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My earliest memory was meeting at a pub in Carshalton in the late 70s,- The Greyhound I think next to the village pond. I used to take my LC so it has to have been 77-79 latest as it was garaged after that. Scott can remember going there but I don't remember who else would have attended? Anyone on here?L2Man wrote: ↑Sun 4th Nov 2018 6:25 pm Was there another club prior to the LCR?
I remember my brother and I each in a lotus cortina
Attend a club meeting in Bromley around 1978-79 maybe.
It was an interesting evening with a concourse delegance
With some arriving on a trailer or two especially but it included some Castrol period movies from the 60’s.
Afterwards we decided to see who could get home first down the A21.
He won in his black mk2 as I stopped to top up my GTX at Sidcup, (car cost £275 2 years earlier!).
Happy days
Brendan
My grandfather says he remembers you all.........David Baldock wrote: ↑Sun 4th Nov 2018 10:24 pm Blimey Brendan! I remember meeting up with Phil Baskerville around 1979/80 & I recall going with him to a register pub meet in that part of the world. I was very familiar with the roads down that way then & I know we turned off the Reigate road & headed towards Carshalton so must have been the same place. My new wife seemed to think that selling my LC would be a good idea for raising the deposit on a new hatchback. I couldn't see it myself so started making enquires about clubs & fellow enthusiasts. I think that the majority there were early committee members?
I don't remember you though. Mind you, you probably had a moustache, long hair & stripped trousers then?
Dave B
In all honesty at that time I was an articled clerk living for the weekend. Had hair mind.David Baldock wrote: ↑Sun 4th Nov 2018 10:24 pm Blimey Brendan! I remember meeting up with Phil Baskerville around 1979/80 & I recall going with him to a register pub meet in that part of the world. I was very familiar with the roads down that way then & I know we turned off the Reigate road & headed towards Carshalton so must have been the same place. My new wife seemed to think that selling my LC would be a good idea for raising the deposit on a new hatchback. I couldn't see it myself so started making enquires about clubs & fellow enthusiasts. I think that the majority there were early committee members?
I don't remember you though. Mind you, you probably had a moustache, long hair & stripped trousers then?
Dave B
