Today's (Sun 13/04/03) Mid-Essex meet..!
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Well... the sun came out to play and so did a lot of TVR's! 
Glorious weather... hood down... and the start of a mini convoy for some of us! Alf Essex arrived, then a few others, then a call to say that another was going to be late... and eventually we headed off.
Got about a mile down the road, and we got flagged down... another Chim en-route... so we all pile through the BP services and head off to Hatfield Peveal to pick up the Dodger...
On the way, the mobile goes... "Podie, it's Mel!" to which I reply.. "Mel, who the
is Mel?.. oh THAT Mel! - where are you mate" So Mel says "look in your mirror, I'm the car on the wrong side of the road!" 
- oh, and he's runnig on vapour!
So, we pull into the pub to meet the Dodger, and this angry woman STORMS out to confront me! "What are you doing, we're trying to run a business, so bloody noisy"
Politely said that we WERE coming in for a drink, but we'll carry on now...
So onto the A12... and off to get some jungle juice for Mel. Get to the BP garage... only to find 3 other TVR's in a layby, and two of the Chim's in our convoy follow them, rather than coming to the garage!
Filled up with petrol (MEL!), the Chim's returned and FINALLY we had our convoy up to the meet at Great Totham!
Lovely day, good time had by all and I've got a few digital piccies that I'll post tomorrow morning! (not doing them over 56k!!!!!)
EDIT - nearly forgot! Didn't really have a chance to catch up with a number of people - Lensey, the Dodger and Mark J being 3! - Hope to have a
next month!
>>> Edited by Podie on Sunday 13th April 20:37
Glorious weather... hood down... and the start of a mini convoy for some of us! Alf Essex arrived, then a few others, then a call to say that another was going to be late... and eventually we headed off.
Got about a mile down the road, and we got flagged down... another Chim en-route... so we all pile through the BP services and head off to Hatfield Peveal to pick up the Dodger...
On the way, the mobile goes... "Podie, it's Mel!" to which I reply.. "Mel, who the
is Mel?.. oh THAT Mel! - where are you mate" So Mel says "look in your mirror, I'm the car on the wrong side of the road!" - oh, and he's runnig on vapour! So, we pull into the pub to meet the Dodger, and this angry woman STORMS out to confront me! "What are you doing, we're trying to run a business, so bloody noisy"
Politely said that we WERE coming in for a drink, but we'll carry on now... So onto the A12... and off to get some jungle juice for Mel. Get to the BP garage... only to find 3 other TVR's in a layby, and two of the Chim's in our convoy follow them, rather than coming to the garage!
Filled up with petrol (MEL!), the Chim's returned and FINALLY we had our convoy up to the meet at Great Totham!
Lovely day, good time had by all and I've got a few digital piccies that I'll post tomorrow morning! (not doing them over 56k!!!!!)
EDIT - nearly forgot! Didn't really have a chance to catch up with a number of people - Lensey, the Dodger and Mark J being 3! - Hope to have a
next month! >>> Edited by Podie on Sunday 13th April 20:37
not to my knowledge... the give away was that the back of my T-shirt had "Podie" on it... 
jhoneyball said: ah well :-) seems a v nice bunch of people. Will try to come along to next one.
I assume I can join even though I have the Aston instead (well, its british, V8, handmade....) ?
Ah... why didn't you say... yes had a natter... I was the one who knew a bit about them... asked if you'd been to the factory... you replied, "yes, but they were ****!"...
and all the other 59 TVR's that turned out.
Here are a few snaps, even one with your non TVR racing lorry in Jon 
http://homepage.mac.com/paulbarker/Meets/PhotoAlbum19.html
Who was it in the helicopter?
[wishfulthinkingmode] Wonder if they would let me land my Lear jet down the drive? [/wishfulthinkingmode]
http://homepage.mac.com/paulbarker/Meets/PhotoAlbum19.html
Who was it in the helicopter?
[wishfulthinkingmode] Wonder if they would let me land my Lear jet down the drive? [/wishfulthinkingmode]
roadrunner -- yup, he goes like a bat out of hell
you can have a looksie of me at donington at www.jonhoneyball.com/donington/jondonington1.mov (its apple quicktime and a 7mb file)
Podie -- ah yes, it was you :-)
you can have a looksie of me at donington at www.jonhoneyball.com/donington/jondonington1.mov (its apple quicktime and a 7mb file)
Podie -- ah yes, it was you :-)
handles superbly -- mine has the X-pack Zagato suspension and engine pieces, together with a handling kit (basically big antiroll bars) as well.
reliability? extremely good -- lives outdoors, starts every turn of the key, in 3 years/50k miles). Regular servicing is critical, as is a whole heap of post-production modifications from the geniuses at rswilliams (www.rswilliams.co.uk)
reliability? extremely good -- lives outdoors, starts every turn of the key, in 3 years/50k miles). Regular servicing is critical, as is a whole heap of post-production modifications from the geniuses at rswilliams (www.rswilliams.co.uk)
brembo discs, brembo race calipers, pagid blue pads, aeroquip hoses, new servos, race differential mounting cradles, race starter motor, trucksized solid-gel battery, etc. Then the hifi (nakamichi MB100 head, amps, 8 infinity reference speakers plus custom built 12" infinity reference bass unit in boot). Then all the usual servicing and tuning stuff which it just eats up!
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