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Friday, July 25, 2008

Triumph Roadster achieves Top Twelve Award 2 years running

As classic car enthusiasts, we enjoy being members of appropriate clubs for each of the cars that we operate. This means that we can often be found taking part in club / charity events exhibiting the cars.

One of the main events that we go to is the Triumph Roadster Club Annual Rally and for last two years our car has been entered into the ‘Concours d’Elegance’ section. I am very pleased to report that once again we picked up a sought after ‘Top Twelve Award’ - a great honour for a car which we restored some years earlier.

We had an excellent time at the Rally, held this year at Woburn Abbey, and as always the Triumph Roadsters were well received by the public.

Fortunately we weren't tempted to go for a quick drive through the safari park - although the roadster is perfectly suited for summer weddings, we're not quite sure how bear or tiger-proof it is!

Friday, July 18, 2008

Wedding-Car meets Sergeant Bergerac

For whatever reason, whenever we disable one of our cars for a bit more than routine maintenance, we normally get a call asking if it's available (you know – it’s a bit like every time you sit down to eat the phone rings)! On this occasion we were in the process of changing the 13 sq metres of carpet in the Triumph Roadster (yes 13 sq metres of carpet!).

The car was up on stands, the wheels were off, the interior was stripped out and the old carpets were busily providing patterns for the new ones – we had plenty of time complete before the car's next engagement at Woburn Abbey – then the email came from Norway:

“We are a TV station in Norway (TV2) and we are making a 3rd series of a popular TV show called Golden Years. We would like to use your Triumph Roadster on the set of Midsomer Murders to interview John Nettles who currently plays DCI – Tom Barnaby and who played the part of Sergeant Bergerac in the Jersey based detective series ... as his daily transport in Bergerac was a Triumph Roadster could your car be at Gerrards Cross next Tuesday...”

Given that the Triumph Roadster was the every day transport of Sergeant Bergerac we could not miss this opportunity, so the carpet installation program was bought forward, to be completed in just 4 days! Despite the sewing machine having an incredible appetite for needles and Sue having to hand sew the wheel arch covers (4 hours of sewing on each one) the carpets were completed in time and now look better than ever (ready for the summer weddings).

It was a beautiful sunny day so with the top down I set off for Gerrards Cross with my daughter (our keen photographer that took all the photos for this blog post) and a colleague from the Triumph Roadster Club to meet the man that has done much to make the Triumph Roadster marque famous.

At the end of the interview, I had a surprise chance to act along side John Nettles as a ‘link’ between the various celebrities being interviewed by TV2, Norway – I only had one line to say but it was still a lot of fun.

Having the actor that actually played Bergarac sit in our Triumph Roadster was also a wonderful privilege!

Friday, July 11, 2008

90th Birthday Surprise !

Now I know that women do not like to give away their age but in Florrie's case had she not given away her age we would never have guessed she was 90 - a remarkable achievement.

When Emma contacted us with news of her Nan’s birthday there was no hesitation in volunteering our beautiful Vintage Citroen to provide Transport for Florie’s great day. Remembering that our Vintage Citroen is a mere 81 years old, Florie could remember these cars on the road during her childhood – it was a great surprise for her and a real pleasure for us to make the car available. We have already volunteered to provide the transport for her 100th !

A very young looking 90

Happy 90th Birthday Florrie

New Wedding-Car.co.uk site now live!

After months of research, preparation, designing and coding, (and plenty of tea!) the brand new Wedding-Car.co.uk site is live - and sooner than expected!

Unfortunately we have had to change the names of all the pages, however you should be redirected to the correct new page automatically.

You will notice that images are far more prominent throughout the new site along with more helpful content, a new contact form and other useful features.

We have many more features planned so keep checking the blog for updates!

I'm off for a well deserved holiday :-)

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

New Blog Design now live!

You may have noticed that the design of the blog has been changed.

This design is more in keeping with the soon-to-be-launched (and top secret) new version of Wedding-Car.co.uk as it includes the same navigation and page styles.

We are hoping to launch the brand new main website within the next few weeks, although please email me on feedback@wedding-car.co. if you have any comments on this new design.