Stoneleigh Kit Car show always marks the start of the summer for me and is one of the most important shows of the year, and I consistently try my hardest to make it and more to the point get my road legal buggy there as well. There has only been one year that I have not made it with my road buggy, and that was because the engine blew up on the way there. This year was a bit different as we are living right down on the south coast and also … [Read more...]
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show 2012
Hello, It has been a long time since I wrote a post on here, and that is partly because I have been mega tied up with my business, and I have not had the chance to work on my hobbies. Not saying I haven't taken my road legal buggy out just saying I haven't been able to get the time to write about it :-) As you all probably know the Stoneleigh Kit Car show for me is a stressful time during the year as it is the first show that I go to of the … [Read more...]
Freestyle Road Legal Buggy Trip To Wales 2010
The Wales trip is now becoming a bit of a MuddyBuggies tradition, before this trip in 2010, Steve Alan and Simon did a tour of Wales. I was not able to make this trip as I was actually travelling around Australia at the time. However, the Wales trip in 2010 myself and my girlfriend Jane made it. We met at the garden centre in Lichfield and we had tea and coffee while we came acquainted with the others. I made a comment about Simon's brakes, as … [Read more...]
A Photo Video Of Various Trialing Events
There are a few of our members that are keen at trialling and the Freestyle kit car is a very popular buggy for doing this as its light weight and rear wheel drive. The photos in this video are taken by a valued member Jon Way.... cheers Jon … [Read more...]
The MuddyBuggies Owners Club
The MuddyBuggies Owners Club has grown over the years and at first we only had Freestyle owners but now we have all sorts of buggies ranging from Blitz to Howies and of course the freestyle. We attend a lot of kit car shows and also a few of the mini shows up and down the country and that is what being in a club is all about the social aspect! Going to the shows has always been a big part of my own personal summer including the copious amounts … [Read more...]
International Mini Meet 2005
May 26th 2005 I am outside my house strapping the last of my luggage to the freestyle waiting while I am waiting for Dave Smart to arrive from Somerset. He was driving to my house where he would get in my buggy and we both would then go to meet Jon Way and his Daughter Jenny, Jon was driving Dave's buggy down and Jenny was my passenger. So we headed for Dover the sun was shining and the sky was blue it was perfect Dave was in his usual bubbly … [Read more...]
Newark Kit Car Show 2006
The day before the show I was just doing some small repairs to buggy from the Poland trip. I had to re wire my siren and fix a broken wire for the indicators. All this was easily done and all that was left to do was a bit of polishing and by 7 in the evening I was ready. I told Simon Brown that I would not even be able to leave for the show until mid day due to wanting to spend some time with the girlfriend. so at 11 o'clock I snuck out and made … [Read more...]
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show 2006
Well, What a few weeks I have had, It was a mad rush to get the freestyle ready for the kit car show as I was still doing repairs from the IMM 2005 and so I was working all day and all night to get things done, On the Saturday before the show I worked to gone 2 in the morning to try and get everything done but I just ran out of time, So I went to bed and thought to myself that all I had to do was put the nose cone back on and try and grease the … [Read more...]
The IMM 2006 To Poland In Freestyle Road Legal Buggies
A few weeks before the trip to Poland I had already started to get the buggy ready it needed a fair amount of work including a new steering rack, clutch master and slave cylinders the steering column needed repairing as it was damaged on the way to the Spanish IMM, I also need to get a need indicator stalk. Saturday 27th May I had a nice lay in today as I was pretty much ready to go, then the phone rang and Dave Smart was on the phone … [Read more...]
Southern Mini Days 2007
Southern Mini Days is a 4 day mini show and is most of the time blessed with fantastic weather and this year was not any different. In fact this year was a scorcher of a year. The sun was shining and the skies were blue we all got very bad sun burn. I also managed to get stung by a bee while taking a couple of people out for a pleasure run in my Mini based road legal buggy. [slideshow id=16] [nggallery id=16] … [Read more...]