London to Brighton 2008

Well with a 7am at Crystal Palace start due to Kirky's over exuberant meet time. First there was Neil followed by Doc, who really has no excuse as he lives only minuets down the road. Doc's Frosty wearing his brand new tyre after a quick repair from the blow out on the Riv Run. Everyone looking blurry eyed Kirky finally arrived at last in tow with Liane, Dan and hopefully new member Juju (Juiliete) in her fine black mini. The standard excuses came flying out. Traffic this, traffic that.

After a quick wonder round the campsite and the main set off point, it was fire up your engines and ready for the off. Now this in the point when some of us turn into little children. Being egged on by the steward he just couldn't help himself. Handbrake up and lighting up the tyres Kirky spins off in a cloud of tyre smoke which followed him down the road, closely followed by Doc. A check on the state of his A008 proved that this probably wasn't a wise idea. With no water on the road Kirky managed to remove about 2cm worth of rubber from his front tyres. Ah well you only live once.

So off to Brighton we head. A very spirited drive with lots of heads turning from passers by and plenty of noise created from the array of musical horns before the convoy split, those with official tickets going to find their spaces, the rest off to the marina to park up for the day.
As ever the show was a maze of all types of minis, shame about the Binis taking up valuable parking space. John Snr had come down with the mini cooper register and was found talking to strangers telling tales of past mini adventures. Ollie and Claire arrived a lot later with their alien looking dogs. The lost man was found when we bumped into Charlie sporting his beerbandits t-shirt.
Another success with no break downs, we must be doing something right.