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She Surrey Oaks in
Newdigate is a timeless English country pub with low beams and gloomy
lighting with small alcoves in the old bit, and a current restaurant in
the newish bit. It is usually one of the better attended of our lunchtime venues
because the pub is famed for its selection of real ales and ciders, and also
had own wood pizza oven. It also got a name for holding Saturday morning breakfast
classic car meetings.
The weather has historically been quite good here
and true to form it was brilliant again. It is also the local 'drinking
hole' of our Publicity Officer Tony Russell whose other main passion is
Hot-Rods. So he invited a number of his
mates to come along who are makers of Hot-rods and users of them. The
display was quite impressive. In the final
analysis we had about 44 vehicles at the venue, not all ours, especially the 'hot rods',
which is down 10 on last year. This was quite a surprise because the weather
was really lovely sunny and hot, 31C. Perhaps because of the heat, some
people went home early.
Those who stayed got a sudden drenching from a passing tropical storm, and
those on the way home got a free pressurised car wash. The Presidential
Pozermobile just got a pre-wash.
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