Last of the Year! PH South East Gathering - 12/09/12

[fatboy18]

Is the boat big enough for us all, we would somewhere to sleep the Beer off, would we get bacon sandwiches in the morning?

[Gruffy]

Buckmore Park is only around the corner. Weekend meet + hoon + kart race + piss up in a brewery? We could probably get through most of the Big Book of Racing Drivers' Excuses at a post-race piss up.

[winshent]

Gruffy said:

Buckmore Park is only around the corner. Weekend meet + hoon + kart race + piss up in a brewery? We could probably get through most of the Big Book of Racing Drivers' Excuses at a post-race piss up.

I did mention to Umair last night of maybe replacing the meets with a Karting night.. There is a karting centre in Crawley I believe, not sure if its arrive and drive though..

I'm sure there would be a few takers !!

[Gruffy]

I think that's an indoor circuit. The outdoor circuits are much more PH and better suited to Fubes powerfully built company director types. Buckmore are also quite a slick outfit. If Chatham is too far east for some then I'm sure we could support two meets. They seem to be growing month on month.

[Stedman]

winshent said:

Gruffy said:

Buckmore Park is only around the corner. Weekend meet + hoon + kart race + piss up in a brewery? We could probably get through most of the Big Book of Racing Drivers' Excuses at a post-race piss up.

I did mention to Umair last night of maybe replacing the meets with a Karting night.. There is a karting centre in Crawley I believe, not sure if its arrive and drive though..

I'm sure there would be a few takers !!

I went to the Crawley one at the weekend. I got an hour in the kart for £35.

I think we're going to Crawley

Can book, can arrive and drive. Best prices would be book, obviously.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I think Cotty should have some kind of handicap if we have a karting meet

[Cotty]

I have not been in a kart for years and I am hardly my old race weight.

[V8 FOU]

fatboy18 said:

Is the boat big enough for us all, we would somewhere to sleep the Beer off, would we get bacon sandwiches in the morning?

Jeez! It's only (!) 6 berth and I'm vegetarian. So you are a bit stuffed on both counts!!

But it is beginning to sound like a plan for next year? Buckmore Park isn't that far and there's that brewery. Nelsons it's called. Google it.
So, perhaps a PH show/event plus karting?
Better than last weekend a Sea Cadets silver band competition -ting ting a ting etc.
If you need to make some new body panels there is a 30 ft high slip roll or a 15ft high brake press. And a smithy.
Maybe you could sleep the beer off on the HMS Ocelot?

[ironictwist]

Some great suggestions chaps...I'll makes some enquiries next month. Would be a nice way of keeping things going during the winter when it's miserable outside too

[NiceCupOfTea]

Cotty said:

I have not been in a kart for years and I am hardly my old race weight.

I've been karting twice and was completely crap each time! Shame really, enjoyed it loads but couldn't seem to get the hang of it...

[Don1]

Nice to meet everyone.

[roshambow]

Simes205 said:

An excellent meet - we left after the F40 took off!
What an excellent eclectic collection of motorcars and nice bunch of folks.

Burnout of the day goes to the P5B!

ps. The eternal question who owned the Moggie?? and what's under the bonnet?

that would be me and its only an a series im afraid :-( at the moment ;-)

[NiceCupOfTea]

Hehe, I guessed it might still be the A-series! Lovely car!

[Stedman]

lovely lovely XJR

[Don1]

Stedman said:

lovely lovely XJR

Lovely owner as well.

[Stedman]

Don1 said:

Stedman said:

lovely lovely XJR

Lovely owner as well.

Ironic is like that. Not me though

[SWH]

Some photos... not bad from an iPhone at dusk (well, in the dark on the later ones!)

[Cotty]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Cotty said:

I have not been in a kart for years and I am hardly my old race weight.

I've been karting twice and was completely crap each time! Shame really, enjoyed it loads but couldn't seem to get the hang of it...

Its pretty straight forward you press the right peddle more than the left one.

I typed a couple of lines, deleted them, typed a few more deleted them, trying to say how to dive a kart.

At the end of the day its about having fun. If you can jump in a kart do a few laps and enjoy it thats all that matters.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I got shouted at for spinning it a couple of times

[Cotty]

NiceCupOfTea said:

I got shouted at for spinning it a couple of times

If you are not spinning it you are not trying. Once you know when it will spin then you work around that. Keep it under the spin or deal with it when it happens.