VMR Summer Rally 2015. The rallyists witness the Stanway gravity fountain in all its glory.
Our Sunday Navigation Rally and Scenic Tour will take place just four weeks today! Pre-War Prescott is the highlight of the Vintage Minor Register’s Summer Rally weekend which will start on Friday evening at the Royal Oak at Gretton (all welcome) and end with a farewell run out to the Pheasant at Toddington (all welcome too!). Both hostelries have been warned of our visits and will lay in extra beer for us! And of course, the kitchens will be ready to provide is with more substantial sustenance.
On the Sunday after Pre-War Prescott, we traditionally hold a tour around the Gloucestershire area which is rich in history and incredibly scenic. This year, we will start bright and early as usual from the Paddock at Prescott (where bacon butties and fresh teas and coffee will be available for those who missed breakfast!). The Navigation Rallyists will be handed their route and clue cards and the Scenic Tourists will receive their Tour Handbooks which will contain clear route instructions. Only the Navigation Rallyists will require maps – OS 150 and 162 this year.
The route this year will take us west from Prescott into an area we have not explored before and lunch has been arranged for us at an ancient and quirky pub out that way. In the afternoon we will circle back eastward, ending up at Stanway House for traditional cream teas, results, awards and our own private viewing of the incredible 300 foot gravity fountain – the tallest and most spectacular in western Europe. By courtesy of Lord Weymms, owner of Stanway, we will also be able to par our cars in the courtyard directly in front of the gorgeous Jacobean House for photographs. There can be fewer more idyllic settings in all England.
Right now, we have a fantastic entry of 55 cars for Sunday, and our limit is 60, so there are just FIVE more places to allocate, so if you would like to make a weekend of it, I recommend you put in your entry as soon as you can.
As for Pre-War Prescott, entries are still arriving daily – the latest being a Tamplin and a 1921 Grahame White, a brace of M Types and a Hillman Aero. Keep them coming!
Finally for this post, a couple more lots have been added to the auction page on this website. We’ll be holding our auction in the lunch break on Saturday, with the proceeds going to the sellers and the commissions generously donated by Hereford Vintage Auctions to the RAF Charitable Trust. Before the day we are expecting many more lots to be added, so keep an eye on the link as the weekend approaches, and please submit your lots as soon as possible.