1:24th Scale Model Truck Forum
General Category => Events, Clubs & Exhibitions => Topic started by: voyager on April 08, 2010, 08:49:37 PM
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Ok so most of us know about Gatdon but for those who don't, I visited for the first time last year and it was amazing! Hundreds of old commercials and a huge model truck show in one. I liked it so much I'm exhibiting this year.
http://events.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/events_2010_classic_vintage.html (http://events.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/events_2010_classic_vintage.html)
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i am hoping to get down to it this year even if its for one day ;)
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I shall be exhibiting too on the Sunday. This will be my 3rd year as an exhibitor.
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if i cannot make it for both days which would you say is the best to attend ?
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I'll be there on the Sunday looking for a place to park my arse for a little while after taking hundreds of photos of the trucks outside.
::)
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if i cannot make it for both days which would you say is the best to attend ?
I think last year was the first when Saturday was open to the public and although the turnout was good, some exhibitors (both full size and model) such as Chris can only make the Sunday. If you visit Saturday, you may miss a few people but then again I think there were less visitors so smaller crowds :D
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I'd love to get there one year, but it seems to me to clash with Le Mans 24hrs every year? I'm off to France again, only my 20th yr on the bounce :o 8) :P :D
Isn't it Fathers day on the Sunday?
Rich
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The sunday is the better day, ive shown the last 2 years on the sundays and visited the year before.
(last year next to chris ! )
This year my brother an I will be there both days, so make sure everyone comes and says hello !
(just look for the table with the 1/24th and 1/50th scale john mitchells !)
John
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photos of gaydon 2008
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2633/4159927135_e9b9fd31d6_o.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4160688264_c75dc139c4_o.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/4160685364_7228f38eb3_o.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2501/4160684840_5224c92d0b_o.jpg)
and 2009
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4159954337_ace6dedbb5_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2763/4160707292_ea2d537783_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4160706066_4b4b5970c9_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4159949315_70769b93b8_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2798/4159948301_577f4dc3dd_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2687/4160713314_d08e296526_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2217/4159965205_eab7e5ef78_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2524/4160720794_be56bc04c4_b.jpg)
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good photos and some nice builds. do recognise any ;D
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Isn't it Fathers day on the Sunday?
I guess so, but here in Belgium we also have elections that day and in contrary to other countries that's obligatory for us.
So I have to proof where I was that day :o
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could you not vote by post ? or stick a moustache on the wife and send her in your place ;D
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I know it may look strange for you, I think there are very few countries where elections are obligatory.
Let me explain a bit off topic here: "they" send us an "invitation" to go and vote, we have to go to the voting station that is on that paper (not to anyone!), that is mostly in a school in the neighbourhood.
You can give a procuration to somebody to vote in your place, BUT........... I have no wife, my parents live 35-40 kms from my house (and they cannot do my voting in their place) and I don't want to bother the neighbours with it.
As coincidence happens, most or our elections have always been on the Gaydon date (or before when it was in Rugby).
In the early years (I go to Gaydon since over 20 years) I had to go on Sunday morning to a local police station where they had to write me a paper declaring that I was there on thàt Sunday morning. Well, I can tell you: explaining what I needed was not the easiest part in a country where voting is voluntary!!
Later the rules became less strict and my crossing ticket (ferry or tunnel) was ok as proof I was away.
If you don't vote and you cannot prove you were away (or in hospital or something), it can cost you at least 50 euro, money which I can spend better in a modelshop ;D ;D
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I'll be there on the Sunday looking for a place to park my arse for a little while after taking hundreds of photos of the trucks outside.
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Quick update on this, my good lady has suggested that we have an outing in the caravan and spend the weekend at Gaydon ... result!
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Just a small suggestion but would it not be possible to move Gaydon to Glasgow btw nice photos
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Just a small suggestion but would it not be possible to move Gaydon to Glasgow ...
Strewth, that would be one helluva load ... ;)
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Frantically trying to sort my display out but we had a new bathroom fitted mon/tues and I'm doing the tiling :( plus my dad was taken to hospital last night - he has cancer - so not good timing. Nick, I'll take the rear off the Unimog with me, save the postage :D
Just to give you a flavour of the real trucks last year for those who have never been
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/truckshow1061.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/truckshow1059.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/truckshow1052.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/truckshow1020.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/IMG_3832.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/IMG_3795.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q220/Milnerpics/Gaydon%202009/IMG_3746.jpg)
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some cracking photos there Andrew ;) is the Astran Scania the original or just one painted up the same ?
sorry to here about your old man. no time is good time for that kind of news, hope he gets better soon
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Steve the Astran I believe has been painted. I seen an article on this in Classic Commercials or a similar mag. I think the restore is somewhere in the Midlands.
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sorry to here about your old man. no time is good time for that kind of news, hope he gets better soon
Andrew same here sorry to hear that. Sod the tiling m8, dads more important... ;)
Joe.
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Hi guys, thanks for the words, unfortunately Dad died last night. Although he had cancer and we knew it was terminal, it was a shock as the hospital were pleased with his progress and no-one was with him because we were expecting to visit him again today. Anyway, he taught me everything I know about DIY so if I don't do a good job, I'm sure he will find a way of telling me!
I guessed the Astran truck was a repaint but wasn't sure, apparently a regular so probably there again this year. Despite all, I am making progress on my display. I am not a fan of a table with a creased cloth (if you are lucky!) with a few trucks scattered about so I'm hoping to do something a bit more with htis, my first time displaying. I do know some exhibitors make much more effort then my glib statement suggests (including members of this forum such as Nick and Chris Eve) and my apologies to those who do try, just an overall view of the model shows I have attended, not making the most of the modelling skills shown.
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Right lad, I'll iron a table cloth just for you, cream or blue, your choice?
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Right lad, I'll iron a table cloth just for you, cream or blue, your choice?
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As a previous winner of a best display trophy, I'm sure you can teach me a thing or two (blue please :D). I'm just generalising about my limited experience but I see shows as a great way of getting new blood into the hobby so I think exhibitors should make an effort to show their models in the best way. Only my opinion :-X
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I am not a fan of a table with a creased cloth (if you are lucky!) with a few trucks scattered about
Voyager, first of all my condolences with the loss of your father.
About the table cloth, well I think I'll have to do with less this year :(
Last year this happened (copied from TMW forum):
Hello everybody who were at Gaydon, I have a big question.
And I postponed asking several times because it makes me feel so stupid.
When going to shows I always carry a wooden container with sliding cover. Inside are my table covering materials, i.e. a beachtowel in US flag colors, a flemish flag (yellow with black lion), a flag with a Kenworth W900 and another flag with two long legs and the front of a conventional US truck behind.
In this container there are also some papers from previous model shows (Hannover Germany), a soft brush to take away dust from the models and a small tin with a couple of very little screwdrivers and a plastic photofilmroll container with some tiny screws (to assemble my US lowloader, but this was not in Gaydon this year).
I came home and after a couple of days I started unpacking my models and put them back in the glass cabinet where they are always. But I felt I was missing something.
I didn't know what, but the feeling stayed.
I looked and looked, all the models were there. But something was still missing and I still didn't know what. My head was paining of thinking.............
Then I saw that this wooden container was missing. I searched the car and the whole house: the hobby room, the spare room, the loft, the garagebox (which is one street from my house), but I couldn't find it.
I thought of 2 possibilities:
- or I left it in Gaydon
- or somebody was "helpful" to carry it (to his own car)
I never unpack this container at home, I always leave things inside for the next show, that's why it took a bit longer before it was really missed.
Anyway, the dimensions of the container are: L 68.5cm W 32cm H 13.5cm How I know so exactly? Because I had 3 of them (they were from an old office drawer at work) and only 2 are here now.
I sent an email to Ashley to ask this and he replied: "I do remember seeing the box left behind at the end of the show because it was put by the 'reception' desk, but then someone moved it, later so I guessed it was claimed. I do not remember who moved it. I do not know what happened to it after that. Maybe you can contact Gaydon and send them the e mail with details of the box. Perhaps they still have it in a store room?"
So that is what I did, I called/sent email to Heritage Motor Museum, but they didn't find anything.
I guess what happened: while I was arranging things in my car somebody thought the box was left and took it away to the reception desk. When I came back inside the hall to check my place if nothing was forgotten, I found it empty, said goodbye to some people and drove off.
Maybe somebody else has also seen the box and knows what happened with it, I would be very pleased to get it back (I know it was not great value, but it was very useful on shows and so).
I remember some people I saw there: of course Ashley, Peter White and Kim the photographer, also Paul Davis, all of the MMTC team: Dave Hewitt, Peter Reddish, Bob (tractor man) I had a nice weekend with them all, Jack (the Volvo man), Lonewolf from the forum, Ted Taylor, and some others that I forgot their names.........
On the other forum I had some sympathy but not really a good hint about it.
I really do hope that somebody can help me :)
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I really do hope that somebody can help me :)
Gerdi,
I am going to Gaydon the first week in June to survey a bridge over the test track (and pick up my advance tickets... 8)).
If you think it would help, I will call in the heritage centre and ask at the reception for you??? Sometimes a person to person talk can be more responsive! If you have any pictures etc that might help send them through to me...(you have my e-mail).
If I can help you with this problem I will m8...
Regards
Joe.
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Hi Gerdi,
I had seen your post on TMW and am sorry to hear of the loss of your box. The cynical side of me would think someone thought there may have been something of value in the box and took it to find out. If that was the case, I would guess they disposed of it when they found it was more personal than valuable. I hope I'm wrong and that when you turn up it will be sitting waiting for you but I don't think life is like that. However if it is there, I suggest you buy a lottery ticket right away ;)
I knew when I said about displays (or lack of) I should have qualified it. I saw some great efforts which had some real thought put in but they were overshadowed by the majority which (in my humble opinion) did not. It just seems a shame to put the amount of effort that had clearly gone into some of the models, not to show them to their best advantage, remembering that many visitors will not actually be modellers and therefore should be given as much of an 'experience' as possible. See you all in a few weeks! :D
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Having collected the new caravan on Saturday, I've just booked the weekend at Gaydon and paid for my tickets, £36 which includes the caravan for two days, my entrance fee and my my good lady, cheap weekend. So, who else is camping / caravaning over the weekend?
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My wife's daughter lives in Reddich, about an hour away so we are staying there (Anne will then be going shopping on the Saturday, gulp! ;D). Maybe you could have a BBQ on the Sat night ;)
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Andrew, good suggestion, anyone else, the more the merrier ... ;)
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that sounds good to me, everyone round Andy's wife's daughters sat night then ;) ;D
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Steve you bad lad, I think Andrew meant a BBQ at my caravan? ... 8)
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Steve you bad lad, I think Andrew meant a BBQ at my caravan? ... 8)
That's what I meant, though I'm sure there would be enough to go around at Jo's - usually is :D I think Nick will be closer though!
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;D ;D ;D i thought so
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I really do hope that somebody can help me :)
Gerdi,
I am going to Gaydon the first week in June to survey a bridge over the test track (and pick up my advance tickets... 8)).
If you think it would help, I will call in the heritage centre and ask at the reception for you??? Sometimes a person to person talk can be more responsive! If you have any pictures etc that might help send them through to me...(you have my e-mail).
If I can help you with this problem I will m8...
Regards
Joe.
Gerdi,
I called in 2day and they told me that they do not hold lost property longer than 3 months. Sorry m8.... :(
Joe.
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Phew, close call! Nearly wasn't going to Gaydon, the guy who was supposed to be working my Sunday couldn't do it :o After some frantic 'phoning around, got someone else to cover so all the work isn't for nothing after all! Got my passes and wristband too so all systems go (this is my first ever go at exhibiting plastic models - done a couple of railway model shows but not 'on my own' like this - anyone got tips as to what to take?)
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you lucky man :D
more than i can say for myself as its looking very doubtful i can make it :'( :'( :'(
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you lucky man :D
more than i can say for myself as its looking very doubtful i can make it :'( :'( :'(
What, you've got to, I'm bringing beer!
:P
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That's it, just got back home from my weekend at Duxford to find my caravan pass and tickets lying on the mat. Sorry you can't be there Steve, I'll make sure I get loads of pics for you. Any special requests for photos?
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you lucky man !
just save the beer for next time we meet LOL
i am looking for as much info and photos as possible on the Leyland hippo/octopus pre supercomet
in other words this model
(http://www.truckerlinks.dk/leylandbil/leyland_octopus.jpg)
guess what my next project will be ;)
kind of you to ask by the way 8)
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The beer will keep matey. If there's a Hippo / Octopus there Steve and I can get to it I'll snap it for you.
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Shame you can't make it Steve, was looking forward to meeting :(
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same here Andrew and the rest of you but circumstances and all that.
i am sure there will be other occasions ;)
if you can Nick i wouldn't mind a pic of the inside as well :D
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... if you can Nick i wouldn't mind a pic of the inside as well :D
No problem Steve.
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Well, Gaydon is approaching no longer in 3 months, but in something like 3 days.
Wonder if my box will have found the way back to Gaydon............
Hope to see you all there.
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Just about finished my display :o Packing stuff tomorrow night for a drive to the Midlands Friday afternoon (always last minute me!). see you there Gerdi 8)
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Well, Gaydon is approaching no longer in 3 months, but in something like 3 days.
Wonder if my box will have found the way back to Gaydon............
Hope to see you all there.
Gerdi,
I called in 2day and they told me that they do not hold lost property longer than 3 months. Sorry m8.... :(
Gerdi, I called in and posted this last week but I didn't know if you had read it???
Joe.
See you Sunday.
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Sorry Joe, I didn't read that. Thanks for the effort.
Anyway, I still don't think it is there. In my opinion it is somewhere in some modeller's house :D
Maybe.......... maybe............ maybe.............
I will see Saturday morning.
In the meantime I have bought some new covering stuff.
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well a lot of you will probably be leaving for Gaydon tomorrow so i will wish you all good luck and i hope you all enjoy yourselves
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To all that are going to Gaydon please remember the poor souls who cant make it and take plenty of photo's to post please
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To all that are going to Gaydon please remember the poor souls who cant make it and take plenty of photo's to post please
Keith,
Is there anything inparticular you might want??? If I can help I will.
Joe.
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Two cameras are better than one, what say we start at both ends and finish in the middle, last one to the centre buys the ice creams?
:P
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To all that are going to Gaydon please remember the poor souls who cant make it and take plenty of photo's to post please
Keith,
Is there anything inparticular you might want??? If I can help I will.
Joe.
I think my next project might be a middle east rig so any older trucks and off course the models on display
Thanks Keith
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last year was my first visit and i ran around snapping away like a kid in a candy shop! As I'm exhibiting this year, I'll be spending most of my time with the table but when I do go to take pics, I'll be concentrating on those trucks I plan to make models of and making sure I get the info I think I'll need, hopefully talking to the owners to get interior shots etc. Last year I had 300 shots to go at, got a new memory card so 1300 pics to go at this time 8)
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Got back last night, had a great time, met lots of people, all really friendly and just downloaded the 400 or so pics to the computer :o. They will take an age to upload to photobucket but I tried to get lots of chassis shots of stuff that's available as kits so hopefully they should end up in the reference section sometime!
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what a fantastic time gaydon was it was great to meet a few of you guys it was my first year displaying and i was really suprised at how much interest there was in my models. i will try and get some pictures up later in the week.
alan
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Hi Gerdi,
I had seen your post on TMW and am sorry to hear of the loss of your box. The cynical side of me would think someone thought there may have been something of value in the box and took it to find out. If that was the case, I would guess they disposed of it when they found it was more personal than valuable. I hope I'm wrong and that when you turn up it will be sitting waiting for you but I don't think life is like that. However if it is there, I suggest you buy a lottery ticket right away ;)
Hi all, sorry to dig up this old topic, but as it looks now, it seems I have to buy that lottery ticket next weekend.
Last week I got an email from the museum, asking if I was coming this year, if so I could pick up my box, they have found it !!!
So fingers crossed next weekend :thumbsupup:
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Good news indeed Gerdi, look forward to seeing you again at Gaydon.
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Good news Gerdi mate......Kwak all round :cheesy:
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That's amazing Gerdi, nice to know it wasn't taken :thumbsupup:
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Amazed it took them almost a year to let you know
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Amazed it took them almost a year to let you know
A year ? ? ? ? ?
I reported it "missing" in 2009!!! That is 3 years :grin:
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Amazed it took them almost a year to let you know
A year ? ? ? ? ?
I reported it "missing" in 2009!!! That is 3 years :grin:
Lol where has it been!!! the Gaydon triangle :grin:
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Its Warwickshire........things move slow here :grin:
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at least its turned up Gerdi :thumbsupup:
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at least its turned up Gerdi :thumbsupup:
Wait and see ... :wink:
We say: "don't sell the bear's skin before you have shot him"
But at least it's good news :thumbsupup:
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at least its turned up Gerdi :thumbsupup:
Wait and see ... :wink:
We say: "don't sell the bear's skin before you have shot him"
But at least it's good news :thumbsupup:
Not for the bear! :shocked: :grin:
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First day over - great day meeting everyone again! Lots of spaces outside unfortunately even though the weather has been really good. Hopefully more will arrive by tomorrow. Fingers crossed for some silverware for our table...... :thumbsupup:
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Glad that all went well.
Sat Nav programmed for tomorrow. :grin:
Hope that everything hasn`t been snapped up. :cry:
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Hope you don't wan anything from KFS as Howard was sinking in the mud last night so he waited to give a few orders out and left at midday or so.....
You really should have told us what you were looking for Jim!
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First day over - great day meeting everyone again! Lots of spaces outside unfortunately even though the weather has been really good. Hopefully more will arrive by tomorrow. Fingers crossed for some silverware for our table...... :thumbsupup:
Bright sunshine when I left. Really enjoyed day 1, hardly moved from the table ... :wink:
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Definitely a good show was good to meet some of you. Shame Howard didn't pack his wellies !!! Oh well more money in my pocket :cool:
Picked up a few kits (yes Mick the van was big enough!) and a good little book by Mick Waite about recovery vehicles, Are you on here Mick?
Got home about 30 mins ago shame I cant get there for tomorrow
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hardly moved from the table ... :wink:
Too many bickies? lol
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hardly moved from the table ... :wink:
Too many bickies? lol
Very nice Tony, the knobblers were crackin! ... :wink: :tongue:
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hardly moved from the table ... :wink:
Too many bickies? lol
Very nice Tony, the knobblers were crackin! ... :wink: :tongue:
Glad they were to your liking :thumbsupup: :thumbsupup:
Did you see the RED thing outside from the Gulf refinery?
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Did you see the RED thing outside from the Gulf refinery?
Bugger!
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Did you see the RED thing outside from the Gulf refinery?
Bugger!
May be there tomorrow, in a bit of a sad state tbh guy who has it is thinking about taking a grinder to it :sad: :shocked:
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I got some pics of it - needs an Ergo cab.... :grin:
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Did you see the RED thing outside from the Gulf refinery?
Bugger!
May be there tomorrow, in a bit of a sad state tbh guy who has it is thinking about taking a grinder to it :sad: :shocked:
He'll get his a**e kicked! :angry:
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Did you see the RED thing outside from the Gulf refinery?
Bugger!
May be there tomorrow, in a bit of a sad state tbh guy who has it is thinking about taking a grinder to it :sad: :shocked:
He'll get his a**e kicked! :angry:
My feelings exactly sadly funds wont allow me to save it! :sad: :sad: :sad:
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I got some pics of it - needs an Ergo cab.... :grin:
So long as it's a red one ...
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what a fantastic weekend it was great to meet everybody again but 2 days never seems long enough :grin: i was over the moon to win with my jakey adams erf and congratulations to all the other winners as well :thumbsupup: although i reckon mick might be needing to go to ikea soon :grin:
heres a link to my pictures i took.
http://s531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/tooncelt73/gaydon%202012/ (http://s531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/tooncelt73/gaydon%202012/)
alan
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Who built the MAN brit european truck?
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at least its turned up Gerdi :thumbsupup:
And it came home this time :wink:
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Who built the MAN brit european truck?
This man did:
(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5127/edeca.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/600/edeca.jpg/)
But he's not on this forum :angry:
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Who built the MAN brit european truck?
This man did:
(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5127/edeca.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/600/edeca.jpg/)
But he's not on this forum :angry:
Thanks gerdi,you wouldnt happen to have any contact detsils would you?
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Do we have a Forum foreign ambassador?
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Do we have a Forum foreign ambassador?
Gerdi :cheesy:
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Thanks gerdi,you wouldnt happen to have any contact detsils would you?
Rich, I can give you his email address, his mobile tel.number, etc... but he doesn't speak that much english, so I doubt you will get an answer (or he will forward it to me and I have to answer ..... ).
BTW have you seen the ASG Tekno's in the next hall in Gaydon, they were at £50 each or 3 for £100.
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Do we have a Forum foreign ambassador?
Gerdi :cheesy:
:thumbsupup: