Big Breakfast – Midlands Breakfast Club
SPORTS, PERFORMANCE, retro and classic is what it says on the Midlands Breakfast Club website – so we felt we had to go to the 9th November meeting at RAF Cosford.
The only problem was that as we closed in on the Midlands, the weather changed from nice and cheerful, to miserable and very very wet. Still, we were determined to press on, even if, as we entered RAF Cosford a couple of cars were already heading for home. Perhaps they were a bit unnerved by that bearded bloke hammering together a large wooden boat-thing for his collection of animals…
Freshly breakfast bapped up, we headed for the display area between two of the hangars. Advertised as a politics-free ‘club’ the atmosphere is very relaxed and casual, and if you want to turn up with a car all you have to do is use the contact form at www.midlandsbreakfastclub.co.uk (they need to know due to space availability).
Aside from a large drop of horizontal driving rain, the display was dominated by modern machinery – in particular Trevors and fat Minis (cue a Charlesworth rant) – but there was more than enough retro fodder to keep us happy.
There was a smashingly detailed red Beetle, sitting so low on black wheels that its belly must have got gravel rash; a white wedgy TVR 350i riding on factory BBS wire-effect alloys (Mr Hughes had a ‘private moment’ with this one); a pair of beautifully moody early Seventies 911Ts; a couple of air-cooled Dub campers; and an MG X-power SV initially caught our attention.
Keeping it Veedub, there was a line-up of MkI Golfs, a pair of tasty ’n’ slammed MkIII Polo Coupés, a Guards Red wide-body 924 Carrera GT and a 928 GTS which looked damn near lilac in the gloomy weather. Meanwhile, moving away from ze Germans: there was a mighty line-up of Solihull sweet-hearts (from a nicely restored S1 Landie to another fantastically beaten up specimen, which looked like it had been driven through a mud-storm); pair of black and white Alfa 155s – a car surely ready for retro appreciation – and some old Luton iron. A MkI Astra Celebrity and Jewish racing gold MkIII Cavalier CD, in particular, winning the time-warp award.
All in all, it was a good retro line-up on a day which suffered from stinking weather. We may have only been out and about with the cars for an hour or so, but RAF Cosford’s museum proved a welcome, dry and warm distraction. If you’re into old jets, the ‘Test Flight’ display and the Cold War Aircraft collection are really not to be missed. Now, that was where I had my ‘private moment’…
Big Breakfast - Midlands Breakfast Club
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