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sheel

173 posts

92 months

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Sunday 29th July 2012 quote quote all
Brill night, thanks Mickeydoo, great selection of cars and fantastic venue (awesome noise when we were parked up in the side street waiting to get on the Quay, locals must have womdered what had hit them!)

Richard

nigel carter

29 posts

48 months

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Brilliantttttttttt great evening some really nice cars must do it again smile

T66ORA

2,850 posts

126 months

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Sunday 29th July 2012 quote quote all
Well done to Mickeydoo for arranging this, great evening, and hopfully a annual thing from now on? Proud to be the only Little Tammy there biggrin

Legacywr

4,021 posts

57 months

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Sunday 29th July 2012 quote quote all
Who's was the green Sagaris? I liked the colour/finish of the wheels!

wedgeinald

821 posts

59 months

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Sunday 29th July 2012 quote quote all
Cockey said:
Was the rear also wonkey? hehe

Lovely car though smile
Mine had a "wonky" rear too...Red 280i Wedge...I thought I was being clever taking the car to my work in the morning so I didn't have to add about 30 mins driving in the evening, embarrasingly I managed to biff the exhaust on the drop bollard at the car park entrance (I've managed to miss it on the 5 or 6 previous visits to that car park!) but it pulled one of the joints apart and the exhaust dragged on the ground resulting in one of the mounts and the rear vallance being removed from the car.

Fortunately the nice people at the RAC came and re-attached my exhaust and rather than risk it falling off on the way down I had the rear vallance in the passenger seat of the car, but "balanced" it on the exhausts once i had arrived, so it wasn't totally obvious, but it still looked silly.

Was well worth the drive down and the car will be back to normal soon, thanks for the guys who organised the event.

I also might have converted another "punter" to TVR as he wanted to hear my car and I think he was hooked!!

Norman


Edited by wedgeinald on Sunday 29th July 22:55

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mickydoo

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279 posts

15 months

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Monday 30th July 2012 quote quote all
Out of all of the Quay for my Car events so far this year that I've attended, this was easily the most impressive, best attended, and appeared of most interest to members of the public.

TVRs seem to capture the imagination and interest of the general public more than any other mainstream sports car brand, except perhaps Ferrari which are on a par I'd think. smile

Cheers for the messages of thanks, but I really did very little, just liaise with Poole Tourism by email. Very glad everyone enjoyed the evening, and I'll contact the tourism team shortly to ask about next year.

mickydoo

Original Poster:

279 posts

15 months

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Monday 30th July 2012 quote quote all
Copy of message sent to Poole Tourism just now:

Anne,

Firstly, I want to pass on a huge thank you, to you and your team, from myself and all of the TVR owners who attended the event on Friday evening. There have been many messages of thanks posted on the Pistonheads Forum saying how well organised the event was.

With the great weather, and a super turn-out (88 or so I heard?), I have to say that the whole experience was fabulous, and I certainly heard many members of the public expressing interest in the cars and enjoying the overall experience. Compared to the other evenings I've attended this year, it seemed that the TVRs generate a bit more curiousity! Then I would think that being an owner :-)

Secondly, given how successful the evening was, there is a lot of interest from the owners in making this an annual event. So I was wondering if you can see your way to scheduling a regular TVR night each year in either this same weekend in July, or perhaps during August? I for one, would be happy to drum up support again.

Thanks once again,

Mike

wilf tuscan s

64 posts

79 months

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Monday 30th July 2012 quote quote all
Just like to add my thanks to those who organised and marshalled this great event. Drove down from Bristol, not as far as some travelled I know, but it was great to see so many TVR's all together. Luckily meet up with some other in Harbour Park who knew the way in to the Quay. Thanks for a great night!

tvrbuell

41 posts

74 months

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Just like to say what a great evening it was, don't usually do TVR (apart from pre80's meet) events with the Vixen but had a really great evening. Good to see so much enthusiasum for the marque. Dewi

B3NNL

583 posts

37 months

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Monday 30th July 2012 quote quote all
Just thought I'd add that Rally for Heroes with the logo'd up TVRs on th roundabout managed to raise over £500!
Not bad for two hours collecting,
That will be chucked into the pot for H4H and the RBL.
Thanks to for jacking the evening up and everyone else for coming down.

jonesy

311 posts

153 months

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Tuesday 31st July 2012 quote quote all
Thanks Mickydoo for sorting out a great evening!!

Few pics of the evening:






more here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonesuk/sets/72157630...

And a little vid of me arriving....

http://youtu.be/F_u0isG4Uh0

Nice to meet you all,

J.

Cockey

850 posts

97 months

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Tuesday 31st July 2012 quote quote all
Jonsey, nice pics. Although you took a super close up picture of the massive gap in my boot lid! hehe

smartypants

17,284 posts

38 months

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Tuesday 31st July 2012 quote quote all
Shame my Griff was stuck all the way up the end outside a fish bar biggrin

Here's some of the pics I took


Tuscan by kieran79, on Flickr


Chims&Cerbs by kieran79, on Flickr


Wedge by kieran79, on Flickr


IMG_6789 by kieran79, on Flickr


mickydoo

Original Poster:

279 posts

15 months

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Thursday 2nd August 2012 quote quote all
Well people, the good news is, Poole Tourism have responded to my thank you email saying that they were very pleased with the turnout and public interest and have agreed to run a TVR night for the next couple of years, reviewing it each year depending on attendance!!

They also confirmed that the same weekend is free next year, and that this year's attendance was 89!

So let's see if we can smash that, and turn Poole Quay for my Car into a second Chatsworth of the South Coast!

Vrmmmm, pop, pop, crack, bang.....vrmmmmmm......

laugh

smartypants

17,284 posts

38 months

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Thursday 2nd August 2012 quote quote all
I'm not sure they have room for any more! It was pretty much jam packed smile

Don1

8,960 posts

77 months

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Thursday 2nd August 2012 quote quote all
mickydoo said:
Well people, the good news is, Poole Tourism have responded to my thank you email saying that they were very pleased with the turnout and public interest and have agreed to run a TVR night for the next couple of years, reviewing it each year depending on attendance!!

They also confirmed that the same weekend is free next year, and that this year's attendance was 89!

So let's see if we can smash that, and turn Poole Quay for my Car into a second Chatsworth of the South Coast!

Vrmmmm, pop, pop, crack, bang.....vrmmmmmm......

laugh
Massive congratulations! Great work.

Now I have a tunnel map on mine, I can singe legs scare people! biggrin

TheDoggingFather

14,520 posts

75 months

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Thursday 2nd August 2012 quote quote all
smartypants said:
I'm not sure they have room for any more! It was pretty much jam packed smile
You could have packed more into the roundabout area, and in the past they have opened up the quayside. Also down towards the Thistle hotel some could be parked in the middle, I'm sure there's room for a good few more.

DonkeyApple

11,989 posts

38 months

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Thursday 2nd August 2012 quote quote all
They'll just have to build out over the marina and make way for some proper fibreglass vessels.

amazon

3,570 posts

80 months

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Thursday 2nd August 2012 quote quote all
Rather late voicing my appreciate Mickeydoo - but thank you, it was a lovely evening smile and a great success by any measure.

Look forward to next year smile

MrChips

1,690 posts

79 months

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Friday 3rd August 2012 quote quote all
+1 Massive thanks from me for organising this. Had a great drive down with the Berkshire lot, and relaxed drive back with the roof off.

Just a few of my pics are here: Link

But my favourite car of the day... what a colour cloud9

IMG_9688 by DH Photographic, on Flickr
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