SW Dartmoor meet 15.10 crap pics by Baz

Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:09 pm

Here you go lads and lasses, nice to see you all, sorry I slid away at Princetown but steering was getting ropier all the time so quit while I was ahead, roll on new ball joint(s).
Hope we can all do this again soon, great crack even if it was bloody freezing.

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Sorry for all the big pics.
Thanks to Eko, Benjy, Bimmerman and the others for making me feel so welcome.

Baz
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Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:06 pm

Lovin the poofter pinkness and thank goodness for the bluryness when im in the pic!!! Mind im shocked you got all of me in one frame!!!!!

Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:17 pm

big thank you for everyone who turned up

think we had about 30 turn up

good to meet everyone, i thnik this was better than the last sw meet

sorry if i did not get chance to talk to everyone

also sorry for the unexpected stop in the middle of the road, i was busting for a leak so had to stop

here are my pics

sorry about the quailty,

pics from another forum

Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:48 pm

Had a brilliant day, definately the best meet I've been too! Was great to see some old faces and also to meet a few new ones too!

Thankfully there wasn't so much as a spit of rain over night after spending all afternoon saturday cleaning, clay baring and waxing!...

I didn't get many pics of the meet, generally because I was too busy talking, but here's the few that I got...

It was great to meet Mike (Steer from the Rear), I nagged him to show me the truth behind his name... this was shortly followed by him jumping in his car and... well...

Better yet, he let me and B19 Harrison have a play too...

We followed this off with a proper nice carvary at the pub in Princetown, then decided to go off and get more photos of the cars as the sun had finally decided to come out to play.

I have much higher resolution/quality originals if anybody wants them.

Cheers for organising yet another great meet mike

Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:32 pm

Mike,another great meet you sorted out there,excellent day

Some lovely cars turned up,weather stayed dry,convoy looked mental on those Dartmoor roads!

Definately a good venue for future meets.

Nice one fella`s

Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:04 pm

bazman wrote:

Some good pics there bazman! Just a shame me and charlie had to go n get fuel - notice 2 empty parking spaces!!

Not loving the lack of pics of my car, but hopefully some more will turn up sometime...

It was a great day out, and I can't wait for the next one!

Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:21 pm

Carl I FAHOOKING love your avatar mate....who is it?

Quality! Tell Charlie if he has any more thoughts about selling / trading the sport I might still consider it! depends on available wedge at the time, but it is my car of choice (as I cant afford an M3)

Forgot to say a big thanks to Mike for organising the meet. Sorry mate! Was really nice talking to your dad too, knows his stuff and has that cracking 323i. Hope we can all do it again soon!!!

Cheers mucker,

Baz

Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:31 pm

Cheers Baz! No idea who she is, but she certainly does it for me!

I'll let Charlie know you're still thinking about it... I know he's not in any great hurry to get rid of it, so I'm sure when he gets round to it, he'll give you first refusal...

Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:32 pm

glad everyone enjoyed it

another meet will be soon so keep your eyes peeled for the next one

baz: which car was yours again

tony: emma say hi to your missus and little ones

Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:33 pm

bazman wrote:Forgot to say a big thanks to Mike for organising the meet. Sorry mate! Was really nice talking to your dad too, knows his stuff and has that cracking 323i. Hope we can all do it again soon!!!

Yeah, me too!

Cheers mike, it was fun chasing you to Princetown

Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:24 pm

Mine was the delphin 318i in the first pic mate!

Just shout when the next one is on, ill be there, gonna bring the familly next time!

Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:24 pm

bimmaman wrote:
bazman wrote:Forgot to say a big thanks to Mike for organising the meet. Sorry mate! Was really nice talking to your dad too, knows his stuff and has that cracking 323i. Hope we can all do it again soon!!!
Yeah, me too! Cheers mike, it was fun chasing you to Princetown

that was a right laugh

which was your car again

Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:33 pm

It was a great day out guys, thanks to Ecko for sorting me out with my much needed steering rack, you can see from Yaldens mammoth photo collection why so much of my car is knackered

Kinda wish there were less photos of the tourer on the thread tbh, it's hardly the highlight of my car owning career and probably wouldn't have been there at all if I wasn't popping down to see ecko anyway.

Btw good to meet the e30 lot now stick a few faces to names.
Stand out cars for me were ecko's tech-1 (even with bumpstarting efforts lol), the red 318is purely down to the phat rims

, the charged 8 series, Yaldens red e36 (which everyone has seen now lol), and Mike's old mans minty clean 323

Only pics I got which is relevant for here untill I re-size them is

Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:53 pm

Cheers steerfromtherear, I take it you mean dis one??

Sorry sh1t pic i know, blatantarrogance shud be sendin me sum good ones from the meet soon, i'll post em as soon as i get em......

Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:59 pm

Yep it's all about those rims chap, makes the car imo.

Reckon they would make the tourer look rude even in it's present state lol

Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:09 pm

LOL forgot about the bump start

All down to sticky selonoid,just not looking forward to getting to it to fix!

Loud innit

Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:13 pm

Oh yes! espscially when its pulin away from you at 5k revs.................

Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:23 pm

benjy, I noticed your has more pull than mine on those straight bits, yours a standard engine isn't it? Was a great day, wish I had taken my sunglasses, was bright in places!

Nice one to Mike for organising again, good turn out I thought. Maybe next time I will actually remember to take my camera and then I'll have some pics too!

Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:51 pm

bazman wrote:Mine was the delphin 318i in the first pic mate!

Just shout when the next one is on, ill be there, gonna bring the familly next time!

will do mate

think i will do another one on the moors in the new year

let all the snow melt away first

Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:56 pm

AFAIK the engine is standard. The only things ive done is remove the heater plate and the stainless system. It was runnin on sh1ty Tesco's 97RON stuff as well.............hey, i was carryin 4 people as well!

Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:06 pm

mike318is wrote:
let all the snow melt away first

Noooo it would make for some good pics with snow up there (and a good laugh in a convoy of rwd cars trying not to get stuck)

Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:32 pm

mike318is wrote:
bimmaman wrote:
bazman wrote:Forgot to say a big thanks to Mike for organising the meet. Sorry mate! Was really nice talking to your dad too, knows his stuff and has that cracking 323i. Hope we can all do it again soon!!!
Yeah, me too! Cheers mike, it was fun chasing you to Princetown
that was a right laugh

which was your car again

The black 316/25 sat on your back bumper most of the way to the pub...

Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:37 pm

bimmaman wrote:
mike318is wrote:
bimmaman wrote: Yeah, me too! Cheers mike, it was fun chasing you to Princetown
that was a right laugh

which was your car again
The black 316/25 sat on your back bumper most of the way to the pub...

thats the one

heard you overtook most of the convoy to catch me up

fair play dude

Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:32 am

hello all. just like to say that was a quality meet. really enjoyed it. even with only 3 hrs sleep!!! nice to see the regular nuttas and to n meet some new ones. highlights for me were the first convoy from the pub to the moor car park. loved it. just the views in the mirrors and peoples reactions to 20+ bmw's convoying n the views in the mirrors were doing it for me. the convoy back to princetown was a little different. i got held up on a narrow bridge by some 36's thinking they were transits n missed playing with mike, carl n charlie at the front. but at least one of my creations was up there avin it for the e30 massive init carl and i bet peoples grandchildren heard stories of how the got overtaken by a load of noisy (especially eko!!) bmws whilst having a nice sunday drive in the country. lol
top day mike. nice one for sorting it out. top venue!!! especially with the drive back following tony's dartmoor beast back to newton!!! i couldn't stop smilin for ages. couple of m50 terrorists init m8.
i'm up for the next one. snow or no snow

Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:45 am

benjy wrote:Cheers steerfromtherear, I take it you mean dis one??

Sorry sh1t pic i know, blatantarrogance shud be sendin me sum good ones from the meet soon, i'll post em as soon as i get em......

Yeah no worries, got some nice ones, gutted to miss the weather and other opportunities. Would love to get the chance for another meet. Weather will be a real issue. Perhaps those cold dry clear January months would be suitable?

Will send pis as soon as I can get near a t'internet connection with my laptop. Unfortunately, can't get it onto the network at work!!!

Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:53 pm

nice speaking to you dave

let me know when you are ready about the idea for a meet

wish i could ahve seen the faces of people when we was snaking up over the moors, thats the problem leading the way

still it look good when i pull out of a junction to see all the cars lining up to pull out

dave: you have to keep close to me next time mate

Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:13 pm

randomdave325 wrote:i got held up on a narrow bridge by some 36's thinking they were transits n missed playing with mike, carl n charlie at the front. but at least one of my creations was up there avin it for the e30 massive init carl

You knows it!

Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:51 pm

what engine was in your car bimmaman

Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:13 pm

I think that is the m50 engined one Mike come up behind me pretty sharpish on the way out to the carpark.

At least there were one or two interested in giving those dartmoor roads a little work out

Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:41 pm

Thanks to you all for a great day out , very nearly took the front off a scooby at a junction, quess no one told hime dartmoor belonged to bmw's only on sunday

Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:16 am

mike318is wrote:what engine was in your car bimmaman

It's only an M20, but I've kept the original diff, so it's geared very low. Tops out at about 125, but gets there quick enough! I can even sort of keep up with Dave... Until he hits 5th, and then he's gone!

Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:43 am

looks like a great meet!

did love the touring turfing up the grass!

did ne one else have a go doing that??

Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:08 pm

I didn't start it lets put it that way lol.

There was an old chap who was less than impressed by the grass abuse but it's not like there wasn't a few thousand acres spare

Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:05 pm

steerfromtherear wrote:I didn't start it lets put it that way lol.

There was an old chap who was less than impressed by the grass abuse but it's not like there wasn't a few thousand acres spare

was that the guy in the renaut 19

Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:06 pm

bimmaman wrote:
mike318is wrote:what engine was in your car bimmaman
It's only an M20, but I've kept the original diff, so it's geared very low. Tops out at about 125, but gets there quick enough! I can even sort of keep up with Dave... Until he hits 5th, and then he's gone!

have to say it was very fast