Saturday 5th August 2017- Italian Car Breakfast Meet

[solaris998]

Following the Great success of our last breakfast meet in June, at which we had over 30 odd cars in attendance, we are organising another meeting on Saturday 5th August following the same format. Its an informal meeting of Italian car enthusiast, we park up, chat, admire the cars and have a very good breakfast.

The next meet will be held at 10am on Saturday the 5th August 2017, at The Departure Lounge Cafe GU34 4BH, just outside Alton in northern Hampshire.

The cafe is a great venue for a breakfast meet, as it has a large solid field on which the owner lets us park so as to be all together and out of the main public car park.

The meet starts at 10am. It is open to any Italian car of any age, and we have had classics through to modern Alfas and Ferraris and everything in between. Attendees have come from across the southern counties, with enthusiasts arranging their own convoys from Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Surrey or arriving independently.

There are few meeting points, for those coming from southern Hampshire there is a meet at 08:30 in the car park of Sainsbury's at Junction 7 of the M27 (Hedge End), close to the petrol station, and then drive up in convoy.

There is also another meet in Newbury at 0900 in the McDonald car park McDonald - Newbury Retail Park, Pinchington Ln, Newbury RG14 7HU

We would love to see you all again, or meet you for the first time if you haven’t been before. Please do also spread the word to other Italian marque forums or boards that you are part of.

hopefully see you then

Alan

[ecsrobin]

I’ll be there.

Robin - 595 Competizione

[Ross 156]

Thanks Alan,
I'll be there again in the Cup. Great friendly event for anyone in the central-southern counties.
Ross

[ecsrobin]

Ross will you be stopping at the George and Falcon again?

[Denorth]

Very high possibility of joining in August. It has proven to be a very good event while still being so informal and friendly.

[Ross 156]

ecsrobin said:

Ross will you be stopping at the George and Falcon again?

We certainly can if you want to meet us there on our way.
Really looking forward to this now as not long to go.

Hope to see some of you there.
Ross

[ecsrobin]

I’ll let you know the week before if that’s ok? If it’s just me I may head to hedge end. If the boss is in tow I may meet there if that’s ok?

[Ross 156]

That's fine, just let me know by Friday night and we will meet you wherever you prefer.

[Stuart J]

last one was really good, I have a couple of things to sort so may not be able to make this one but I'll try

[23]

My 145 has stopped throwing it's aux belt now so I'll see you all there.

Edited by 23 on Wednesday 2nd August 22:02

[stevespic]

Wouldn't mind tagging along altough my Italian machine only has two and not four wheels

[ecsrobin]

I see no issue with 2 wheels I’m sure the others will say the same.

I’ll be at hedge end.

[Ross 156]

Great, see you in Hedge End for convoy to Alton.

Completely agree, no problem with 2 wheels.

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

[ecsrobin]

Cheers for today Ross, superb weather and a well organised drive.

A great turnout at the departure lounge and nice to see old and new faces.

[solaris998]

Great meeting this morning and I think it was a record of 48 cars!! nice to see old & new faces, good weather and great mix of cars

[Stuart J]

Ross

Thanks for organising , these meets are definately growing in popularity

Good to see old and new faces and a lovely collection of cars

Looking forward to the next one !!

[Ross 156]

Thanks for coming to those who made it. Really good to see you all and glad you enjoyed it.

48 cars in total, so a new record for us. Loads of variety as well, which is great.

Paddy made a video and included lots of pics, but his drone flight was before everyone arrived, so it doesn't show all the cars- there were three lines in the end- brilliant...

https://youtu.be/rYSwNR6z-WI

Really hope to see you all again together with some more if possible for our next and final meet of the year- Saturday 7th October.

[Ross 156]

Please see below another video of the event, taken by the For the Drive chaps... very good!

https://youtu.be/xk2I5wsdT1s