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Spring Welsh Run Sunday April 15^th 2012

 Hosted by our very own "Danish Stig" (so he tells us )

 Lars Favrholdt

Welcome to the first full day MX-5 CNW club run of 2012

The focus on the day will be driving our fantastic MX-5 cars as they were designed on some of the best roads in North Wales.

Total distance is 117 miles.

Meet and start point will be  Chester Services Junction 14 on M56, CH2 4QZ.

Meet for 10:30 for a 11:00 start.

Route Maps will be handed out on the day or can be downloaded below.

Please note that route is same as last year so date shown is from 2011

Route Part 1 page 1

Route Part 1 Page2

Route Part 2

Part 1 63.2 miles:

The route takes us a brief trip on the M56, Loggerheads, Ruthin, and then small roads and via EVO Triangle to Llanwrst for a light lunch/coffee break approximately at 12:45pm

Llanwrst  LL26 0PL

Part 2 53.6 miles:

The route takes us via Bets-y-Coed back to Llanwrst, then plenty of great driving twisty sections to Denbigh with a short gathering stop at Morrisons before we end up in New Brighton near Mold around 3.30pm.

Morrisons CH7 6RQ

Finishing point is the spacious car park of the Beaufort Park hotel where you can either stop off for a drink in the Archers Bar and coffee lounge or maybe have a meal or maybe just a quick chat of the day before we all head off home.

Beaufort Park  CH7 6RQ

http://www.beaufortparkhotel.co.uk/arches_bar_and_coffee_house.html

There are also a number of other fine Pubs/restaurants in the area and info will be available on the day if you wish to try any of these.

PLEASE REPLY HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND THIS RUN

Attending

1. Lars
2. TC
3. Syd
4. Speedy
5. Alan Robinson (son of Stig)
6. Dave & Sue (MazMate 1)
7. Mart & Lynn (MazMate 2)
8. Anne (Sir Jim done a runner lol)
9. Jimmy & Lisa
10. Lawrence Carmichael
11. Malcolm & Jan
12. Bernard & Rosaleen
13. Russell & Vicky
14. Peter Brooks
15. Dave 3.5
16. Tom Earley
17. Col & Steph
18. Tom & Julie (Gawsworth 5)
19. John (Gawsworth 5)
20. Marion & Geoff
21. Andrew Morgan
22. Ron & Shelia
23. Paul Grice
24. Dave & Flo
25. Nick & Doreen
26. Phil Wyper
27. Ken Stevenson
28. Andy & Hayley
29. Lesley & Roger

 Hi Paul, Please add myself and Lisa to the list, we will meet you in the layby on the Mold bypass A494. Will be there about 11:15.

 Fingers crossed for me not being at work on Sunday.Wont know till Saturday (damn 12 hour notice)

I like Lars's runs for some reason...Oh yeah they are fun to drive at "sensible and safe speeds".

Uma's gonna be whining...

Alan

Locke-alike:

I like Lars's runs for some reason...Oh yeah they are fun to drive at "sensible and safe speeds".

So it would be a "sensible and safe" idea to leave the co-driver at home

Paul,  I'll be there, on my lonesome!     Dave.

 Had a horid 2 days,

Decided to swop all the water hoses and a new radiator and fit a thermstat to the oil cooler,

Shifting the 19 year old hoses and rad was a ball ache, had to take the charger off to get at some of them.

all fitted and undertray on ,oil filled new coolant added and she fired up ok,

left it idling for 5 minutes whilst checking for leaks...all ok

took it fo a bit of a blast, at a little over 60 mph up hill the oil temp was just starting to show

and then the oil presure plumeted down to nowt.

A quick look under the bonnet showed a loose hose to the oil cooler "DOH" only opened when the oil was hot and I lost it all.

Helen the friendly rescue brought me 5 lires of spare oil and i finger tightened the hose just to get me home.

2 hours latter it all done and several standing starts and a few trips to high speed showed all to be OK

So tommorow we will see.....

Alan

Hey Al, you dont do things by half but good to see Uma is (with fingers crossed) in fine fettle.....with luck see you at services, ill have the bacon/black toasties, ask me nice ;-)

Locke-alike:

So tommorow we will see.....

Great you were watching the gauges Alan and Uma hopefully no damage done, see you tomorrow..........

Can you add me and Hayley to the lsit please Paul.

Time we did our yearly outing

TC overjoyed with the run out on the Spring Wales Run

Your meant to have ya legs crossed for yogic flying.

Oh spiritual leader of the mx5 cult.

Alan

PS great run and a 230 mile round trip for me...

No oil or water lost but a whole tank of fuel seems to have avaporated !!

Locke-alike:

Your meant to have ya legs crossed for yogic flying.

After taking the shot I viewed it and couldnt believe my luck, it looked a beaut on the small screen, could take that another fifty shots and not be as good, reckon our leader could be good at the olympics.......

 And I thought the effects of eating too many beans was just folk lore!!

Twas the new diet I am on............lighter than air

Was fantastic day and with 33 cars in 3 groups and the obligatory splinter group (the catch ups) 

Im sorry to say that besides Scotland, Wales has the best driving roads (open to abuse)

Btw Alan. loving my second set of T1R's but I need a more cost effective alternative...ideas?