Friday 17 May
starts at Hylton Gott Bodyshop on A1122 at Bexwell
KLDMC is planning to run three of these events this year, starting with Dave & Julie Bowman’s event. 6pm prompt departure from start near Downham Market. Event finishes at Ely Leisure Village.
For information and entries, contact Dave at wizardhistoric@outlook.com
We have recently posted the regs for our 46th Annual Classic Car Rally which takes place on Sunday 7 July.
https://kingslynndmc.co.uk/index.php/classic2024/
We presented a cheque to NARS for £1000 – proceeds from the 2023 event – last August. We are supporting teh same charity in 2024.
If you need further information, please contact Adrian Cunnington.
Ten teams from across the region took up the cudgels for a revival of the East Anglian Inter-Club Quiz hosted by West Suffolk MC at Horringer on 31 March.
The event formed part of Motorsport Month East put together under the auspices of the Association of Eastern Motor Clubs.
King’s Lynn put in a couple of teams: the ‘President’s Team’, KLDMC1, comprised Paul & Helen Haylock, Ed Bennett and Ed Haylock whilst the ‘Chairman’s Team’ KLDMC2 had Vice-Chairman Dave Ottoway, Duncan & Marian Russell and Adrian Cunnington doing battle on our behalf. By the way, our Chairman was on holiday!!
Tackling a variety of subjects ranging from motoring to general knowledge and sport to history, across a couple of hours of intense but mostly-jovial quizzing, Chelmsford Motor Club came out on top, shading the honours by two points from our very own King’s Lynn MC 2, with Cambridge Car Club another couple of points back in third. It turned out to be a very tight contest with just 8 points covering the top eight teams.
Full results: 1st Chelmsford MC 64 points; 2nd King’s Lynn MC2 62; 3rd Cambridge CC 60; 4th= Sporting CC of Norfolk 59; 4th= West Suffolk MC2 59; 6th King’s Lynn MC1 57; 7th= Green Belt MC 56; 7th= Eastern Counties MC2 56; 9th Eastern Counties MC1 52; 10th West Suffolk MC1 50.
KLDMC celebrated our 70th Anniversary on Saturday 25th February 2023.
We were privileged to have been invited and hosted by the Mayor of Kings Lynn, the very charitable Councillor Lesley Bambridge, to hold the event at the prestigious Kings Lynn Town Hall, a venue that has an incredibly diverse history of use ranging from Public House, Police HQ, Court and Gaol!
Club President Paul Haylock thanked everyone involved for making the evening possible and hoped to see the Club continue to flourish as it enters its eight decade. It will continue to be involved with a wide variety of activities from club nights; navigational, targa and stage rallies; autotests/gymkhanas and an increasing number of classsic car events.
Joining us as guest speaker was Phil Mills, 2003 WRC World Champion with Petter Solberg, and present owner of world class rally car preparation and build business, Viking Motorsport. Phil braved questions on the night from 100 or so members and guests who attended, recalling a career which saw him compete in international rallies over 17 seasons, multiple seasons of national championship stage and road events and a total of 155 road rallies.
Exceptional food was provided by the award winning Shefs and it was great to be able to chat and reminisce with firends old and new on the past 70 years of Kings Lynn and District Motor Club’s rich history.
Thank you to everyone who attened for your support and special thanks to all who were involved in the organising team under the leadership of Paul, Ed & Helen Haylock, Steve Tilburn and Duncan Russell.
Photos to follow.
Thanks to all who joined us on 18 January for our clubnight ‘start the year’ quiz.
Organised by Duncan & Marian Russell and Adrian & Caroline Cunnington, teams were asked to answer 7 rounds of questions ranging from motorsport, music, KLDMC, general knowledge and some tricky car identification teasers.
We had our fair share of Norfolk-based questions featuring subjects such as Jack Sears, Martin Brundle, Robbie Williams and the Broadland Northway (Google it!)
We had over 20 participants in total which was great to see with the team of Mark, David, Will and Kirsten in the immodest, but aptly-titled, ‘Eventual Winners’ Team just shading it from team Haylock’s ‘A team’
Results
Thanks also to the ladies at Runcton Holme Social Club for their support providing bar facilities for the evening.
December 1, 2021 7:15 pm – 11:00 pm
Organiser: Adrian Cunnington.
| Car | Class | Driver | Navigator | o/a | Class | Fails | Mins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | E | John Peterson | David Smalley | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | E | Harvey Steele | Martin Pitt | 2 | 2 | 1 | 24 |
| 3 | E | Ed Haylock | Paul Haylock | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| 4 | E | Paul Smalley | Matthew Smalley | 5 | 5 | 5 | 24 |
| 5 | E | June Pollard | Ian Pollard | 4 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| 6 | SE | Neil Peterson | Will Brown | 7 | 2 | 4 | 25 |
| 7 | SE | Marc Sheffield | Shaun Hannon | 8 | 3 | 5 | 32 |
| 8 | SE | Mick Beauchamp | Mark Banham | 6 | 1 | 24 | |
| 9 | N | Jonathan Simper | Gary Zoller | 9 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 10 | N | Rob Palmer | Ben Jones | 10 | 2 | 4 | 31 |
| 11 | N | John Setchell | Will George | 11 | 3 | 11 | 4 |
| 12 | B | Harry Wade | Danni Quadling | DNF |
Mathew Smalley is organising a curry night on Wednesday 16th October at Voujon in Kings Lynn
There are already enough people coming to mean the meal can go ahead, but the more the merrier! So if anyone wants to come then let him know by email
From looking at their menu their banquet meal is currently priced at £12.95 and we will be looking to meet around 7.30-8pm
4th September: 12-car rally
1st Paul Smalley / Matthew Smalley 0F 1M Expert
2nd Jack Matthews / David Smalley 0F 4M Expert
3rd June Pollard / Ian Pollard 1F 5M Expert
4th Mark Shefield / Shaun Hannon 11F 20M Expert
5th Mick Beauchamp / Mark Banham 0F 6M Novice
6th Matthew Mantle / Diane Mantle 1F 10M Novice
Organisers: Paul Haylock & Edward Haylock
Marshals: Dave Sooley, Andy Congreve, Steve Tilburn, Harry Tilburn, Jody Wilson, Peter Mears, Kyle Williams, Ed Bennett, Nick Way, Megan Way
Carl Dunnatt, Richard Felton, Guy Farnbank, David Bell, Ian Doble, Dan Wheatley, Dick Lines, Dave Hunt, Robin Lines, Dave Pollard.
Many thanks to everyone who came out to compete or marshal. Sorry there were not as many competitors as we usually have but that’s something beyond our control. I think all the competitors enjoyed the event, the marshals all got to where we wanted them and we had no complaints! So despite the low numbers it was a successful rally. Thank you all very much.
Please be available for David Smalley’s rally next month.
Paul & Edward
Ed Haylock’s second quarterly report from the Chair is here.