Newsletter Special - Club Audi Treasure Hunt - News

Graham had chosen the Peak District for this year’s Treasure Hunt and devised a route of approximately 80 miles which took us through some truly beautiful scenery. As always with events of this nature much of the route used B and other lesser roads but Graham also had us going down the track of the, now sadly defunct, light railway which ran from Hulme End to Waterhouses. He did, however, draw the line at sending us down cart tracks.

Just back from the May Day Classic Car Show at the White Rose Shopping Centre, Leeds. And I’m pleased to say that I’ve caught the sun a little! Superb day, over 120 classic cars, all eras, all makes. Thousands of curious shoppers, and a few well-informed visitors make for a very unusual but busy event. We represented the Club with three Series 2 Coupés: Steve Robinson’s handsome and slightly modified Coupé GT, Jon Cooper’s stunning Coupé quattro, with my Ur quattro in the middle. We had a huge amount of visitors to our little display, including a possible future member who’s searching for a Coupé – Jon gave him some info before he could disappear! And if we had a pound for every “Ashes to Ashes” or “Fire up the quattro!” I’d be well on my way to a new intercooler, or bathroom something or other!
SIMON HOLROYD

For the second year running we held our annual track day in mid-April. However, unlike last year when it was warm and sunny, the weather turned out to be cold and windy, although we must be grateful it remained dry! When we made the booking, we were told that there would be no morning activity that day, but on arrival we were greeted by a very serious cycling event which was not due to finish until 1pm – our allotted time being from 1.30-5.30! However, undeterred, we set about filling out the relevant paperwork while Malc Robinson did the scrutineering – no orange sticker on the windscreen meant no track access. Following scrutineering each car had to pass the noise check meter of our friendly MSA official Steve.

This event must rate as one of the most enjoyable VW/Audi/Porsche shows on the calendar. It has all the right ingredients – beautiful setting, friendly organisation, usually fine weather, a good variety of trader and a superb display of cars. Our display consisted of Jeff and Cherie Barker-Jones’s A3 2..0 TDI S-line, and our Chairman’s 80 2.0E Avant.

Danny Whitrow greeted us and gave us a potted history of his life and how he came to create RSD.