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French Kit Car Show?
jimgiblett - 6/3/07 at 12:21 PM

A quick poll.

If a kit car show was held in France would you be interested in visiting? And if so how far would you travel? You can get return crossings for approx £50 and once over there practically everythings cheaper.

It might be combined with a general "interesting car" show to start with just to get the numbers up.

- Jim

Mr Whippy - 6/3/07 at 12:41 PM

I thought kit cars were not to be built in france, the irony considering their 2CV..

mookaloid - 6/3/07 at 01:24 PM

Sorry but I think that Newark And Stoneleigh are a long way away

John Bonnett - 6/3/07 at 01:42 PM

Hi Jim

Any excuse to go to France and I'll be there.

alb

John

jimgiblett - 6/3/07 at 02:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I thought kit cars were not to be built in france, the irony considering their 2CV..


Yes but this makes our cars even more appealing.

Homologation issues make it a real pain to build kit cars in France but not impossible (a builder has homologated a Westy XTR2).

There is quite a bit of pressure being applied at the moment in french government circles to get some kind of exemption / easing of the rules.

Local support is quite high. Surprisingly there are quite a lot of french track day toys currently in production which could be made to pass an SVA in UK.

- Jim

andyps - 6/3/07 at 03:16 PM

Boulogne/Dover aren't the only ports. I would be unlikely to go just for a kit car show - but then again I live in the correct part of England, rather than near the South coast

However, if a show was near to Roscoff, and took place at the right time I would be likely to visit as I get there reasonably often anyway.

jimgiblett - 6/3/07 at 04:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by andyps
Boulogne/Dover aren't the only ports. I would be unlikely to go just for a kit car show - but then again I live in the correct part of England, rather than near the South coast

However, if a show was near to Roscoff, and took place at the right time I would be likely to visit as I get there reasonably often anyway.


Totally agree. Dover Boulogne is just the quickest and cheapest. And I was trying to get an idea on how far people would be willing to travel.

There are a number of possible venues where we would be made VERY welcome.

Not a competitor to the UK shows as this would be more tour and show than shop.

Maybe even a discounted trackday too.

- Jim

chrisg - 6/3/07 at 04:36 PM

We went here last year:-

Classic British welcome

Smashing day out, but of course we were only in France for the 24 hour race. As Andy says it's a bit far for the northern based members.

Cheers

Chris

jimgiblett - 6/3/07 at 05:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
We went here last year:-

Classic British welcome

Smashing day out, but of course we were only in France for the 24 hour race. As Andy says it's a bit far for the northern based members.

Cheers

Chris


That's the kind of thing I was thinking of but as a standalone event. With more beer, food, women (well maybe not the later but who knows ) etc

My french pals are very interested in coming over here to do something similar.

- Jim