2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

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2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by edie_fox » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:33 am

In other news; talking about the 2005 meet yesterday, lightbulb moment... when I got home I thought about my email address from a decade ago....put it into Photobucket with the password I used for everything and found all the photos!

Regs I can see:
The paris blue AWU is my first ES, I bought it for £995 in 2005 and I sold it around 2007 to local man for £295 (couldn't give it away!). He obviously gave up on it at the next MOT having hardly done any miles in it at all himself.

The ANG plate is now on a BMW.

Maroon (Celeb?) VFC was MOT'd in August with 230k on it.

YLP looks like a gonner in 2009 with 125k on it.

LMJ (a turbo) is alive and very well indeed with, possibly, just 12k on it but looks SORN (hopefully) having just ran out of MOT on 5 October. I have looked on the members list with that registration date (31/12/95), although this is the least likely thing to be inputted but easiest to search, and reg but no sign on there. Now that would be a five grander! :lol:

PCW (GT?) looks like another scrapped one, 140k and probably had it in 2012.

So, not all bad!

The couple (lady in red jumper) I think came from the Netherlands.

Here: https://ibb.co/album/h2VFmF

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dcwalker » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:14 am

Brilliant!

I don't know whether to be sad at seeing so many lovely 480s 14 years ago that have now gone off to the big garage in the sky, or pleased to know that at least some of them are still going strong! :?

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dragonflyjewels » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:57 am

O, how very odd that your pics were still on photobucket after all the ones that have vanished off the forum with their change to paid membership.

The maroon one is interesting on two fronts. Firstly 230k is exactly the same mileage as my 2 litre, currently sitting in a much more expensive body shop than our usual one. The estimate was horrendous, but the work is a very high standard as recommended by our pedantic repairman who is only interested in perfect ! Hopefully VFC has found an excellent home with someone else determined to keep one going. Secondly I shall be interested to see if it is a Celeb to add to the register - maybe it will pop up at the Volvo 600 next year so I can get the full details.
Thanks for sharing those Edie, really interesting
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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dragonflyjewels » Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:35 am

O dear, VFC is actually an S despite the colour. We have just established that dcwalker's Nilani sits very neatly in the expected position on the Celebration register - he's pleased she isn't another oddity, and I'm pleased to have another snippet of information. win-win on that one

Those are definitely Vesa wheels on PCW but long gone so can't confirm it was a GT. Edie, do you not recall the poke-in-the eye interior though ? Al and I both hated it when we bought Sven, and it still doesn't appeal to us although the uniqueness does. I have to admit it gives us a buzz when we take it to the foreign meets and get people eagerly wanting to photograph it.

My ideal afterlife in heaven is meeting up with all my favourite cats of the past and having loads of 480s to play with - of course all restored to youthful condition, along with me !
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: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by edie_fox » Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:26 pm

dragonflyjewels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:35 am

Those are definitely Vesa wheels on PCW but long gone so can't confirm it was a GT. Edie, do you not recall the poke-in-the eye interior though ? Al and I both hated it when we bought Sven, and it still doesn't appeal to us although the uniqueness does. I have to admit it gives us a buzz when we take it to the foreign meets and get people eagerly wanting to photograph it.

My ideal afterlife in heaven is meeting up with all my favourite cats of the past and having loads of 480s to play with - of course all restored to youthful condition, along with me !
I made the effort (changed websites!) and on cartaxchecker, PCW does show as a GT. I spent quite a large portion of yesterday scouring the interworld for that 12k Turbo though! :lol: I came across some hidden gems on our roads, low miles and still on the road wise. I must have inputted about 5,000 registrations! I also found a diesel 480 (say the DVLA-but listed correctly on other sites).

I also forgot too, was it a common thing that some cars were listed as GT on the V5 but were 'just' an ES? As I looked at my old red one (an M 2L ES) and it is listed as a GT (M314 NJA). I found photos of when I sold that too on there.....this interior.

https://i.ibb.co/gr78fzm/DSC02887.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/k3GqnDb/DSC02889.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/p1q3ckT/DSC02890.jpg

I have just found this website for current photo sharing....can't work out if I can put them directly on posts though....seems not as I try all the options!

That old PB account would probably blur any photos I try to put full images on a post I think as, yes, it'll now be too many photos, but images still in my library I can download from there. :)

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jifflemon » Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:10 am

edie_fox wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:26 pm
That old PB account would probably blur any photos I try to put full images on a post I think as, yes, it'll now be too many photos, but images still in my library I can download from there. :)
The thing I've found with photobucket, is that if you download the image, it displays correctly (no watermarking or anything). I'd recommend pulling everything from photobucket so you've got a personal copy!

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jamescarruthers » Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:41 am

[quote=dragonflyjewels post_id=218605 time=1572255346 user_id=5626
My ideal afterlife in heaven is meeting up with all my favourite cats of the past and having loads of 480s to play with - of course all restored to youthful condition, along with me !
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Good excuse to post cat and 480 picture ,I think
My cat, Simpkin, on Jeff's visiting Turbo
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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jamescarruthers » Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:28 am

Frazer's
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1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jamescarruthers » Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:31 am

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

Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jamescarruthers » Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:34 am

Simpkin in my old Turbo

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2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:37 am

Purrfect - Willow will have to have yet another photoshoot
Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
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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: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jamescarruthers » Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:42 am

Slightly tenuous, but trust me the cat is just out of sight on this great shot and is about to cause chaos in about two seconds!‎
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1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by cranna21 » Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:54 am

dragonflyjewels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:35 am
O dear, VFC is actually an S despite the colour. We have just established that dcwalker's Nilani sits very neatly in the expected position on the Celebration register - he's pleased she isn't another oddity, and I'm pleased to have another snippet of information. win-win on that one

Those are definitely Vesa wheels on PCW but long gone so can't confirm it was a GT. Edie, do you not recall the poke-in-the eye interior though ? Al and I both hated it when we bought Sven, and it still doesn't appeal to us although the uniqueness does. I have to admit it gives us a buzz when we take it to the foreign meets and get people eagerly wanting to photograph it.

My ideal afterlife in heaven is meeting up with all my favourite cats of the past and having loads of 480s to play with - of course all restored to youthful condition, along with me !
Sylvia,

Can't remember if I ever told you or not, I used to own "M523 XSC" celebration number 033, flame red manual, see below for the only picture I have! Bought it in Stonehaven in early-mid 2014, then sold after doing nothing with it maybe a year and a half or so later? Can't quite remember. It was before I got 'properly into' 480's. I sold it to a lad from the black isle in Scotland, he got it back on the road for around a year, but since 2017 its been out of MOT, unfortunately, don't have contact details any more

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:46 pm

Slightly tenuous, but trust me the cat is just out of sight on this great shot and is about to cause chaos in about two seconds!‎
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Wonderful shot, James, is the peacock yours ? Or have to moved to India ? I can just imagine the cat's utter fury at finding it in his (her?) territory
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: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:49 pm

Can't remember if I ever told you or not, I used to own "M523 XSC" celebration number 033, flame red manual, see below for the only picture I have
Thanks Fraser, every snippet helps paint the picture. Pity I can't find a way to access chassis numbers online, but if the car has been scrapped, dvla haven't been told.
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: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by cranna21 » Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:52 pm

you never know, i MIGHT still have an old V5... probably not but i'll see what i can dig up!
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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by jamescarruthers » Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:12 pm

dragonflyjewels wrote:
Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:46 pm
Slightly tenuous, but trust me the cat is just out of sight on this great shot and is about to cause chaos in about two seconds!‎
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Wonderful shot, James, is the peacock yours ? Or have to moved to India ? I can just imagine the cat's utter fury at finding it in his (her?) territory
No, the peacocks (there are two, one male, one female) belong to a neighbour. They're pretty but bloody noisy sometimes. An eternity can go past and we never see/hear them... then they decide to come along to ours and loose one another and scream and shout for days. Funny creatures, quite thick I think. ‎
1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
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2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

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J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by Alan 480 » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:26 pm

jamescarruthers wrote:
Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:41 am
[quote=dragonflyjewels post_id=218605 time=1572255346 user_id=5626
My ideal afterlife in heaven is meeting up with all my favourite cats of the past and having loads of 480s to play with - of course all restored to youthful condition, along with me !
Good excuse to post cat and 480 picture ,I think
My cat, Simpkin, on Jeff's visiting Turbo
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[/quote]

I see that ALL cats love to snooze/laze in / on warm locations :-)
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Re: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by dragonflyjewels » Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:40 pm

Ha, finally got a pic of Willow going to investigate Lily (or rather try to sneak into the forbidden garage). Lily was waiting for Al to change her washer bottle - the warning light has been on for several weeks and topping up made no difference. Luckily the sender in the replacement tank is working so the annoying light has finally gone out. I will appreciate it in the spring - she's sorned now and will get tucked up tomorrow.

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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: 2005 Lincolnshire Meet Photos.

Post by JohnTurbo » Sun Nov 03, 2019 9:19 am

I have my own set of photos from that meeting. Can pretty much name everybody too...haha. Big photo of my arse!

Not my car though...but L904 FCW was there.

I unofficially own it again as of yesterday, but some reassembly is required!!! (And it was rusting a bit in 2005...so bodywork likely, though its been dry stored.
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