Meetup near Banbury, Saturday 27th August

Meetup near Banbury, Saturday 27th August

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Squirrelofwoe

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3,181 posts

175 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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3 of us PH Chim owners are planning on meeting up on Saturday 27th August, near the Banbury area. I thought I'd start a thread so if anyone else is around the area or fancies driving up/down/across, then the more the merrier!

Obviously anyone's welcome, even if not in a Chim- although bonus points if it's at least another TVR biggrin

Plan is to meet up at The Moon & Sixpence pub at Hanwell, 5 minutes North of Banbury- it's got a decent sized car park, outside seating, and I'm told does good food! We met up with Jason (TVRJAS) there a couple of weeks ago and it seemed ideal for a meetup. I figured we could have a butchers at the cars, have a chat and get some lunch in while we are there.

There are some pretty good roads around there too, and if my friendly photographer (and soon to be Mustang owner) is free, I'll get him along and see if we can find somewhere to get some good group pics of the cars.

Weather forecast at the moment is looking spectacular for that particular day, so providing nothing changes it should be ideal.

We can sort out times etc nearer the day, whatever works best for people, this isn't going to be a masterpiece of organisation- more a case of just turn up! thumbup

blaze_away

1,502 posts

212 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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I am in......looking forwatd to to meeting up.

plfrench

2,300 posts

267 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Me too!

TVRJAS

2,391 posts

128 months

Sunday 21st August 2016
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I'm attending "TVRs at the Palace" event - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxon OX20 1PP on Monday 29th so with the date being so close I'm not available for this.

Would certainty meet up at another date,perhaps when Nick has took delivery off the Mustang. Not seen one yet up close and would love a little mooch around it.

Have fun thumbup

Squirrelofwoe

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175 months

Sunday 21st August 2016
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TVRJAS said:
I'm attending "TVRs at the Palace" event - Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxon OX20 1PP on Monday 29th so with the date being so close I'm not available for this.

Would certainty meet up at another date,perhaps when Nick has took delivery off the Mustang. Not seen one yet up close and would love a little mooch around it.

Have fun thumbup
Yeah will definitely arrange another get together before the summer is out, we'll try and do a weekend next month. Nick is collecting his Mustang a week on Thursday (1st) so any Sat/Sun in September bar Saturday 10th (I'm DJing another wedding) is a possibility. I know he will be only too keen to show it off!

Ford fitted the Borla Attak exhaust system to it last Wednesday, he went down and took a video of it- it's not exactly subtle! Will certainly be good company for the TVRs! biggrin

plfrench

2,300 posts

267 months

Sunday 21st August 2016
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Looking forward to it. Just got mine home from my parents. Made the 160 mile journey with no problems apart from a bit of traffic on the M1 just coinciding with when it decided to start raining... As long as you're above 30mph though, none seems to land on your head biggrin

Squirrelofwoe

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175 months

Sunday 21st August 2016
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plfrench said:
Looking forward to it. Just got mine home from my parents. Made the 160 mile journey with no problems apart from a bit of traffic on the M1 just coinciding with when it decided to start raining... As long as you're above 30mph though, none seems to land on your head biggrin
Haha yeah I've found exactly the same! thumbup

Rugbyfester

180 posts

134 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Relatively Local to me (10 miles or so) maybe up for this, will ask if I'm allowed out tonight.

Squirrelofwoe

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175 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Rugbyfester said:
Relatively Local to me (10 miles or so) maybe up for this, will ask if I'm allowed out tonight.
Yeah get onboard! thumbup

Nosh

982 posts

166 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Squirrelofwoe said:
3 of us PH Chim owners are planning on meeting up on Saturday 27th August, near the Banbury area.............
I may be able to pop over from MK - what time you guys doing this?

Nosh

Squirrelofwoe

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Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Nosh said:
Squirrelofwoe said:
3 of us PH Chim owners are planning on meeting up on Saturday 27th August, near the Banbury area.............
I may be able to pop over from MK - what time you guys doing this?

Nosh
Great stuff, yeah MK shouldn't be too far- I'm coming up from the far side of Oxford.

Still yet to set an exact time, but I was thinking aiming to meet up around mid-day? That way it gives people plenty of time to get there without needing an early start, plus it means we can grab some lunch at the pub too if we like.

I'm pretty easy though so if people want to do it earlier/later that's cool with me. My only commitments on Sat is I need to be over at Thame by around 5.30ish. smile

Nosh

982 posts

166 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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If the current stratagem is to meet lunch time, I will consider that to be at 12h00 ish.......

Squirrelofwoe

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Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Nosh said:
If the current stratagem is to meet lunch time, I will consider that to be at 12h00 ish.......
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As long as that works with the others we'll go for that.

blaze_away

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212 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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12:00 is good with me too.

plfrench

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267 months

Thursday 25th August 2016
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Me too thumbup

Squirrelofwoe

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175 months

Thursday 25th August 2016
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Awesome! Weather is now saying showers / sunny spells for Saturday, but given how many times it's changed it's mind about Saturday's weather over the last few days it could well be anything!

Fingers crossed it's mostly dry! biggrin

ClassiChimi

12,424 posts

148 months

Thursday 25th August 2016
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Enjoy the day lads, I'm at a christening or I'd have popped down, another time chaps thumbup

Squirrelofwoe

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Thursday 25th August 2016
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ClassiChimi said:
Enjoy the day lads, I'm at a christening or I'd have popped down, another time chaps thumbup
Will do!

Yeah that's cool I'm around the Banbury area most weekends as my petrolhead cousin lives up there so will definitely organize another one. He's taking delivery of his new Mustang GT this week, so next time we all get together it will be an opportunity to have a good nosey round that if anyone's interested thumbup

Squirrelofwoe

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175 months

Friday 26th August 2016
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WEATHER UPDATE!!

I don't know what people's thoughts are, but the weather for tomorrow is now not looking great at all- basically heavy showers / rain from 9am right through to the early hours of Sunday morning frown

I'm easy either way, but what are everyone else's thoughts on possibly doing Sunday or Monday (bank hol) instead? Weather is looking good, no suggestion of any rain, and meant to be mostly sunny both days. It's just Saturday that is (typically) the let down!

Obviously it depends whether you guys already have plans or not, I am (for once!) free pretty much all weekend.

What does everyone think?

The long term forecast that originally prompted me to suggest tomorrow has obviously arrived a day early- it is spectacular today, I've even brought the Chim to work!

plfrench

2,300 posts

267 months

Friday 26th August 2016
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I could swap to Sunday, but have plans Monday... would prefer a drier day tbh as my rear screen is a bit... flappy! Not great if parked up and it chucks it down.