Thank you to all the car enthusiasts who joined us for Car Meet 12 on Sunday (April 29th) at the Cholmondeley Arms.

It was great to see new faces in addition to our loyal following of Car Club Members. We welcomed an excellent mix of cars on the day and some 70 cars turned up on a chilly but dry day which gets the car meet season off to a great start.

Most of the cars that featured on the day can now be seen on the ‘Past Events’ page on the Car Club pages on the Cholmondeley Arms website www.cholmondeleyarms.co.uk. Tim the owner of the Cholmondeley Arms and Tim the landlord of the Cholmondeley Arms (we try and keep it easy on the names!!) were on hand to recruit 15 new members and to take photos of the cars on show.

Owner Tim chose his ‘Car of the Day’ and ‘Best Car in Class’.

Congratulations to Lee with his beautiful blue MGA 1959 Mark 1 who took the ‘Best Car in Class’ and to Hugh and Sue who took ‘Car of the Day’ with their very rare 1985 E24 BMW M6 in truly amazing condition. They both picked up gift vouchers to use at the Cholmondeley Arms or one of our other pubs in Mobberley or Allostock.

Hugh and Sue with their 1985 BMW M6

Lee with his 1959 MGA MARK 1

It was very difficult choosing winners on the day as there were so many great examples with a few vintage, plenty of classics, certainly some sports performance cars, as well as some great examples of cars that are truly cherished. Tim promises to make sure his car is a little cleaner next time!!

Car Club member Malcolm invites you to a ‘classic car breakfast meet’ on 20th May (details below) and we will be back with our next events on the Car Club events page as soon as we have fixed the dates.

Once again thank you for attending.
Kind regards
Tim
Owner
Cholmondeley Arms

MG 1979

Bentley Continental 2002

BMW M6 1985

Triumph 1975

Mini 1963

Beetle (Klud) 1966

Beetle (Daisy) 1972

TVR Griffith 1999

Porsche Chesil Speedster 1972

AC Cobra 2002

Porsche 911 2013

Mercedes 280 SL

Aston Martin DB9 Coupe 2008

Each Year the South Cheshire Raiders enjoy breakfast at the Chum before their ‘drive out’ day and return in the afternoon for Pudding and a pot of tea.

If you are a car club and want to include Cholmondeley in your journey then get in touch with us.

Despite a really horrid day weather wise 6 brave teams rocked up for a challenging car treasure hunt around the lanes of the Cholmondeley Estate. Storm Brian ensured conditions weren’t easy but the teams excelled with some great efforts to ensure they picked up some difficult clues. Coupled with excellent answers on the quiz questions as well as the hunt itself the teams scored well.

The clear winners by the end of the marking by Tim (the judge) were the Valentino’s!!! Pictured at the bar with the trophy and their Porsche driving experience. Well done team Valentino’s and big thanks to all the other teams that took part. In second place were the Larden Green Losers with the Cholmondeley Chasers in third! Here’s to the next hunt at the Fitzherbert Arms this coming Saturday.

THE CHEETAHS

It was that time again when members of the Cholmondeley Car club went head to head with each other for the title of Champions of the Cholmondeley Car Club Treasure Hunt 2015.

Our famous Car Club Assist Ben Redwood managed to put together a tasking hunt with some difficult challenges as 6 cars hit the road at 3pm on Saturday 5th September.

The weather conditions were good but the distraction of the rugby and holidays meant last year’s Champs and runners up could not make it to challenge for the trophy!!

David and Dan made up the famous twosome who drove under the name the Cheetahs and came back to Cholmondeley with the most clues answered and met all the other criteria to be this year’s Treasure Hunt Champions!

Well done the Cheetahs and thank you to all the car teams who took part and thanks to Ben, Jess and the Chum team for setting up a great day.

South Cheshire Raiders enjoyed Cholmondeley before heading out for a day’s drive. Breakfast was served in the form of sausage and bacon baps and lots of coffee and tea too. The cars as always are a great spectacle and can be seen below in the gallery from Aston Martin’s to Lagondas…there are some special cars indeed…a stunning E-Type and some perfect old Rileys.

Any car clubs wishing to use Cholmondeley as a finish or a start to their drive day can contact Jess or Will at info@cholmondeleyarms.co.uk

It was a beautiful albeit windy day in Cholmondeley on Saturday for our annual car treasure hunt. The treasure hunt was open to our car club members as well as locals who wanted to partake.

All teams set off at 3pm with the instruction to arrive back by 5.30pm along the treasure hunt there were general knowledge questions to answer and pictures to take. It was a beautiful route around the Cheshire Countryside.

When the teams arrived back at the pub all question papers were marked whilst teams eagerly awaited the results. There were two teams who finished the treasure hunt and general knowledge questions on the same mark, so it went to the tie break question!

These two teams were ‘The Pitstops’ who finished in third place in their Alfa Romeo Spider. ‘The Pitstops’ were beaten by the ‘Westfield Wallies’ by 3 points in the tie break. The ‘Westfield Wallies’ completed the treasure hunt in their Westfield. In first place was ‘Team Google’ they completed the hunt in their Mitsubishi also known as ‘The Tank’.

Thank you to all of the teams who took part and we look forward to seeing you all again next year!!

THE MAGNIFICENT 8 AND 9

As many of you will know Saturday was a wet miserable day and we have the photos to prove it. It wasn’t a day for Vintage cars but the classic cars had a good go. Thank you so much to the few that turned up who I referred to as the ‘magnificent seven’!! In fact as it turned out there were eight of cars in the end!! Well maybe nine if you count a  little boys replica Porsche!! The rain created the usual ‘lake’ in the Chum car park which fortunately drained away by the afternoon.

It was a shame we didn’t agree to meet in the evening as the sun came out then but it was so busy with Gin Fest that club drivers would have struggled to park in the evening.

We had five new members join the Cholmondeley Arms Vintage, Classics and Sports Car Club.

Bacon butties were enjoyed as were one or two gin samples by the non-drivers. We are now busily arranging the next Car event and we will post it here and email out to all registered members…….in the meantime a massive thank you to all the cars that made the effort in such poor weather.