Aston Le Mans trip - AMOC punch up
Discussion
Bit of a punch up on the Amoc website about an official trip to Le Mans this year ( 14th June ) organised by AMOC to celebrate 50 years since Aston won Le Mans which is costing £2500 . Lots of moans about it being priced for the 'Pimms and tweeds set' and not your average Aston petrolhead ( should that be Pistonhead ).
I appreciate a number of us use the AMOC site as well but what about a Pistonheads Aston get together for those who are heading down there - or has this already been organised ?
I appreciate a number of us use the AMOC site as well but what about a Pistonheads Aston get together for those who are heading down there - or has this already been organised ?
I will be heading down with our usual bunch of peeps, couple of Aston, Porkies, Trevs, etc. Would be up for a Aston meetup somewhere, maybe Friday morning and do a loop of the public road bit of the track (if they let us, this year), then a fly by of Arnarge at lunch time.
Good to see Mr Richards is going for the win!
Good to see Mr Richards is going for the win!
Edited by sadlerj on Thursday 29th January 09:43
Yep, the official AMOC entry is very expensive and doesnt seem to be worth the money, so a few of us "renegae members" are doing our own thing at Houx campsite. much better value.
Usually, Aston members meet at the champagne tent at midnight, and then some of us go to the tetre rouge bar until dawn. You'd be welcome to join us
Usually, Aston members meet at the champagne tent at midnight, and then some of us go to the tetre rouge bar until dawn. You'd be welcome to join us
I would like to know what you get for your £2500? Ive been for many, many years, always in our own group, later organised by Airtrack and always had a great time, some years spending more, some less. This year i got an invite from Stratstone Aston dealers, and for £895 they had a good package deal on offer for their customers, everything included, to/from/posh camping/food x 4 meals a day with champers in the evenging ....entertainment if you wanted something different, and no need to do anything other than turn up at the Chunnel in your car
so WTF extra do you get for another £1600? does someone pick you up at your door and drive you there in something more posh than an Aston? does someone hang with you all weekend and even wipe your arse when you go to the loo? do you get a 15 minutes stint in the Aston race car during the 24 hours, just to say "you had a go" type thing ? or maybe if you are single, you get a top hardcore porn actress of your choice to share you (pre made) tent with?
/whatever it is it had better be good, or Stratstone are going to have a full campsite as they are over 50 % cheaper LOL
£2.5K does sound rather steep.......we've been as a group for the last couple years and I think for about £500 all in, we've had decent food, champagne, a good gazebo with TV, fridge, freezer, stereo etc and throughly enjoyed oursleves........sadly not going this year as half the crew can't go, so I actually have quite a few camping passes and GE tickets to sell on 
uuf361 said:
£2.5K does sound rather steep.......we've been as a group for the last couple years and I think for about £500 all in, we've had decent food, champagne, a good gazebo with TV, fridge, freezer, stereo etc and throughly enjoyed oursleves........sadly not going this year as half the crew can't go, so I actually have quite a few camping passes and GE tickets to sell on
Where are the camping paases/ I know a lot of Aston owners who want to join us in Houxwilliamp said:
uuf361 said:
£2.5K does sound rather steep.......we've been as a group for the last couple years and I think for about £500 all in, we've had decent food, champagne, a good gazebo with TV, fridge, freezer, stereo etc and throughly enjoyed oursleves........sadly not going this year as half the crew can't go, so I actually have quite a few camping passes and GE tickets to sell on
Where are the camping paases/ I know a lot of Aston owners who want to join us in Houx
The club is often in this cleft stick; do they have a cheap and cheerful event or do they have something more befitting the marque? More befitting the marque as they see it, I should say.
So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
DickyC said:
The club is often in this cleft stick; do they have a cheap and cheerful event or do they have something more befitting the marque? More befitting the marque as they see it, I should say.
So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
sadly, as someone who is the other side of the fence, "them and us" is fact. Ask the club about me trying to organsie something for Le mans last year. I dared to organise something which I knew owners could afford. The club clearly didnt like this...So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
The obvious answer is to organise something which the majority of owners can afford, and which the majority of owners will enjoy.
williamp said:
DickyC said:
The club is often in this cleft stick; do they have a cheap and cheerful event or do they have something more befitting the marque? More befitting the marque as they see it, I should say.
So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
sadly, as someone who is the other side of the fence, "them and us" is fact. Ask the club about me trying to organsie something for Le mans last year. I dared to organise something which I knew owners could afford. The club clearly didnt like this...So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
The obvious answer is to organise something which the majority of owners can afford, and which the majority of owners will enjoy.
DickyC said:
williamp said:
DickyC said:
The club is often in this cleft stick; do they have a cheap and cheerful event or do they have something more befitting the marque? More befitting the marque as they see it, I should say.
So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
sadly, as someone who is the other side of the fence, "them and us" is fact. Ask the club about me trying to organsie something for Le mans last year. I dared to organise something which I knew owners could afford. The club clearly didnt like this...So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
The obvious answer is to organise something which the majority of owners can afford, and which the majority of owners will enjoy.
williamp said:
DickyC said:
williamp said:
DickyC said:
The club is often in this cleft stick; do they have a cheap and cheerful event or do they have something more befitting the marque? More befitting the marque as they see it, I should say.
So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
sadly, as someone who is the other side of the fence, "them and us" is fact. Ask the club about me trying to organsie something for Le mans last year. I dared to organise something which I knew owners could afford. The club clearly didnt like this...So they go for the expensive event and are distraught to see how few members go for it. By that time they've locked themselves into deals with travel companies and event organisers or whatever, are committed to spending the money, and the trip ends up being subsidised by the club to howls of "told you so" by those who thought it was done all along for a little clique of well-to-do members.
All the events that the club organised when I was involved that went that way were conceived with the best of intentions and ended up looking like a whitewash.
The trouble is, no-one can see a way round the problem. If they ask twelve months beforehand, there are a great many in favour and the club gets all enthusiastic and presses ahead with increasing costs and decreasing interest. DITD, DITD and all that. A member who gave the committee grief for years about "them and us" went on to be club chairman and even he couldn't stop it, because "them and us" is an impression not a fact.
Local Club Area events that all happened to be at Le Mans next June might be a solution, and reading what williamp said, I bet something like that will happen. Anarchy in the AMOC? No, pragmatism, I reckon.
The four-days-straight tip-and-run cricket match at Maison Blanche? You can't organise those, they just have to happen.
The obvious answer is to organise something which the majority of owners can afford, and which the majority of owners will enjoy.
Have a great time, I'll get round to see you on foot.
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