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Old 24th April 2017, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by moltuae View Post
Hadn't actually thought that far ahead. It was just a future location suggestion so far, a place I thought was worth mentioning and worth going to sometime. But no reason we couldn't go there this year if you want

So I dunno, what do you think? ... the latter part of this summer perhaps? The annual meet is a little over a month away now, so maybe a couple of months after that. How about around August, September or early October? I've got a few weekends in those months that I can't do but if we start throwing some dates around, hopefully there'll be a weekend most of us can make.

Apart from the cafe and the shops, there's probably around 20-30 cars on display at The Carding Shed (what you see in the photographs is pretty much what they have), so 3hrs would probably be enough time to have something to eat and see all the cars. To make it a longer day, we might wanna plan a bit of a sight-seeing/driving route too. For any Last of The Summer Wine fans, we could stop off for a drink at The Butchers Arms, which is less than a mile away from The Carding Shed.

Another thing that might be worth considering is a garage tour, though we'd have to make enquiries about available dates. The garage area was closed and roped-off (though you can peek in) when we were there yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, but there were flyers advertising tours. I'm not sure if they do tours every weekend but they were advertising a garage tour for Father's day this year (which is of course a Sunday).

The garage part is a classic vehicle restoration workshop business called IK Classics, so a tour could prove to be interesting and informative:

http://ikclassicsandracing.co.uk/

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/d...acing-services



BTW - Ignore my typo in the forum thread title; it's Carding not Carning. Can't seem to edit it now ..... where's a forum moderator when you need one!?
All sounds good - and a September weekend would get my vote - less likely to clash with main summer holidays, and the weather's still reasonably good then.
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