Lola demo in Huntingdon town centre

[cj_eds]

Didn't see this elsewhere on PH, but for those interested & close by Lola are doing a 50 year celebration in Huntingdon on the 12th October. Local rag we got said something like 18 cars to be running.

http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/50th/index.htm

[Forthright MC]

yeap, i'll be coming along to that, an opportunity far too good to miss! (me and a few other PH'ers did a tour of the factory a little while back, fantastic, hopefully some of those might come along as well)
the "paddock" of cars on the Sq should be quite a sight too!

ETA, well worth posting this thread in the Cambs forum too IMO - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by Forthright MC on Sunday 28th September 23:01

[stew-S160]

ill be there. knew about it a few weeks ago.

still would have been nice for Lola HR dept to acknoledge my job application instead of nothing.

[cj_eds]

Forthright MC said:

yeap, i'll be coming along to that, an opportunity far too good to miss! (me and a few other PH'ers did a tour of the factory a little while back, fantastic, hopefully some of those might come along as well)
the "paddock" of cars on the Sq should be quite a sight too!

ETA, well worth posting this thread in the Cambs forum too IMO - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by Forthright MC on Sunday 28th September 23:01

Was also at the factory tour - assuming we're thinking about the same one. I was one of the volunteers for the pit-stop practices. And after that I promptly decided I needed a compressed air gun for wheel nut removal at home

Has that cambs forum always been there - I've never seen it before?

[Simpo Two]

stew-S160 said:

still would have been nice for Lola HR dept to acknoledge my job application instead of nothing.

The fact they are 'Human Resources' doesn't mean they are actually human...

[Forthright MC]

cj_eds said:

Forthright MC said:

yeap, i'll be coming along to that, an opportunity far too good to miss! (me and a few other PH'ers did a tour of the factory a little while back, fantastic, hopefully some of those might come along as well)
the "paddock" of cars on the Sq should be quite a sight too!

ETA, well worth posting this thread in the Cambs forum too IMO - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by Forthright MC on Sunday 28th September 23:01

Was also at the factory tour - assuming we're thinking about the same one. I was one of the volunteers for the pit-stop practices. And after that I promptly decided I needed a compressed air gun for wheel nut removal at home

Has that cambs forum always been there - I've never seen it before?

the tour i did was with Dink and a few other PH guys back in June, fantastic place, we were guided round all the various depts/sectors etc, very interesting, the convoy to and from there was great too, see here for pics and stuff
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

the Cambs bit of the forum is fairly recent, but very handy none the less IMO

[SirTainly]

Sounds cool, I may come down for a gander since it's only a 20min drive!

[dinkel]

There will be some of these:



Enjoy the day and make sure to snap a few

[central]

Thanks for the shout James.

I'll see if I can make it.

[Forthright MC]

central said:

Thanks for the shout James.

I'll see if I can make it.

not a problem!

an additional thread is now up and running on Herts, Beds, Bucks & Cambs now too BTW

[MG Mark]

Huntingdon is probably going to get a sight more visitors than it is expecting methinks fromaround and about. 10-minute walk for me. See you there if you're recognisable PH-wise!

MG Mark

[stew-S160]

Incase any of you lot have not heard who will be there, I'll tell you- John Surtees, who will be driving a car round the ring road. Anthony Reid too(i think it's him). And a couple more drivers who I can't remember right now.

Edited by stew-S160 on Thursday 9th October 11:29

[SirTainly]

stew-S160 said:

Incase any of you lot have not heard who will be there, I'll tell you- John Surtees, who will be driving a car round the ring road. Richard Reid too(i think it's him). And a couple more drivers who I can't remember right now.

Julian Bailey too for those of us that remember 80/90s BTCC

[Simpo Two]

stew-S160 said:

Richard Reid too

The guy with bombs in his shoes?

[stew-S160]

Simpo Two said:

stew-S160 said:

Richard Reid too

The guy with bombs in his shoes?

Lol, i meant Anthony Reid.

more info here- http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/news/news299/299.htm

[tonyvid]

How cool was that? I was at the junction of St Peters Road and Ermine Street - lovely and wide corner with a long straight so some big hoofage from some of the cars. AWESOME

[cj_eds]

tonyvid on the other thread said:

Pics on the other thread

Snap...

[SirTainly]

yes very good, too bad some twits wandered into my piccies.

[Forthright MC]

SirTainly said:

yes very good, too bad some twits wandered into my piccies.

there were people everywhere, kind of reminded me of those old rally stages where people had to jump out of the way real fast!

was ever so busy, but worth the wait to see some of the cars in the paddock tho'

my pics are pending...

[cj_eds]

Forthright MC said:

there were people everywhere, kind of reminded me of those old rally stages where
people had to jump out of the way real fast!

Exactly what I was thinking as the plod cars approached :- that everyone seemed to be getting closer and closer. I was beginning to wonder if it would get to the old rally style dive out the way!