Practical Classics NEC March 31-April 2

http://www.necrestorationshow.com/

The FCCUK has a stand at the Practical Classics NEC Restoration Show from 31/3/17 to 2/4/17 where we will be displaying three club members' coupes, and demonstrating a live disassembly of a car prior to Joe restoring it.

We'd love to see you there (and since you'll be in the car park, you don't even have to get your coupe out in the rain!) - come and talk to us on the stand!

(Apparently there are a number of other so-called classics to be seen, but obviously they'll be of no interest to you.)

Tickets available from the website above, or for club members, stick your nose in the club section for a discount code.

See you there!

2 tickets bought for Saturday 01st - using the club discount code.

Nice to see you and your good lady yesterday Barnacle!

Wow

I'll get myself along to this

You too, Ali. It was the way Liz said 'What is this, the Joe fan club?'...

Can I volunteer the car to be restored ;-)

Too late, Stevo, but come along and see how it's started...

Yes I will probably head over and take a look.sounds interesting.

Catch up at the show Steve, I've not forgotten about you, it's just very busy atm.

No problem Joe.

Hi to all heading to the show next weekend.

Don't forget to print off and bring your Club Vouchers that you should have received via email, with you to the show. Hand your voucher in at the Fiat Coupe Club UK stand (and persuade your friends to as well as you can hand them in to any club) so that Fiat Coupe Club UK can claim £1 commission back per voucher from the organisers.

I was about to post the same thing.

I bought tickets for my sister, and the tickets arrived by post but the vouchers came some days later by email.

I'll be there on the Sat.

Should be good.

The day before, I'm at Coventry airport flying a Boeing 737.


Flight simulator....

I did the simulator a couple of years ago. Very good fun. Enjoy.

Cheers. Hope I don't get air sick!

Pleased to hear some of our forum users can attend the show.

We are in hall 8 stand 320, adjacent to the dream rides section.

Please do come and say hello!

Im on the panda section probably looking at some Fe2O3 on my panda, and oil..

I think you are next to us Sam, the Panda Club has stand 8-225.

We are, which should be great
Looking forward to it, and also a little worried given what were attempting.

A Festival of Fiats Sam given that the X1/9 club abuts both of us.

Mine should be the gold one on that club's stand. Nothing too ambitious going on there other than my car has done less than 75 miles in the last year and it's a 140 mile drive up.

I am planning to visit on Sunday and am looking forward to paying the Coupe stand a visit.

I'll be heading up on Saturday, looks like a great day out!

Excellent, come and say hello

i'll be there sat

There sat as well, will defiantly be checking the stand out

Great news both, we will see you on the stand

As an added bonus, coupe owners who turn up on the stand will get a free, gratis, and no charge FCCUK keyring. And apart from that, it won't cost anything, either!

While stocks last... first come first served.

p.s. you'll have to tell us; I don't think I know you all by sight.

Defiantly be up for that, nice to meet up with some coupe owner’s, see you all on Sunday

We are all set up and ready. Hope to see you here!

The stand looks great, good effort guys!

Hope its a successful event is all aspects, in particular the club and coupe and hope you all have a great time.....Enjoy!

Is that DaveG's Pearly Glad to hear the X has had a run Pete.
Enjoy guys - sorry I can't be there - I'll be at Wembley with the Sky Blue Army

Thanks both!

The work begins! Neil (Barnacle) and Joe (Country cruising) full of confidence!


Joe, Rob and Neil attacking the castle nut

Curses, my identity is known!

Good looking stand guys, hope you have lots of interest

Yep it's been a good first day, and we had a good amount of interest from the public, its definitely been a good start!

Think I might pop along tomorrow

Toby, can I pleeease her your take on 'this your captain speaking'?
Enjoy the company you're in Torino lads (and lass).

We hope to see you there Richard, be sure to come and say hello!

The resto Coupe had its plugs removed aux belts removed, engine turned over by hand proving it wasn't seized, wheels, half shafts, brakes and castle nuts removed.

It's been an epic morning chatting, we haven't stopped giving out club cards and discussing the vehicles on our stand, we should be seeing some new owners joining over thr next few weeks and some past owners buying again as the general feedback seems to be "yes sold mine and regret it"
I'm finally sitting down for a coffee while there's a quiet spell.

We've had one new club member already today Joe following his visit yesterday.

Thanks to the club members - you know who you are! - who took the time to hang around the stand to day and help us talk to the visitors. Thanks also for all the vouchers returned to us!

It's been a busy old day... and I found rather a nice looking Ferrari I have half an eye on, to go with the Merc - complete with personalised number plate already on it - that Anita found.

Brilliant day and really enjoyed meeting everyone, keep up the great work chaps!

I'm exhausted but still buzzing after such an awesome day

Running the stand with only three people was very testing today, chatted with people from 9am until 3pm this afternoon before I took a break, tomorrow is predicted to be even busy so I'm looking forward to have Pete and Dave back to help

Thanks to everyone who popped in to say hello, the club has some really passionate members who love talking Coupé

Very pleased to hear it's been a very positive day, and big thanks to Neil, Rob and Joe on the stand and all the members who assisted!

Was a great day. Fantastic to see the pristine chrono, and the "patina" of the 16valvers. It certainly drew in the punters. Looking forward to seeing the next rebuild project.

Nice to meet more VIS owners. We now know it stands for Very Impressive Statistics. Must remember to try different 97 Ron fuels.

I didn't make yesterday ( woman trouble), going to run around Tesco this morning then over to the show

Great time yesterday chatting coupes with fellow coupe geeks!
That chrono is an absolute peach, epic work joe

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Enjoy guys - sorry I can't be there - I'll be at Wembley with the Sky Blue Army [/quote]

We're off to Wembley with the Mighty U's. Let's just say we're fellow Coupe owners!

On my way now.

To the NEC that is

Had a superb day at the show yesterday. Stirling work by Joe, Rob, Neil and Liz.
There certainly is a lot of love for our Coupes. I posted on FB and will try to put some pics on here later. Hope you all have a great day and get to take a look around for yourselves!

Enjoyed my time there today, nice having a chat.
Even got a passenger ride in the Ferrari 355 Spider

The Sunday team, cleared up and waiting for our release




Thanks to Hollywood, Rob for his assistance Friday, Saturday and the lift up early Sunday morning

For the None Facebook people here's a Photobucket link for my pictures taken over the 3x days.

FCCUK Practical classic show March 2017.

Cheers Joe, great end photo!

Wow! Well done all, looks like you did yourselves and the club proud! Nice photo's Joe anymore of the Club stand through the days though?

And those overall's actually made Neil look slim :)))) Hahaha!

Cheeky bugger, Patch - I've lost about five kilos since I last saw you!

Cheers Chris, and thank you for your efforts and time with organising this event, you did the club proud

No afraid not, we were so busy Saturday we didn't get any further work done on the demo car and Sunday we were chilled and enjoying the show so what I've captured is it Phil.

It was great to see the Fiat coupe stand yesterday, Dave, Frank and Neil car’s looked superb and obviously created a lot of interest with people drawling all over them. Well done to everyone that took part.

Better late than never, here are my photos from Saturday, in no particular order.


Flikr album link here https://flic.kr/s/aHskSdA6eA

I enjoyed my visit there last Saturday..good show ..but there could do with being a few more interesting cars (other than Coupes) there just a bit too much auto jumble

it was hard work, didnt get much time to take photos as I spent a good chunk getting angry at a fiat panda!

The November show is twice the size so there should be a lot more to see.

It was a great day, saturday, onec I'd negotiated the bloody Coventry fans at the train station.
thanks to Joe for chatting coupes, the chrono is a sublime piece of kit.

Thanks, it was good chatting with you