Thames Valley Area May Meeting

A good turn out at the Thames Valley Area monthly meeting at the Dewdrop inn

TVH Homecall

This weekend the TVH crew had a homecall to Alan & Tim.
Alan had rescued a Dutch fellow (Martyn) who had bought a Robin Hood in Holland around Xmas and had ventured onto the RHOCaR site, due to his limited writing skills in English he got a rather negative response from the forum.
After a few emails with Alan, Martyn had arranged to come over to the UK for the Stoneleigh kit car show and the following week Alan would swap out Martyns 1600cc Pinto engine for a 2000cc EFI Pinto.



When we all turned up at Alan's home on Saturday morning the engine was already in the car but there was a few problems to sort out one of which was the sticking flap in the airflow meter.
After a couple of hours trying to get it to work we found that the airflow meter in Alan's Golf GTI was the same as that on a Sierra and as the car is off the road it was removed and fitted in to the Hood all was working fine till a few more problems poped up like-

Fuel starvation through kinked pipe and the Throttle cable needed a mod to get it working.

Read the full story on the TVH website at

http://www.freewebs.com/oxonrobinhoods/eventreports08.htm#197795346

Stoneleigh 08

Last weekend over the bank holiday Myself, Becky & Tash camped over at Stoneleigh kit car show. This is the biggest show of the year with loads to see and do.
The best part of this show for us is meeting up with friends and other members of RHOCaR.





A big turn out of Robin Hoods for this show.

The GBSC stand showing off there latest models of Robin Hoods namely the new zero 7

Plus they had a new model on show which will be launched at the Newark kit car show.

It is to be called the bullet and will be first released as a 50cc the picture above is the prototype/test bed it will need a Msva which apparrently is not as bad as the sva the 50cc version will be single seater with a two seater coming later with the big engines the body work.

The 50cc engine will allow a 16 year olds to drive it on the road.

It will look a little like a f1 front end with a wing and the trike will have a sliding canopy a bit like a fighter jet!!! steering will be direct (no steering rack) with gear change being either paddlles or buttons on the steering wheel and front of body will be made of vacumm formed plastic.