The first Cars and Coffee Liverpool meeting for 2017 took place in January with our hardcore motorheads making a grand entrance, including Oliver Webb in his muscle powered‘ Eleanor’ Shelby Mustang GT500 fastback and the extraordinary BAC MONO single seater factory supercar built nearby in Speke-Liverpool.
The charity this month was Tom Harrison House( Honor, Hope & Healing) which is also the Liverpool Lord Mayor, Roz Gladden’ s chosen charity. Tom Harrison House is a specialist facility providing addiction treatment exclusively to military veterans, reservists, emergency personnel, and their families. Thank you to all of our motor community for donating at the meeting.
The day brought a vast array of Supercars, classics, retro classic cars and bikes as expected, even dog walkers and cyclists came along! Amongst the crowd shone two beautiful MK1 Ford Escorts- an Olympic Blue Mexico owned by Les Durrant and a Sebring Red RS2000 owned by his best friend Mac. The bright colours of the cars attracted everyone’ s interest, making them a talking point with young and old.
Les’ s car is his daily ride covering 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year, an example of a true hardcore all-year round motorist who is not phased by the salted, icy morning roads. A 1600cc crossflow engine gives it an amazing 93 bhp, not up to some of our Cars and Coffee visitors power but without a doubt, two of the most outstanding visually. Les said:‘ The car is used to help a charity which is close to our heart, Parkinson UK- a disease from which I suffer. A trip around Europe involved visiting 14 countries in 14 days getting down as far as Croatia, covering 4,000 miles and raising around £ 15,000.”
The monthly meetings bring the unexpected and random vehicles to our motoring audience. This quirky, rustic, tin can looked weird but wonderful humming down the road coming into the meeting, a 1963 3-wheeler- fundamentally an Italian Lambretta scooter 175 cc 2 stroke known as an Innocenti Lambro. They were generally used for delivery around the narrow streets and villages of Italy. We love the patina with the‘ Lambretta Servizio’ recovery truck livery.
The Lambro is a river of Lombardy, northern Italy and a left tributary of the Po. The Lambro ran close to the Innocenti factory site and provided the basis for both the Lambretta name and the three-wheeler’ s name. The term‘ Lambro’ is today used to refer to Lambretta’ s entire range of 3 wheeler vehicles although the name Lambro was actually only used from 1963.
Here at the home of Cars and Coffee Liverpool, we have access to all local motoring knowledge and legends. We are still persuading and encouraging many motorists with wonderful gems, timewarp vehicles and collections to come along to the meeting to educate and exhibit the range of wonderful mechanical creatures all great and small to our young visitors. We believe it’ s a place to inspire the young to work hard and dream to own these toys one day themselves.
We thank all of our sponsors and contributors, David from HR Owen Maserati & Lamborghini Manchester, Carly at Tesla and all our Wirral motorheads. Hope to see you all at the next meeting on 26th February.
To find out more about Cars & Coffee, please contact Norman Shum at carsandcoffeeliverpool @ gmail. com
If you would like to find out more about Tom Harrison House, please visit www. tmharrisonhouse. org. uk wirrallife. com 93