National Wedge Meeting ! [This Weekend!]

[Nacnud]

- it's in my diary.....

[rev-erend]

Sorry for my absence this weekend - been busy taking the SEAC to AUSTEC on Saturday and out will all the WEdges on Sunday.

10 cars in Feb .. I can only say I'm impressed.

We did a similar format to what I'm suggesting for a national meeting .. we met in a large open air car park .. chatted for about 1/2 hr then went for a drive of about 3/4 hr thru 2 nice towns (Henley and Marlow)

- followed by another chat in a pub car park .. then a few coffees in the pub .. well some of us drunk beer.

I think everyone had a great time .. certainly great to meet people in person.

We did discuss a national meeting and had a few thoughts..(these are not necessarilly mine just passing them on..) :

1) Everyone liked the basic idea

2) Not everyone liked the Museum idea not unless it was the 'Modern Lingerie museum' - Steve you crack me up...! People thought they could visit museums in their own time - they want to talk & drive wedges.

Places to stop / regroup / chat on a drive would be great.

3)Us shandy drinking southerners don't want to venture up North until it gets warmer.. (we've got some funny geazers down were ) - 200 miles top down in April might be wet / cold.

4) Tas - your idea for April - why not have a dry run of a few local routes ..

I'm going to put more stuff on another post (to long and they get boring).

[PetrolTed]

I've put it in the calendar

www.pistonheads.com/calendar/calendar.asp?m=5

[rev-erend]

Thanks TED !

I've trawled thru this and found the following.

Who is Interested :

Well - Here's the provisional list of attendee's for the weekend of 16/17th July.. Mrs H - can you check this against you email replies..

Rev +1
Nhyde + Mrs H
Jonres
JMorgan
Father Ted
B19 Jae +1
AM400
Stever
BlainUK
Redcar + Mrs Red
Stainless + Wife
Seamus
The Doc & The Dragon
Firefox1712
Chris280
Flattyland & Mrs F
Tasmania
Gerry Attrick
TVR-NUT ?
NACNUD ?
JVAUGHN

What is the Agenda :

How about this format ..

Sat 12:00 ~ 13:00ish - people arrive from all over country.
13:00 ~ 15:00 - talk cars etc ..
15:00 ~ 17:00 - Country drive out (Local wedge owners to arrange route)
17:00 on - discover local bar & restaurant

Sun, Breakfast followed by :
Local Event - or another drive taking in some local sights (another change to stop/ regroup and chat).

Where to stay :
Suggested places :Charlecote,Hampton Lucy,Snitterfield or over to Evesham
www.information-britain.co.uk/counties.cfm?county=3

possible block discount on big hotel

Also find local travel inns (in case any one with a family wants to come along at a reasonable price..)

Who else to invite
Chris Schirle, John Ravenscroft, "The Pole", even PW?
Geoff Stratam - factory SEAC racer !

>> Edited by rev-erend on Monday 9th February 13:28

[dmsims]

Rev, Ted

what we really need is somewhere where people can add themselves to the event + car details ?

[NHyde]

Mrs H is working on the site to allow on line registration

[TaSmania]

Rev, et al.
As stated & passed to Mrs H - I'm in.
Rev,
I'll tie up with Father Ted and see if we can get a Midlands date and then once we have sorted the BBWFest venue we can do a recce of a Route.
Mrs H is looking at Hotels so if we choose one with a big car park we could use this as the venue. My recollection of the Charlcote is it would be big enough.
Another thought - and a tad further north (Near Lichfield) is Curborough sprint - I'll see if they have the track free as it's big enough for a gathering and perhaps a blat (in my rally testing days it was £80/day - mind that was >10yrs ago!).
Mrs H - giz a mail and I can send some other hotels details if needed but the one you've listed looks good - how many parking spaces?
Tas.

[stever]

[quote=rev-erend]Thanks TED ! How about this format ..

Sat 12:00 ~ 13:00ish - people arrive from all over country.
13:00 ~ 15:00 - talk cars etc ..
15:00 ~ 17:00 - Country drive out (Local wedge owners to arrange route)
17:00 on - discover local bar & restaurant

Sun, Breakfast followed by :
Local Event - or another drive taking in some local sights (another change to stop/ regroup and chat).
quote]

Spot on Rev - let's leave the museums to the anoraks & the kids! Having said that, following your earlier comment, how about the Triumph Museum?

I've just seen a picture of a real nice one on the back of a bus in Central London. It was purple, with an underwired chassis and came with matching panties

[rev-erend]

NHyde said:

Mrs H is working on the site to allow on line registration

We can also use Ted's :

www.pistonheads.com/calendar/calendar.asp?m=5

[rev-erend]

stever said:

[quote=rev-erend] Spot on Rev - let's leave the museums to the anoraks & the kids! Having said that, following your earlier comment, how about the Triumph Museum? I've just seen a picture of a real nice one on the back of a bus in Central London. It was purple, with an underwired chassis and came with matching panties

You crack me up ...

Triumph .. didn't they make the TR7 too

[firefox1712]

I quite like the lace variety myself - well - preferably worn on a pleasant young filly of course. You don't think.......

I believe there are one or two lingerie manufacturers in the Midlands, so we could use that for a venue and have a tour around the factory with a catwalk show!

Just me thinking out loud again.

Must stay off the fizz!

firefox

[rev-erend]

A thought - we definately need a 'group' tee shirt made for this .. something funny on the back and our name & PH name on the front.. mainly because I have the memory of a gold fish.

Any idea's for something funny - or just "I drive a BIG BAD WEDGE" - "BBWF - 2004".

ANy other idea's ?

>> Edited by rev-erend on Monday 9th February 17:35

[dmsims]

Deja vu again!

There is quite a good cartoon of a wedge on the TVRCC Bristol website, what do you think ?



>> Edited by dmsims on Monday 9th February 18:22

[Mrs H]

We like the T-shirt idea. Would be a nice memento of the occasion.

Suggestion: What about each person designing & wearing their own T-shirt. I found out the other day that you can get the iron-on transfer stuff on paper suitable for laser printers. Print whatever you want and iron it on.

[stainless_steve]

Mrs H said:

We like the T-shirt idea. Would be a nice memento of the occasion. Suggestion: What about each person designing & wearing their own T-shirt. I found out the other day that you can get the iron-on transfer stuff on paper suitable for laser printers. Print whatever you want and iron it on.

The wife did this for me at Gang on the Green, looks good.
We could use a standard logo BBW 2004 or whatever we decide then a pic of our cars below

[Mrs H]

24 cars so far

[jmorgan]

Mrs H said:

I found out the other day that you can get the iron-on transfer stuff on paper suitable for laser printers. Print whatever you want and iron it on.

Make sure its square though, looks odd when its wonky. Works well off my ink jet jobby.

[rev-erend]

Mrs H said:

24 cars so far

Just 1 more to equal the Griffs total from last year ...



>> Edited by rev-erend on Monday 9th February 19:33

[Nacnud]

dmsims said:

Deja vu again! There is quite a good cartoon of a wedge on the TVRCC Bristol website, what do you think ?

That's my BBW
Dan should be able to do that image at any resolution in any colour.......

[Nacnud]

Here's the back of Stainless Steve's GOTG T-shirt from last Summer.