Okay folks

This car show at Nostell Priory is the Rising Sun Sunday Website

Just called the number shown on the site for trade / ticket enquiries and it's A&S signs that were at the NBO (oops!!! no trade stand for me then ) Left my details and they're gonna call back with more info ASAP. The basic gist was there's no fee for a club stand, so you just pay to get in same as everyone else.

Sorry if this is treading on anyone's toes regarding organising something, but as it's only a couple of months away I thought it best to make some kind of start.

Are we up for having a club stand at this event? We now have all the necessary gear, so it seems to make sense to use it, not to mention the fact that it's only 5 mins from my house, so I could walk it if necessary

Date is 14 August.

Over to you lot for ideas, opinions, muppetising (Hi Chris) and feedback

Phil YHPM

 

Nice one Andy.. Strike whilst the Irons hot.. or your having a tea break.. like me

Great idea and seeing that were old hands now, a stand will be a piece of pi55..

Just need to find out;

• Max cars allowed
• Are they happy to take non-jap
• What time do they want us
• What cars are we going to take? (Obviously dependent upon points 1 & 2)
• Work with Phil to get the best for UK Perfomance Net & Ourselves.

Ideas for the next one will be to;

• Get three bits of wood to stake out the Banner in front of the stand...
• Get ALL attending club cars in the same area if we can't get them on the same stand area.
• Get some rope & bunting to mark us off properly
• WYIOC Flag

Comments / Discussion / Ideas..

Steph? Scrubbers corner alert!!

 

Still waiting for a call back. They must be busy with all the number plate orders they took yesterday

I'll price up a proper banner frame.... (Might have to put subs up a bit )

 

Proper professional banner frame for an 8' x 2' banner is £109 + delivery (£10) plus vodka and tonic (which doesn't matter 'cos it'll get claimed back)

A bit expensive, methinks.

Anyone got access to some ally tubing and corner pieces?

 

Or three of these from B&Q.. £1:99(ish) with a few tie wraps?

 

I am trying to convey a professional, caring and enthusiastic image for our beloved club and you go and suggest a set of fookin cricket stumps!

 

BTW, 'Chairman', your location could do with being updated to 'In limbo'

 

Aah yes. Will change the location this very evening..

Thing is mate, we can't afford to have a professional, caring and enthusiastic image..
Cricket stumps? They are specially adapted Staves from 300 year old Russia Oak trees only found in the outer Kamchatkan mountain ranges, 3,675 ft up on a ridge only reachable by a 6 day hike... The branches are chosen for their strength, beauty and perfect cylindrical shape.. They are felled with antler horn axes and Crafted into round shapes by the hands of specially selected virgins and flown in first class on the only flying Concorde....

Then sold for £1.99 at B&Q..

I agree that it's not ideal, but if we can get something cheap and cheerful then Rock 'n' roll, otherwise were stuck with the above?

 

Unfortunately/fortunately (depends on your point of view really) I can't make this as I will be 30,000 feet above on me way back from Oz

 

 

What goes around...

Course, you do realise that there's a cottage industry in Middlesbrough chopping door surrounds out of run-down slums at 20 feet above sea level, that can only be reached by passing several chav gangs. The surrounds are chosen for their ease of removal, usually due to the fact that the door has been forcibly removed by the local drug squad / dealer, and the layer upon layer of heavy lead paint. They're tugged away with minimum effort, taking any plaster, wallpaper and dry rot with them, and crafted into the round(ish) shapes by a bunch of illegal immigrants from the Kamchatkan mountain ranges (who have nothing better to do due to a shortage of Russia Oak trees in their homeland after a serious mis-calculation in the supply / demand estimation department at B&Q head office) (And besides, no way on Earth are you gonna find a virgin in 'boro) before being stuffed into a container ship and sent on a 93 day voyage to the Kamchatkan mountain ranges, where they are then sold for the equivalent of 6 month's wages (approximately £1.99) at the local BEE & QUEUESKI

I'll sort something a little better out, but get the cricket stumps on stand by, just in case

 

i'd be up for another run out with you guys so u can put my name down for this

 

Al - leave it with me, i will see what i can do/find out

 

Steph, are three nightsticks going to be long enough or are these the special "bargepole" length for certain "members" of society?

 

I can do a good line in 3" fencing posts lol

 

It's in the diary. Though why I've put a Teesside fence-post in there is something of a mystery....

 

Right, where do i start...

I have spoken to the organiser of Rising Sun Sunday, who is quite happy for us to have the gazebo etc advertising the club. He is also happy for us to have all our members together in the one area(the ball park figure i gave him was 30 cars). Non jap cars are also welcome. The event is now being sponsored by Autotrader so there is a little more money available for trophies etc (best impreza, best evo, most highly modded, that sort of thing) and they are hoping to have this event every year at Nostell. There are other clubs having stands there, one of which is the Ford Probe Owners Club(apparently only the badge is british the rest is Mazda?) Anyway, the gates will open from about 7am on the day, so some of us are going to have an early start, to get the area marked out etc.

With regards to Phils website, no problem with advertising that along with wyioc, giving out flyers etc. In fact he was so amenable i ended up having a right natter with him!


Back to Rising Sun Sunday, he is sending me some booking forms for the cheaper entrance fee, so i will bring them to the next meet if they get here in time.

Steff

 

Steph.. YHPM

 

Bu99er I thought this was gonna be a small thing that I could miss without feeling like I'd missed out. Looks like I'll have to book another sunday off

 

Ford, British?!?!?!?!?

What they teach you at school, woman

 

Oh, good work BTW. No-one's managed to call me back after my enquiry yesterday

 

The Ford Probe OC had a collossul 6 (SIX) cars at the RSOC next door to the NBO Their chairman collared me at a jetwash on thursday and knowlegably informed me that "they are one of the best handling cars in the world" and "his mate has one with NOS and a 3l twin turbo that eats Scoobs at Elvington" I suppose with serious power and only 2WD it will, in the dry, and in a straight line, and as long as all the engines pieces stay roughly where they're meant to be; but we'd 'ave 'im in the twisties Weren't they just an MX6 that was beaten with the ugly stick

 

Don't feel down mate..... Sometimes life's like that.....

 

Yup....

Wasn't it Gareth Cheeseman that sounded the death knell for the Poke (err, Probe)...??

Steve Coogan has a lot to answer for - Rover 800, Lexus IS, Poke....

 

Well you got my meaning . And am reliably informed it is an mx6 chassis/engine and stuff. But who cares, they're still sh*te

 

From the Poke Owners Club Web Site.....



For the 1993 model year, the Ford and Mazda design teams merged once again to give the Probe a complete restyling and the second generation Probe was born. Again the new Probe was to share its understructure with Mazda's MX-6 and 626. Ford concentrated on the interior and exterior styling, while Mazda engineered the engine and chassis.

The Ford/Mazda team added 2 inches to the length of the new Probe as well as 4 inches to the width, while still managing to shave off 125 pounds. Along with numerous other enhancements from lessons learned since the first Probe's debut, Ford brought the experience of many days at the track to the design table, creating one of the best handling cars on the road.

The base model received a new Mazda 2.0 litre 4-cylinder engine with 16 valves and dual overhead cams producing 115 horsepower at 5500 rpm and 124 foot/pounds of torque at 3500 rpm. The GT model was powered by the new 24-valve Mazda 2.5 litre V6 engine with multi-port fuel injection, four cams, and a computer controlled variable induction system. The V6 produced 164 horsepower at 6000 rpm and 156 foot/pounds of torque at 4000 rpm. The second generation Probe was introduced in August of 1992.

Top Gear reviewed the 24V Probe in their August 1994 magazine. The review pitches the Probe against the VW Corrado VR6 and the Toyota Celica GT. The Probe comes off second best to the Corrado but beats the Celica in most categories.

The 16V Probe was reviewd in the December 1994 issue against several cars including the 16V VW Corrado, Vauxhall Calibra and BMW 318is.

 

my dads petrol lawnmower has more power than that



Phil

 

Shhh. It's the same engine as someone else's pride and joy (almost)

 

oops, think I know who you mean


seems like a good time to leave the country.

off to prague now

later all

Phil

 

Minus a few vital bits 'n' pieces.....