Caterham 170 experience

TL;DR it would be nice to keep a tangible copy of all my ramblings With the long-form posts written in the past few weeks, I come to thing I wouldn't want to lose that content and those memories the day Google decide to shutdown the Blogger platform. After checking out and testing some blog to print services, PixxiBook seemed like a good choice with great result out of the box. With very little room for customisation as they aim at having it right on the first time. With the blog as it is now, I would reach the 300 pages limit already. The posts about the visit of the Caterham factory last week already account for 20 pages. At 120€, this is far from cheap for a book, but why not do it once a year ?  Or each time I have 300 pages worth of content ?  No that I would hope to reach the size limits more than once a year, that would be insane, even for me. For the fun of it, I definitely need a post about the book, so it's included in said book. For good measure it would include a...

  TL;DR size does not matter As summed up in the post that covered the Lotus & Caterham edition , «" Static Rally " is a bi-monthly meetup of oldtimers that takes place in Wavre. This for a total of 12 times between April and October. It's organized by Nicolas supported by family and friends, as well as a few welcome sponsors. It's completely free. A parking lot and entire street of a business park are privatized for the morning.» Over the 12 events, I did attend 7. Not bad knowing that Wavre is over 100km from home. I was just not aware before the 3rd 'episode' of the year, didn't feel like going for weather concerns once in May and October, and missed one in August because we were on holiday. Here are all the photos showing my 170, and most of those with the other Sevens. They were all scraped from the Static Rally Facebook page , credit where credit is due : vonlonteer photographers cover the event twice a month and do a great job. Thanks again to ...

  TL;DR if you're reading this, just book a tour already All began with a phone call from House of Speed on December 7th. There was a Caterham Factory tour happening on December 18th and I was invited. My first reply was that I intented to come to the garage in the morning to talk about the diff upgrade anyway, and would be there after breakfast. The fact of the matter is that my enthusiastic involvement in anything Caterham-related in Belgium this year was not unnoticed, and the 23 000km driven over 6 or 7 months was quite something too. More than just being invited to visit the factory, I was asked to act as some kind of ambassador for the garage too. A role that I somehow de-facto played in a few instances already. Geography helping a lot as their candy shop is located right in between my parent's (where the car is stored during the week), and home.   I highlighted my fear of turning a hobby into a chore as with my prior experience at the local astronomy club, and we agr...