North East Meet. 04.06.10 (joint record attendance!!!)

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North East Meet. 04.06.10 (joint record attendance!!!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 04 Jun 2010 09:45 pm

L14MNP, macplaxton the hat (with no hat), and JPB and my good self met up to talk about cars.
In a pub.

A joint record 300 attendance was reached with JPBs £50 vario and Liams GLS in the same car park, at the same time!
(last 2 car 300 meet Linky)
Other attending automobiles were a period brown Dolly auto (JPB again), and my wrong wheel drive fiesta :oops:

pics, as pics are coolz.

Was cool seeing you again Liam and Rich, and always cool meeting new faces and drooling over new retros. :wink:

Lets do it again soon, with moar carz.

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Blinky Liam throwing up the V3M gang sign. (official)
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How cool is Macplaxton? straight out of a John Woo film.
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Liam lusts after the arse of KaTY.
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Backwards Vario instructions.
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Brown Love.
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Less cool cars to the right please!
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Oily porn
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Sexy interior
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One last shot of the coolness.
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sm4 all.
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Re: North East Meet. 04.06.10 (joint record attendance!!!)

Post by Chris_C » 04 Jun 2010 09:56 pm

Where's the dolly pics! And louvre pics :p

You're slacking dude!
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Post by pyro » 04 Jun 2010 09:59 pm

Id love to have been there dude, but the opertunity of spending time with a smoking hot lass and alcohol got the better of me!


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Post by volvosneverdie » 04 Jun 2010 10:21 pm

Bump!
As I finally got most of the pics sized.

Took 2 hours and the help of Christopher C.
Cheers dud.
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Post by Chris_C » 04 Jun 2010 11:34 pm

Photos look great dude!
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Re: North East Meet. 04.06.10 (joint record attendance!!!)

Post by SteveP » 05 Jun 2010 09:16 am

Great pics Ben... only 2 300's but makes up for it coolness and tidyness of that vario!
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Post by JPB » 05 Jun 2010 02:32 pm

Sorry about tipping up in a brown car! :lol:

T'was good to meet you chaps yesterday evening, Maccie P and I got back up to mine fairly, erm, "efficiently" thanks no doubt to a tail wind.....



:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Other news; F163JGT now has a fresh MOT certificate. :shock: :wink:



Thanks due to Ben for the flattering pics of my little Triumph. The poor wee thing is caked with dead insects and is in need of some serious cleaning, but the shots posted only make me think "F*ck me, that's nice, can't be mine though....." :D
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Post by volvosneverdie » 05 Jun 2010 04:40 pm

JPB wrote:
Other news; F163JGT now has a fresh MOT certificate. :shock: :wink:
MOT you say?
I'll take it.
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Post by JPB » 05 Jun 2010 05:58 pm

sm40 :wink:
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Post by Speedy88 » 06 Jun 2010 01:18 am

Always fancied a dolly (lol). How much do non-1500s go for?
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Post by L14MNP » 06 Jun 2010 10:34 am

Smallest mini-meet I've ever attended. :lol: Meh. It's all good.

Was good to meet Macplaxton and JPB and nice to see Ben again, all of whom arroved in 3 very clean cars. 340pw (there's no mk4 Fez emoticon lol)

Here's a couple of meagre pics as my battery wasn't in the best health. My Dolly pics won't transfer :/

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Post by SteveP » 06 Jun 2010 12:57 pm

Christ that GLS is cool as ever, every time I look at it!
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Post by JPB » 06 Jun 2010 01:18 pm

Speedy88 wrote:Always fancied a dolly (lol). How much do non-1500s go for?
You should be able to find a '73-'75 model for under a grand with some justifiable test on it, pre-'73 cars are slightly more, post-'75 suffer from Alfasud-quality Russian steel and tend to dissolve.

The large journal engines, 1300 & 1500, are a bit feeble and the 1500 tends to last the distance down a motorway slip road between rebuilds, so you'd do right to seek out the Saab/Triumph slant four like the 1850 in mine, that one has covered more than ⅓ of its total mileage (going from 40,000 as bought, to 66,000 now) in the last 18 Months and works fine.
Besides; the 1500 of that period is Wrong wheel drive, all OHVs need lead or equivalent, they use oil, they smell funny, ok, I'll quit now...... :(
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Post by macplaxton » 07 Jun 2010 03:37 am

Good to see Ben and John again, and good to meet Adam and Liam.

Purpose of trip: Do some work on my Reliant brakes and cylinder head.
Outcome of trip: Check and MOT a Volvo, lots of driving , drink too much Thu & Sat sm4 (after driving and not before) and a PC install pencilled in for Tues. Doh!

Will I ever get my own work done?

I was hoping that John would have driven my car down for to make up 300 numbers, but he was having none of it. Damn broon jobby car!

The MOT business was a result, considering it wasn't really planned. I got up at 6am Saturday morning to do some pre-MOT work to the car. Then finding some place that would test the car that morning was lucky too. In fact, I was in such a good mood that afternoon, I stopped to give two smelly hitchers a lift to Edinburgh from the layby at the border on the A1. :lol:
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Post by Hell Driver » 20 Jun 2010 10:48 pm

I'd somehow overlooked this thread before now but by the powers of spam I've now read it! Amazing how it trawls up new material from the seabed of V3M!

I'd have attended myself if we'd been a bit nearer and our timing had been better, we came up the A1 to Scotch Corner that day but then headed west to the Lakes, had to be at campsite before too late. Looks like a good time was had by all sm4
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