BCM Southern meet Monday 8th September -7pm

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G'day all,

The next South meet will be on the above date. Same location (Iford Golf Course) and with the same incentives as last time such as the free drinks and pizza offers.

Be nice to get the same sort of numbers and variety of cars as the last meet so feel free to spread the word on to anyone you feel may like to come have a ganders. Name and Car below please!

1. Bart - GTR

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1. Bart - GTR
2. oblark - volvo 850
3. Martyn - M5
4. Paul_B - Nissan Silvia V8
5. TDF - Honda
6. M-R-P - Modded ex-plod V70
7. Nick1275 - m5
8. TackMEU (Jason) - Porsche Boxter S
9. Ecain63 - the A!
10. T40ORA - Tamora (being quiet!)
11. Charlotte - Cooper S
12. Chris - Noble M12
13. Justin - 370Z
14. Tom - Civic Type R

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I'm enjoying the little banter battle, what say you Ecain...?

1. Bart - GTR
2. oblark - volvo 850
3. Martyn - M5
4. Paul_B - Nissan Silvia V8
5. TDF - Honda
6. M-R-P - Modded ex-plod V70
7. Nick1275 - m5
8. TackMEU (Jason) - Porsche Boxter S
9. Ecain63 - the shopping car aka diet coke of AMG's
10. T40ORA - Tamora (being quiet!)
11. Charlotte - Cooper S
12. Chris - Noble M12
13. Justin - 370Z
14. Tom - Civic Type R
15. Martin - MG of sorts

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I'm putting together a site for this meet as it will hopefully be easier to keep a track of people attending and also allow people to know when it is happening without having to trawl through here all the time.

I'm struggling to put together some words for it though, anyone fancy giving a quick synopsis of what the event is like?

I may even add a few quotes of previous attendees....

'I like pizza and watching people try to enter the carpark' - Bart

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zed4 said:

All you need is a Facebook group

Not being on Facebook due to a complete hatred for the site scuppers that a little - but I understand the merits of it, perhaps it's time to come out of fb-retirement

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Shaping up nicely with some nice and diverse cars once again!

I'm going to bring along my camera this meet to get some footage of people leaving...

Not encouraging mad burnouts but as it will be dark from 8pm ish now, no golfers are likely to still be about and it would be a shame to not hear some of the motors.

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T40ORA said:

So it might be acceptable to take some sound meter readings of my (warmed up) car, with and without bolt on cans, to see if I can shed sufficient dBs for a 100dB track day?

I do have a ropey DB meter app on my phone as it goes. Ha

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My uncle has called me to say that the event has been put up on the Renault uk owners Facebook group or something along those lines, with an expected 100+ people hoping to attend.

I have had a quick look but cannot find anything, would someone be able to confirm? Obviously 100+ renaults would take away a little magic from the event and most likely cause issues with the owners of the venue.

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The oven should indeed be fired up

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zed4 said:

Is he sure? I've just signed up and gone back through loads of posts, I can't find any reference to it at all. Although there are hundreds of people talking about an event called Trax which was this weekend.

I've since text him to let me know where he got this information from - no reply as yet. Hopefully it's not true (no disrespect to any Renault owners by the way).

Looks like another good selection of different vehicles tonight and the weather looks set to play ball - that will be 4 out of 4 sunny evenings!

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Morning all...

Apologies to anyone that I had a very brief moment to catch up with, I ended up being pulled around all over the place trying to keep on top of things.

There were in excess of 200+ cars and probably nearer 250 people in attendance, certainly waaayyyy more than I was anticipating. I had a meeting with the venue manager later that evening and fortunately I can say that they were actually keen to have the event continue but with more of a collaboration with them in the organisation. I have to agree with them on some of their ideas as with the interest with the event now, it makes sense for all involved. Although not set in concrete the next meet will probably feature the following:-

• Top car park (grass area) will be for those that pre-register. I want this to be simple though in as much that it will be managed through here via people responding to the thread with their vehicle. It also means it will remain as a bit more of a 'show' area for things of interest.

• For those that do not pre-register for the top car park there will be a small entry fee at the gate for parking. This is more to encourage those from Facebook etc to share lifts or perhaps consider parking elsewhere. No disrespect to any vehicles in attendance last night, but when you see a 25ft Merc Sprinter show up to 'have a look around' the event it kind of shows the need to control the parking.

• The parking fee will also cover the buffet / Pizza and a free drink though, so not a bad deal if you ask me.

I wanted this event to remain a really relaxed affair and to not charge people to attend, but unfortunately it now has such an interest group following it that the venue have proposed such organisation. I can't blame them either after they had to go recover 40+ glasses from the car park after everyone left.

I'd really appreciate some feedback on it from those in attendance as to what they feel would work well - then I can hopefully put that into action for the future.

Here are some pics from a colleague who's damn handy with an image capturing device!

https://www.dropbox.com/l/S8IBDP3ALmT9ss5PlpFQOq

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GaryNoGrip said:

Gutted I can't make the weekday meets, shame you can't run a weekend one, like a breakfast club maybe?

I have actually thought about a Sunday evening meet before. Breakfast is good but too busy at the venue with the golf pole society....

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GaryNoGrip said:

Find a Toby carvery with a big car park, job done!

That would be ideal granted

The beauty of where the event is held though is that the management are keen to help us make this meet better and better. From what I understand, most other meets secure somewhere to hold the meet but the venue management see it as somewhere to have it only. What does go hand in hand is the whole posh golf thing / nice cars scene - so for them it's nice extra promotional happenings.

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GaryNoGrip said:

Ok fair enough, what about same venue but see if a snack/burger van would be able to attend for bacon rolls?

Think the Kitchen Club would be pretty annoyed about that . However, they are thinking of putting on an outdoor Bar / Snack stool there for us next time.

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zed4 said:

There was stacks of food inside, a huge buffet for just £5 per person. We ate quite late in the evening and I was amazed to see so much food left. Wasn't anyone coming in to eat it?

Think they replenished the food as it diminished. We ourselves didn't eat till 9:15 and there wasn't that much left, which in a way is a good thing.