300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Volvo 300 Mania meetings dates and events

Should the location alternate between Saaf, Norf, and middle, or always stay in the middle?

Alternate!
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Stay in the middle!
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by Hell Driver » 29 Sep 2011 09:00 pm

Just to confirm it will be the 3 of us coming, tenting it, too far to cop out and drive home for the night this time! Will be in the 340 for economy. (The 360 still needs the fuel guage/tank issue dealing with before longer trips so I don't have to keep stopping to top up :roll: )
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by foggyjames » 29 Sep 2011 11:18 pm

Sounds good! :)
Janis - are you just coming down for the Saturday, or joining us on the Sunday too?

cheers

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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by janis LV » 30 Sep 2011 04:06 pm

foggyjames wrote:Sounds good! :)
Janis - are you just coming down for the Saturday, or joining us on the Sunday too?

cheers

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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by foggyjames » 30 Sep 2011 04:37 pm

Excellent...it will be good to see you!

cheers

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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by foggyjames » 02 Oct 2011 09:37 pm

Well...that was fun! Made it back home eventually. New clutch cable tomorrow! Massive thanks to Mac (and Debbie!) for help with collecting replacement fuel lines. For those who didn't attend, my weekend was a little "eventful"...but had a great time nonetheless.

Anyone take any pictures...?

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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by S10NPH » 02 Oct 2011 11:02 pm

I took many pictures, but as I have to get up at 6:45am to get to work tomorrow I only have time to upload one tonight:
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James, I am amazed, and delighted, that you made it home in (sort-of) one piece!

Thanks everyone for a great day.

Siôn
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by janis LV » 02 Oct 2011 11:10 pm

I am finally at home. May sound unbelievable, but around Stoke-on-Trent start raining.
Thank you all for this weekend. Well spent time. :)
I saw Stonehenge. woohuuu sm9
Good night
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by Hell Driver » 02 Oct 2011 11:34 pm

We got home about 10.45, via Silbury Hill and Avebury (another stone circle!). We ended up heading to Salisbury from Ringwood. Then the Oxford bypass was jammed up so we took the scenic route and didn't get on a motorway till the M1 at Northampton, all country roads for miles! :) Half expected James to pass us on the M1! :lol: 7 hours when it took 4 to get down there :lol:

Glad you got to see Stone Henge Janis!

Nice to see everyone, good turnout.
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by Speedy88 » 03 Oct 2011 11:40 am

Was really fun guys, lovely weather too! Took me 4 hours to get from there to Leicester via Milton Keynes. Now I've got some very shiny and tasty wheels in my boot :D
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by theo2468 » 03 Oct 2011 12:11 pm

Share speedy, I want to see these wheels. Read through your thread last night hadn't realised how much you had done! Getting some ideas for my looooon
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by V6 Man » 03 Oct 2011 12:17 pm

Great fun indeed and it was a shame I couldn't stay for the Sunday fun. Nice to meet up with old friends and meet some new ones too.

I did 449 miles on Sat and the total time from leaving my house to getting home again was 15hrs and 50 min giving an average speed of 28.35mph!

The reason it's so high (given we did most of the drive around at under 40mph) may have something to do with taking 2hrs 45min to get back home including a stop for fuel!!!
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by foggyjames » 03 Oct 2011 01:21 pm

I got stuck in that bloody jam too...not fun with no clutch. I was leaving 3-4 car gaps before starting (to save the motor as much as possible...it seems to have emerged unscathed!), and the guy behind was getting grumpy. Funny...didn't see him again once I got on the M1 sm56
Hell Driver wrote:Half expected James to pass us on the M1! :lol:
I got back to Lincoln around 9:15, so I'd have been on the M1 (A43 > A46) from 7:45 - 8:15 or so. I had my toe down...and was enjoying the look on the faces of people who got out of my way, only to be confused by what came snarling past at a rate of knots!

cheers

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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by Chris_C » 03 Oct 2011 01:49 pm

FWIW bud, if I couldn't hear you rounding the teeth of the gears every so often (I presume to make the selection of that gear easier the next time?) it wasn't hugely obvious from behind that you had a problem. Good driving sm4
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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by foggyjames » 03 Oct 2011 02:07 pm

Ta! Relaxed changes close to tickover were fairly easy...but the higher speed ones were tricky. The 'slip' into gear is quite stiff, so it's hard to tell by feel when you're aligned. Realised in the end that you only need to change out of 5th below 15mph, so just left it in that and hoped junctions were clear! Got home, so that's all that matters!

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Re: 300 series national event - 1st-2nd October 2011

Post by Hell Driver » 03 Oct 2011 05:33 pm

foggyjames wrote: I'd have been on the M1 (A43 > A46) from 7:45 - 8:15 or so.
You must have passed us when we stopped at Towcester McDonald's at 7.30!

I didn't see you pass as I was having an "I think I left my wallet at that petrol station in Swindon" moment. (It turned up jammed beside wifes seat/door where it had been accidentally flung in moment of panic during the journey!)

Glad everyone got home ok to far flung locations!
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360 GLS (A 84)
343 DL (W 80) :-)
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360 GLS (Y 83)
440 Turbo (J 92)
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Transit Tipper Smiley face Q reg
Mitsubishi Colt 1.1 (54)
R.I.P. 77 343 DL vario :-(

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