event East Coast Retros MeatUp. Thurs 25th July

[paulscavalier]

4 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Was it you talking to Danny about your 405 - stood right next to me?! 

EDIT: Must be now I've seen you have cavalier in your username! Nice to (sort of) meet you!

Omg ! Yes it was me , I didn’t know it was you. I need to get out more I think. .. 

Nice to meet you !  I hope I didn’t interrupt, I was keen on letting Danny know the 405 was the Sam Dawson one.

[Angrydicky]

Good to see some shiters there, especially Amishtat and RoadworkUK who I had long chats with. Also spoke to Trigger and Cortinaboy, good to catch up with them.

Roadwork kindly let me sit in his 800 and I was really impressed with it, I'd love one. And Amishtats A99 Westminster was absolutely incredible, so original and well-preserved - nice to meet someone else who thinks old cars should show their age! We then hovered next to Bornite's 190 for ages waiting to speak to the great man, but he was in the pub!! His Merv is in fantastic condition, shame it has too many pedals but the incredible lack of rust made up for it

My A40 Somerset did really well, especially getting stuck in the inevitable A14 traffic on the hottest day of the year.

[95 quid Peugeot]

As I don't do facetube could someone let me know if there's a Aug meet please.  

Ex Bramz tempra ready to go

[wuvvum]

Next Wednesday I believe.

[BorniteIdentity]

ORLY! 

I may bumble along but have run out of cars to show really. Nobody’s going to be interested in either Toyota, the Mercedes is gone the Sierra still not fixed and the Mini is still slow (!)

If there’s a good contingent going then I’ll trundle over if possible. 

[wuvvum]

I'm certainly hoping to get there.  I'll be coming straight from work so will probably be in my own boring Toyota...

[Spottedlaurel]

Next Wednesday? I'll try and make it myself for once, having failed miserably for far too long.

[Brodders]

I will be there too, so it looks like quite a few of us will be around.

[Amishtat]

I'm out because work. Have a good time and please take photos! 

[wuvvum]

I'd been hoping to leave off work early, but there's hardly any of us in so I'm stuck here until 5.  So probably won't be there until about 6.30. 

[BorniteIdentity]

I am fiddy/fiddy atm because there are TWO bloody closures of the A14 overnight. Firstly Bury to Newmarket and then Newmarket to Cambridge. 

I would like to come but it look 2 hours in the Toyota last night (coming back from Portman Road) and would be slower still in the Mini. 

May just come in the Avensis. 

[wuvvum]

Great meet as always - would drive 150 miles in a 47-year-old Renault to attend again.  Didn't take many photos as I was too busy yakking, but here are the few I did take. 

Trident Clipper - rare beastie and rather lovely. 

Fancy E28

Mk10 with XJ-S wheels - still not 100% on them myself 

Thema 8.32

[Amishtat]

Looks like a good turnout, will make sure I'm at the next one. Love that 420G (not Mk. 10)

[wuvvum]

Potayto, potarto.  

Yep, good turnout - not as daft as when the PC guys were there (when you could barely move), but still a good couple of hundred cars to look at / drool over.

[trigger]

Thanks for coming again guys and good to see you all! We had 187 cars in the end although my friend on the gate said he missed a few so it's probably closer to 200, we was collecting for the East Anglian Air Ambulance this time and raised £470 so far which was nice!

That Trident above belongs to the lady who's Scorpio I'm buying coincidentally. I only managed a few photos as usual as I'm always too bloody busy running around and answering peoples questions!

[trigger]

Actually a few more photos from the FB page.

 

[Skizzer]

55 minutes ago, trigger said:

 

Oo! That’s the original Ford Timelord from the KLF single Doctorin’ The Tardis. A bona fide rock star!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorin'_the_Tardis

[LightBulbFun]

https://autoshite.com/topic/33877-ford-timelord

 

fun thread about it above plus an amazing breakdown of things by @Datsuncog on page 4

but I think it might be a replica? as the original is WGU18G AFAIK?

[wuvvum]

23 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Oo! That’s the original Ford Timelord from the KLF single Doctorin’ The Tardis. A bona fide rock star!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorin'_the_Tardis

Apparently it's a replica - the original was b*nger r*ced.

[trigger]

Its a VERY good replica, it's also the one that KLF famously poured paint over a few years back, the owner is a bit of a NSU Ro80 fan, he currently has 30 of them! as well as a Mazda Cosmo!

[Spottedlaurel]

First time I've managed to get to an ECR 'meat' since 2017, had a very good night out.

Great to see my old Starlet, still with the same chap who bought it off me in 2006.

That Mercedes camper. Maybe a Tabbert, based on one I've seen before.

Seeing this Manta A made my night, it looked absolutely perfect. These are one of the best-looking cars ever, anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

Good to finally see this slightly older Laurel and get a shot of it with mine. Getting my car into this position at the end of the evening turned into something of a farce, with the Sceptre pulling into the gap one side just as I was about to pull forwards and the car the other side going through the most elaborate and thorough regime I've ever seen on something that wasn't meant to leave the ground.

Great to catch up with a few faces from here plus others I haven't seen for years, including the guy I bought my previous Laurel hardtop from back in 2007.

Will try and attend more regularly in 2020.

[trigger]

A few Shiters entrance photos.

[Brodders]

Very good show as usual and great to catch up with so many people off here. I was so busy chatting to people and looking around that I didn't get the chance to get many photos on the field, but managed to get my first shot by the bridge on the way there. 

It was great fun anyway. I got to have a seat in Spottedlaurel's lovely Laurel, see a Fiat Tempra saloon in real life for the first time (seen as few estates, but never a saloon) and see someone a bit too tall for a Renault 6 unsuccessfully try to get comfortable behind the wheel. Plus some brilliant cars; the non-AS highlight probably being this Lincoln Continental (which I have shamelessly pinched a picture of from Facebook).

[RoadworkUK]

Appallingly late to the party on this, but I finally got the July meet written and published. Here if you fancy it: (East Coast Retros writeup)

Pics aren't up to the standard of, well, any of those on this thread, to be honest.

 

[trigger]

Aww! That's a lovely write up! Thank you Chris! I'm all blushing now!

[trigger]

We had another meet on Friday night, numbers were a little lower at around 100 due to rain early on but it was still a good night, there was a few highlights.

This pair of projects turned up on the back of a home built 1930s American truck replica based on a Winnebago body and with a Ford E350 V8 engine (I think). Both cars had been in a Portsmouth garage for over 20 years and he towed them back like this, at 10 mpg! Both were for sale for offers over £700 each but needed a lot of work, especially the Rover.

The little Dolomite 1850HL was a hunny, low 55k and locally registered at Mann Egerton in Ipswich from new, it was for sale for £4750.

My favourite of the night was this Peugeot 403 with B post pivoting suicide doors and a full steel sunroof.

And this MG Magnette was fit too.

[wuvvum]

I didn't make it due to not being able to get out of work early enough.    100 cars isn't a bad turnout though.  That Peugeot is lovely.

 

It's a 203 though, not a 403. [/pedant]

[trigger]

D'oh, yes you are quiet correct. #knobhead

[Amishtat]

Looking forward to next Saturday!