I thought the meet went rather well
We loosely managed to stick to the schedule, leaving the pub a little after 1 after filling up (chicken and bacon stick
Only one person needed fuel *ahem AudioGuy*
but that was pretty painless now that we have a Shell garage on the route
. Unfortunately we still managed to lose two cars after leaving the pub. I'm still not sure how that happened as we waited in convoy in the car park for a few mins before heading off.
Seven of nine cars made it to Latchingdon OK, but one of those '16v' jobs apparently couldn't keep the pace. Poor Diddy got lost and needed us 20v boys to wait for him to catch up. 16v vs 20v aside, that thing makes one hell of a noise, easily matching some of the 20vs; a very characterful, throaty burble that certainly opened my eyes. Not all 4 pots are 'ridden' Shabs
I'm not sutre who the other car was (a Sprinty I think it was said) but hope you come to the next one. It's difficult to get everyone on board when trying to get everyone moving at the same time
When Diddy eventally caught up, he also brought the rain... Next we got onto the decent roads and all had a good blast, Joe's exterior mounted camera taking some decent rearward facing video of the convoy. Some of the slower bends looked very impressive
Joe also had the shoulder job pointing out of the back so we got plenty of footage of Diddy's coop as well as the rest of the group including one fy-by which should be pretty impressive. We even outran the rain leading to lovely sunny skies!
I think the site was a good choice enabling us plenty of room to maneouvre (as well as a measure of privacy) for some nice shots and footage. I say 'measure' because the security at the Power Station seemed to be getting shirty with the 'exhaust comparison' feature you'll see later, and started watching us in hi-vis jackets from a distance. I'd hoped that the area around a Power Station on a Sunday afternoon would be discreet enough to not cause any disturbance. Not wanting to get anyone's back up, we decided to make a move, planning a little drive by feature on a particular bend we'd passed earlier. Again, this will be in the final video, although most people seemed to miss the point.
You were supposed to pass one after the other so Joe could record each car on the pass. Instead we had a whole heap, but at least the noise was good
That was it for me as I had to go back to get Joe and the convoy moved on. We got little more footage before finding some patchy showers meaning the camera gear went back into the car.
Where shall we go next, any suggestions?
Oh, one final thing. My arms have been aching like hell all day today. I wondered what might be causing it and so did a few searches, adding in 'pollen' after it occured to me that there was a LOT of it on the cars when we got to the Power Station. Apparently it's a sign of hay-fever, something my optician told me I may have a mild case of after seeing inflammation of my eye lids. I learned someting new today!
next time is my turn I am going get you a good one to mate,I am still buzzing from yesterday.after the meeting everything was soooooo slooooow 
