Scottish Summer holiday meet

Anyone up for, or available on a Sunday and a meet for lunch between now and September?

Possible venues:

- Falkirk, with visit to Kelpies or Wheel

- Roman Bonnybridge (for the historians) with walk along Rough Castle/Seabegs Wood (Antonine Wall)

- Stirling (Wallace Monument or Castle)

- Or a trip West of Glasgow in Silver_Fox's direction to say hi if she feels like coming out to play

I can only do July 17th, 24th, 31st and August 21st & 28th, but that doesn't stop anything else

Will most likely attend if date chosen is 31st July but please don't let that influence the decision.

"And so it begins...!"

count us in for this

Thinking cap is on but If heading west What about Ayrshire? Largs for lunch and icecream? and we could maybe catch Silver_Fox.

Yes, I'd wondered about Largs

Only if GrahamL promises to attend!

I'm away 18th > 22nd July. There may be a day either side of that also. I'll have to look into it...

I'm up for this but would prefer if not Kelpies or Stirling Castle as the Lego family have visited these a lot.

31st July looking good.....

Yes- that would be good for me, also...

Hi Folks!

Thanks for your thoughts. I'm still recovering and hope to be fighting fit again in the next month.

I had started a thread a while ago for a

"trip doon the watter"

I'd suggested Sat 30th July because Sunday down here can be hit or miss.

It would be great to see a troupe of coupes down here as a few of my colleagues and a local garage all think I'm mad for splashing the cash love on mine.

If you guys are up for it I can arrange a pretty decent fish supper...although can't guarantee the weather!

Hello Dee!

Great to hear from you! Thankyou for the PM also.

Good to hear you are on the up- a weight off all our minds, I'm sure.

I 'think' the concept is something during the day and for less than a day- a sort of lunch meet up which is just 'West enough' to incorporate those folk who haven't made it across to other recent meets.

If we can get fish & chips in the afternoon- I'm up for it! But we'll have to round down on a location that's relative central for everyone.

I'll have to look up that Scottish-register thread now and get my map out!

You did indeed Dee, apologies for not having attributed that

Good to hear you sounding positive though and seeing as you'll be around 6 weeks 'in' it would be great to get something off the ground even if it were fairly self-contained or perhaps in two stages - a shorter and a more extended for those available.

You being the best-placed your comments about a Saturday job we should take on board and canvass support for say 30th July as you suggest.



1. silver_fox
2. Edinburgh

We are okay with 30th or 31st

Me too...

'I shall be there...'

30th July

1. silver_fox
2. Edinburgh [/quote]
3. Rosso x2
4. dante giacosa

30th July

1. silver_fox
2. Edinburgh
3. Rosso x2
4. dante giacosa
5. Bern + family!

Brilliant Bern

Have made enquiries to see if one of our 'sleeper' members is on board, also...

Watch this space ..!

Hi everyone, very tempted for 30th July. We can leave Kirkwall on Friday night arrive Aberdeen 0700 on Saturday morning by ferry. can you let me know where you are talking about meeting exactly? Need to work out how long a journey from Aberdeen and if we can get back for 17.00 return sailing same day. If not, could be possible to get a ferry on Sunday instead.

Crikey Dianne!

There's NO stopping you guys!!! Keen to get that mileage up from 40k, I see!?

That would be sensational if you could make it down- we might have to try and steer 'slightly' North then...

Would be great if we can make it, at least no mileage added while on the ferry
Will wait to see what you all decide is most convenient for you

Okay!

Watch this space- I will get the atlas out tonight and then we'll have a consensus...

Wow Dianne, you guys have certainly caught the bug!

silver_fox - do you want to have some input?

Excuse me-

Are you contributing to this thread- FROM ITALY??!!

Ehhhh....correcto signor

No coupes spotted on Lake Como yet

This is great! Hope you guys can make it.

Sensational-

You can be 'our man in Italy' for a few days

I think we should start a sub thread, within this thread, for people to list parts they'd like you to bring back from the riches which are undoubtedly available in the local scrapyards

Shouldn't take too much time out of your holiday- Mrs Ed can pass you the tools!?

DG- passenger side rear wing

Looks like you folks are in for a good time. Hope you land up some where nice. I'll keep an eye open for future jaunts & maybe I'll be able to come along. My excitement & enthusiasm were well & truly used up on the West coast tour & as I told Simon, believe it or not I've never done anything like that before. Been all over but not in convoy, & with the other Coops, sounding soft I was trying to keep things together.....

Have a good one you all & I'll watch out for pic's & the craic....

Hey Silver Fox! PM sent!

I 'think' this is the lineup at this point...

1. silver_fox
2. Edinburgh
3. Rosso x2
4. dante giacosa
5. Bern + family!
6. Paulie3 (+mate?)

I am supposed to be Karting on Saturday 30th, but seeing if it can be brought forward 24 hours.

What's the route plan....?

Hey Scouse!

Welcome along! - it'll be great if you can make it- please try!

At this point, the plan is obscure-but I have today put out feelers for a specific destination that I have in mind and am awaiting a response.

Hope to have a concept within the week...

Watch this space...

That's the plan, but with a herd of girl wannabe karters at scotkart, may prove difficult, but we will see....

Hey Marko- you have PM

Hi folks!

Great to see list growing.

I've been in hospital again and had a wee procedure. Now in the recovery stage and unable to drive still.

I've been asked if destination is flexible but to be honest I'll still be off work and don't want to be driving too far so staying local and welcoming visitors would be my preference.

Please don't let me hold back any plans that might attract fellow coupsters from further afield though.

I'll keep an eye on the thread and hopefully I'll be fitter and able to come along.

Dee

Personally I'd be happy on this occasion and under the circumstances to meet as near to you as possible

If non-coupes are welcome, I'll try and free up space to make it along. I spent my first few years just down the road in Innellan.

Nice Steel Grey on ebay just now...2.0 20v n/a 1998 low mileage sitting at £820.00 although reserve not met...not mine lol

Innellan is a lovely end of the peninsular and where I initially wanted to stay but ended up at the top end with lovely views over the Holy Loch.

go for it Matt

Oh, I do have a coupe - it's just that it's only scheduled to be back on the road in about another 5 years.........

Hey, everyone and Dee especially, sorry to hear you have had a bit of a setback but hope you are now on the right track.
Of course, guys, organise something close to Dee, I am sure it will be a great tonic for her to see the coupes and enjoy your company. If I can't make it because it is too far south, no worries, we will all meet up for a longer road trip later.

I'll keep an eye out for where you decide and see what is possible, but running the business makes it hard to get away at this time of year for more than a couple of days. (Which just about gets me down to John O Groats !!!!)

Okay

I'll just put this out there-

How do folk feel about Callander..?

Unless I've got this wrong silver_fox might not be up for this......happy to be corrected.

Alternatively perhaps there could be TWO meets

That certainly works for us, only 2.15 hours drive from Aberdeen ferry. We dock at 0700 am so can easily make a day of it.
As I said before, happy to go with the flow, especially for Dee and catch up with you all another time. Maybe Simon is onto something with two meets.

Could everyone stretch to something like Aberfoyle or Balloch ?

Thoughts please

We 'might' just be able to tease out a result here...!

Put me down for anything Jim. So long as my wee ones can eat.

Good shout, Bernard...

As it happens, Edinburgh is about to swing in with a definitve concept...

(Cue Simon...)

Why thank you sir.....

After a flashback of nearly 50 years it dawned on me that somewhere off the track as it were is up near the Sma' Glen along the Perth/Methven/Glenalmond/Amulree route

Proposed Route

first of all lunching at

Pitcairngreen Inn

I think silver_fox will probably join us at a more local meet to her at a later date

That's not too far away from us...

Lunch provisionally booked at Pitcairn Green Inn for 1.00 pm..


1. Edinburgh
2. Rosso x2
3. dante giacosa
4. driley x2
5. Bern + family
6. Paulie3 (+mate?)
7. jimbob13 + family?
8. Lego

Terrific!

"Anyone else on board..?"

(Shouted through cupped hands, in a Westwards direction...)

That works for us, booking ferries tomorrow.

Simon, can you give me a rough idea of when you think we will finish the drive, it will help me to work out how far north we can get after and therefore where to book accommodation for the Saturday night.?

Okay, we're definitely up for this, provided people don't mind having a shiny new French imposter in amongst the lovely Italian oldies? We're Coupéless until October, so we'll be using the Cactus (which should finally be arriving next Friday). Would just be nice to actually meet some folks.

What I factored in was you having the option to split at Ballinluig on the A9 and head north while the rest of us turn back towards Central belt (except maybe jimbob13).

If lunch is at 1.00 we should aim for 1245 to meet up - is that do-able for you?

Allow an hour + and leave at 2.30-ish for the 44-mile trip as far as Ballinluig, which in theory is 1 hr 15 mins but factoring in stops could add an hour + on top of that.....so we could say 5.00 p.m. at Ballinluig?

Thanks very much. Yes, no problem meeting at 12.45. In fact we will probably be there well before as we arrive in Aberdeen at 0700. We will have a look round the local area.


Rest of the day works out fine too. Once again, thanks for your help as always

Aarrgghh Tourists !!!! No space on Aberdeen boat for normal people.

Not to be deterred. Now leaving from Stronsay 0730 to get Pentalina to Gills on 29th. Drive down, overnight, meet up, drive up, overnight, drive up, two ferries and home Sun 31st at 20.30

How much do I love you guys ???

Gosh can you make ferries on the same evening as the do our drive?

It's a horrible thought but you do realise the meet is on the Sunday....?

I HOPE you are kidding. Silver fox suggested Saturday not Sunday, then everyone signed up for the 30th which in my diary is a Saturday.

Very expensive mistake if you are not joking.

Sorry Dianne, looking back at the thread there has been some hee-hawing between the two dates, including moi, having originally proposed the Sunday then as you mention after silver_fox's post I have changed to Saturday!

You have booked ferries etc aiming for a meet on

Saturday 30th July

so without question that is what we'll do! And I've amended the thread title.

I'll amend the reservation for lunch tomorrow - still looking for confirmation from some....?

Count us in for sat 30th

Sorry Simon, if it sounded like I had had a sudden sense of humour loss ( because I did :()
Hope everyone else was thinking Saturday too.

Ok, lunch now reserved for 1230 on Saturday 30th

The slightly earlier time is because they're preparing for a music festival due to start at 3.00 and they were anxious we might be 'put off' by the noise....

1. Edinburgh - confirmed
2. Rosso x2 - confirmed
3. dante giacosa
4. driley x2 - confirmed
5. Bern x2 + 3 family - confirmed
6. Paulie3 - confirmed (+mate?)
7. jimbob13 + family - confirmed
8. Lego


Brian, do you want me to mention Toto and Nero?

Crikey that was a shock!

Yes- I had always thought it was a Saturday myself.

In case it will affect booking figures- I think I will be attending with at least one other.


Simon- Thankyou for taking this on with the lunch venue.

Dianne- I'm so glad you are able to juggle travel arrangements to make it!

1. Edinburgh - confirmed
2. Rosso x2 - confirmed
3. dante giacosa +1 at least - confirmed
4. driley x2 - confirmed
5. Bern x2 + 3 family - confirmed
6. Paulie3 - confirmed (+mate?)
7. jimbob13 + family - confirmed
8. Lego

Have PM'd Marko but guess he's on holiday....

Have also spoken to George who promised to put his name down..... George!!

I'm keeping in touch with the Inn.

Central Belters - meet at our favourite place by Forth Road Bridge at 1100 hours to leave at 1115, it only takes about 45 minutes so we can have a blether before lunch

Getting excited now

I'll have to give the car its second wash since the West Coast Tour..!

Plus- I'll be able to road-test my latest Coupè-meet accessory

This is a really cool piece of equipment

1. Edinburgh - confirmed
2. Rosso x2 - confirmed
3. dante giacosa +1 at least - confirmed
4. driley x2 - confirmed
5. Bern x2 + 3 family - confirmed
6. Paulie3 - confirmed (+mate?)
7. jimbob13 + family - confirmed cancelled (no wheels )
8. Lego

Oh, that's a shame...

1. Edinburgh - confirmed
2. Rosso x2 - confirmed
3. dante giacosa +1 at least - confirmed
4. driley x2 - confirmed
5. Bern x2 + 3 family - confirmed
6. Paulie3 - confirmed (+mate?)
7. George x2 - confirmed
7. jimbob13 + family - confirmed cancelled (no wheels frown )
8. Lego

For my 100th post, happy days, so many can make it shame about jimbob13 But we will meet up soon I'm sure, as we all seem to have caught the "let's meet up" bug.

There are no cancellations, so karting is on for daughters posse of wanabe Schmachers, sadly again...i will miss this meet. Need some luck fo the future though.

@ScouseCoupe, we'll try and organise a meet over your way before too long (hopefully by end of September?) where we'll meet some new faces

That would be terrific

1. Edinburgh - confirmed
2. Rosso x2 (+furry boys) - confirmed
3. dante giacosa +2 family - confirmed
4. driley x2 - confirmed
5. Bern x2 + 3 family (high chair req...will you fit, Bern ) - confirmed
6. Paulie3 x2 - confirmed
7. George x2 - confirmed


Latest count - i.e. 12 adults, 4 kids and 1 tot!

Not to mention Toto and Nero


Pitcairngreen Inn updated with above numbers

Shame about Marko...

Have a feeling he's away....

Hey Dianne-

Have you had the paintwork done on the car, yet..?

Not yet, she has been to body shop again for quote so will book her in after our next meet. Their opinion was just do the big scratch from the xxxxxx keying and leave the other "minor ones". Body shop says the ones on the boot and near side will be difficult to match so best left. So, will be good to get your advice on what you guys think is best before I make a decision.

Saturday, looks a bit mixed weather at the moment, but time for it to brighten up.

'Difficult to match so best left'...?

Sounds like the wrong body shop?! What do those guys do for a living if they can't do that!?

Fair enough...

I haven't looked at the weather yet- but it's going to be great to see you no matter what happens in the sky...

Just about to get up and catch the ferry. Down to Tain for tonight stay. See you tomorrow

Ha! I was just about to email you and ask if your journey began this morning!

Good luck, Dianne- hope the super-ferry is a good crossing- you'll have to tell me about it tomorrow, as I've never used it...

Drive carefully- 'looks like' an alright day for a journey down...

Diane enjoy your journey

The weather is off to a beautiful start this morning... long may it continue.

Hope the weather stays sunny for you all & have a nice one...

Hey Dianne, I'm impressed with your enthusiasm, not a short uneventful journey to say the least. Enjoy.

Didn't realise Motherwell was that far away


Bon voyage Dianne!

we have palm trees growing over here in our garden

Just like Plockton-

Hey Rosso- are we seeing you at the Bridge tomorrow..?

Just like Plockton... only slightly less picturesque.

Yep we shall see you at the bridge ready for our dose of rubbish coffee.

No polish, no wax but she's clean again and ready for tomorrow.
11am at McDonald's is it?

Yep indeedy Bern

The tension mounts!

Gave mine its second wash since the West Coast tour tonight. It seemed to take hours...

Plus I met up with Paul (who is coming tomorrow) and we did the old oil-check thing. AND we fitted that missing bonnet/wing sponge-bung that was missing.

Everything is ready...

(Wonder if my radios are compatible with Simon's...?)

washed, claybar, polished and finally waxed at 10 in the dark... probably wake up to a crono grey coupe in the morning.

Glad you chaps have so much time on your hands!

Well I've polished the bonnet.....

Radios DG? I didn't know you had radios?

Good effort Bernard

Good effort Brian

Yes, I've got these 'period' Binatone things. They just 'might' overlap into channels on yours. We'll have to have a quick look in the morning...

Home safe. Nice to meet up again.

Yeh a good day out today and great to meet some new faces Paul and Claire.

Sorry to See you both having to skoot off Diane and Paul and hope you have a good drive back home.

Lucky to have kind weather all day and great company as always, also to see plenty of kids getting into the swing of joining in with their wacky parents

Top marks to Dianne and Paul in particular for their major commitment in joining us for all too short a time, especially as fate caused a delay or two for those coming north in getting the day kicked off.

Our wee convoy of around a half dozen coupes turned not a few heads in many places and en route

Eee it's good fun driving these

Terrific to see everyone! Thanks for all making it out and doing extreme travelling (Dianne & Paul).

Wonder if it's too late to retrospectively design a meet-up sticker for today??!!

Always good to see a few Coops out & about. A real family event by the looks of things. Top marks for Jim's photographs.

Thanks, Jimboy!

Shame you couldn't make it.

Here is an attempt to show all the cars that attended- we seemed to fail to get a group-parking shot..

I was tempted Jim, but I didn't think you all would be ready for a second helping of my enthusiasm I've got Belladrum next weekend, so busy three day event with the whole family. I'm a bit tempted however on the Christmas meet, but I've no idea how things will pan out both transport wise & personal circumstances. I do hope we can all meet up some time in the future with the Coops all in convoy. The memories from our North trip are still in my mind...good times..

A few pics from the day

McPreparation

Getting the lowdown


Squeezing Inn at Pitcairngreen


Bookends/Dogends - aka Toto and Nero, cute as hell





Some vids in the pipeline, probably before the West Coast Tour ones at this rate

Good effort-

I can see what you were doing in that field now...

Aye Simon some arty angles there, I wouldn't expect anything less from you, keep up the good work..

yes great to see everyone again and to meet Paul and Claire. Shame we missed out on the ice cream, looked good!! Had a good journey back to Tain then next morning got caught up in a slow moving convoy of 40 of Landrovers, tightly packed moving at 30-40mph. Paul had plenty of time to count them all, he was not a happy passenger, Managed to take 20 at once on the only straight on A99 then hopscotched the rest just before the Berriedale Braes. Considering the A9/99 are notorious for fatal accidents due to frustration, (lot of folk are trying to catch the ferries and on a tight schedule) this was pretty poor car club behaviour.

Thanks for the photos, always good to see, probably will not make Xmas lunch a bit too far for us mainly due to weather and travel conditions. However, look forward to hearing the planning for the next big tour. Once again, thank you to Simon and Jim for looking after us and planning the trip.

You are very kind- mostly Simon's effort, I think...!

Very glad to hear that you got back safe.

Yes- I'm beginning to know that part of the world very well, Dianne- coming South, the Berriedale Braes can be a good moment to overtake going up the hill- but I wouldn't want to do it going downwards!

40 land rovers! I would think our own touring efforts would be hampered by such numbers- lucky there's not many of us left!
That can't have made for a very satisfying drive can it- for anyone involved!

You are right about the statistics- I read once that the A9/99 section there, is the most dangerous section of road in Scotland.

Closely followed by the Devils Gorge in the Lake District, not a good place if you ride a superbike at over 150mph, then you go airborne.....

Perhaps there's a moral to that story, Scouse...?!

Possibly, but the place is quite eerie.

That's seen from the air though

First attempt at uploading some video footage.

Found the clunky camera mounting with all its angle adjustments was so long as to be a bit wobbly, but have sorted that for another occasion.

Perthshire coupe meet - straightest roads ever




Working on another couple of short clips, hopefully less hypnotic....


Still working on West Coast Tour material

Gripping!

I can't believe some of the antics you've caught us pulling on camera there!

We'll be lucky to keep our licenses after this gets out...

Nothing illegal

I quite like the model car on the dash, should you ever breakdown you could brum it about in a layby while waiting for a tow.

Decided that sat. nav. voice very dodgy, used to have Norwegian in works van, I learned quite a bit. Lovely accent.

That's not the sat nav - Simon talks to himself whilst driving..

He puts on a voice and narrates the guidance

Ooh, stirrer !

It's actually you.S. "Dave", a leftover from our trogs around New England last year

2nd vid:

Sma' Glen, a phantom parade in eerie solitude, then........go find Barney, with model driving but ditching of coop with eventual spin-off

Sma' Glen stealth

That's great footage!

Well worth the effort in editing & uploading it.

All we need now is a 4-hand piano soundtrack to give it the feeling of a silent movie...

Well it's got 2 cars if not four hands.....

Vids together

Perthshire coupe meet - straightest roads ever



Sma' Glen, a phantom parade in eerie solitude, then........go find Barney, with model driving but ditching of coop with eventual spin-off
Sma' Glen stealth

3rd video restored

Kenmore, Loch Tay

Haha Jim, I thought you were serious and actually watched it twice thinking I had missed something.

Wow! Much more exciting video Simon - lost coupes, 3 point turns, reversing, turning and boats.

Cue scratch-hop version of that Benny Hill tune?

Oddly in HD on my screen there is a copper coloured car. In 360p it is a red car. At first I thought a respray had gone very wrong!

Exactly what you need to calm you down after holiday

Feel free Jon

Will have to wait as studio in 3 different locations at present, but something for the future.

`You lot` reminded of `this lot` for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/user/LordAndrewDCLXVI

...which I came across some time back while looking for some very scenic drives. Hope you like.

Sorry to bring this back from the dead-

But someone just sent me a video which features, at about 2:27, somewhere where we all sat down for a cup as & some icecream!

At Loch Tay!

(Controversial icecream if I remember)

Have I got the right place!!

https://www.redbull.com/uk/en/bike/stories/1331821751376/danny-macaskill-wee-day-out

Absolutely brilliant! If only we'd have been there then!