TGS - 20th July 2014

Post Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:48 pm

German car show held at Beaulieu, Hampshire, home of the National Motor Museum. All German Marques welcome - see you on 20th July 2014!

Now entering our fifth very successful year, a great day out for the family with heavily discounted tickets enabling you to gain access to all of Beaulieu as well, so come along. Bring your pride and joy, check out the lovely cars old and new, standard to heavily modified, enter in a Show n Shine, Best Marque in Show" and many other competitions with creditworthy prizes and trophies from our sponsors !

Book your tickets via the Beaulieu website as they are handling all our ticket sales for private and trade stands

http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/beaulieu-even ... erman-show

Or phone Beaulieu to order your tickets. 01590 612 888. The price is £13

Find us on Facebook - www.thegermanshow.com

Sadly, as I'm sure you are all aware, we cannot offer camping this year.

Anyone wishing to come to the show and camp can find available sites at http://www.thenewforest.co.uk/accommoda ... mping.aspx.

Post Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:52 pm

So who's coming this year?

Post Sat Jun 28, 2014 10:38 pm

Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 9:39 am

May make a trip this year

Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:00 pm

Sorry but due to the camping I'm not going to make it this year maybe if things improve next year

Post Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:31 pm

Yep, I'll be coming along! Looking forward to it!

Hoping to get a bit of a convoy from Portsmouth to Beaulieu if anyone fancies it, get in touch and we can arrange a meet before!

Post Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:12 pm

I'm planning to go to this one, second visit for us. we where there a couple years ago after a holiday nearby but in our E60. Down that way again but bringing the E30 this time now it's back on the road

Post Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:16 pm

Post Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:33 pm

I'll be there! Looking forward to it, never been before and looks great.

Post Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:47 pm

It'll be a great day.

Post Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:09 pm

Keen to meet everyone from the Zone... I'm still a newbie but gonna be around here for a long time hopefully, plenty planned for the E30 and can't wait to see some fantastic examples of what mine can become!

Post Wed Jul 16, 2014 7:59 am

Don't look too hard at mine then... Lol

Post Fri Jul 18, 2014 4:55 pm

What time do the gates open?

Post Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:27 pm

Gortour wrote:Don't look too hard at mine then... Lol

I'm sure she's lovely mate

Don't look too hard at mine in the car park!
Hoping to do a good post in the New Members section and then will be a nice restoration/mod build thread so you can see what i'm dealing with...

The car's starting making an odd noise today though, so I'll post a video on the Tech Help forum tomorrow and hopefully be able to diagnose before Sunday!

Hopefully she (and I) and the old man will make it!

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 5:55 pm

Gates open at 9.30.

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:01 pm

Does anyone know if theres a e30zone stand ?

Post Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:44 pm

Yes, there is.

Post Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:26 am

See everyone down there, looks like it going to be a lovely day

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:54 am

Some Photos I took, sorry for the crappy phone quality...

And my favourite pic of my 320i Turd looking classy in B&W

So who's car is who's? I got there around 2, due to my old man getting lost en route to mine, and the M3 (road, not car

) being it's usual nightmare.

I didn't see a Zone flag or a stand so assumed no one was around to say hi to! Had a good long nose around the turd's and no one was about so we carried on round the show/museum and manor house.

The drifting was pretty cool, though it was asking for trouble with a couple of drivers, there was a mint blue 325 (E36?) sport who kept spinning out, so we took a few casual steps back just in case.

Some lovely motors though, mine was parked up near-ish to the main group and I even caught a few people looking round her

Never seen a 4x4 cross country Mk2 Golf in the UK before! (saw one in France once...) which was pretty cool to see.

Hope everyone enjoyed the show, was a stunning day both cars and weather wise!

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:28 pm

Mine's the second pic, the green touring.

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:06 pm

TPS wrote:See everyone down there, looks like it going to be a lovely day

TPS - were you drifting your white touring round? There was one with a "for sale" sign which was being sent sideways round the track, right up at the limiter! Front nearside shock looked a bit gone, though it could have just been original shocks as all the other drift machines were super tight and I was probably comparing against those.

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:08 pm

Not Phil's. He bought his silver 316 Touring.
The white one was from Dorset BMWs

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:12 pm

Ah ok, cheers.

I was trying to convince my old man to get a touring (he needs a temporary runner estate) and I pointed out the white 325i, before we saw it thrashing the hell out the limiter and looking a bit dodgy in the shock department...

Definitely should have taken the for sale sign down before that

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:15 pm

I did laugh myself watching it getting hammered around with for sale all over it.
I'm sure I said something on the mic about buying a car an knowing it would drift well or something similar.

Post Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:04 pm

Didn't realise you were in a TGS shirt!

Who's was the 8th pic? Was the different blue intended or is that the model? I didn't really notice in person, but looking back at the pics they're remarkably different!?

Love the hartge E30, who's was that?

There was a beautiful baby blue E30 chromie minter, owned by a couple of the older generation, looked like it'd been garaged from new, I didn't get a pic because they wouldn't get out the way

but she was gorgeous!

Post Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:27 am

The Hartge is Iain Hamilton's
8th pic looks like the front valence panel has been replaced. I actually quite like it, with a few more it's of the lighter blue to blend it in, I'd go for it.

Post Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:44 pm

Yeah I think it looks really good in the different blue! It's really subtle, i'd go for it too!

Post Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:31 am

Finally got round to post a few of my pictures from the show. We picked up the furthest travelled award and even managed to get in the winners picture outside Beaulieu house. Great day

Post Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:40 am

Nice pics Steve. My old man's in your wing mirror shot

What's the leather thing on the red E30 bonnet? I saw a few cars with them on...

Post Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:26 am

It's a bonnet bra, there becoming popular again with retro stuff. I fitted it for stone chips for the road trip, think I'll keep it on for a while I quite like it.
Stu.

Post Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:55 am

How effective are they? They seemed popular at the show, must have seen about 5 cars with them on!

Your car's absolutely stunning by the way - love the roof rack

Post Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:38 am

So far so good but Iv also a layer of 3M clear tape under it on the bonnet incase it rubbed or scuffed with dirt.

Thanks about the roof rack, it seems its a love or hate type thing with people generally. We did use it as well... not just for show !

Post Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:57 am

My old man loved it - he thought it was a real nice finishing touch to a mint E30, the wood racks were very nice and varnished

Just read about the Bra's, I think your right about the 3M tape - some horror stories of rubbing paintwork!