We can now take bookings for the 2010 National Rally to be held at the Eastnor Castle
Estate. The cost is £70.00 per unit payable through the Club shop (internet), by
cheque to the club office or by standing order(£20, £20, £20 & £10 over 4 months
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The event will run from Saturday 29th May to Tuesday
1st June with the offroad site being available on the Sunday and Monday. Further details of the event will be released as they are finalised in the coming months.
Midlands Run April 25th 2010
For 2010 we are organising a Land Rover run here in the Midlands. Like the Northern
and Western Runs it will be open to any Land Rover owner and they do not have to
be a member of this club or any other club to take part. The run which is approximately
40 miles and will we hope include a ford.
It will be starting in the Cathedral city
of Litchfield and finishing at Coventry Transport museum where will we will have
a room booked so you can have a break, talk Land Rovers and browse in the club shop.
The
event is being incorporated into the City’s official tourist program and the parking
area will be right out side the museum front doors on Millennium place, so this will
be a prestigious finish.
Price: £15.12 (Including: VAT at 15%) Book
Now through the Club Shop
2009 didn’t go too badly in the end for most of us, and I hope you all had a good New Year. The club attended some good shows and there were Land Rover runs in Yorkshire and the West Country, both of which were well attended and very successful. We revamped the website and we had a new clubnights started by Leon Toon in North Devon off of the back of support from visitors to the Land Rovers South West show in Somerset, and by Kevin Jones in Surrey. The West Sussex clubnight used to cover Hampshire as well. A new clubnight was started in Hampshire and this is progressing well. We have also had a large number of new members joining the club, so we look forward to seeing some of them at events in 2010..
So what are we up to in 2010? Well, we have another new clubnight due to start in
South Yorkshire on 4th February. Thanks to Tony Ball for taking the lead in that
area. and we have a new Land Rover run in the Midlands which has been incorporated
into the Coventry City events calender, so this should be well worth taking part
in if you are able to do so. Thanks to Frank King and Co.for organising this. This
years’s National Rally is to be held at Eastnor Castle -
Failed M.O.T
Many Land Rover enthusiasts repair their own vehicles as we know. If you submit your vehicle for an M.O.T. early and it fails, you are still allowed to drive the vehicle from the test station to a place of repair (in other words you can drive it home) provided that it is not physically dangerous to do so and it doesn’t have faults which render it illegal for use on the road, such as bald tyres etc, which constitute a direct road traffic offence. What is not clearly evident is that it is illegal to continue to use the vehicle in any other way.
For example, if you have failed the test due to broken wing mirrors, you drive it home and order some new ones from a supplier. You now wait for them to arrive in the post. In the mean time you continue to use the vehicle to go shopping and to get to work. You are driving with no M.O.T. If you are stopped, you could be charged with driving without insurance as well!
It is widely assumed that the old M.O.T. remains valid until it’s original expiry date. Not so!!! Because the new M.O.T system is registered electronically onto the VOSA database, the moment that the failure is recorded, your current M.O.T. becomes invalid regardless of how much time was left to run on it.
The road traffic Police can check if your vehicle has a current M.O.T. directly from
their on-
Clubnight News
We have 3 new clubnights around the country for 2010.
SURREY Please contact Kevin Jones at surrey@thelandroverclub.co.uk
They will be meeting at The Harrow, Leatherhead Road, Chessington, Surrey. KT9 2HS. 7:30 onwards on the 1st Monday of the month.
NORTH DEVON Please contact Leon Toon
(Leon on the forum). They will be meeting at The Hunters Inn, Newton Tracy (It’s on the road between Barnstable and Torrington).
SOUTH YORKSHIRE please contact Tony Ball
0114 2654049. They will be meeting at
HSBC Sports and Social Club. 49 Hathersage Road, Dore, Sheffield. S17 3AA. (the car park is in Limb Lane) 1st Thursday of the month.
Also, Staffordshire clubnight have a new venue.
It’s at The Four Crosses in Cannock which is on the A5 at Hatherton.
Call Frank King 01543 424821 for details.
Western Land Rover Run April 4th 2010
The Western Run is on again for 2010. Thanks to Leon Toon and the guys from North
Devon for organising this. We will be starting form the Gordano services on the M5
at 10am. The route will be on some of the roads around the area and will finish at
the Helicopter museum, which is just outside Weston Super Mare. We are trying to
arrange a discount for entrance to the museum for everyone on the run
The cost of
the run is £15.00 which is a per vehicle price and includes a rally plaque for the
vehicle and an event tee shirt. We are currently looking for a camp site in the area
for the Sat and Sunday nights. We will post the details here as soon as the details
have been finalised.
Book Now through the Club Shop
Cannock Club night
We have a new venue and a new night for this club night.
It
is at the Hen House Eskrett Street, Hednesford
First meeting will be on Tuesday 16th
March
And to start off at the new venue we are holding a Skittles Evening
Food is
available from 6-
And yes you can bring the children , to this refurbished family
pub we will be in the private section of the pub, so all being well we can in the
future arrange for a guest speakers etc, there is a large car park at the rear
So
we have sorted out the venue all we need is for you to turn up from 7pm
If you are
not a member of the club but find the forum interesting, you are also invited to
the first meeting, we could have a skittle competition between club members and forum
members!
Land Rover Thefts
Police Authorities around the country have been reporting a marked increase in the number of thefts of Land Rovers. It is thought that they are being targeted for the large quantity of aluminium they contain and also because they are relatively easy to break down for scrap metal. In the past, Land Rovers have been stolen from quiet country areas, but recently they have been taken in broad daylight from places such as supermarket carparks. The Police advice is to keep them as secure as possible. Arrests have been made for handling stolen goods (vehicle parts) so it may make sense to mark major vehicle parts as an aid to catching the people involved.