Thanks, guys, it doesn't get spoilt, just a wipe over now and again, and the oil is total-loss anyway. We had fuel in from last year which we ran right out on the Saturday before putting fresh in.
It's surprising how many people don't twig how it starts up, they can't see a starter motor or hear anything whirring away, just a click from the starter solenoid and off it goes. We pull it backwards onto compression, then it has two turns to get up to speed before it fires.
We run 1kW of resistive lighting all day, that makes it nice and hot and keeps things from clogging up. The night-time picture was taken without flash, it was the load lamps that lit the engine.
Next outing is going to be at the end of the summer, we have two shows to go to, one at Barleylands in Essex, and the other is a very nice working weekend at Little Casterton, near Stamford.
Peter