Up early with coffee and toast while I detail the car again. We got caught in showers coming up to Yorkshire yesterday. Meguiar's Quik Detailer Mist and Wipe is brilliant for this kind of job.
Arrived at Goathland station around noon for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Vintage Vehicle weekend. Classic cars on display at each station along the beautiful preserved railway line. Spent an hour or so chatting with the very friendly, hospitable organisers before heading off to Grosmont.
Grosmont is where my dad was born and he worked on the railway in these parts, so it's a sentimental journey for me.
We left Grosmont for Egton Bridge then on to Rosedale, grounding the exhaust downpipe on a particularly savage moorland road that just catches out the suspension - slow down! Up the imposing Chimney Bank and on to Hutton-le-Hole.
The Jaguar is really running sweetly and only that irritating vibration at 65mph and the lack of overdrive to spoil things. She might even be up for the Le Mans Classic next weekend if we have to.
THIS IS the story of life with a classic car. I drive a 1972 Jaguar XJ6 and write about it here. I'm Martyn Moore, former editor of Classic Cars magazine. This is a two-year story about the roller coaster ride of classic car ownership. The most recent entries come from a classic car rally in 2005, the last journey I made in the car before putting it into storage. Use links on the right for earlier entries.
