AVO DAY 2002

Neil Fletcher Racing

AVO Day 2002

Another year has come and it's time for another AVO Club National Day at Stanford Hall. The following are some of the photographs which I took AVO Day on Sunday 16th June 2002.

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	This year there was another new chef to look after the bar-b-que on the Saturday night. Next year the party may be even bigger as I'm told there is the possibility of overnight camping for anyone who wants it.
	I had heard of "The Naked Chef" but this was the first time I had seen him in the "Bare Flesh" so to speak. It wasn't a pretty sight, I can tell you.
	Next day things started bright and early. Steve directs the early arrivals to their allotted parking places.
	Meanwhile in the Regalia Tent, Paul and Russ were ready to deal with their first customers of the day.
	And Jon and his helpers were doing the same in the Spares Tent.
	One of the first cars in place, well it was there from the night before, was this V8 powered Escort belonging to Big Dave.
	And this was his other car, an RS1600, unfortunately it was a non-runner due to a problem with the engine. Here "Pitcrew" gets the car all cleaned up ready for the concourse judging.
	A regular at AVO Day is Andy Percival's Ford Sport Mexico, seen here in the "Competition Car" section.
	Other cars in this section also included Craig Schofield's car which was slightly the worse for wear after a recent "off". There is an old rally saying which states, "If you aren't going off now and again, then you're not really trying".
	Also in the competition car section was Roger Clark's Esso Blue and the Minilite RS1600, otherwise known as Jimmy McRae's toy.
	The Minilite car had lots of little marks of orange paint on the nuts and bolts, I presume this was so you could quickly tell if something was coming loose, because then the marks would be out of line.
	Another car which was used for competition was this RS1600 Hillclimb car belonging to Gary Carnaby.
	Another car that I liked was this modified RS1600, the owner had gone to a lot of trouble to make a cold air box for the carbs.
	There was quite a turn out of RS1600's this year, including the various competition cars etc I think there was about 10 or 12. This car was one of the best.
	A photo of the immaculate engine bay. Just about every nut and bolt on the car was re-plated. I'm told it took over 8 years to rebuild this car.
	A mirror behind the car allowed us to view the rear axle etc without having to crawl around on the ground.
	Just some of the many Mexicos that were in attendance. I think that numbers of these seemed slightly down compared to previous years.
	In contrast the number of RS2000s attending seems to grow each year, as does the quality of cars.
	An engine bay photo of one of the above RS2000s.
	Once again two of the Superspeed modified cars turned up, these cars are now quite regular attendees at National Day.
	What can one say about a GT40. When I showed these photos to my wife and daughters at home, they thought that this was the most fantastic car on show that day.
	My eldest, Rebecca who is 8 years old, wanted to know if I would buy her one for when she learns to drive, I said we'd have to win the lottery first, even then I'd want to buy myself a "genuine" ex-works Escort first.
	In the field next door one of the re-enactment societies were having a fun day out. The best laugh was when they would "fire" their cannon, the boom would set off car alarms all over the place :-)

I hope those of you who were unable to attend AVO Day will enjoy these photos, I still have more photos and info to add in the near future. Check out the "Updates" page on a regular basis.

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