North East Chapter meet

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:47 pm

Just seen that this meeting is 400 miles there and back!

Nah Im afraid!!!

maxwell98 · Post by **maxwell98** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:35 pm

@ john T if you had been a bit nearer the penidtone road I woulld have picked you at up

@ Catgroom you should come to see what I have attached to your old subframe

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:15 pm

@ Maxwell I may still come,could be a change of plan!

@Turbus If I do I will happily pick you up!What an amusing drive that would be!!!!!

ReVolvoLution · Post by **ReVolvoLution** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:57 pm

Go on Groomy me little avatar slut! you know you want to

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:19 pm

No just checked and its 10 hours driving!

Maybe some other time!

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:07 pm

looks like you're safe from the combined filth of mine and the cat's minds. Maybe next time huh?

Agwa Moose · Post by **Agwa Moose** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:12 pm

Hmmm.....

One 480 (Joolz) and one Alfa (me & Sarah)

Where was everybody?

Was good to see Joolz again, we sat in the pub, drank coffee and had a natter...

Have Some more pics of the FANTASTIC turnout...

J

terrastudios · Post by **terrastudios** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:40 pm

Sorry I could not make it, ended up removing an engine from one of my 440s! (The fun, the pain, my hands are swollen and bleeding!)

Next time I promise!

Matt

maxwell98 · Post by **maxwell98** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:54 pm

many apologies frozen brakes tis morning took ages to get sorted tip don't was your car the nigt before a freeze - it looked like perfect driving weather too

Agwa Moose · Post by **Agwa Moose** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:29 pm

Shame you couldn't make it guys, twas a good drive out, not to worry, we'll give it another go at some point (when it's a bit warmer though)

J

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:24 pm

Really sorry you didnt get the show you wanted there.

Wish there was something else I could say!

Good Luck with next meet I guess!

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:17 am

bit shit no one was able to go.

When I come back (fix vader) I'll be well up for a 480 meet!!

suddy · Post by **suddy** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:53 pm

i wish i could have gone, but i was not fit to drive sunday morning, had my (unplanned) works leaving do the night before. it was a long way from here too for just a few hours...

always next time.

Joolz · Post by **Joolz** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:58 am

was nice to see Jim and Sarah again, always good company!

and to think I turned down a hot date to be there...huh

shimon340 · Post by **shimon340** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:48 am

heya!

would any of you guys like to come to the meet at donnington park race track on sunday?

Ive put a post in this forum called "donington 12th march"
look forward to seeing some of you there!

Shimon

ReVolvoLution · Post by **ReVolvoLution** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:01 pm

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Had a few family problems at the weekend which resulted in me attending a funeral today

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Hope you enjoyed the location anyway.... and "All That Jazz"!

Just a tip for the next time tho (re Groomz Things just aint what it used to be?? post) maybe dont leave it to the uber-noob to organise locations/ venues/dates etc
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A bit more 480 internal organisation should be in order if the club is going to hold events and try to grow but who am I to comment? I've only just got here!

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:14 pm

or people could do what they say there gonna do.

end of day everyone was unable to go for diff reasons which sucks but reasons none the less.

Good on Joolz to take the time and organise it.

stu chacks · Post by **stu chacks** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:05 am

Hmm, to be fair it wasn't billed as major 480 event, just local/minimeet, but for 2 cars out of a 'probable' 7 to show up is pretty poor.

With just 4 cars (7 people), the NWminimeet was good fun, but I would say that! When I was in the MG owners club, every area used to have monthly pub meets (hell of a lot more cars/members though), so one regional pub meet once a year should have been better attended I thought.

Think the motto is, don't say you'll do something unless your pretty sure you will, circumstances permitting. And that wasn't a dig at anyone, just am opinion.

Sorry to hear you had some bad news Revolution, bad timing at any time for that sort of thing. Hope your/s ok.

But let's move on and see if we can get 480 480's at Dan's big 20th birthday bash - spotlight on DAN!

Stu.

Agwa Moose · Post by **Agwa Moose** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:52 pm

ReVolvoLution wrote: Had a few family problems at the weekend which resulted in me attending a funeral today .

Sorry to hear that Trev

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Not having a go at anyone here but people obviously had their own reasons for not attending, not a problem, we still made a good couple of hours out of it, I'm sure that the next meet (wherever it is) will have a few more people there

For some people it was a long way to travel just for a couple of hours, and at the end of the day it was bloody cold, not the best weather for standing around outside looking at cars, I think it could of been a success if we'd done it between june and september - with warmer weather - no-one wants to freeze their ass off if they don't have to, including me

Don't worry about it, fun was had by us, and there's no point in us all pointing fingers at people just because something beyond their control prevented them from attending, as I said before - the next one will be better, lets all just think on where and when and try and learn the lesson that this one tried to teach us... Having a meet when it's bloody freezing don't work

Be happy folks

J

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