Back from the 20 Years meeting

storm480 · Post by **storm480** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:18 am

Hey,

I had a great time despite of the weather on saturday... luckily it was dry during the bbq.

The NÃ¼rburgring was great...ask Gaz, he was my co-pilot.
I found a nice video on the internet, some of us are in it

http://www.nordschleife.nl/video/NBR140506.wmv

Username= video
password= 14052006

enjoy !

Today my lovely shiny Ester came back from MOT...without a single remark !!

Grtzz Erwin

Maisie · Post by **Maisie** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:57 am

Thanks again for organising a fab meet.
Weather wasn't too great on Sat, but it could have been much worse - just ask those who stayed at home!

Mr D is busy downloading all pics and vids, so they should be up somewhere soon.

Thanks to Storm for allowing Mr D to accompany him on the track.

Hope to see you all again soon.

A.

Richmann1 · Post by **Richmann1** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:19 pm

Made it back in one piece and with no problems

(including the nurburg

) . Thanks for organising a great meet and good to meet everyone.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:49 pm

storm480 wrote: The NÃ¼rburgring was great...ask Gaz, he was my co-pilot.

Indeed I was, and thanks for that drive around it, Erwin

The first 14KM or so of our lap can be seen in the following DIVX film (sorry, the camera ran out of battery power after 14km or so

):

http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk/mee ... gring2.avi

WARNING: It's 154MB! But it also includes Suddy causing chaos by driving right up to the barrier without having bought a ticket!

Also, it makes the whole experience seem slow, but take it from me, it wasn't, as we hit 180KM/H and then into corners

If you can't see it, try downloading Media Player Classic and associated codecs from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Mine and Mrs Dragon's thanks to everyone who came for a fantastic weekend, was more fun than I'd ever have imagined.

Big Kudos to the rest of the club management for their dedication and organisation and allowing such a smooth 3 days

More pics and videos to follow, as I get round to sorting it all out in not much spare time...

volviz · Post by **volviz** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:38 am

Back..yesterday evening... nice trip 2300km total... and car was fine

.. only the left window cable snaped off..

Perfect meet, nice people... will attend next time surely....

Was nice to meet known people in real life

small story caming bit later

LASEROWL · Post by **LASEROWL** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:15 pm

Pics finally uploaded :

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v186/ ... ny%202006/

Martin 480 Turbo · Post by **Martin 480 Turbo** » Wed May 17, 2006 6:25 pm

Finally I took the time to upload some more pictures.

Was a great meet!

Thanks once again to the ones who organise all those nice
things for us. Thank You.

Looking forward to meeting you all again next year.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v15/M ... /?start=20

kingrichy · Post by **kingrichy** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:11 pm

Gaz,

I tried to look the movie with Windows Media Player and Media Player classic but both times i get codec not found.

But i downloaded DivX-player 6.2 and now i can see.
http://www.divx.com/divx/

But i think you are lucky to be alive, Erwin(Storm480) drives like a storm.

jamooga · Post by **jamooga** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:02 pm

The trip over there was a blast. The camping was spacious, the people where friendly.

Had a time of 12min 18 on the ring. Not bad for first time out on a circuit.

Drove her top speed on the way back home and everything went without a hitch.

Thanks to the organisation I can look back to a great time.

Gr Wiebe

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:47 pm

Oh no Suddy mate, here's me thinking yours was the nicest "S" on the planet!

volviz · Post by **volviz** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:08 pm

Ok... there are some mine pics:

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/vie ... &members=1

volviz · Post by **volviz** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:57 pm

And a little storry:

As wee all know I did some restauration work before Euro meet to my turbo.... so the car was finished some 5hours before leaving... some drinks to my brother for that

It is an evening 8.00pm.... lets role out... must get on ferry at 2.00am and compleate 250km...

it was planed to go with two cars (volvo and honda), because the car was "new" and i didn't knew much abot her... so - towbar and honda for safety

first we had to do some 20km to pick up my GF

in half way I saw something hapened - cluch cable snaped off on CRX...

..... what to do.. leave car, try to fix it.. we have some 1.5 hours till its last time to leave to catch ferry...

so pulled the car at my friends garage to make some decisions.... as we all are optimistic minded - decided to go to parts shop find that cable.... but we weren't lucky they hadn't it in store

....

Decision - go with one car, so we puted all the stuff to one car, got GF who was a bit nervous and flored car to catch ferry....

gladly we made it...

waiting to get on board:

Kristin making fun

only +10 degrees

we are on board

lets start 26hour trip:

thats me

follow the moooon

.......

Deutchland deutchland...

speedo started playing jokes... sometimes work..sometimes not..

then driving at some 150 km/h some strange noises started....first thought that other ballbearing died, than that it was exhaust...

the problem:

Always remeber to chech wheel bolts!!!!

traffic jam on Autobahn

..... totaly sited about 2.5-3hours in diferent jams

some sights:

hurrreeeeyyyyy
ariving at WaldHotel 700km from Rostock did in 11hours

camping:

the area

pit-stop during rally:

gathering:

getting car Nr:

where did those sweets went??

is CREW sure there were 285 of them???

our winnerz:

Da Most beautiful:

BBQ at Saturday evening

480CREW

Sunday..... track day

Heading to Nurburgring

those will drive with us

getting ready:

Leeetz Gooooo:

did first lap to see how the car feels... it was Ok...

coffe break:

time for Kristin to get on track:

we survived....................

tomorow will get some action pictures.. still to find where to share ~300Mb videos.....

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:28 pm

Great Volviz, i was wondering how you'd got on! Such a mission!

jamooga · Post by **jamooga** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:06 pm

Good to see you made it back volviz. Hope to see you next time.

Gr Wiebe

2127 · Post by **2127** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:06 pm

Great photoshoot, volviz, gives quite an impression of the atmosphere over there.
I couldn't make it, so many thx to all of you for the numerous pics taken and put on the web.

Regards,
Peter

volviz · Post by **volviz** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:59 am

2127 wrote:Great photoshoot, volviz, gives quite an impression of the atmosphere over there.
I couldn't make it, so many thx to all of you for the numerous pics taken and put on the web.

Regards,
Peter

Ya're welcome

jerlab · Post by **jerlab** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:54 am

Here are my pictures :
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v11/j ... ?start=all

And at the end a video of me on the Ring

And here is another video of me on the Ring (14.7Mo)

Enjoy

Richmann1 · Post by **Richmann1** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:15 pm

Here you are suddy here is the beer you needed in germany.

http://www.beerlabels.dk/foreign/usa/an ... 3-001b.jpg

MRS LASEROWL · Post by **MRS LASEROWL** » Sat May 20, 2006 3:36 pm

Do ya like Steam ???????
Scratcha does

suddy · Post by **suddy** » Sat May 20, 2006 4:14 pm

oh dear......well at least i was safe for......er.....5 days.

i knew it was only a matter of time....and whats up with my ranking?!

and to make things worse, some german bloke has got the fly incident pictured with comments! http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/Bilderkammer

if this was work i'd be handing my notice in about now