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Sept 9, 2015 10:10:01 GMT
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I wasn't there so maybe not my place to comment at all but I can't help feeling sorry for jdmclare. All this properly naughty stuff happened and she gets called out for essentially turning her car round a bit sharpish? Seems harsh. We can see from her rather contrite post that she's embarrassed about this. Unfortunately the type of people who leave rubbish lying around, tear up the field with a car, light fires in bins etc probably don't get embarrassed about anything. Very well said, I totally agree.
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Sept 5, 2015 16:53:12 GMT
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Right, off to ebay I go.
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Sept 2, 2015 21:03:46 GMT
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Oh dear. I got carried away in a quick car years ago in the works car park, a work mate had a pop at me, called me irresponsible and stupid, which was fair.. It was dangerous. I Didn't like it, especially in front of a few people at the time but took it on the chin. He was right, I was out of order and dangerous. I felt very disappointed in myself for a moment of stupidity. But it takes people you know sometimes to make a point of your own 'mis-judgement' for you to realise you've been a prat. I had to take it like a man, learn from it and get on with it. That's just speaking from my own personal experience. The difference here is, I did not drive like prat through any villages around Prescott, I suspect someone has taken umbrage at my car being loud and sounding like it's going faster than it is due to the supercharger whine, even so, to actually name me as being part of the reason for having to move from Prescott is frankly very upsetting, it would have been just as easy for Dave to have simply said 'some people' rather than single me out. I could just as easily post that the reason I heard that the Gathering had to move was about some sort of weapon being wealded on the camping field, but that's just hearsay.
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Last Edit: Sept 3, 2015 6:46:30 GMT by claymore
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Sept 2, 2015 19:51:49 GMT
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I suppose it's obvious which car I'm going to post, Volvo T-5R 240bhp family estate in the early 90's
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Sept 2, 2015 18:35:29 GMT
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i will still use the forum, I just won't update my build thread or come to the gathering, I have no problem with this excellent forum.
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Sept 2, 2015 18:13:08 GMT
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There will be no more updates on this thread...
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Sept 2, 2015 18:10:47 GMT
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i preferred prescott, as a spectator you had a better variety of corners, better vantage points, and a longer course. as a driver, fewer variety of corners and narrow. (imagine the hero in that 3rotor FC going up prescott) we were told it was due to an overbooking that it moved to shelsley is this still the case.? The last year we were at Prescott we had 600 cars in the show field and it was bursting at the seams... this year at Shelsley we had ~1,000. Also Bugatti Owners Club own Prescott and decided to take back some of the weekends to run their own things again, they may have changed this again though as there was some discussion around it. Additionally people seem to be unable to not drive like idiots through the local villages, which made our event unpopular locally ( thanks I think mainly to claymore drifting round a roundabout in the nearest town from the reports we had). We very much enjoyed being at Prescott, the venue was nice, people good to deal with and it was smaller. If the volume of people that turned up at this or last years gathering arrived at Prescott though it would be a bit of a different story, the "club" area would take over all the internal space in the venue outside of the paddock, the management of which would cause delays and traffic jams... the retro parking would be in a steep (very bumpy) field next to the venue and not really part of the show, the day parking would be over the road, which would also mean moving the camping further away, making the whole thing even more difficult to run well. At Shelsley the left hand side of the show field is smoother than the right, it is about the size of the show field at Prescott, and it is more "prepared" for the same reason, it gets used more. The right hand side of the field isn't often full... and the bit of the farthest side isn't used at all as far as we can tell, the price we pay for being the largest event I guess. We do have plans to make it better, this is only our second year at Shelsley, people forget the horror show (at least from an organising point of view) the first couple of years at Prescott were (club stands too small, layout all over the place, traders with no foot fall, retro parking disconnected from the show). I've got emails asking why we don't go back to Haynes on my other computer. Of course everyone that was there comments about why don't we do Mallory again, who also conveniently forget how massively (massively) disorganised that was, how bad the roads in were and how disjointed the track action was. We are well aware of the short comings of the various venues we've used, continue to use and are looking to use in the future. We are also always trying to improve on them, investing financially where we need to (stand pipe in the camping field at Shelsley was put in by us before last year's event so we could use it as a camping field, the entry gate we usesd mainly at Shelsley this year is new and put in by us so we didn't have massive traffic jams on the road outside for hours on end ... also I'm guessing everyone got lunch okay this year yeah?) In a front wheel drive Volvo with my wife with me, some one has been telling porky pies, I shall make sure not to come to a retro Rides Gathering again, I wouldn't want to bring the Forums name into disrepute.
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Last Edit: Sept 2, 2015 18:12:16 GMT by claymore
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Aug 30, 2015 16:05:49 GMT
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dashcam image uploaded to my fb thread.
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Aug 30, 2015 10:30:48 GMT
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UPDATE: THE CAR HAS BEEN RECOVERED
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Aug 29, 2015 20:33:14 GMT
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UPDATE. reports that the car has been spotted in Middlesbrough
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Aug 29, 2015 11:57:09 GMT
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Just to add, a Honda NC35 and Green Volvo V40 T4 were also taken
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Last Edit: Aug 29, 2015 12:38:28 GMT by claymore
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Aug 28, 2015 16:12:09 GMT
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Last Edit: Aug 28, 2015 16:12:37 GMT by claymore
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Aug 27, 2015 17:23:13 GMT
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yeah really awesome project looking forward to seeing this finished........ Nice to have a quick chat with you on Sunday
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Aug 26, 2015 20:09:33 GMT
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Great work - really good to meet you and have a chat at the Gathering, and thanks for letting me have a sit in the old girl - she's awesome! Cheers Matt Nice to have a chat Matt, and you're more than welcome
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Aug 26, 2015 18:10:37 GMT
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That seems to work rather well
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Aug 26, 2015 16:21:28 GMT
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Aug 26, 2015 11:48:14 GMT
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Good pics, the first I've seen of mine
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Aug 24, 2015 19:04:32 GMT
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I should apologise myself for bellowing extremely coarse language at whomever was revving up their car before 8am on the Sunday. I had just stuck my head out the tent and didn't have my specs on yet so couldn't say who it was though. *n That might have been me, I left for the showground at 7:40, so I'm sorry if I woke anybody up
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Last Edit: Aug 24, 2015 19:05:37 GMT by claymore
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Aug 24, 2015 18:37:58 GMT
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Yep, i was gutted, what I was looking forward to all weekend
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Aug 14, 2015 16:56:56 GMT
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I still haven't fitted the side sills I bought last year
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