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Our first victims were London and Surrey, Brighton our first club stand.
We drove a Mini to Brighton and then turned it into a farmyard wreck. We
also took along Bill & Ben with little weed who rose out of the car sunroof.
So there among the gleaming examples of a great British Heritage lined up
along Madeira drive stood our wreck. The rest of our Mini's on the club stand
didn’t look that much better, then again we have never been a very
proud club.
We have always said it is not the Mini that makes a club but the Mini owner. To our surprise we won best club stand and that’s a picture of Linda collecting the Trophy from John Cooper.
The 3rd Grand Tour did not see a great increase in the number of Mini's taking part but it did help us raise enough money to buy an incubator for the Special Care baby unit at our local Hospital.
One
of our most impressive club stands was the Flintstone car and the
Bedrock Mini centre, it even had its own Stonehenge. It took us months
to build but it was worth it. For the first time that year we took out
over a
100 Mini's
on the Grand Tour. It also helped us publicise our first Land's
End
to John O’Groats.
That year the Flintstone car covered more miles than most Mini's, it also took part in a great many carnivals around North Devon. The Flintstone Car even got a visit from John Cooper himself.
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We soon learnt with the Grand Tour that if we wanted to get it to grow we would have to attract Mini owners from outside North Devon. So we started
a campaign of terror, taking club stands to Mini shows, the likes of which
had never been seen before.
We also took Bill & Ben to a lot of other show including the first Mini
in the park but we did not win anymore prizes and the sunroof has leaked
ever since.
To
think it took us 3 years to raise £1750. Opposite is a picture
of Bill & Ben handing over the cheque. During that time we also gave £170
to the British Heart foundation.
During 2000 we built a Rickshaw for a local carnival, the car was beyond
repair. We even supplied the hippies to pull it. When we went to Silverstone
for the 40th we removed the front handle and attached a push bike. The following
day we got in the Daily Mirror.
Just like many clubs when we heard the news we did our part. We even had
flowers.
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