Bmw Festival 15 Aug 2010 Gaydon UPDATE

[yellowmellow]

I was gonna text you today to see if you were coming x x nice one. You on the zone stand??? And yeah bright shhhhhhh!!!! As for Billy he was feeling a little under the weather but he's better now pmfsl..... And he's looking sexier than ever........good old Billy boy x x

Nice one, I thought you would, I,m not lined up for the zone stand but let,s see what happen,s if I,m early enough -not sure how it all work,s , 1 st time for me at Gaydon

Unless you have a display pass, you'll be parking in the public external car park. Regardless of what time to turn up.

This place can turn into chaos even when everyone turns up on time. It's worsened by people getting in the display queue with no pass and then the marshalls having to stop the whole procedure to turn them around and get them back to the public car park.

Barry and I were marshalls here a couple of years ago. It's a nightmare.

Si and I will pop over to the zone area. We are in the Alpina section.

Cheers B7
thanks for the advice and the heads up

[johnnysaph]

have a good one people wish i was coming maybe next year take loads of pics for me

[ivqii]

Mornin' chaps - do I need to speak very very quietly?

[TPS]

WAKEY WAKEY

[turk]

Just got back! Had a Great time! good to meet some zoners and see some amazing machines!

[BMJG]

Me the wife and kids oh and dog and pup, was a good show all of us had a very good time with some new and old friends. Thanks to all my kids felt very welcome as you guys always do.

[B7]

Si13 and I were there. Have to say, not it's best year. A little disappointed witht he event TBO.

[PG325]

There were a lot of nice cars there, definitely not as big as their website made out, I managed to get round the entire collection and visit most stands in under 2 hours, the drive from Bristol and back was just as entertaining, roof down hitting the A roads.

[Kos]

a great day out and some stunning cars on display

official numbers should be available soon. i think the number of cars was on par with last year

i recon the weather leading up to today put some people off

[octanejunkie]

I had a great time! Apart from the thunder storms and the tsunami at the camp site last night!

The show was good, and there were some stunning motors there, but as mentioned above there were a rather large contingent of "da Ali G massive"....
There were some cracking bargains there as far as spares go, really cheap. I thought Adi might have soiled himself with excitement. He was dashing round like a man possesed buying everything!
I took some snaps, so i'll post up some in the gallery section.

[kieran325]

I was there with Dec, it was our first time at Gaydon so we didnt know what to expect.

We managed to park next to Kos's fantastic E24 and then tip toed round, some good stuff and also dreadful stuff on display

I met Kos, Dips, Paul - Diddler, octane junkie and another chap with a silver 318is , I also spied Trev and Si after Paul told me who you were

Sorry I did'nt see you both in person, hope my sport was up to standard

[Mayze]

I seemed to miss a lot of people I recognised cars but there was not anyone with them most of the time.

Nice to meet the people I did speak to though.

It does have to be said I couldn't stand to be around the zone stand too long as some of the people parked near me were playing very crap very loud music. One top class helmit even left his car runing with the music blaring and buggered off to walk round the show.

[Simon13]

lovely car kieron, me trev liked it. Its a lovely paint job i thought. Its how barrys molested scrapper should look we thought

Shame we didn't get to meet!

[kieran325]

Cheers Si, I'm sure they'll be more meets to attend, it's a shame everythings down south

[e30topless]

kieran you going to the pod ?

[kieran325]

I don't think so, I'm off for 3 weeks in Sept and it's slap bang in the middle.

I wouldn't of minded taking the Sport down for a day out and my cars won't be up and down the strip!!

[e30topless]

you don't have to run the strip, there's no pressure just park it with the rest !

if you liked Gaydon you will love the pod !

[bss325i]

lovely car kieron, me trev liked it. Its a lovely paint job i thought. Its how barrys molested scrapper should look we thought

Shame we didn't get to meet!

Simon you gimp, my car looks the bollocks!

[B7]

Sorry I did'nt see you both in person, hope my sport was up to standard

Car was looking superb mate. The two sports parked together (Matts old Lachs car) and yours were a sight to behold sir!

[kieran325]

you don't have to run the strip, there's no pressure just park it with the rest !

if you liked Gaydon you will love the pod !

If I'm free that weekend, I'll be there with the sport

Sorry I didn't see you both in person, hope my sport was up to standard

Car was looking superb mate. The two sports parked together (Matts old Lachs car) and yours were a sight to behold sir!

I didn't do much to it when I got there, the engine bay was dusty

I wanted to show you the rocker/inlet manifold that you did, it looks good in there with all the new shiny stuff.

I was glad in the end I took the sport and not the M3, there was some fine looking M3's there but not many sports

[mrjonchandler]

I was there with Dec, it was our first time at Gaydon so we didnt know what to expect.

We managed to park next to Kos's fantastic E24 and then tip toed round, some good stuff and also dreadful stuff on display

I met Kos, Dips, Paul - Diddler, octane junkie and another chap with a silver 318is , I also spied Trev and Si after Paul told me who you were

Sorry I did'nt see you both in person, hope my sport was up to standard

It was me with the silver IS!
Was nice to meet you both too, when is Santa Pod, might have to do it!

Cheers
Jon

[jimjim]

Great show. Shame I couldn't Stay long! It was great meeting people and was a good day all in all. It was nice to see so many BMW's and not a single Ford!

[adit]

I had a great time! Apart from the thunder storms and the tsunami at the camp site last night!

The show was good, and there were some stunning motors there, but as mentioned above there were a rather large contingent of "the Ali G massive"....
There were some cracking bargains there as far as spares go, really cheap. I thought Adi might have soiled himself with excitement. He was dashing round like a man possesed buying everything!
I took some snaps, so i'll post up some in the gallery section.

+ 1 to all that.

yes John, some proper bargains, the best of which was the Alpina C2 fanny mould

had a great weekend guys. grateful thanks to Mandi, Clay, Gryff, Trudy and John for their wonderful hospitality (read: free food and drinks, good company, help with the erection of my tent, etc, etc).
i sold a few bits, bought some real bargains, topped up the tan, saw some fantastic cars, met some other good people,Trev & Si, Jay and family, Ajay, mrjonchandler, etc.
and a good look round the Heritage Centre.
then, to top it all, done a couple of circuits round the track with Jenson wannabe Adam (Turk) racing E36 M3s, E46 M3s, 135s and Z4Ms!! the look on their faces was priceless. absolutely brilliant. cheers Ad

Have a great weekend folks !

"decipheration" of the above:

Mandi (Dissy, Magners) Trudy (Magners), Clay (Bud, Smirnoff Ice ), John (Aspall cider), Gryff (Fursty Ferret), Moi (little swig of each ) (in that order!)

me, for the free Sausage, eggs, bacon and Scrumpy bag and toy (cheers guys)

Same order as Saturday night really, with Shell in at No. 3 (these women leave the blokes standing )

not on our patch

John (octanejunkie), he was funny

Turk, round the track!! with me in the passenger seat

all of us, after a fab weekend

[red05]

love the translation

Thanks to everyone who came good to see you all new and old, see you all again soon