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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602813
17/06/2017 07:02
17/06/2017 07:02

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Good luck today Joe for what looks like a very impressive collection of coupes , last time i went to an event with my coupe was Rockingham in....?? 2005 i think it was......getting old cant remember year but remember the track.
I am hoping to pop down to take some pictures ...will be tomorrow as working today .....when would be a good time to come by tomorrow I dont want food just to look at the cars / take pics if people dont mind / soak up the coop love.
I d also like to see the cars /take part in the drive to town but i wont be able to go onto Gaydon . What are the times for setting off from the drum tomorrow please . Once again Joe thank you for organising ...will make it even harder to sell my coupe once ive seen the great and the good tomorrow . Better get polishing my tank
Caroline .

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602816
17/06/2017 09:06
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OK. I might have a problem. Having battery issues. Car started last night after being sat for a week but won't turn over this morning. Tried jumping it from the Land Rover but the immobiliser has kicked in. Can anyone tell me how to reset? Still not much charge in the battery. Help!

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: GaryW] #1602822
17/06/2017 13:21
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Originally Posted By GaryW
OK. I might have a problem. Having battery issues. Car started last night after being sat for a week but won't turn over this morning. Tried jumping it from the Land Rover but the immobiliser has kicked in. Can anyone tell me how to reset? Still not much charge in the battery. Help!


I had this problem on the 2.4, a new battery solved it.

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602826
17/06/2017 15:02
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Another hiccup at home prevents me from making this meet.

Have fun everyone, I'm hopeful I'll make one of these meet ups eventually.

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602829
17/06/2017 18:59
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Battery sorted. I still have residual electrical problem. But, I'm going to make it tomorrow. I might be hitting people up for advice! See you in the morning!

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602850
18/06/2017 10:59
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Just back from the Saturday event (had to dash back for another Hog-Roast Event locally-which supports the Air Ambulance -don't ask!)

Great to meet so many coupe owners! Neil, Dave, Clint, Chris, Martin, KJ and all who I have forgotten to mention!

Great to see so many coupes in one place-and gave me lots of inspiration for improving mine!

As we sweltered on a scorching Saturday afternoon - the topic of conversation was who had working a/c !! (no-one I could find!!)

My car suffered bizarre loss of ride control on the way to the event- so a slow and gentle drive back was order of this morning. Along with loss of a/c. And the dreaded 4 cylinders hic-cup has returned! So some investigation work required this week...

Wouldn't have missed the event though- fantastic testament to Joe and all he has done for the coup out of fcss.

Best part of the evening for me was catching Joe in the bar for the last pint of the evening and chatting away about the future - we all need you Joe! Congrats on the first 10 years!!

Hope you all enjoy the Sunday event - Speak soon!!

MM

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Master_Mariner] #1602852
18/06/2017 11:52
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Just left everybody on their way to Gaydon. Great turnout especially from the Dutch (well done). Jake I would like to see that aerial photography

Well done Joe, here's to the next ten years drink

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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602853
18/06/2017 12:38
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Great to see a large selection of Coupes and their owners this morning.
Good to put some faces to Forum names, esp Hebe who's car I've known about for years without actually meeting you.
And Jon (Jonscoupe), thanks for letting me drive your 20vt, first time in a turbo. Know I know what you turbo guys rave on about. Boooost wink
I followed the convoy and Reuben in the quick Corsa (sounds great btw) but took off to the M50 and lost everyone except for Anthony. frown
Did you all go through Tewkes? Sorry if I mislead you, squire.
Hope the rest of the day was as good.
All credit to you Joe for organising .

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602857
18/06/2017 13:57
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Heh - I waved at Toby and Alan when he should have turned right at the roundabout to hit the M50 and they followed me south instead laugh

Had to stop and speak severely to them and put them on the right path! tongue


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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602870
18/06/2017 18:28
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Great day out guys. sorry I had to leave after the Drum but had a b day party this afternoon in Thornbury.

Thanks for arrangimg Joe. Great effort.

No probs with the drive Huw. Glad you enjoyed!

See you all again soon.......At another meet hopefully smile

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602871
18/06/2017 18:53
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Very much enjoyed the trip from Upton to Gaydon today, even though my AC is clearly not up to scratch (much it seems like everyone else's)! blush
The pub grub was excellent and a big thank you to Mike for the lift back to the Museum. This probably saved me having to explain to my mother what had happened to my 80-year-old father in today's heat)! ooo
We managed to enjoy just over an hour at the museum before driving safely back to Glos.
Great to meet some more Coupe owners and indeed so many other Portofino owner's, with seemingly, not one of us a hairdresser by profession!
All in all, a memorable way to spend father's day with my old man. Thanks to Joe and all who made the trip.
As others have said - here's to the next 10 years....


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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602878
18/06/2017 20:33
18/06/2017 20:33
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Lightwater, Surrey
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A few pictures from today (sorry didn't take any yesterday) finishing up with some group shots from the Dutchies on Tour! Click for slide show


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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602883
19/06/2017 04:40
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What a great weekend and a true testament to the owners of this beautiful coupe. That said, many of our cars wouldn't have been there without the help, skill, knowledge and dedication Joe has shown for the coupe over the last 10 years. Congratulations and happy anniversary Joe, here's to many more decades keeping the coupe alive!

Other than Brooklands, it was mine and Jans first proper 'coupe only' meet and it was lovely to meet coupster friends from both sides of the water. I did remember a lot of your real names from the weekend but unfortunately can't place all the forum names to the faces but it was lovely to meet you all and see such a lovely display of cars. It was good to know that nobody had any coupe issues that stopped play other than just about everyone's AC not working on a weekend when it really was needed......first stop, getting my AC sorted this week for sure!

Thanks for the invite Joe, honoured to have shared the weekend with you all. Take care, drive safe and hopefully see you again soon!


Boooooooooost!!!
Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602884
19/06/2017 06:24
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Great weekend! This was my first proper coupe meet and it was a really chilled experience. It was also good to put some faces to the forum names. As already commented upon elsewhere in this thread, not one of us Porto Blue owners are (or ever have been) hairdressers biglaugh

Thanks for your hard work Joe, it appears that you view what you do as more of a vocation than a job considering the effort you put in thumb

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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602918
19/06/2017 13:54
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Story: why it was pretty hard to actually get to the UK..

It all sounded pretty easy.

1/ Drop the kids off at some grandmothers (admittedly, sounds easy, but it's a lot of packing and multiple babyseats and in total it's a 4-hour drive).
2/ Meet up at my workplace, leave 1 car behind
3/ Drive to train station
4/ Train to Antwerp
5/ Train Antwerp to Amsterdam
6/ Flight Amsterdam to Birmingham, Holiday Inn
7/ Pick-up by Neil, drive to Upton
8/ ...
9/ Days Inn
10/ Eurotunnel back
11/ You know: cars, kids,...

Unfortunately... Middle one was on a bus from a school trip, 15 minutes late (train!!). We were in a bit of a hurry. Also, trains were disrupted due to an outage in a sign station and car was not an option since Ghent to Antwerp was 3 hours instead of 1 hour drive due to traffic. The Coupé Gods were with us though: sign station was up and running again and when we arrived at the station, the first train that didn't get cancelled was about to leave.

Arrived in Antwerp with half an hour to spare! Woow!

Unfortunately... waiting for the train to Amsterdam where we would take the flight, I suddenly spotted the date for the flight. Which was the Saturday at 22:00. Errr... okay, so no flight.

>> Oops #1.

Amsterdam was no longer an option since the only available flight on Friday evening / Saturday morning was 1st class coming in at a whopping 2.600 Euro.

We decided to cancel the train to Amsterdam (50% refund), cancel the flight (no refund yet, they only accept incoming calls from monday to friday), cancel the Birmingham hotel (no refund), take the train to Brussels and get on the Eurostar on Saturday morning.

Only... upon getting our tickets for that train, the ticket guy asked for an ID. Seemingly though, the missus forgot her ID at work. 'Can you give yours?' Well, yes, but we'll need your ID to get past customs.

>> Oops #2.

Called work, checked if the ID card was indeed there. And behold, the Coupé Gods once more came through: not only was the ID there on the desk, also a collegue was still there who lives in Antwerp. 'Shall I bring it to you?' Woow! 40 minutes waiting time and we had the ID.

During those 40 minutes, rearranged pick-up by Neil because we wouldn't be in Birmingham. Then again, St Albans train station is a lot closer. We also checked out which paperwork we would still need, because carring the stuff for flight etcetera was no longer necessary.

> train tickets to amsterdam trashcan
> airplan tickets to birmingham trashcan
> hotel birmingham trashcan
> eurotunnel tickets... keep...

Oh no, wait, checking the date, our return ticket seems to have been booked for the 25th of June. Which is next week.

>> Oops #3

Problem with the Eurotunnel is, if you book tickets 2 days in advance, they tend to go up from € 79 to € 240 so I was getting worried we'd have to eat bread and drink water for the next 2 weeks. Coupé Gods to the rescue again though: the upgrade / date change was only € 15.

So... tickets to Brussels, small hotel in Brussels, 6 am early rise, on to the Eurostar.

Arriving in London, we took train tickets for St Albans. We had about 3 minutes to just hit the 'promotion of the day' which happened to be a return ticket to St Albans. We went for them because we couldn't figure our how to book a single ticket (kept pointing us to a desk with a large queue somewhere to buy a ticket). The return tickets could be exchanged, but the value was £ 8,60 and we would have to pay £ 8,70 for the privilidge to hand them over, which is a net loss of £ 0,10 so they ended up in the trash can.

>> not really an oops

End of story. I will triple check dates etc. before we hit 'buy' next time.


- Kayjey -

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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Kayjey] #1602921
19/06/2017 16:08
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Originally Posted By Kayjey
Story: why it was pretty hard to actually get to the UK..

It all sounded pretty easy.

1/ Drop the kids off at some grandmothers (admittedly, sounds easy, but it's a lot of packing and multiple babyseats and in total it's a 4-hour drive).
2/ Meet up at my workplace, leave 1 car behind
3/ Drive to train station
4/ Train to Antwerp
5/ Train Antwerp to Amsterdam
6/ Flight Amsterdam to Birmingham, Holiday Inn
7/ Pick-up by Neil, drive to Upton
8/ ...
9/ Days Inn
10/ Eurotunnel back
11/ You know: cars, kids,...

Unfortunately... Middle one was on a bus from a school trip, 15 minutes late (train!!). We were in a bit of a hurry. Also, trains were disrupted due to an outage in a sign station and car was not an option since Ghent to Antwerp was 3 hours instead of 1 hour drive due to traffic. The Coupé Gods were with us though: sign station was up and running again and when we arrived at the station, the first train that didn't get cancelled was about to leave.

Arrived in Antwerp with half an hour to spare! Woow!

Unfortunately... waiting for the train to Amsterdam where we would take the flight, I suddenly spotted the date for the flight. Which was the Saturday at 22:00. Errr... okay, so no flight.

>> Oops #1.

Amsterdam was no longer an option since the only available flight on Friday evening / Saturday morning was 1st class coming in at a whopping 2.600 Euro.

We decided to cancel the train to Amsterdam (50% refund), cancel the flight (no refund yet, they only accept incoming calls from monday to friday), cancel the Birmingham hotel (no refund), take the train to Brussels and get on the Eurostar on Saturday morning.

Only... upon getting our tickets for that train, the ticket guy asked for an ID. Seemingly though, the missus forgot her ID at work. 'Can you give yours?' Well, yes, but we'll need your ID to get past customs.

>> Oops #2.

Called work, checked if the ID card was indeed there. And behold, the Coupé Gods once more came through: not only was the ID there on the desk, also a collegue was still there who lives in Antwerp. 'Shall I bring it to you?' Woow! 40 minutes waiting time and we had the ID.

During those 40 minutes, rearranged pick-up by Neil because we wouldn't be in Birmingham. Then again, St Albans train station is a lot closer. We also checked out which paperwork we would still need, because carring the stuff for flight etcetera was no longer necessary.

> train tickets to amsterdam trashcan
> airplan tickets to birmingham trashcan
> hotel birmingham trashcan
> eurotunnel tickets... keep...

Oh no, wait, checking the date, our return ticket seems to have been booked for the 25th of June. Which is next week.

>> Oops #3

Problem with the Eurotunnel is, if you book tickets 2 days in advance, they tend to go up from € 79 to € 240 so I was getting worried we'd have to eat bread and drink water for the next 2 weeks. Coupé Gods to the rescue again though: the upgrade / date change was only € 15.

So... tickets to Brussels, small hotel in Brussels, 6 am early rise, on to the Eurostar.

Arriving in London, we took train tickets for St Albans. We had about 3 minutes to just hit the 'promotion of the day' which happened to be a return ticket to St Albans. We went for them because we couldn't figure our how to book a single ticket (kept pointing us to a desk with a large queue somewhere to buy a ticket). The return tickets could be exchanged, but the value was £ 8,60 and we would have to pay £ 8,70 for the privilidge to hand them over, which is a net loss of £ 0,10 so they ended up in the trash can.

>> not really an oops

End of story. I will triple check dates etc. before we hit 'buy' next time.


'Epic' doesn't quite describe it Klaas crazy laugh

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602922
19/06/2017 16:09
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Now that the dust has settled and I've taken a few deep breaths I can sit down and say thank you to everyone one who joined us over the weekend, the owners who travelled the length of the country, and to all the owners who travelled over from around Europe, you guys all truly made the event what it was and it was awesome if I may say so myself.
To quote Jake's words “it was one of the most chilled Coupé meets ever”, you can imagine he's been to a few with me over the years so with him saying this and watching all you guys keeping cool in the shade sipping on Ale's Saturday, Sunday road tripping, Sunday lunch at Gaydon and even more faces to me it was a great success and I'll remember the event for many years to come.

To our Dutch friends, thank you guys and girls for the massive effort to come over and your gifts, the canvas picture of me at Assen this year hangs proudly on my office wall. To Franck who came up from France, and to Keyjey who was flying but didn't fly, then came in via EuroStar on Saturday crazy laugh and to Neil for collecting Kayjey and Joke and bring them up in your 16v.

Liz at the Drum did an excellent job as our function room host and plenty of cold beer, I hope all who experienced a pint of Butties for the first time enjoyed the drink, you can buy it online direct from Wye valley brewery, link at the bottom wink
A real shame the weather was so hot in the evening, hats off to Jenny with the live entertainment as she gave it her best, but singing to a near empty room must be the worst scenario a live entertainer can dream of, I've emailed her and her agent to pass on my thanks under such difficult and hot conditions, have to say the weather over the weekend and today has been blisteringly hot!

Deb at The Malt Shovel put on a lovely lunch, the hot weather killed my appetite as it did many others but the whole convoy, road trip playing catch up and keeping cool after that walk was an experience so again my gratitude to all who attended.

Jake and Alex did a sterling job selling raffle tickets for the Worcester animal rescue centre, we raised just under £100.00 which will be dropped in later this week.
Sunday evening Liz picked a winning raffle from my mixing bowl, before someone shouts “Fix”…. I'd like to say I did have 3x witnesses watch Liz blindly pick a winner which was number 074…… Barnacle….. Mr Neil Barnes

…. (FIX….. laugh )….. runs for cover.

… so I decided we should also have a runner up so second prize goes to number 254, initials CF.
Unsure what you'll receive but Steve from Alternative Autos generously sent down service kit filters and some goodies so if you can make yourself known along with which model Coupé you own I'll get your prize packed.

10 years is only 120 months, that doesn't sound very much at all unless you calculate those years as days, 3650, now that's quite a few chinny
I suppose what I'm trying to say is I'm approaching a crossroads at this point in my life, I'm 48 years old and juggling a lot of personal stuff that could have an outcome of changes my circumstances over a period of a few weeks, it's not all plain sailing and happy days I'm afraid, gratefully FCSS is the busiest it's even been and I really appreciate all of my regulars returning year after a year so I can look after your pride and joy, the full restoration work is really exciting, I get such a buzz out of working with you guys and as Pete has said above, yes it is a vocation way more then a job, it's who I've become and it keeps me focused and level so I'll continue to look forward to coming to work in the morning, but from now on I need to finish at 5pm and keep realistic hours as the years of 12hr days isn't healthy tbh and it's one of the reasons this personal stuff has come about so it's a new working directive that will be upheld and I can maybe start to feel I have a life outside work, we'll see.

To sum up, again thank you everyone for the weekend and to all the owners who emailed, text and phoned their best wishes and apologise that they couldn't make it, it's lovely to have so many great clients and genuine friends, even people who sold up years ago have emailed to congratulate me on 10 years, appreciated all your messages.

Long Live the Fiat Coupé smile

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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602924
19/06/2017 17:16
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Mwahaha! My cunning plan of writing my name on the back of all the tickets worked!

Cheers, Joe. A cracking weekend, too many people whose forum names I knew but not their faces (and all of whose names I will no doubt require reminding of next time I meet them!) and a load of old friends.

Klaas - next time you come over, just get the easyjet to Luton and give us a call... btw, the 25th anniversary is in Turin in 2019, so you'd probably better start checking the dates tongue

Sam - when you decide you want to fly, I know a good school.

Joe - it's gone five. Go home!


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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602934
19/06/2017 19:37
19/06/2017 19:37

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Me and my son Matt had the BEST morning yesterday ( me more than him although he did later admit how good the cars all looked - but he did have a preference for the cobra)
Nice to meet some fellow coupe people , been my longest love affair..... 14 yrs this week actually and I did actually travel up to Gretna Green to fetch her as this was halfway as previous owner lived in Aberdeenshire !!
I have loads of pictures and a video of all coops ( and a cobra !!) leaving the drum and monkey that i tried to tag FCCS into on my facebook page but not sure it worked , plus I dont know how to put pics/vids on here so if anyone can help me I ll be grateful .
My coupe is up for sale softly ( on Pistonheads ) but i still drive her nearly every day just feel in her old age needs someone who can garage her /over winter .
Anyway huge thanks to Joe for organising i imagine that was some task and maybe I ll get to see that number of coupes again, I hope so ....if anyone can help me load up pics let me know or can view them on FCCS facebook page ?
All the best -Caroline ( the only Sprinty yesterday ...Ive never seen that many portofinos in one place by the way it is my second fave colour and i still want to be a hairdresser my mum wouldnt let me !) x

Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: Countrycruising] #1602943
19/06/2017 22:23
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Klaas that story was just mental! It's worse than both my epics - the "ash-cloud" replacement journey from Schipol to Edinburgh and Emilia's and my trip to Assen this year missing 3 ferries - put together!

But you got there in the end, lucky so-and-so's laugh

Glad the event was such a success smile


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Re: FCSS 10th anniversay 17/06/17 [Re: ] #1602950
20/06/2017 07:00
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Originally Posted By hebe
Me and my son Matt had the BEST morning yesterday ( me more than him although he did later admit how good the cars all looked - but he did have a preference for the cobra)
Nice to meet some fellow coupe people , been my longest love affair..... 14 yrs this week actually and I did actually travel up to Gretna Green to fetch her as this was halfway as previous owner lived in Aberdeenshire !!
I have loads of pictures and a video of all coops ( and a cobra !!) leaving the drum and monkey that i tried to tag FCCS into on my facebook page but not sure it worked , plus I dont know how to put pics/vids on here so if anyone can help me I ll be grateful .
My coupe is up for sale softly ( on Pistonheads ) but i still drive her nearly every day just feel in her old age needs someone who can garage her /over winter .
Anyway huge thanks to Joe for organising i imagine that was some task and maybe I ll get to see that number of coupes again, I hope so ....if anyone can help me load up pics let me know or can view them on FCCS facebook page ?
All the best -Caroline ( the only Sprinty yesterday ...Ive never seen that many portofinos in one place by the way it is my second fave colour and i still want to be a hairdresser my mum wouldnt let me !) x


It was great you were able to join us Sunday Caroline, I pointed out to my Son and Daughter that you're the Coupé owner we all used to wave to in Malvern over a period of 4-5 years and you never saw us laugh

To post pictures you'll need to link them on the full reply screen with the stored tag, I use Photobucket, or if you email them to me I can post them for you.

f_c_s_s@hotmail.com

With the Facebook video I'm not seen anything yet, did you tag me on the FCSS page or mine as Joe Knight?


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Thank you for an epic weekend , nice to meet people of this forum face to face , thxx Joe for making it more than worth to com over to the UK . We the Dutchies had a great great weekend that we never will forget, the pictures made by Marc will send to you, also the video,s made by Marc and Gyury , thxx again and until next time.

Greetings René

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Forgot to post this earlier:

Stopped a the local supermarket on the way home to, er, 'check' their stock levels of icecream. As we got out of the car, a young chap pulled up behind us and said " 'kin' great car, mate, proper old school!" laugh


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Same happened to me twice. In Harwich on the way to upton the customs officer took a great interest in my car and on the way back on the car park at the tesco in Folkestone a chap walked past the car commenting what a beautiful car it was.
Great weekend, sorry we had to leave a bit earlier than expected.
Henk and Lia

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Excellent photos hebe. I noticed my wine red VIS made an appearance in a couple !

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Originally Posted By hebe


Great pictures Caroline smile

Here's a link for some of mine.

FCSS 10th Anniversary

This one in particular is my personal favourite.

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Credit to Marc de Haan, he knows how to take awesome pictures.

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wow Joe truly great pictures ... love them all. Upton so picturesque too.
I have to sell my coupe 14 years of fun but circumstances mean I cant keep two cars now and i want it to go to someone who will look after it , let me know if you get anyone enquiring after a good honest coop ... i ll put it on auto trader and here at the weekend around the 2200 mark.
I ve still got the video of all the cars leaving the drum on route to gaydon , will try to upload !
Caroline x

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what is that guy doing with that air mattress ?

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Originally Posted By hebe
wow Joe truly great pictures ... love them all. Upton so picturesque too.
I have to sell my coupe 14 years of fun but circumstances mean I cant keep two cars now and i want it to go to someone who will look after it , let me know if you get anyone enquiring after a good honest coop ... i ll put it on auto trader and here at the weekend around the 2200 mark.
I ve still got the video of all the cars leaving the drum on route to gaydon , will try to upload !
Caroline x


Cool, I still haven't seen the video yet.

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