Anyone seen Vantage Magazine yet?

[IanV12VR]

It mentions some car called "Vesuvius" - some great pictures and a great write up. Congrats Y100!!!!

[Y100]

IanV12VR said:

It mentions some car called "Vesuvius" - some great pictures and a great write up. Congrats Y100!!!!

Ian thanks. The story is a long one involving lots of research, patience, kind and helpful advice from the good people on this forum, Mike and Adrian at Bamford Rose with their formidable expertise and especially my best mate Julia, whose support has been amazing.

Edited by Y100 on Monday 3rd March 20:42

[Jockman]

Nice one, Bob - no doubt the other mags will catch up and run the story !!!!

Great to see you've buttoned up your shirt on your profile

[MollyGTi]

Congratulations Bob - no, not on Vesuvius' magazine appearance but on your 1,000 post that you are about to make on this forum

We haven't got our copy of Vantage yet but Rob was at BR today & saw it there - most impressed he was too apparently (more importantly, as was Jethro Bovingdon )

PS Welcome back Jockers

[V12Vanquish]

My copy arrived in the post this morning. I'm undecided if I will renew my subscription. Personally after 4 issues, I just haven't found it terribly interesting.

[Jockman]

MollyGTi said:

Congratulations Bob - no, not on Vesuvius' magazine appearance but on your 1,000 post that you are about to make on this forum

We haven't got our copy of Vantage yet but Rob was at BR today & saw it there - most impressed he was too apparently (more importantly, as was Jethro Bovingdon )

PS Welcome back Jockers

Crikey...Bob's on a 999er....hadn't even noticed.....Bob, we all made outstanding postings on our 1,000th so please don't let the side down

[Y100]

Jockman said:

Crikey...Bob's on a 999er....hadn't even noticed.....Bob, we all made outstanding postings on our 1,000th so please don't let the side down

No pressure there then Jockman. Its been a nice day for a drive, so we did and here are some pics we took whilst we were out. I hope it meets the criteria for my post mil;

Edited by Y100 on Tuesday 4th March 18:13

[IanV12VR]

Not bad for your 1,000th post Bob

[robgt]

Well Bob, I guess a couple of pictures will have to do!

[Jockman]

Nice one Bob !!!

Beautiful car

[Y100]

Jockman said:

Nice one Bob !!!

Beautiful car

IanV12VR, Robgt, Jockman thank you. Whilst we were at Gaydon, Henry Cozon ('Q' dept manager)came out to view Vesuvius for the first time. Although he has seen pictures before, he wanted to see the car and also the result of his handy work on the c/f center console, of course he was pleased.

In the interest of fair play, anyone that might be aware of 'Q's hitherto 'no can do' reputation, I feel I should mention here that in conversation with Henry, I think now, 2 years on since the introduction of 'Q', the department I am inclined to believe has realised that it was indeed falling well short of its own hyperbole and have now addressed those issues and are far more responsive to customers 'personalisation' requests. Henry was most apologetic to me about the several requests I made and that he was unable to agree to during 2013, suggesting that other department interests were taking precedent BUT that had now been dealt with.

I'm pretty much done now with tweaking Vesuvius, so I'll not be the one to test out our 'enrys' reassurance,,,please anyone that does, let us know how you get on.

[IanV12VR]

Looking forward to seeing Vesuvius in real life. As you know Silverspeed has a Volcano Red V12VR which I have seen a few times now and the pictures, however great they look, seldom do the colour justice. See you both at Burley House

[montecristo]

Just read this issue. Vesuvius looks magnificent.

Really impressed with this magazine. Well written, good pictures, even the ads are interesting