Overtaking on Vintage Rallies?

Hoagy · 21-09-2006 5:44pm #1

Hi all,
On the Blessington Club Autumn Rally last Sunday.
Spent most of the afternoon run at the tail end of a long line with a ragtop Beetle at the head of it, enjoying the sunshine at 25mph or so.
Cooling on my yoke is marginal anyway and it runs best at 40-50.

But nobody overtakes; is it considered bad form?

mike65 · 21-09-2006 5:52pm

I say old chap overtaking suggests a vulgar competitive aspect to ones character!

Mike.

mustang68 · 21-09-2006 6:02pm

I think if I was behind a fiat500 I'd passs it out. But only for cooling/sanity reasons, mustangs not happy at 35mph

however, passing out just to be ahead would be bad form

ds20prefecture · 21-09-2006 7:42pm

Sometimes I feel like overtaking because I get bored looking at the car in front. But I don't. Honest.

corktina · 21-09-2006 7:47pm

blow their doors off and to the Devil with them sir!

8~) · 22-09-2006 9:34am

I haven't taken part in a rally, but for a while now have been considering it. This has put me off. I hate being stuck in traffic.

atlantean · 22-09-2006 8:09pm

I have never been on a vintage car rally but I have been on many vintage truck rallies. These usually move along at at least 40, but more often 50 mph. They do over take as well - usually on long hills.

corktina · 23-09-2006 6:53am

the trouble with these runs (and Im going on one tomorrow) is that all you see is the back of the car in front......and sometimes I may have driven 50 miles to the start and then the run goes another 50 or so....i dont like runs....rather have a natter in a car park or a field....

.I recommend the Oldskoolford evenings in the Pub on Cork to any Ford owners.....

atlantean · 23-09-2006 8:33am

corktina wrote:

the trouble with these runs (and Im going on one tomorrow) is that all you see is the back of the car in front......

Now picture a vintage truck run.... At least a car is smaller and you can see a bit more in front of you

corktina · 23-09-2006 12:14pm

with a name like Atlantean you must be a Bus nut like me......

atlantean · 23-09-2006 1:24pm

corktina wrote:

with a name like Atlantean you must be a Bus nut like me......

Yep! Not many get it

I learned to drive in an AN68 so this is where it came from!

corktina · 23-09-2006 1:53pm

'orrible leyland products...give me an AEC anyday....:)

atlantean · 23-09-2006 6:27pm

corktina wrote:

'orrible leyland products...give me an AEC anyday....:)

This was a VanHool bodied 74 seater with an inline 6 11.6l DAF engine

franksm · 25-09-2006 7:35am

atlantean wrote:

This was a VanHool bodied 74 seater with an inline 6 11.6l DAF engine

Any pics ? Not into buses & trucks myself, but I like to look

I still reckon the Ulsterbus that goes to the Terenure show every year (for the past two) should win a prize - memories from home, and all that.

atlantean · 25-09-2006 8:47am

franksm wrote:

Any pics ?

I will dig some out

Overtaking on Vintage Rallies?

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