Wednesday 20th October 2010

Video: PH Sunday Service At Porsche

700 cars make the pilgrimage to the largest Sunday Service yet

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Last Sunday, the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone groaned under the weight of 700 PH cars, basking in the crisp winter sunshine at what was arguably our best Sunday Service ever (we'd certainly argue it), and definitely our biggest yet.

We had everything on display, from a Grinnall to a Diablo, an Audi 80 to our own competition-prize Subaru WRX STI and quite a few superbikes. Eclectic is the best way to describe it, and the display perfecty demonstrated the broad range of cars we attract on PistonHeads.

Porsche Panameras were on hand to take PHers for demonstration drives, and by 'demonstration' it appeared they meant 'go as sideways as possible'. The GT3 also came out on the hour to show how sideways is really done. In addition to the on-track displays, PHers were also offered tours of the Porsche facility and could eat a fine breakfast laid on by the in-house Porsche catering team.

The PH team were on hand to greet the cars on the gate (yes, we were the reason for the queues to get in) and we were amazed to be handed gifts by some of you as you entered. PHer Bigburd's mother provided us with freshly cooked mince pies and a prize for BTaP too, the hobbymaster gave us all party bags with sugary goodness inside and two others (we didn't catch your names I'm afraid) gave us some biscuits and chocolate. Thanks guys, that was very kind of you and totally unexpected.

The team at Porsche UK kindly produced a video of the day too. If you didn't make it to the event you can see what you missed, and if you were there see if you can spot yourself in the footage.

We would like to thank all of the PHers who turned up on the day - the Porsche guys said it was a pleasure to have you at the venue and commented on how friendly you all were and how much they enjoyed your company. In return we would like to thank Cristina and Jo (along with the entire Porsche team) for making the day happen in the first place and for looking after us all so well.

If you entered the raffle on the day, we can announce that the winner was Paul Gadsby with ticket number 23.

For more photos from the day see here.

 

 

 

[Groober]

Yay! Im on the video.

[sixspeed]

How did I miss this? I only heard about it on Sunday afternoon..

[roosevelt]

"Eclectic is the best way to describe it", wow even the spell checker was overloaded!

[C2james]

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

[Mattt]

What was this competition prize Impreza?

[hornetrider]

Balls, I also made it onto the video

[Mermaid]

C2james said:

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

You will also need a huge spoiler to guarantee your car is included

[beach kid]

Great day Thanks PH!

[C2james]

Mermaid said:

C2james said:

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

You will also need a huge spoiler to guarantee your car is included

or i could just turn up in a touring car, i wonder if jason plato is selling his?

[Rusty-C]

Mattt said:

What was this competition prize Impreza?

PH is giving away an STI Impreza to one lucky reader:

http://www.pistonheads.com/subsite/wrxsti/default....

Edited by Rusty-C on Wednesday 20th October 12:09

[Garlick]

sixspeed said:

How did I miss this? I only heard about it on Sunday afternoon..

Numerous editorial articles, stickies in the events forum, facebook posts, twitter updates, daily e mails....

Short of knocking on your door to tell you about it, I'm not sure what more we could have done

[mpm1987]

Awesome Meet.

Spotted my car on the vid too

[hornetrider]

Garlick said:

Short of knocking on your door to tell you about it, I'm not sure what more we could have done

Lazy wkers, get off your arses!

[thinfourth2]

Porsche experience center what happens there then?

Do they make you bald and fat and reduce your ability to reconise colours to grey, grey, grey or white.

[911smark]

Paul

Great Event,Enjoyed by all, Put my name down for next year (2011) Did not have enough time to see do all.

Thanks

Mark S

[Mermaid]

Garlick said:

sixspeed said:

How did I miss this? I only heard about it on Sunday afternoon..

Numerous editorial articles, stickies in the events forum, facebook posts, twitter updates, daily e mails....

Short of knocking on your door to tell you about it, I'm not sure what more we could have done

Was it not a sell-out event? You would have had tickets on e-bay if more had known about it?

[JJS77]

Mermaid said:

C2james said:

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

You will also need a huge spoiler to guarantee your car is included

If only there was some kind of precedent...

[spiritof'76]

Mermaid said:

C2james said:

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

You will also need a huge spoiler to guarantee your car is included

yeah, brief glimpse of my Whale Tail at 2:05 ......... it's a funny thing how that's made me happy lol...

[JJS77]

spiritof'76 said:

Mermaid said:

C2james said:

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

You will also need a huge spoiler to guarantee your car is included

yeah, brief glimpse of my Whale Tail at 2:05 ......... it's a funny thing how that's made me happy lol...

This yours? It looked very well kept.

[spiritof'76]

JJS77 said:

spiritof'76 said:

Mermaid said:

C2james said:

damn it, even with over 700 people and a camera crew there still arent any pictures of my car. Right im buying a lamborghini.

You will also need a huge spoiler to guarantee your car is included

yeah, brief glimpse of my Whale Tail at 2:05 ......... it's a funny thing how that's made me happy lol...

This yours? It looked very well kept.

Yes,ta very much, that's the one well kept,well loved........... and well used