The MONSPORT Memorial Meet - July 15th, Portsmouth

[Ziggy]

Whatya need is a spare car for when the E30's bust! Shame you didn't make it mate - twas a good one & a fitting tribute. Most people are probably still in the pub (I had to shoot (well drive slowly) off to take Han to work)

Should be some blimmin ace pics

[munky30]

Well... the first 'part' I have to buy for my upcoming engine swap is a mk5 escort for the missus.

I'm gutted I couldnt make it. How did it go at the castle? did you get to take the pics on the grass as planned?

[Ziggy]

Ooooh yes - the pics will be very impressive; bit gutted my car ain't in em tbh! I'll wait for the 'official' photographer to get em on here rather than stealing his thunder

[tylerma]

what can I say about today
other than what a fantastic turnout
you should all be very proud of yourselves and I think Malcolm would have loved it

a very sombre and touching day

[gaszman]

thanks for turning up every one have pics but will wait for the main man to post what a day brill

[Steve-E30]

What a fanffokin tastic day , Weather held out for us , Great burgers and the castle grounds were brilliant for pics , Great turn out and a nice show of e30`s , Shows people do still care and im proud to be a member of the zone and attended today , Well done all involved in organising this
Malcolm will be greatly missed and i glad i went and paid tribute to a guy who was very popular on here and only had the pleasure of meeting him a few times , I think if malcolm was watching today he would be very proud
Cheers guys

[spook]

its down to this man for sorting the castle, dave, tell like it is, gazman


and his car

[spook]

sideways

[spook]

[Steve-E30]

sideways

How they should be driven

Oh the pics

[hongkongfuey]

yeah nice to see everyone today, some i'd met before and some new faces met today

nice to meet monsport's family , i wish them all the best.

lastly some very nice cars , well done everyone.

we'll get some news papers with this article in when it comes out, we'll get coppies for the next meet in portsmouth

[shane325i]

As above,had a fantastic day and met some great people.Everybody is so freindly on here,made the day so much more enjoyable!Nothing quite like a convoy of e30's hairing down country lanes!Thanks guys for organising it,im sure Malcolm would have been chuffed to bits at todays turnout

Ive got lots of pics too but i'll follow suit and let Chris post his first!

@hongkongphuey I totally forgot to collect that spoiler fella,did you bring it?

[Dan318-is]

Great turnout guys! Good to meet some true heroes; damo and e30mark & dodgem but too name a few! As well as the usual heroes jon & jon etc. I think iainH & gordon deserve some huge congratulations as well as the rest of the guys that turned up

[Gortour]

What to say...
Well, firstly a huge thanks to everyone involved in making today what it was...

Iain (HartgeH27), without who's help the main car of the day wouldn't have been there. He was also responsible for Malc's family joining us today.

Sheila (Malcolm's widow) and the family - I would rather not start listing them in case I accidently miss one out...
Such bravery turning up to face us lot today after the events of the last few weeks. Well done, and nice to meet you all. Hope to see you all at a meet again one day.

Dave (Gaszman), without whom we wouldn't have had the wonderful background of the castle for the shots, or got Suchy up to the top tower for his pictures. Also the man responsible for organising the cruise to the Castle.

Chris (Suchy) for being the official photographer for the day, and going to greater heights to achieve it. Well done lining that lot up mate.

Jam172 (Jamie), without whos dealing of the dreaded Dawn we wouldn't have got the castle for the price we did, or had a lovely E3 at the meet. Malc would have loved it.

Mark (E30Mark), for sorting the flowers for the funeral.

And last but by NO means least, all of you guys turning up with your cars, what a bloody amazing turnout. Malc would have been so proud to have this much support and commitment in his name. A particular thanks to those who travelled longer distances to join us. (Not forgetting poor old Munky, who did his best to be with us, and would probably have won the prize for longest distance travelled...)

Thank you all.

I'll let Suchy get his pics up first, and put some of mine up later if he doesn't embarass me too much...

[munky30]

(Not forgetting poor old Munky, who did his best to be with us, and would probably have won the prize for longest distance travelled...)

Cheers mate, I'm guttted. Looks like an awesome day was had.

[spook]

whoops already put some up,in another section, will do the rest after suchy, didnt realize he was the offfical lens man

[Gortour]

Don't worry Spook, he wasn't OFFICIAL official, he's just the man with the biggest camera...

[spook]

i was gonna say that to, i think his hair was longer than mine as well
heres malcs car

[spook]

and one nice M3 (Daryls - first outing this year )

[Gortour]

Malc's car looked great today, well done Iain for washing and polishing it, sorry mate, forgot to mention that in the list of credits above...

Don't worry Spook, Suchy's hair is longer than mine too...

[Simon13]

Although we gathered for a very sad reason, what a great day. Massive thanks to all those who made it happen

[Rich_W]

and one nice M3

I thought Daryl had sold that a long time back. But as its still got the plate on (In fact is that him in the background)

[suchy]

I've just got back in and sorted the pic for The News- just gonna email it to them and then try to work out how to get it posted on here. I'll post the one up for now and do the rest tomorrow- so feel free to post up all your pix if you want.... be back soon...
oh yeah awesome day people- good to meet everyone again (and for the first time, etc...)
gonna go work this posting malarky out........

[Dan318-is]

and one nice M3

I thought Daryl had sold that a long time back. But as its still got the plate on (In fact is that him in the background)

About the 100th time daryll probably got asked that! He told is that the guy who bought it put a £2k deposit on it but never got the money together; so daryll made 2k on him What a hero !

[suchy]

how do i get the image on here rather than just a link? HELP PLEASE!!!!

[suchy]

[suchy]

think i might have made it rather on the large size?

[Gortour]

Maybe, but it resizes it anyway, and we get better resolution when we pirate it...

(oh b*gger, did I just say that... )

[jam172]

Thank you all for making me and my E3 welcome today, it was a great day; even the Sussex boys and girls (E30 Steve and 7 others) didn't get cross with me for my "short cut" to avoid Arundel and Worthing, that put us in a traffic Q for 20 minites in Storrington

Really good to see the level of support you all gave, you should be proud.

Oh yes, what do you mean Iain, "dodgy"

I didn't get the nick name "Jammy Dodger" for nothing mate

[old_skool]

Suchy, you hero. I'm there anytime you need to lean/stand on me again to get a decent frame

You need to host up the pics on a photobucket account, try www.photobucket.com and host them there. Then prefix them by using [img]and%20suffix%20them%20with[/img]

EDIT - Too late!

Awesome camera you have there too.

[tylerma]

now thats what its all about
that picture is absolute quality

Suchy well done dude

[gaszman]

all i can say is wow

[tylerma]

jam172
was you at brands hatch on the 26th of june in your car?

[zimmerbimmer1]

Top quality photo suchy

Was a great day

[dodgem]

put [ img] and [ /img] around the link (without the spaces)

Great day, really glad i made it after getting to sleep about 6am this morning! (25th wedding anniversary i'd forgotten i was attending!)

Sorry to those at Rownhams who probably stood around wondering where i was (Gortour and others)

It was a great memorial for Malc, and Sheila obviously really appreciated the sentiments - everyone did her and Malc proud imo.

Also good to see some of the faces behind the names here on the forum

edit: i obviously missed the next page!!