Saturdays mini meet.....

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Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by Rachel » Sun May 13, 2018 9:31 pm

.....Thank you so much again to Sylvia and Al for organising another great meet! Not everything went according to plan, what with Well Dressing Competions and mini riots ( :shock: ) but the turn out was great, the company enjoyable and the weather for the most part stayed dry (it only rained on my way home) I loved driving Snake Pass again, as did my 480! High light had to be Jame's D reg. totally impressed by this little gem! :D The only thing that was missing was a big group shot! I'd love to post phots but cant as you all know how difficult that is nowadays, but there are some on the FB page!

Next stop Chiltern Hill Vintage Rally next sunday (20th May) We have a guy from Belgium going just for this event so it would be great to greet him with a good amount of 480, so please, if you can do come. Entries can be taken on the day (Class N is you one you'll be able to enter) hopefully see some of you there.

Happy wedging! :hopping:
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'95 Vase Green Turbo~ Vanessa~ 'Serendipity' manual, Richmod. RIP
'90 Light Blue 480 Turbo auto....RIP
'68 VW Type 3 1.6 auto Lotus White,Swedish import. SOLD
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by Rachel » Mon May 14, 2018 6:42 am

Yay, photos....how are you doing this Jeff??? :D
'95 Storm Grey 323 Manual Turbo, Richmod
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'95 Flame Red Celeb, Nos.191, 2 litre, LPG, used to be Adams ;) SOLD
'95 Vase Green Turbo~ Vanessa~ 'Serendipity' manual, Richmod. RIP
'90 Light Blue 480 Turbo auto....RIP
'68 VW Type 3 1.6 auto Lotus White,Swedish import. SOLD
Audi 80 coupe Gold...pimp my ride! RIP
'76 Bug, Ocean Blue, lowered, Empi wheels.RIP
'72 Bay window VW Camper 1600 twinport. Sold

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by jifflemon » Mon May 14, 2018 7:25 am

It’s a kind of magic..... :rofl:

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by jamescarruthers » Mon May 14, 2018 8:58 am

Damn! I didn't take a single picture!‎

Had a great time and was pleased to see you all! Thanks again to Sylvia and Al for organising us‎.

Rachel: try postimages.org‎
1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

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J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by zapcity » Mon May 14, 2018 9:29 am

IMGUR is good for hosting images in your posts: - viewtopic.php?f=19&t=35624

Quick 'how to' here.
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by eye of ra » Mon May 14, 2018 10:22 am

I also wish to thank Sylvia and Al for organising the meet that I and at the very last minute my better half managed to attend in the end, all be it just at Tissington Hall. One day I may even turn up in a 480.
jamescarruthers wrote:
Mon May 14, 2018 8:58 am
Damn! I didn't take a single picture!‎
Neither did I. :wall:
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by frenchfries » Mon May 14, 2018 11:08 am

Well done indeed and nice to see you all and new faces :)

Since I realised too late that my camera was not working I only have pics from my phone so here they are. If you want them in high-res just PM me.

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by dragonflyjewels » Mon May 14, 2018 1:59 pm

Another great day thanks to all our lovely members who more than make it all worthwhile. We were pleased to welcome Oli and Andres with not one but TWO two-tones for the first time. Also Richard with his gorgeous flame red GT (which he's only just bought - well done him !) Hopefully they enjoyed our company and we will see them again at future meets. James' launch car made it by the skin of its teeth and caused a lot of interest. We even got a quick glimpse of Ade going the other way before he joined us briefly at the Royal for the entertainment in the carpark :dispute: :cheers: :angry: :kill: :badmood:
My photos aren't much different to those already posted, but Al had his new dashcam recording so once I fathom out how to do it I will hopefully be able to extract some stills to post. I just wish he'd listened when I asked him to bring up the rear on Snake Pass...... Perhaps I should get him a rear facing one as well. The first challenge will be to find out what he did with the box, output cable and instructions. :wall:
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by Jay-Kay-Em » Mon May 14, 2018 6:25 pm

Lovely pictures, brilliant to see, credit to everyone keeping these cars on the road.
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by jifflemon » Mon May 14, 2018 7:40 pm

Jay-Kay-Em wrote:
Mon May 14, 2018 6:25 pm
Lovely pictures, brilliant to see, credit to everyone keeping these cars on the road.
Are we due an update on yours yet? :D

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by dragonflyjewels » Mon May 14, 2018 9:50 pm

We solved the mystery of the red GT colour looking rather different to the red Celebrations by simply popping the bonnets to check the colour codes - both the same but by different paint manufacturers.
Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by 89of480 » Tue May 15, 2018 12:28 am

Looks like it was a fantastic day filled with stunning cars!!! Gutted I missed out but I’m looking forward to the meets later in the year! :D
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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue May 15, 2018 9:59 am

The good news is I have worked out how to get stills from the dashcam on here.
The bad news is AWFUL - nothing recorded on Snake Pass !!!! :badmood: :cryhard: :badmood: So disappointing, but here are the rest:-
on the way to Tissington with James' well-saved launch car leading us
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that's Andres from facebook in his two tone
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arrival at the unexpected Well Dressing event to the disappointing news that the carpark where I wanted to do the photoshoot was full of coaches so we had to park in a field (how many people are into well dressing ??)
get a load of Rachel's blacked out rear windows
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here's frenchfries waiting for us
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happy to say oddballer's Celebration made it this time so it was his work van that got left at home
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time to leave for the dam
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wave goodbye to eye of ra
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heard from a bloke I passed in this village-
'Holy sh!t it's a 480 turbo!' followed by a high pitched squeak 'and another one!!'
as I thought to myself 'well, I'm leading so actually there are 10 480s behind me'
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we attracted a lot of interest arriving at the dam
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and more interest leaving the dam
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Snake Pass should have been next, but it's a lovely view of Glossop Leisure centre behind a carwash where Al stopped to fill up. After that he wasn't following 480s :cryhard:
I have been right through every file on the dashcam and there is nothing else, can only think he pressed the wrong button and managed to turn it off, although he's sure it was still displaying on the screen.
Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

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Re: Saturdays mini meet.....

Post by Rachel » Wed May 16, 2018 6:14 pm

Awesome photos everyone! We certainly turned a good few heads!
'95 Storm Grey 323 Manual Turbo, Richmod
----------------------------------------------------------
'95 Flame Red Celeb, Nos.191, 2 litre, LPG, used to be Adams ;) SOLD
'95 Vase Green Turbo~ Vanessa~ 'Serendipity' manual, Richmod. RIP
'90 Light Blue 480 Turbo auto....RIP
'68 VW Type 3 1.6 auto Lotus White,Swedish import. SOLD
Audi 80 coupe Gold...pimp my ride! RIP
'76 Bug, Ocean Blue, lowered, Empi wheels.RIP
'72 Bay window VW Camper 1600 twinport. Sold

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