Rob Lane
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 11:52 AM |
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I thought the whole show a rip-off.
No real parts stands, plenty of manufacturers, yes.
Stafford or Newark were three times better.
£10 for driver and passenger and then shunted off to far end of grass car park.
No real display area that would attract anyone (not just Locost).
Organisers must have received a good offer from Caterham and Westfield to give them pride of place right outside hall!
What happened to original area ? It was given over to general parking, that's what!
It was a kit car show for Gods sake, why did they shunt everyone off away from hall area.
Martin at MK and others were saying it had gone over top on costs. Martin tried to talk to organisers but they had time for no-one.
Apparently ALL the cars for track failed the morning noise test, it was set so low.
Turns out there are two types of track day, quiet and noisy. Noisy costs more for organiser. Guess what the event organisers had paid for?
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blueshift
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 12:35 PM |
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I had a good time, got some sun, insulted some cars, drank some beers, bought some tools, met some people.
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Ferg
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 02:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob Lane
Apparently ALL the cars for track failed the morning noise test, it was set so low.
Not quite. One manufacturers car passed the noise test...the TeamGTM 1.6 Libra, but the readings were being taken from the wrong place. Once corrected
the V6 and most of the other cars passed.
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 04:15 PM |
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think the show was a bit naff this year,orginisation was non existant and i cot charged to take my car in,free last year.wasnt the only one
either,someone was coming round canversing opinions and it seems lots wernt happy
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Deckman001
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 05:28 PM |
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I had an ok time, got lots of bits i needed, but the organisation left alot to be desired !!  The club area outside was a complete mess, cos we
all had to camp in the same area!! and as for only having one toilet block for the camping area, and even that ran out of power in the evening and
filled up beyond use by morning!!!!! the only other place to 'go' was about half a mile away, past the entrance to the halls !!
Rant over
Jason
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OX
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 06:32 PM |
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well it was an ok day for me ,got the stuff i wanted and put a few names to faces ,bob,james ,shortie,ned and jon.i saw conrod but didnt get chance to
say hello.
weather was nice and didnt spend much money woohoo
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bob
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 08:34 PM |
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nice to meet a shed load of people as usual,was good to catch up deanC saturday and the rest of lads that camped.
Big thanks to deckman for chaufering me there and back and company was good in the evening
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bob
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 08:38 PM |
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The Show
there were bits to be had,but its not a proper show.
Badly organised club areas,anyone would think westfield and cateram were the only 7's in existance.
And wheres the autojumble gone ?
we need a new show i think,or maybe a new organiser
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James
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 08:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
Enjoys boys !!!
Who does? 
Anyway, cheers for the loan of the car Jasper- I knew you'd only forgotten to mention you wanted me to keep it ticking over for you.
Did you a favour too- discovered (having gone to all the effort of cutting out that pointless immobiliser wiring) that there was something wrong with
the engine and it wouldn't start. So we ripped out that little Japanese starter motor you had in there and fitted a nice 1600 Pinto that I had
kicking around- I hope you're greatful!
Had a great time with it- and I've returned it to yours 'substantially' intact. Was a pity about that slight 'event'
with the tyre wall at the end of the main straight but I'm sure that corner of the chassis will pull out eventually.... and fortunately Lolocost
do a lovely (and cheap!) nosecone you can replace yours with.
Oh, and I found your tyres were crap too- we only managed 15/20 minutes of donuts before they were gone completely! Good thing I was there to check
them out for you!
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Other than that I wasn't that impressed with the show. Best thing about it was meeting so many LB'ers:
Conrod, Bob, Ned, Matt, Mackie, Blueshift, Deckman, GasGasGas, SteveO, Shorty, Splitrivet, Dick Axtell, Viper, Marcus, Ox, DeanC, Jim Giblett, saw
Bass around too. Saw Ash3's car but didn't see him!
Usual collection of manufacturers and sellers. Other than that nothing special.
I did like the engine's on Webcon's stand- some great throttle body stuff to copy for doing my own!
Bob,
How do you fancy organising a southern show? August is disctinctly short on show's. I reckon you could fit something in the middle of Stoke
Park, Guildford a treat!
Cheers,
James
[Edited on 5/9/04 by James]
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James
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 09:04 PM |
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As for the track day- I reckon those that didn't bother this year missed out:
Last year when I was down in the pits the whole thing was packed out with cars and drivers and there was a 10/20 car queue to get on for each
session. This year I counted about 10 cars total on track plus the few manufacturer demonstators.
You'd have had an empty track this year!
James
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bob
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| posted on 5/9/04 at 09:11 PM |
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Bob,
How do you fancy organising a southern show? August is disctinctly short on show's. I reckon you could fit something in the middle of Stoke
Park, Guildford a treat!
Cheers,
James
Jimbo,when you have children and they are at school you will find that august is your busiest month,apart from that NO
Organising a show would be like the imposible,you cant please all.
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 07:51 AM |
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spoke to a lady from a club who was having a straw poll,she was thinking of doing a show run by the clubs not a money making company,santa pod was
mentioned so watch this space
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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ned
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 08:46 AM |
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right, so who was it that took the pic of us enjoying our bbq and booze, and why hasn't it been posted up yet
Ned.
[Edited on 6/9/04 by ned]
beware, I've got yellow skin
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 08:50 AM |
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i got a couple ned but dunno how to post so ill mail them to ya
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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ned
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 08:53 AM |
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john,
i'm not picking up my locobuilder email at the mo, i'll u2u you another address..
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Jasper
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 11:39 AM |
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James - glad you enjoyed the car - good to have a nice bit of British cast iron under the bonnet now -
I'm not suprise the organisation was rubbish again this year - it was terrible last year.
While organising a show with trade stands would be quite hard - and costly - it seems the things a lot of people want is a good place to meet up and
camp overnight - along with a bit of track action. So why not organise a track day and use a local camp site overnight? Llandau (though it is in south
Wales), is a good little track to hire, they willl organise all the necessaries like marshals and St. Johns, and has a basic camp site as well, all
you need is about 30 odd cars and it will work out about £99 for the day.
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bob
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 06:44 PM |
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The debate on donington seems to be going on elsewhere,regarding prices and the dreadfull facilities or lack of for campers.
http://community.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=4753
I think the robin hood lads n lass's have a good idea on this,maybe some constructive critisism could be typed off to sally mitchel the
limelight exhibitions organiser.
They mention the Harrogate show improving,i attended the exeter show for the first time last year (also organised by the same people as Harogate)and
found it to be the best one i'd visited in 2003.
I reckon its a people power thing and will only improve if a lot of people voice some constructive critisism to limelight,it can only help them in the
future.
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Jasper
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 08:33 PM |
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I sent off an email to Sally after last year - never got a response.
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bob
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| posted on 6/9/04 at 10:22 PM |
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Well maybe on mass something might happen this time,2 years ago i complained about the toilets and showers on site.
I sometimes think we are better off booking out a camp site for a night or two once a year,bar-b-q friday night and big night out saturday or
whatever.
Nice to have stands but most things can be bought on the net/phone,i think its auto jumbles locosters need anyway.
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James
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| posted on 7/9/04 at 08:20 AM |
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Forgot to say earlier:
Thanks to Jason and Paul for the discounted entry to the show on the Sunday! Didn't get to actually see you in there to say thanks.
Cheers,
James
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ned
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| posted on 7/9/04 at 08:57 AM |
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ditto james above. £10 for saturday entry, waited for the marshalls to go before moving hte car to the campsite, then blagged our way in using a
borrowed ticket on sunday and didn't pay for the camping. who said it can't be done for £250? 
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Dick Axtell
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| posted on 8/9/04 at 08:56 AM |
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Swedish Visitor
quote:
Originally posted by Micael
Well I'm of to the airport. See you guys at Lolocost at 11. (If i find my way there)/quote]
So where did you get to, Micael? We waited nearly an hour, but no sign.
Did you make it? Would be interested to hear your impressions of the show.
Work-in-Progress: Changed to Zetec + T9. Still trying!!
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bob
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| posted on 8/9/04 at 11:55 AM |
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Yes and the company,thanks very much for that
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Micael
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| posted on 8/9/04 at 02:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dick Axtell
quote:
Originally posted by Micael
Well I'm of to the airport. See you guys at Lolocost at 11. (If i find my way there)/quote]
So where did you get to, Micael? We waited nearly an hour, but no sign.
Did you make it? Would be interested to hear your impressions of the show.
Yepp I did find my way there, had Sat/nav in the rental car 
I've arrived about 2 pm on saturday and left about 4.30. I manage to forget the phone number to John. So I could't find you guys.
I hooverd around Jon Isons GT1 for a while in a desperate try to see if I could recognize any of you. But after a while people start to stare at me.
If anyone saw a fat guy in a green John Deere T-shirt it was me
However I think that the show was a bit small. But i have never seen som much sevens in one place.
I took some pictures which can be seen Here
Micael Moose Åman
Petrolhead and all around nice guy
"Don't leave the duck there. It's totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it'll have much more fun." //Sleep Talkin Man Dec 23
2009
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ned
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| posted on 8/9/04 at 02:41 PM |
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well, you can't have missed us by much, you have a pic of the mk gtr with james sitting in it, conrod with his back to you and blueshift and
matt claydon in the picture. Mackie and I can't have been two far away.. http://www.amanfamily.se/bilen/DSC00154.jpg
maybe next time you'll know what we look like and not miss us all when you're 2m away from us 
Ned.
[Edited on 8/9/04 by ned]
beware, I've got yellow skin
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