Third Site Meet - Gaydon

[Nightfire]

Thanks again for organising! A great day.

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[Nightfire]

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Phil

[Adam]

Great photos Phil! I'll post mine up later.

Just like to say a big thanks to everyone that came, 10 BRM's its a record so lets hope we can get more for the next one :mml:

Cheers guys :beer:

[rovamota]

Yeah, it was cool to see all those BRM's and meet the owners together, and the view in my mirror as we all pulled out of the Heritage centre was a sight to behold. Great looking car the 200 BRM.

Kev.

[**Warren**R200]

wow that looks amazing, i cant wait to get mine on the road and come to a meet

[Dom]

I've just text Adam apologising for not making it thinking today's Saturday! Hmm... little too much sangria last night.

Sorry I missed it chaps, got struck by the dreaded head gasket failure yesterday :(

Photos look like it was a good 'un too

[Adam]

Didn't get much of a chance to post yesterday when I got home so here I go...

The morning started at half 6 for me, woken up by an annoying alarm clock in the pitch black. Eventually left my house around half 7, the weather was chilly and very overcast but no rain had fallen during the night to spoil all the cleaning i'd done on Friday. I headed for the motorway thinking it'd be clever to ignore the satnav and go northbound round the M25 to the M40 instead of Southbound as it suggested. Hitting the motorway my first snag appeared, Junction 2 on the M25 was closed due to a very helpful lorry jacknifing itself across the road, so onto the back roads.

Eventually getting onto the motorway at J1 and through the tunnel gave me a nice oppurtunity to put the window down and listen to the exhaust roar through the tunnel :D From there it was clean sailing all the way till about 15 miles from my first stop off at Cherwell Valley services where I hit a slight snag....

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Being the brave man that I am I decided to risk it and got to the services with fumes in the tank to wait for Phil and possibly Pete (didn't know if he'd received my text or not). So onto a really healthy breakfast to keep the energy levels up for the day ahead...

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Phil and Pete both turned up before half 9 so we decided to get underway up to Gaydon. I'd forgot how much fun it is travelling in a convoy of BRM's, its a fantastic site! Getting to Gaydon shortly before 10 we found Neil already in the carpark and started to line up. Then they started appearing, first one, then two, until we had 10 BRM's all lined up looking absolutely splendid in their orangeness.

To organise an event and have this kind of turn out makes it all worth it and seeing them all lined up is truly a sight to behold for any BRM enthusiast. Each one had its own little individual marks from Rover badges on the standard air filter to a replica splitter from the prototype.

Photo's followed along with a lot of hand shaking and talking about the various cars, their heritage and peoples plans for the future of their car. With Kev being the tenth to turn up we moved the cars back to get them all together without various other cars like cadillacs getting in the way. At this point I'd like to thank our two other supporters that had arrived, Phil in his ZR and I have to apologise for not catching the name, but a rather lovely ZR kitted R200....

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Now back to the BRM photos.......

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The best in show was decided and it went to Tony's brother (I didn't cathc his name unfortunately) for his stunningly clean BRM)....

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We then ventured into the museum, it seemed smaller than last time i'd been there and they'd even sold the BRM gas turbine car :( There are still some fantastic cars there and I took pictures of some of my favourites....

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Heading back outside it seemed everyones mind was on lunch! :ike: We went into Gaydon to the nearby Malt Shovel and promptly filled up half their carpark with lovely orangeness. Peoples faces seeing that many BRM's together were a picture and I have to say that the food in the pub was excellent (especially as mine came really quickly). Here's a couple of the journey and carpark...

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Two different front splitters together

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Much talk in the pub about cars and Rover in general on our tables passed the time and I thought we'd head to the next stop in our mini journey. It was decided to go to Kenilworth castle instead of Warwick castle and after a slight mix up on route of following the wrong person we arrived at the carpark to find that the one we wanted that would give excellent views of the castle was shut unfortunately :( However we took the oppurtunity for some photos of the cars in a much more scenic autumny setting under the trees...

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A slight drizzle (the first of the day) signaled home time and everyone went their seperate ways. I cannot say thankyou enough to everyone that came and made the meet the success that it was, hopefully the next will be just as good if not better :D

Adam

[**Warren**R200]

it sounds like it was a brilliant day certainly looks like it from the pictures!

[**Warren**R200]

oh yeah who won the competition for the best brm?

[evomoose]

Well done to all concerned, looked like a great meet. Nice to see all attendees with orange snouts.

Adam, do you know whether any of the non 'on site' attendees were there because the event was publicised in the mag? I can see Phil in one pic and I know last time I spoke to him he told me he was not online.

Once again, well done chaps.

When is the next one?

[Adam]

oh yeah who won the competition for the best brm?

It was Tony's brother, I didn't catch his name unfortunately but his car was spotless!

Well done to all concerned, looked like a great meet. Nice to see all attendees with orange snouts.

Adam, do you know whether any of the non 'on site' attendees were there because the event was publicised in the mag? I can see Phil in one pic and I know last time I spoke to him he told me he was not online.

Once again, well done chaps.

When is the next one?

I think a couple saw it in the magazine so that was well worth it.

The next one is being planned as I type this so watch this space :D

[spankyban]

Adam your dead right mate.. Jealous.. seen some of you show up (a private plated one and the one with teh silver black plates) - BTW Does he have any issues with the law?

I was on site but at the near end of th etrack catching up on some test time after some tit crashed the car we were supposed to be using - apologies agian for letting you down at the last min.. hope you enjoyed it down this neck of the woods and return soon..

Dan

[Adam]

Adam your dead right mate.. Jealous.. seen some of you show up (a private plated one and the one with teh silver black plates) - BTW Does he have any issues with the law?

I have had trouble with the old bill, got a £30 fine for those plates so they're show use only now :rofl:

Hopefully you can make the next one mate we need even more cars there :thumbsup:

[**Warren**R200]

id love to come to the next one, im not sure if ill have my brm ready in time though,

just encase you were wondering adam, it was me that waved in the rover 200 in front of you in dartford

[Adam]

Thought it was mate! Sorry if i wasn't very smiley, was on a different planet that day, lol!

[**Warren**R200]

lol thats ok.

[RICH 448]

Big thanks to Adam for organising the meet,had a great day,nice to meet more BRM nuts to chat and compare notes with.Look forward to next meet,


Richard V404

[Adam]

Was great meeting you Rich! :clap2:

[boogie]

Sorry guys for not being there hopefully next time. Got a few probs at the mo. Pissed off that we missed it it looked a lot of fun !!

[Gene Hunt]

Great pics & looks like a good day.

[GmL_BrM]

Looks Awesome guys - shame i couldnt make it but had other comitments! definately be there at the next one - maybe have it closer to kent ;)
G

[welshone]

Sorry guys a week too slow for this meet. only picked my BRM up today but i'm ready for the next meet

[Gerald-17]

:pimp: My god haven't seen that many BRM's in one shot ever!

i think you can post a letter to the guiness book of records with this, i even think iv'e seen the best car pic's ever! :thumbsup:

[Adam]

Was a fantastic turnout, I hope we can recreate it many more times!

[Taff]

lets get a meet like this, looks absolutely great.

[garythesnail]

Just spotted mine! Does the owner of T887 still visit this site? If not - anyone remember who it was?