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Crank Down - September 14/15th
By Brian Slingsby
 
The YMVT annual crank down took place over the weekend of 13/14/15th September. This year, as last we were based at the ‘Black Swan’ pub in Fearby, just outside Masham, North Yorkshire. The pub offers B&B as well as camping and good beer and food. And as an added bonus the Land Lord Sean is an MVT member and as a consequence was keen for us to use his hospitality for the second year. He very generously gave us massive discount on camping and accommodation as well as our own private room in the pub for our evening meals etc, so big thanks to Sean, we will be back!
 

 

 

 

 
 
The Saturday and Sunday runs were organised by our own gurus Simon Roberts and Gary Docherty who know the area like the back of their hand, and produced two excellent days running around the locality, in fact on Saturday we managed 67 miles, and on Sunday, taking in some of the Army ranges close to Catterick we covered 83 miles. 17 vehicles joined us on Saturday for the run (including our Host Sean in his Dodge half ton command car) and we had 15 on Sunday, this time including Alex in his recently acquired GMC CCKW 352.
 

 
 However some of the roads were just too small for him, and despite his determination, he had to take a few short cuts on the slightly bigger roads. Mark Calzoni joined us on Sunday in his newly restored Jeep, which has taken 4 years to complete, and very nice it looked too. Although he did get some stick over his non standard tyres, fitted by choice by him as the ride is much improved over the old style bar grips.
 

 

 

 

 
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