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Tarmac with petrol for breakfast: the 6th Drivers Lunch
Some like to polish. Some like to fettle. But after a year-long lock-down or semi lock-down, most of us just want to drive and finally meet some petrolheads again! The Drivers Lunch that has been organised since 2018 attracts a very specific group of amateurs who love to have an excuse to accelerate to the horizon and far beyond. A good incentive for just that is the Spoon & Spanner trophy that is given to the team that has covered the longest distance between breakfast and lunch. Traditionally the meeting location is only communicated shortly before the day. This time it was at the De Welle estate, where Ernst-Jan Krudop has his picturesque restoration workshop.
Twenty-eight cars attended, ranging from Adler to Stutz, including a fleet of five Alvis cars, two Bentleys, two Bugattis, a 1908 Rousson and a very elegant Rolls Royce Phantom I. Your scribe arrived by Amilcar. We had something close to a dogfight over the Spoon & Spanner trophy. No less than five cars covered more than 200 km from the early morning hours; a 1929 Model A Ford (203 km), a Fiat Simca (220 km), a Riley Nine Saloon (222 km), and an Adler Trumpf (265 km). The winner was Jeroen Hoep who drove solo(!) from home using secondary roads in 4,5 hours (272 km) with his very reliable 1934 Alvis Speed 20/25 SB. We had one murmuring protest from the Austin 7 community, who claimed that there should be a handicap for pre-WWI and sub-1000 cc competitors. We’ll give it a thought. The next Drivers Lunch is planned for Sunday, January 2, 2022.
Words by Joris Bergsma. Photographs by Peter Horwitz.
Published:
Thursday June 10th, 2021
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