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Events, News

Friday Classic Car event: Right Royal Run

KLDMC is running another of our informal Friday night Classic Car runs on 6 September. We are grateful to Kim Cairns Classics who are hosting us for the start at their Snettisham premises just off the A149 at PE31 7PF.
The event, organised by Duncan & Marian Russell, finishes at the King Charles III pub in Sporle at PE32 2DR, where pre-booked food will be available.

We will gather at the start from about 5.15 in time for a look round before our 6pm departure. Our suggested route will be around 35 miles of good Norfolk roads in the Sandringham locality before heading south so that we can reach Sporle before 7.30pm.

If you’d like to take part, please email Duncan with your name and car details at secretary@kingslynndmc.co.uk.

The event is open to Club members and friends, invitees to our Annual Classic Car Run plus any members of SEECCC or AMSC member clubs. Just bring a car of interest (nothing too brash or noisy please!) and, ideally a navigator, although you can always follow someone else if you don’t have one…

We hope to see you on Friday 6 September.

Events, News

CLASSIC CAR RALLY in aid of NARS

Our 46th Annual Charity Classic Car Rally took place on 7 July.

The event started at H&C Beart’s in Stowbridge and finished on The Green at Hunstanton.

A full entry of 75 classics enjoyed a good day out and supported an excellent cause in the process!

Trophies and awards were presented by his Worship, the Mayor of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, Mr Paul Bland.

Award winners

Car of the Day: Car # 51 Simon Booth (1982 Renault 5 Gordini)

Car with Popular Appeal Award chosen by NARS: Car #19 Peter & Spencer Horsburgh (1965 Mini Cooper)

Best Dressed Crew: Car #31 David Taylor & partner (1969 Mini Cooper)

Class Awards:

VINTAGE, PVT & FIFTIES  to 1959 AWARD 
#7AlanGidleyRiley RMF 2.51953
HISTORIC CLASSIC: 1960-1974 
#44AlanAistrupLancia Fulvia S31974
POST-HISTORIC CLASSIC: 1975-1989 
#50IanWilsonDeLorean DMC 21981
MODERN CLASSIC: 1990-2009 
#67BrianGaskinsAlfa Romeo GTV2000

We presented a cheque to NARS for £1000 in 2023. We are supporting the same charity in 2024 and will announce our donation in due course.

News

EAST ANGLIAN INTER-CLUB QUIZ

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.

The victorious team from Chelmsford Motor Club receive their prizes for winning the 2023 Inter-Club Quiz hosted by West Suffolk MC
Events

70th ANNIVERSARY Dinner

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.

News

START THE YEAR QUIZ

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 

  1.  Eventual Winners  54
  2.  A Team 53
  3.  The Chippies 40.5
  4.  Big Balls Motorsport 35.5
  5.  KAYOS  34.5

Thanks also to the ladies at Runcton Holme Social Club for their support providing bar facilities for the evening.

Events, News, Results

December clubnight

KING JOHN RALLY

December 1, 2021 7:15 pm – 11:00 pm

Organiser: Adrian Cunnington.

ResultsDownload

CarClassDriverNavigatoro/aClassFailsMins
1EJohn
Peterson		David
Smalley		33315
2EHarvey
Steele		Martin
Pitt		22124
3EEd
Haylock		Paul
Haylock		11120
4EPaul
Smalley		Matthew
Smalley		55524
5EJune
Pollard		Ian
Pollard		44422
6SENeil
Peterson		Will
Brown		72425
7SEMarc
Sheffield		Shaun
Hannon		83532
8SEMick
Beauchamp		Mark
Banham		6124
9NJonathan
Simper		Gary
Zoller		91112
10NRob
Palmer		Ben
Jones		102431
11NJohn
Setchell		Will
George		113114
12BHarry
Wade		Danni
Quadling		DNF

Thank you to:
Adrian Cunnington for organising
Jennie & team at Runcton Holme Social Club for the use of the premises & food at the finish
and the marshals
Peter Horsburgh
Duncan Russell
Steve Tilburn
Dave Bowman
Jody Wilson
Andy Congreve
Dave Sooley
Simon Leonard
Greg & Judy Bates
Dave Pollard
Nick & Megan Way
Nigel Mann
Richard Leggett
Liz Jordan

Events, News

Curry Night

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

Results

September clubnight results

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