RE: PH Sunday Service With Jaguar Land Rover

RE: PH Sunday Service With Jaguar Land Rover

Monday 14th March 2011

PH Sunday Service With Jaguar Land Rover

Damp but definitely not down-hearted. And biscuits. Lots of biscuits...


Well it didn't do much more than drizzle on the British Motor Heritage Centre on Sunday morning, but the forecast was enough to keep a few PHers tucked under the duvet.

Evoque show car drew lots of attention
Evoque show car drew lots of attention
All the more credit then, to that happy band of PHers who did turn up, and who enjoyed a great morning out courtesy of our friends at Jaguar Land Rover. We reckon close to 300 cars filled the dedicated car parking area outside the museum front doors.

A big thanks to the JLR guys and girls who turned up to meet Garlick and the rest of the PH HQ team at 7.30am before the event began. They were responsible for the shiny new XJ, XKR and XFR parked on one side of the museum entrance and the pre-production Range Rover Evoque on the other, as well as their heritage collection silver XJ 220, and the famous E-Type registered 77 RW. (The latter fresh from its 50th anniversary jaunt to Geneva to celebrate the E-Type's launch, and more importantly the paint-shop - having been painstakingly brought back up to scratch following its altercation with an out-of-control Honda at last year's Goodwood Moving Motor Show.)

Ian (L) and Julian (R) chat to PHers
Ian (L) and Julian (R) chat to PHers
Unsurprisingly the Evoque drew a lot of interest, as did the very cool Model B Ford Coupe hot rod belonging to JLR design chief Ian Callum - just re-MOT'd especially in time for this PH Sunday Service. PHers might also have spotted/bumped into JLR advance design boss Julian Thomson, who turned up (nobody say late...) in a red Ferrari Dino that he's owned for more than 20 years.

Other significant highlights included the 8kg box of Cadburys chocolate buttons donated to the PH team as we ticked off names on the gate (thanks to DaveL485), a bag of still warm home baked scones (thanks to Mrs Tyre Tread), and a case of Irn Bru freshly shopped from Bonnie Scotland that morning (thanks to LHD). Donations of other cakes, biscuits and pastries flowed liberally, but fortunately we had the new PH fleet C63 AMG wagon to haul the goodies back to PH HQ in Teddington - we reckon we've biscuits to last until the next Sunday Service at least, so a big thanks to all you donors from all of us!

AMG torque sufficient to haul buttons...
AMG torque sufficient to haul buttons...
All in all, a great morning out, we thought. Typically we left just as the sun was breaking through the clouds, which hopefully means the brave PH Caterham contingent made it home in drier style than they arrived.

Meanwhile back in the office on another Monday morning, as we stuff ourselves with chocolate digestives and top up with sugary pop, LHD's largesse has introduced the amusing suggestion of a PH Irn Bru run to Scotland. A bit like the classic Beaujolais run, only north. Does anyone know when the fizzy season starts...?



The Sunday Service Picture Thread is here.

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Mermaid

Original Poster:

21,492 posts

173 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Well done PH team & JLR.
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TaRD

778 posts

189 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Excellent day, really enjoyed it, nice photo of the guys I came with leaving without me laugh

edinph

386 posts

176 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Great to see the Evoque with "real" people around it. Gives a real sense of size and proportion. Love it!

LongLiveTazio

2,714 posts

199 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Evoque looks fantastic there. Its real-life proportions are so spot-on and I think the interior's great too.

Atrophy

78 posts

187 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Im liking the big box of chocolate buttons woohoo

Garlick

40,601 posts

242 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Atrophy said:
Im liking the big box of chocolate buttons woohoo
My teeth really hurt, but I can't stop eating them......

McAndy

12,685 posts

179 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Garlick said:
My teeth really hurt, but I can't stop eating them......
laugh They're so darn moreish aren't they!

Life Saab Itch

37,068 posts

190 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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No need to go to Scotland proper to get your Irn Bru. Little Scotland (Corby) Asda has a whole aisle devoted to the stuff. hehe

Looks like a good meet. smile

sleep envy

62,260 posts

251 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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any chanve of sorting out some 'Sunday Service' stickers?

Chris-R

756 posts

189 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Life Saab Itch said:
No need to go to Scotland proper to get your Irn Bru. Little Scotland (Corby) Asda has a whole aisle devoted to the stuff. hehe
And according to Wikipedia they brew/concoct/ferment the stuff in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. I'm shocked! Wonder if the Glawegian stuff's better, like Guinness in Dublin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn_Bru (No wonder Garlick's teeth hurt. They've gone orange, too.)

Podie

46,632 posts

277 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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[pedant]
Ferrari Dino?!?!

Wossat then!?!
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I assume you mean a 246?

Switch`

3,455 posts

177 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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sleep envy said:
any chanve of sorting out some 'Sunday Service' stickers?
That's a good point, I've got a nice section of paneling that could do with a few "achievements"

LHD

17,001 posts

189 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Chris-R said:
Life Saab Itch said:
No need to go to Scotland proper to get your Irn Bru. Little Scotland (Corby) Asda has a whole aisle devoted to the stuff. hehe
And according to Wikipedia they brew/concoct/ferment the stuff in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. I'm shocked! Wonder if the Glawegian stuff's better, like Guinness in Dublin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn_Bru (No wonder Garlick's teeth hurt. They've gone orange, too.)
I'm glad to have been of service. hehe

Davie 1

2 posts

159 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Barrs do indeed have a production plant at Mansfield, but as any true scot knows, real Irn Bru comes in 750 ml glass bottles from the plant in Cumbernauld. Only the best will do !! :-)

Chapppers

4,483 posts

193 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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My, that's a handsome chap 3rd in from the right of that group...


lordlee

3,137 posts

247 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Thank you to everyone for a great day out. Especially liked the XJ220 and the kind JLR staff member who took me through all the controls on the XJ. The screen in the middle is amazing as your passenger can watch a film whilst you read the nav - awesome tech. Dont know who arranged money off at the museum but thank you to them as it was fascinating to see some of the cars in there. The sci-fi exhibit however was truly terrible!!

paddy328

2,907 posts

187 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Did anyone hear the horn on that jacked up red truck as it left? It was insane!

W00DY

15,534 posts

228 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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I actually had to go to the shop for some Chocolate Buttons after seeing that box.

My paltry 175g didn't last very long. frown

chazwozza

743 posts

188 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Quite sure I have seen that red truck going through London followed by other random sports/superars about 18 months ago. Any ideas what they were doing or was it a P/H thing, weekend of Notting Hill '09 I believe?

Garlick

40,601 posts

242 months

Monday 14th March 2011
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Anyone want a chocolate button? I've only had about 2kg today.

hurl