Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Aug 21, 2011 21:23:36 GMT
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Wow. Just....WOW. Sat here with tired aching legs and feet, momumental sunburn and a fuzzy head (mainly from Friday night...even at almost 47 I still have a tendency to go too hard, too soon....) but still buzzing my head off at what was one INCREDIBLE weekend. Pics tell a better story than I ever can, so I'm (as always) going to throw one or two taster pics into the ring, then provide a link for you guys to dip in and choose your own favorites. I'll drop some more on there tomorrow when I've copped some ZZZ's. Before I do that though, I just want to head up the photos with this.  As those of you who were there will know, Becky, partner of the late and much-missed Simon 'Hongkongphooey' Baldwin, drove his Toyota Corona down this morning from the East Midlands, and along with Simon's parents, picked a recipient of an award in Simon's honour. I'd just like to say Becky if you're reading this that it was an absolute pleasure to meet you this morning, I only wish that the circumstances could have been better. Thankyou for coming down today, it can't have been easy for you...and I hope that the photo above goes some way to showing just how utterly GORGEOUS that car is, and what a fitting tribute to Simon's skills and knowledge it is. Anyway. I think we have some cars to look at.        Pick Yer own: www.flickr.com/photos/damaged23/sets/72157627486218452/A HUGE thankyou from me to all the Event Crew for an utterly FABULOUS weekend. ;D |
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Aug 21, 2011 21:30:32 GMT
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curse word that i missed this  some awesome motors  |
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Jesus is my airbag!
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luckygti
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I need to try harder!
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Aug 21, 2011 21:31:02 GMT
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Seconded. What a fantastic weekend, we had a blast! And good shots too  |
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Aug 21, 2011 21:32:31 GMT
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Nice photos Brian! It was really good seeing you this weekend. I'm FULL of ideas and inspiration!
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Aug 21, 2011 21:47:21 GMT
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Wow. Sat here with tired aching legs and feet, momumental sunburn and a fuzzy head (mainly from Friday night...even at almost 47 I still have a tendency to go too hard, too soon.... Your FB feed was quite amusing, possibly for the wrong reason. Glad you found your way back to the tent. ;D |
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Club RR Member Number: 33
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Aug 21, 2011 21:53:48 GMT
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Wow. Sat here with tired aching legs and feet, momumental sunburn and a fuzzy head (mainly from Friday night...even at almost 47 I still have a tendency to go too hard, too soon.... Your FB feed was quite amusing, possibly for the wrong reason. Glad you found your way back to the tent. ;D Blame it on Jonny's homebrew. On top of about 12 large bottles of San Miguel/Cobra/Tiger/Tsingtao.  exhibit AIt was like drinking Nitroglycerine. I was imagining the campsite had some kind of time/space interface running across it, and I was stumbling incoherently from one parallel universe to another, in search of the way back. Except that I wouldn't have been able to actually spell any of that on FB. ;D |
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purplevanman
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Way too orangey for crows
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Aug 21, 2011 21:56:09 GMT
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More thanks from here too, me and the Kids had a fab time. Katy was made up being able to drive herself there with John as a passenger in the Nova. They even managed to put up the tent while I was working, dicking about, getting tattooed, making stickers, walking dogs and then getting lost on the way there (Thank you to Brian for the drunken directions to get me there ) Also thanks to David and the crew for leaving the gate open so late See you all Friday 17th 2012 if not before |
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Welder, fabricator, general resto work
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Aug 21, 2011 21:57:11 GMT
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I am a very poor excuse for an RRer. Can't believe I missed all this. But loving the pics and glad it was such a great success!
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Aug 21, 2011 22:01:39 GMT
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Your FB feed was quite amusing, possibly for the wrong reason. Glad you found your way back to the tent. ;D Blame it on Jonny's homebrew. On top of about 12 large bottles of San Miguel/Cobra/Tiger/Tsingtao. It was like drinking Nitroglycerine. I was imagining the campsite had some kind of time/space interface running across it, and I was stumbling incoherently from one parallel universe to another, in search of the way back. Except that I wouldn't have been able to actually spell any of that on FB. ;D Lightweight.  |
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 33
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Aug 21, 2011 22:52:06 GMT
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Blame it on Jonny's homebrew. On top of about 12 large bottles of San Miguel/Cobra/Tiger/Tsingtao. It was like drinking Nitroglycerine. I was imagining the campsite had some kind of time/space interface running across it, and I was stumbling incoherently from one parallel universe to another, in search of the way back. Except that I wouldn't have been able to actually spell any of that on FB. ;D Lightweight. That ain't something I get called too often!  |
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Aug 21, 2011 22:58:32 GMT
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Your photography's improving BD!, They are cracking photo, especially of HKP's Corona (RIP) and the VW K70, How do you get such good colour and depth to them?!.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Aug 21, 2011 23:06:47 GMT
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Your photography's improving BD!, They are cracking photo, especially of HKP's Corona (RIP) and the VW K70, How do you get such good colour and depth to them?!. A steady hand, I like to get up close with the lens as wide as possible and I'll freely admit I tweak them with either Photoshop Elements or (in this case) Windows own photo editing tools to bring the colour out if needed. Camera's nowt special (3yr old Nikon D40), photographer's nowt special either. I just get them how I like them, and I'm glad you like them too!! |
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Aug 21, 2011 23:10:05 GMT
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I love them!, The K70 snap really looks professional i think!, I use PSE9 but still struggle to get such good photos, even with a £500 camera!
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becc
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Hiya Brian
Thanks for your lovely message, it was great to meet you too. Me and all of my family had a really lovely day a BIG thank you from us for everyone involved.
Simon's award was emotional but it was also very fitting.
We went around a spoke to quite a few people at the show and most had shared some form of interaction with Si on the forum, its really comforting for us to know how well respected he was.
A worthy winner of the best modified Japanese car at the show in our opinion, was Gareth
All of you guys made it a really hard choice though there were so many amazing cars there.
Ive been to enough car shows with Si to know what he would have liked there and he would have had a tough decision too.
Ive been looking at all the pics this morning, some great ones up. I hope you all had as good a time as we did
Becc
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Mark
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An excellent show. Extremely well organized and great standard of cars. The glorious weather was an added bonus! Even the drive home was great fun seeing so many cool cars amongst the usual motorway dross. Many thanks to all concerned. |
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E36 BMW 318is saloon (rare as a hens false tooth)
VW Caddy Maxi 2010 (usually full of Labradors)
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Aug 22, 2011 11:13:05 GMT
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That home brew managed to get at least 5 of us on our backsides and cost me about £12 to make. Probably worthy of the stickers I put on them on Saturday ;D
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kevfromwales
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the conrod's REALLY out the block now!
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Aug 22, 2011 11:18:17 GMT
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jonny, the cholesterol content of sunday breakfast was enought o put us one our backsides, let alone the homebrew!
thanks for letting me scare rmad witless in the T too, and the curry on saturday
same again next year?
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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Tim
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Aug 22, 2011 11:29:44 GMT
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T'was an excellend weekend.
Great to put some faces to some names. Didnt have enough time to speak properly with anyone though!
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 33
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Aug 22, 2011 16:03:10 GMT
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Didnt have enough time to speak properly with anyone though! Up until about 6am on Sunday I was incapable of speaking properly to anyone. ;D |
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Tim
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Aug 22, 2011 16:10:30 GMT
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Didnt have enough time to speak properly with anyone though! Up until about 6am on Sunday I was incapable of speaking properly to anyone. ;D You seemed relatively compis mentis when i saw you :-) |
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some awesome motors 
