The Trip to Tipp

Friday, Day 2 of Humphrey Rides Again saw us waking early to begin prepping for Humphreys first ever car show. We were heading to the prestigious Carrick-on-Suir Motor Club Festival of Motorsport. In order to have the mighty Morris in all his finery a trip to B&Q and Halfords was called for.

B&Q yielded the necessary drain pipe pieces to finish the snorkels and Halfords were done for some wiper blades, some blue leds, crimp on connections and an air freshener. Sorted, back to the Bunker.

After a morning of fixing and fitting we launched for Faugheen. We overnighted at Ruths, a friend of Bobs (whos Dad is also contraption mad and delighted to drive Humphrey about) and the following morning after a fantastic fryup we took off for the 6 miles trip to the show.

At the showgrounds officials promptly wet themselves at the site of Humphrey and he did us proud as he bolted across the grass and through gates like a demented gazelle. One official may have had a stroke when he was asked “Where’s the concours category?”. We spent the whole day chatting to people, frightening children with the klaxon and generally explaining the T2 rally and our mission. The car was a huge hit with everyone and we got the thumbs up from the classic car boys (I thought they’d linch us) for our work in such a small amount of time. Irelands (maybe the worlds) only Rally-Raid Morris Minor is a major talking point now and much as we’d wished myself and Bob are now infamous.

Day 2 of the show was spent in a heap on the stall, we had spent the whole night arsing about discussing everything from route plans to how much better tractor-fighting would be to bull-fighting that we literally found ourselves sitting in the carpark at dawn with no sleep. Genius. People didn’t mind, and we put in a heroic days advertising and chatting again. This being Sunday it was unbelievably busy, the weather was fantastic and we got a great shout out on the tannoy from Mad Dougie the Mikeman. That’ll do. That evening we collected our certificate, broke camp and headed along the long road back to the bunker. Suffice to say apart from the usual hallucinations it was a quiet night for us (we were knackered).

Mission accomplished, the T2 Rally is on everyones lips and Humphrey is a hit.