting in the sunshine enjoying the superb food and drink the pub has to offer.

Drive It Day is of course an annual event and so will be on Sunday 22 April 2012 – the nearest Sunday to 23 April.

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The Crash Box & Classic Car Club of Devon were invited to have display on the sea front at Teignmouth. Two visiting clubs also began and ended their D I D car runs at the same venue.

The sun shone all day with large crowds of holidaymakers viewing over 80 cars and motorbikes

Cornwall Austin Seven Club members and those of the Vintage Austin Register and Austin Ten Drivers’ Club in Cornwall took part in runs from six start points across the county and North Devon to gather in East Looe.

Thirty three pre-war Austins of 23 ‘Sevens’, 2 ‘Tens’, 7 ‘Twelves’ and an ex-London Taxi, formed a display which attracted hundreds of local residents and visitors throughout the four hour display; the priority being to invite youngsters to sit in several of the cars for family photos.

The Drive It Day event in Victoria Square, Birmingham is the first event of its type to be held in Birmingham as it featured a display of cars restricted to those that were built in the City before WWII.

We had a good display of cars in the square with numerous Austin Sevens, Tens, Sixes, and Twelves. BSA three and four wheelers, a couple of Wolseleys, one an art deco tour-de-force from 1937 and the other a 1903 veteran, and a very rare and very characterful Crescent. The big screen in the Square displayed a constant programme of archival Austin films and more recent videos from the VSCC Welsh Weekend and Ashover Trials.

Thank you to all that attended and made it a very enjoyable day out.

The South Eastern Vintage & Classic Vehicle Club celebrated Drive it Day by joining up with the Castle Point Transport Museum.

The lunch break was an enjoyable trip round the local lanes in a 1953 open topped ex-Southend Corporation bus driven by our chief instructor.

Kennet Valley Group (KVG) of the TR Register.

A glorious sunny day saw 15 Triumph TRs and 2 Triumph Stags driving through parts of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire. Members drove in leisurely groups from their different parts of the Kennet Valley and met for Sunday lunch at The George in St Mary Bourne.

As part of the Drive it Day activities Banbridge Old Vehicle Club held a Classic Car Display at the Sprucefield Shopping Complex at Lisburn near Belfast on Sunday 17th April. Over 200 vehicles took part on a bright sunny day with a large public attendance enjoying the large range of cars on display.

Towcester, 18th April 2011 - Hagerty International, the classic car insurance specialist, welcomed over 100 classic car owners and their vehicles to join them in celebrating the FBHVC Drive It Day.

Hagerty hosted the participants to a 70 mile trip from Silverstone to Prodrive and then back to Stowe House where they provided hot soup and rolls for the assembled enthusiasts.

From Martin Evans.

The pictures were taken on the Bedwellty Mountain road, that runs along the top of the mountain between the Sirhowy and Rhymney valleys

In excess of 550 Alfa Romeos ‘landed’ at Duxford on Spring Alfa Day which coincided with FBHVC ‘Drive It Day’. There were numerous iconic and evocative examples of this famous marque from the past 70 years on display, from a 1930s 1750 GS to the latest Giulietta.

It was a real opportunity to see the changing style and sophistication of Alfa Romeo in one place. The featured model of the day being the Alfasud, celebrating its 40th anniversary since introduction at the 1971 Turin Motor Show.

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Standard Motor Club New Forest Group Drive it Day video report.  Click link below – opens in new window

http://www.youtube.com/v/jEea1wSkDBo