There is an All Ireland Italian Car Owner meet (orginised by the All Ireland Alfa Romeo Club and Northern Ireland Italian Motor Club!!)
been PLANNED!!! at the moment for May 20th Saturday at the Hudson Bay Hotel.

Please check in on this post for details closer to the date

or check the All Ireland meet post on Alfaowner and NIIMC

Let's bring a few Coupe's there!!

Ill be there. Hope to have the Coupe well sorted by then, unless Im not bankrupted first !

Will get talking to the NIIMC guys at our meet on 7th Feb and post here what the craic is.

I should be there also, assuming I get my coupe back on the road by then..

No doubt see you on the 7th Ally, although not with my coupe id say..

whens the meet guys? my coupes now in operation!

i should be there providing i can get any of my three coupes on the road

Hi all
I'm not sure where the other Italian Car owners have decided where the meet is to be yet.
It's been still planned at the moment.

There should be some news by late next week!!!
glennB where are you from??.................eh 3 Coupes??? What year and models????????????
Any 60's ones?

Count me in !

BTW guys ... where do u service your coups here in Ireland?
I have a major leak in the exaust mainfold and want to take care of it ASAP but i don't want to take the car to FIAT once i am not happy at all with their servicing

I getting my done in 2 weeks in a local garage who's owner I trust!!
I'll let you know how I get on.
There's a garage in Dublin who's name I can't remember and There a good garage Allystew and NIIMC uses in the North.

I'm sure a list will appear shortly!!!.
Where are you anyway???

I'm in Swords, 15 km from Dublin city Center!

excellent guys im going to come along too on the 7th to meet some of you guys! ive smokey turbo (damn decat) but im sure it'll still be grand by 7th

Iian Im glad to hear youre going to make the trip on 7th, hope your car will be OK because I'd love to see it. I work in Antrim and this Tuesday I finish at 6pm so Im just going to go direct from there. If you want to meet anywhere (this applies to everyone) I can show you the way and make the introductions.

I also hope to be in attendance at this meet in May

ally sorry to let you down on the meet, the car has been off the road again due to a very smokey turbine looks like a good opertunity to get a hybrid ordered and a nice Unichip remap

Iain

No worries Iian. It was a good meeting and we got a new Coupe owner joining in the form of Big Ian. Unfortunately both of us are Coupeless also at the minute .

Anyway the NIIMC has decided that Saturday 20th May is fine as far as the date goes so if the Alfa Owners club agree then this is the date to put in the diary. In regards location Athlone was also agreed as being a suitable venue, it may be a bit far for some up north, but if it means getting a definate location sorted that everyone in Ireland is happy with then thats OK.

Keep an eye on NIIMC to keep an eye on a definate location but I will post here when its finally sorted.

great ally sounds like a road trip for us pair, i mite even call that a weekend, as i want to go to a place in dublin for my unichip remap when i get the GT28R/Hybrid in place!

drop me a pm regarding a rolling road day/ fuelling check day of some description!

Iain

The date for the meet has been decided for May 20th,
The venue has yet to decided so there's a page on alfaowners to see who's coming to it from where to help sort out where to have it.

Can anyone who want's to go to this meet go to alfaowners

and type in where in the country they are coming to the meet from.
You'll need to register onto the site.

I suppose now is as good a time as any to ask where every one will be driving from? I would like to get some form of a convoy going. If Im driving from Magherfelt I would probably be driving directly south down through Cookstown, Dungannon, Armagh etc. I understand alot of people will be coming from the Belfast direction so where would be a good meet point for everyone?

Dungannon would be good for people coming from Belfast/lisburn/lurgan etc

Assuming that armagh to athlone is the way to go ? (I havent looked at it yet)

OK. Just looked at the map and I think the best way to go is for everyone to meet in Armagh then head for Monaghan, Clones, Cavan then theres a road the N55 which goes direct from Cavan to Athlone. If anyone has a map handy take a look and tell me what you think.

Should be around if not in Spain
Will be coming from Midlands and know the Hudson like the back of my hand, far to many drunken weddings in that place for comfort
I'll pass the details over to a few Alfa 156 and GTV drivers in my office

Ally , I'm passing Edgeworthstown tomorrow on a delivery to Dublin,
I can check out from there to Athlone (N55) on the way home and see what the road is like!

I did the Granard - Edgeworthstown bit a couple of years ago and I thought it was ok in a Punto Sporting, that section should still be the same or better.

Spot on Darren, let me know how how you get on. Keep in mind a Coupe with Cadamuro bumpers and lowered on Coilovers when evaluating the road, Thanks.

LOLOL I will!!! hence why I drive a standard 20VT on great roads in the west

I'll come..depending on where it is. I'm between Athlone & Longford...

Edgeworthstown N55 is a good road..bumpy in places and nice hairpins around Castlepollard, north of Mullingar...

Ally I did that run, it's a smooth road, and I've pace noted any bumps!!
I'll pm them to you tonight.

Happy Brithday BigIan !

I'm gonna see if I can combine it with a trip home, would be awesome!

Thanks Darren. Much appreciated . The N54 & N55 seems to be by far the most direct route for us northerners espicially if we can all meet in Armagh or somewhere.

Im really looking forward to this, I read the threads on the meets the guys across the water have all the time and always makes me

Birthday over now

But coupe should be back with me by end of week

OK Im afraid its not looking good for the ALL Ireland meet as the NIIMC is breaking away to do there own thing. I was not at the meeting when the decision was made but you can read NIIMC here.

Will give it a while to see how this all plays out but if the 20th May was still a goer Id still make the journey down if we were sure of getting enough Coupes. Whats the latest from the AlfaOwners and you guys down south on this?

Its also moved to the 27th May as the 20th is a big Rugby final day or something..

I think basically there were no takers on organisin the event down south so the decision was made to organise it up north this year and see how it goes

P.s Ally I got the coupe back on the road (also another Coupe owner joined the club on tuesday, Graham)

Such a pity the Athlone thing seems to be falling through. From what I gather from Stuart (Main man at NIIMC) he just wanted somebody at the AlfaOwners end to meet him half way and help with the organising of the event. Its too far for any of us guys up North to travel down to inspect the venue and make arrangements on site with the land owners etc. I think Stuart asked quite a while a go and still no response. I do no that the AO site has been down alot but still a pity that no one closer to the venue from the AO end has got anything sorted.

Stuart is a very passionate guy when it comes to things like this and as the idea originally came from AO but then no one put the work in to getting it sorted I can see where hes coming from.

If a definate date and venue was properly organised in Athlone or anywhere else for that matter and at least 10 coupe owners gave a definate then I would be still willing to travel down.

PS Glad to here the Coupe Clan is growing in the NIIMC, just have to get Iian (yellowcoop) to get his ass down to a meeting.

Ally

What kind of venue do you want and what do you want organised? This an 'ad hoc' meet or a weekend event?

?????

As in roadside meet by a burger stand or something more interesting..like a day down at Mondello Circuit where we really can see who's Coupe is quickest?

Skodaman thats an excellant idea . Ive been thinking about trackdays and doing a bit of research into them. I even got myself a crash helmet. Theres a club called trackskills that meets at Kirkistown, and they give you tuition and its properly marshalled with very strict rules. All the guys over the water have track meets all the time why cant we? If we could get a few names of people that are interested that would be great. So the list is:

allystew
skodaman
darmtb

(I think we need a few more)

Sounds good to me!!

Shit, if you do Mondello I'll deffo bring the coupe back for that!

(last time I did a lap there was after an Alfa Trade day [complete jolly ] and I did a lap in my old 54BHP Seicento Sporting!!)

I'm booked for the afternoon session 1/5/06..never used a track before. I think one of our guys in Dublin is bringing his na down..dunno if he's got the nerve to try it on the track.

Anyone else want to come? Book soon.

Good job skodaman with sorting a date. I'll see how Im fixed at work and get it booked off. Not sure if I'll have all my tuning bits in for start of May but I'd still go for a blast for the craic .

I would be up for mondello too only my car will be in the garage getting toys and ill be sunning myself in gran canaria :P

but as for the meet is it still happening?

Iain

The meet has been set for the 27th May at the Tidy Doffer in Ravarnet just outside Lisburn.

More details when we have them..

Iain you cannot miss the 27th May. Biggest Coupe meet in NI in history!

let hope my cars back together by then then

just wondering is anyone heading up from down south?? I might spin up for a look...

I'm going to try to get up there from Mayo, but I may have to work over the weekend

Would be great to try and get as many Coupes as possible at the show. If anyone wants to talk Coupes face to face with people then this is the best time to do it .

I shall be in attendance - nice one - just happened to be going home for a week the day before...(i havent mixed myself up here have i???Is this the one in Lisburn??)

I dont believe in coincidence...the missus is well chuffed.....(OK maybe not)

PS: Have you got a bit of press coverage for it? (Newsletter-Irish News - Tele etc...?)
Its great PR and nice for the N I contingent to pop it on the "Press" section....

Yes you are right CJH, the reason it is in the Non uk section is because the original location was to be in southern Ireland but due to lack of time and anyone willing to organise it in the south it was moved to the north for this year anyhow.

Hope to see you on the 27th

7 days to go, not a mission my car will be out and ready... i'd love to come along but it doesnt look like it'll be happening! maybe another time soon?

anyways heres a pic of my car if u see me FLASH! i be up antrim/ belfast/ newtownards/ portaferry regularly!

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/leinster/coupe/4.jpg

PS ally drop me a PM ive got my inbox cleared and we'll organise a wee photo shoot at the beach/ port some sunday where down!

Iain

Iian good man on clearing your inbox . PM sent as Im down at the port quite regularly at the weekends. Pity your goin to miss the show but if your cars not ready dont rush it as Im sure this one will be a roaring success and there will be another one soon .

I just thought youre more than welcome to come down with me if you want, but if you want to spend the Saturday working at your Coupe I understand as the mini photoshhot is calling .

Good man ally we'll defo organise some thing through txt/ pm's for the near future

Very Nice Coupe Iian

There should be quite a few clean coupes in Northern Ireland tonight! Anybody got a rough idea of how many should be there tomorrow?

Hi!!!. My name is Darek I am have just registered.I would like to join the meeting at the Tidy Doffer in Ravarnet just outside Lisburn. At what time it starts?

Darek

Officially it kicks off around 12 or 12:30

Feel free to drop by before or after tho as most will be there from 11 on.

Was that you I flashed at on tuesday on Balmoral Avenue?

Anyhow Hope to see you there.

p.s update your avatar so we can see what sort of coupe you have

BigIan
I buy it in Germany with engine fault....put new engine from Lancia.....I live in Mallusk....
I think I see you...., did you have noisy(?!?) exhaust and silver coupe?... I will be from 11.
Hope to see you too.
Darek

Just a quick note to say my PC is dead and Im on my girlfrinds PC. I will hope get it sorted in the next few days and get the pics uploaded that I took today.

I had an excellant day and was great to meet some new faces as well as the old ones (not talking about anybodys age ).

Talk properly soon

Ally

OK new PC is not totally up and running so bear with me on replies etc but Ive got the Coupe pics I took uploaded.

I know I missed a few of you guys and Im now kicking myself so apoligies there, but Im sure someone else will have the cars I missed. I just kept getting distracted. Dont feel too bad as my own is included, but as it was dirty anyway I'll get over it .

Anyway here is the Coupe pics, any other pics I'll upload them to NIIMC when I get a chance.

group 1

group 2

Darius

Jamesy

cjh

Big Ian

Darmtb

Unknown

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looked like a great day, fantastic turnout of coupes!

Did any more coupe's turn up after we left Ally?
Thanks NIIMC for a great day and great bunch of owners and motors.
We would have outnumber all the other makes of cars until all the X1/9's (15+) turned up!!
We got home just before 8 pm!!

A great day - must have been 10 (?) coupes during the whole event. Brilliant pictures, Ally - It's great to see them all together in the line up! All we need are a few more owners and we could (almost!!!) give the X19 owners club a run for their money!

Very nice and great fun day. Thanks for everybody to help me and answer on my questions.Especialy thanks for BigIan,Darmtb, CJH.....greetings for all also to people from NIIMC

Darek are you going to the NIIMC meeting on 6th June ?

I can bring that front grill for you or maybe you want to meet up before then ?

Let me know.

Good day on saturday, good to see some new faces also.

I will stick some pictures up eventually..

I could go to you, because I rather didn't appear at NIIMC this time. Did you live near Belfast?
Regards
Darek

Nice to meet all you boys and girls...good luck with your spirited driving Darius...

Hi to Phil20vt???

ahhh, a shame i missed this, just bought my first 20vt last week, would have gone along if i had known about it, as im only in dublin!

It looks like I'm going to be spending 17th - 24th June in Bangor, any of you guys meeting up during that week?

Che

Che bad luck mate . Im down in Bangor this Sunday (11th) for a big car show and shine and will be down in Dublin the weekend after (18th) for biggest modified show in Ireland. Would meet up for sure as we couldve compared mats if mine is here in time. We always meet first Tuesday of every month in Lisburn.

Typical of my timing Ally, still, will be nice to get out in the Coop and explore your roads

The mats take around 30 days to deliver (All the mats are made to order etc...) so unlikley you'll have them in time I'm afraid. Still, post up some picks of anything interesting at the Dublin event.

If youve time take the coast road From Bangor through Belfast and Carrickfergus and follow it up round the coast until Bushmills. The best and most secenic road in NI, really twisty in places with big cliffs so take it easy !

Ally -- you got it bang on there....

THE best roads for the coupe ive driven on in a long time -- im just back and the Antrim Coast Roads are cracking!!!

PS: Ally there was a guy at the meet that took some piccys of people in the ferrari...my nephew got a piccy and the guy told me he would post it either on here or on niimc...still aint found them...nor do I know the guys name!

Any help would be appreciated Ally...

thanks

CJ

Hi Guys.I have a BIIIIIG PROBLEM. Police check me and said I have no value inurance ( I have only Polish insurance) and next time if I haven't got NI Insurance they arest me. I don't know what to do!!!!!!!!!! my FC is standing in front of my house but I can't move it. They said I MUST HAVE Northern Ireland Insurance because I work here permament.Any ideas???????????

Go speak to an insurance broker but I fear it will cost you. Is your Polish Insurance with any of the major european companies..ie if you have no claims discount (no fault accidents within the last 5 years) you should get some sort of reduced premium? If not then 100% premium for a foreign 'first time driver' on a Coupe (if they will quote) in Belfast will probably cost more than the Coupe is worth