Retro Rides Gathering - Gaydon - August 17th 2008

Volvo 300 Mania meetings dates and events
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Post by WooDooUK » 17 Aug 2008 08:17 pm

Excellent Day! nice to meet you all, (even if somone did try an destroy my car within 10 minutes of getting there :lol: j/k)

its the farthest i have been in my 340 since the 16v whent in, and it didn't miss a beat :D and even ticked over to 150,000 on the way back.

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Post by 340GLT » 17 Aug 2008 08:41 pm

Good day and good turn out guys!!!
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Post by Chris_C » 19 Aug 2008 02:49 pm

From another forum I'm on (I think we made an impression, heard a couple of people mentioning us :D)
The Volvo lineup was ace, I'll try and get my pictures up tonight. I took a fair few.
'89(G) 340 GLE B172k
'03 S60 D5 SE, '91 (J) MX5, 1954 Cyclemaster
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'89(F) 340 GL F7R (ex B172k) - Fake -> SBKV 300 Runner Up 08, 12; '91(H) 340 GL B14.4E - Kar; '88(F) 360 GLT B200E - Jet -> BKV 300 Runner Up 09; '89(G) 360 GLT B200E - Beast

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Post by Jason B » 19 Aug 2008 07:19 pm

I'm just disappointed I couldn't bring my lairy mudflaps with attached saloon... Oh well, next time...

But yeah, lots of people thought the V3M turnout was great, guess that means we ought to make a reservation for next time then :D
'89 360 GLE awaiting 2.3 power

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Post by filthyjohn » 20 Aug 2008 07:49 am

Jason I didn't even know you were there or I'd have said hi. I'd like to say sorry to everyone for not being very talkative, I was a bit hungover, distracted, and really dreading the 4 hour drive home followed immediately by the ten hour night shift. I promise to be a lot more chatty at the next meet we have.

Would like to see some pics of our lineup, think we had the biggest turnout of all. There aren't many pictures of us on retro rides, except for my 'signwriting', I don't think that means we weren't accepted though, there were plenty of people looking at the cars, just there was plenty stuff with more visual impact.
'87 Nissan Sunny
'95 945 LPT
'90 340 3dr
'87 360 GLT
'87 765 TIC
'75 Manta A
'70 Rover P5 V8
'67 MGB GT
'62 amazon 2dr

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Post by redline » 20 Aug 2008 12:26 pm

filthyjohn wrote:Jason I didn't even know you were there or I'd have said hi. I'd like to say sorry to everyone for not being very talkative, I was a bit hungover, distracted, and really dreading the 4 hour drive home followed immediately by the ten hour night shift. I promise to be a lot more chatty at the next meet we have.


oh and I was keeping a low profile after having my wrists slapped for hooning around the car park and a bit tired from my gravel raking session

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fixorated :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by d3k4y0 » 20 Aug 2008 06:34 pm

hahahahahahaha, I was wondering what the "got rake?" comments on retro rides were on about!

naughty naughty!

I thought they were implying that one of our number looked like a farmer!
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Post by trabitom99 » 20 Aug 2008 06:53 pm

Found this somewhere ;-)

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343 GL Touring B14.1E CVT (155) 98000kms 1980 (sold)
343 L Junior B14.3E MT4 (155) 229000kms 1981 (scrapped)
343 DLS B19A MT4 (155) 167900kms 1982
360 GL Injection B200F MT5 (231) 348598kms 1988 (scrapped)
360 GLT B200F MT5 (302) 230000kms 1988

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Post by Jason B » 20 Aug 2008 08:05 pm

redline wrote:
filthyjohn wrote:Jason I didn't even know you were there or I'd have said hi. I'd like to say sorry to everyone for not being very talkative, I was a bit hungover, distracted, and really dreading the 4 hour drive home followed immediately by the ten hour night shift. I promise to be a lot more chatty at the next meet we have.


oh and I was keeping a low profile after having my wrists slapped for hooning around the car park and a bit tired from my gravel raking session

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fixorated :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
bugger, I was hoping to crack the first joke on why fj was laying low all day after his slap on the wrist for campsite driftorzing :lol: :lol:
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Post by filthyjohn » 21 Aug 2008 08:22 am

:D
In fairness, it was the crossplies on the 54 pop that did the damage to the gravel, not my 185s, or the 20s on the merc. But I took the rap like a man. What I can't believe is that we didn't get bollocked for all the other driving antics, with 5 people in the pop.

It was definitely worth the reprimand. :lol:
'87 Nissan Sunny
'95 945 LPT
'90 340 3dr
'87 360 GLT
'87 765 TIC
'75 Manta A
'70 Rover P5 V8
'67 MGB GT
'62 amazon 2dr

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