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Oundle Car Club
Growing up in Nassington with five car- obsessed brothers, I learnt to love the sound of a sports car engine, and my husband David shares that love. Our wedding car budget was not spent on a hire car... but on a somewhat rare (he tells me) Matra Murena. “We get to keep it afterwards” David told me sheepishly, after pressing ‘Buy it Now’ on eBay.
writers, broadcasters, and magazine editors. The idea is to bring all these people together socially via Facebook, and to put on events and meets.
Tom Walbank came on board after the club quickly grew, and set about arranging a meet, something he had wanted to do for some time.
I saw this as an opportunity to bring people
And so, just before Christmas, with
a Baileys in hand and chatting about
cars we’ve owned, and others we’d
love to own, we put a question on the
local Oundle Chatter Facebook group:
Would anyone be interested in joining
a local car group? And from there, it snowballed. Oundle Car Club has been set up to provide a community for all local car lovers.
A quick drive around Oundle and the surrounding villages reveals a vast array
of interesting and much-loved vehicles in driveways and garages. Classics, 4WDs, modern super cars, modified, show and race cars.
We also have a fantastic array of people in the car business in the area, professional engineers, high-end car restorers, bodywork specialists,
We don’t care how old, shiny, original, or modified your car is
together over a love of cars, as most car clubs are created for a certain marque of car or limited to classics or modified only. This club aims to open up to all.
You can find Oundle Car Club on Facebook. We had our first cars and coffee event in February with another planned for March/April at Rectory
Farm Kitchen, Warmington. We hope that people will share stories, expertise, tools and more. This was definitely the consensus at our first social at The George in Oundle.
We don’t care how old, shiny, original, or modified your car is. It won’t be the wrong model, make or fuel. If you love it, so do we!
Suzie & David Sage and Tom Walbank
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