north east car meets

[gm]

the first meet of the season is this evening, and the sun is shining  

anyone local coming along ? 

The Old Brickworks, Wilden Terrace, Pattinson South Industrial Estate., NE38 8QB Washington

it’s a friendly meet with a good variety of cars, both proper classics and old chod. and usually a coffee or burger van too.

i'm heading across in the Exo with @DVee8, meeting @Mi30n there in his mx5

here’s a video i found from a couple of years back

 

[jmsguzzi]

I'll be there in my recently aquired Tipo along with my mate in his K11 Micra, looking forward to it 

[R Lutz]

Bollocks. I didn't realise. I was just up the road with the dogs as well having a mooch around. 

[jmsguzzi]

Autoshite corner, quite diverse 

[loserone]

Sorry for not coming along, was busy having a wedding anniversary celebration.

 

We put up this polytunnel.  Express out of shot to the right.

 

[comfortablynumb]

Are these the guys who were having problems with the roof on their building, as per a couple of the magazines recently? Hope things are moving in the right direction for them.

Shame I'm not closer, looks like a good place 

[gm]

it was a very busy night last night, officially starting at 6pm, the field was pretty much full by 5 past !

an excellent and diverse range of cars there, and i forgot to take pics of any of them  

oh well, there’s always next time !

@jmsguzzi photobombing  

 

[gm]

50 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Are these the guys who were having problems with the roof on their building

the building is an old brickworks and the roof is knackered, they are raising funds to repair / replace the roof - they host several shows and autojumbles throughout the year and welcome visitors and new members to the club 

[gm]

photos from last night

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EmV2Yi369/?mibextid=wwXIfr

and

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18p7F6EgVE/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

[R Lutz]

I saw a big old Yank estate rumble past me last night while I was walking the dogs. He gave a proper throttle blip for my benefit as he went around a roundabout.  Lovely stuff.

[gm]

another local meet tonight, this time it’s the dairy barn over near Crook, county durham

always a decent turnout and the food is very good   

[gm]

anyone planning a look out tonight ? the exo is in bits but i might take the mazda

i suppose i could just put it back together 

[gm]

wednesday night and it promises to be scorchio ! 

[gm]

what a great night ! so many fantastic cars 

great to see the Jaag there @jmsguzzi

and another exocet (someone else’s pic as it left not long after we arrived so i didn’t get chance for a good look at it)

a mad looking beetle 

this aston martin and merc were owned by a lovely older couple, i commented that i bet it sounds amazing and he started it up to demonstrate  then his wife insisted he did the same with her merc ! 

exo and the ginger biscuit

on the way there, @Mi30n said he heard something drop from his car, we stopped and had a look but found nothing so carried on.

half way home, his car started to lurch to the left on braking so we nursed it back to investigate 

turns out he had lost a nut from the front wishbone !

and the long bolt was half hanging out at the front of the wishbone

could have been disastrous as hooning did occur - i robbed one off the exo to get him home while a replacement is ordered

[Schaefft]

Shame this isn't happening on a weekend, starting too early and a bit too far to make it worth it for me.

[gm]

although it starts at 4, we didn’t get there until 6pm and there were still plenty of folk arriving after us.

surely it’s just a quick blast down the a68 for you ? 

[gm]

 

[jmsguzzi]

Probably the most varied turnout of all the evening meets in the area, a few of my favourites: