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Nov 16, 2018 13:43:57 GMT
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Did not register at the time but I knew that I had seen your car before - you were immediately opposite us on the Jowett Car Club stand Sure was and what a lovely bunch of cars you had there. Your stand looked great, but I wouldn't want to have been the one there at 6pm on Sunday taking down all your wall boards before driving home! Cheers!
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Nov 16, 2018 16:07:37 GMT
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Did not register at the time but I knew that I had seen your car before - you were immediately opposite us on the Jowett Car Club stand Sure was and what a lovely bunch of cars you had there. Your stand looked great, but I wouldn't want to have been the one there at 6pm on Sunday taking down all your wall boards before driving home! Cheers!
Thankfully I only did the Fri & Sat and it was other members responsibility to demobilise the stand - I don't get off lightly though - has it is in my camp that the full responsibility falls for the clubs stand at The NEC restoration show in March 2019 (along with the last 5 restoration shows) so I am pretty busy from now up to the end of the show in planning the stand, sourcing the vehicles & projects along recruiting the volunteers - we don't go about this lightly either it's a full on restoration stand - all muck & rust rather than smoke & mirrors  |
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Last Edit: Nov 16, 2018 16:08:09 GMT by Deleted
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Nov 16, 2018 16:56:11 GMT
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Sure was and what a lovely bunch of cars you had there. Your stand looked great, but I wouldn't want to have been the one there at 6pm on Sunday taking down all your wall boards before driving home! Cheers!
Thankfully I only did the Fri & Sat <snip> We're also doing the resto show although I'm not privvy to the details yet, other than they'd like my traveller again.
On my pension - given the hotel costs (etc.) - I might just drive up, leave the car and go home on the train / come back Sunday.
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Nov 17, 2018 12:51:25 GMT
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Thankfully I only did the Fri & Sat <snip> We're also doing the resto show although I'm not privvy to the details yet, other than they'd like my traveller again.
On my pension - given the hotel costs (etc.) - I might just drive up, leave the car and go home on the train / come back Sunday.
There is a trick here learnt from many years of exhibiting at the NEC - firstly although convenient don't bother with any of the hotels on the NEC site has they all charge a premium price for the fact they are in such a convenient location - in essence the NEC exhibitors are a captive market to the on site hotels - however also on the NEC site and within easy walking distance is Birmingham International train station - the centre of Birmingham / New Street station is 10 mins up the line and the ticket is a few quid - there are a mass of hotels around the New St area - Premier Inn alone has 3 hotels all within a short walking distance of the station - book your stay before the end of the year and you will have change out of £150 for all 3 nights - all of our stand team now stay in the same hotel and just commute back to the NEC - means we can all afford to do the event / eat together etc |
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Now that is looking proper smart - really nice to see one these looking just like it should - hope all goes well at the rally
PS - They cant be that many of these surviving in Estate / Traveller guise
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very pretty , lovely colour combination.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Jun 18, 2019 10:21:15 GMT
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Now that is looking proper smart - really nice to see one these looking just like it should - hope all goes well at the rally PS - They cant be that many of these surviving in Estate / Traveller guise In the UK, 15 On the road and another 10 or so SORN / donor / wreck. (I'm the Club's historian) |
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Jun 18, 2019 10:35:59 GMT
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At the club rally, I met up with Chelsea Perkins, the lovely young lady who re-upholstered my seats(and her husband Richard who welded broken bits of seat frame). She gave me a leather rose that she had made from the old seat covering. Attached to it was a 1956 sixpenny piece that they'd found in the folds of the old seat. Chelsea is just starting up on her own after working for a trimmer in the Midlands for some years - I'd thouroughly recommend her on the quality of the finished job and price. Currently £500 per bench (all leather, no vynil) but I'm sure prices will rise once word gets around and demand increases. (07791 946 655)
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Jun 18, 2019 10:42:32 GMT
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Jun 18, 2019 10:44:02 GMT
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Jun 18, 2019 18:35:22 GMT
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that is stunning...what a lovely touch.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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CaptainSlog
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Chelsea Perkins - sounds like a posh diesel engine
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Jun 22, 2019 17:02:40 GMT
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Now that is looking proper smart - really nice to see one these looking just like it should - hope all goes well at the rally PS - They cant be that many of these surviving in Estate / Traveller guise UK - 15 On the road (i.e. taxed); 10-ish a mix of SORN being restored (2); "awaiting restoration" / donor / wreck. A project in NZ, a running Traveller in Cyprus and a wreck in Cyprus. There are almost certainly more but not many! |
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