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Post by capriconsul on Jun 1, 2015 20:54:48 GMT
Ha ha ha I saw who was the boss when you were putting trailer on Deano had me in stitches Pam put you right ha ha ha ha well funny lol
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Post by Russ D on Jun 1, 2015 20:55:50 GMT
You mean "Shirley"? Done a few shows with us now our Shirl. Classy bird. Full of hot air though!
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 7:58:28 GMT
Right then, so following the Journey from hell on the M1 on Thursday afternoon, Me, Deano and Pam and Dranny found a spot and pitched up. The first thing that smacked me in the face was this. Not really my thing, but it was super cool, and Dranny wanted to get sexual with it... 50 shades of rust ... love it! I know that Hot Rodding and Customising takes on many forms and is a very individual thing but sometimes things for one reason or another just dont work out. As said it is individual and very personal to tasts. The engineering that Dave Harries has put into a customers car, the Ex Keith Atkinsons old Tivoli Fordson is outstanding .....But ..... i just personally prefer the former guise. What do you think? Before.... After.... Clean Mustang could have been yours for £8K, looked really streight. So after a quick run round and set up, the beer came out, as did Tim! He offered it to us all, tempting but .... errr no. A root about and we discoverd the glasses well,it always was going to happen after a few on a drizzly afternoon....
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 8:11:46 GMT
As i'd been asked to provide a couple of cars for Rodger Attaways book launch, a call to Treve (Bagpuss) in February saw Disco Trucker kept under cover's more or less for this, and Billing was its debut. Whilst the original was sadly lost years ago, this is painted by the original painter to the exact design and overseen by the original builder, its just ace. ...and as Treve has a few toys, him and Alison became our newest and most southerly members, the application of thoes stickers just made me feel so good. What a pair of cars to have in the club!! On Friday morning, I nipped off before the masses got there to get a bit of lettering done on the van... a hark back to my first van...(Oh to be 17 again!!) ....and to my suprise, I found Tim had followed me and had his prayer mat out, seemed his seductive pose and prayers brought out the sunshine, though god only knows why, just look at the state of the drunken baffoon! And as Dranny salivated and fawned..... Tim cracked up a .......Pipe? Odd!
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 8:17:05 GMT
So as Friday afternoon turned into a Sunny afternoon, out came the chairs and Chris' cooker, what a thing that is!! Lot of history right here.... Finally Grum got a shirt that fits.... ...and Gloria liked it that much, she gave him a good boy lick! (get a room!) And on Friday night, it was the 'Return Of The Shirl' i'm suspecting a Porter was involved somewhere as our Shirl went missing last year having done a few runs with us but it's good to have the old wind bag back in the ranks. Now about two weeks before hand I was on the Phone to chris, he'd found three skips full of ex display dummy phones stripped out of stores, all correctly weighted and just looked like the real thing, sort you get in a normal store as display. Well he brought 350/400 with him, now this was going to be funny... more on that later!! :-) And so on Saturday morning it was time to drop the cars with Rodger and have a wander around the stalls.. Rodger & Corrinne Attaway, Mike Matthews and Phil Bowen or "Philbo Wen" the Hobbit as he became known! Some of the nicest people i've known.
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 8:37:41 GMT
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 8:39:15 GMT
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 9:26:12 GMT
Deanos 'Painting by numbers' car is getting there, hood and sides now done and looking good to match it's fenders and running boards.... Even Shirl liked it!!! So van lettering done, happy with that - tick! So as we walked the showfield we dropped a few phones and wathched people kich them, walk back and pick them up, some stuck them in their pockets (theiving barstewards) some enquired with people stood about including us on occasion, we rightly as with any lost property pointed in the direction of the NSRA to hand them in. Cos' we is good folk init?. Distributing a few turned into dropping one outsede each trade stall just about, and then it came.....John Price on the PA....."If anyone has lost a mobile phone please come to NSRA control we have had a few handed in". P155 funny. (I later found out it was about 20, only a small proportion of what we had generously given - wheres the rest ya theiving gits? This took me right back to my Teens, love it. # One for Al Yates, the old girl still lives..... and a few more phones distributed - show field camp site, shower blocks!!! Me Chris & D nipped round to see Fltch as Ds fitting air ride to the Le'mon so we had a recci and picked his and Andys brain..... We distributed a few more phones, statics mobiles and electric hook up area, maintainance building, cafe and Vinnies. We got back to camp to start on the barbie and found Pam had turned the tent into the 'Amsterdam Simulator'
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 9:29:09 GMT
And a few more phones placed, and generally thrown in all directions now! :-) We did the marquee at night with thirty or so, bar area - tick, Dance floor - tick, Stage area - tick!, the compare asking if anyone had lost a phone, we did the trade stalls again, show field, and the toilets on passing, the pub, the chippy the catering vans.......and what did Chris think about it? I'll tell ya what he thought about it..... And so back to camp and we partied!! and then at midnight me Deano and Big D watched Snake & Mongoose in mi van (that was way cool - till i fell asleep!), that was just after me and Chris realised Tim had gone to bed and emptied a box of the last 50 or 60 fones all over him in bed! Deep joy! Chris again got the stove going on Sunday and banged out another top breakfast as we faced a dull day and the prospect of going home. So a final wander round as the NSRA through John Price pleaded for someone to collect some phones!! Mick F turned up ...... better late then never boy! Couple I spotted for Robbo..... and fresh from it's CC feature, this i rather like, its different and we like different.... Another shot of 'Mi Tina' Best tot rod on site for me..... Survivor? And then this turned up totaly out of the blue. A build from the 70's and still all there though needs work, but christ what a sight! Mr T.!! Now having spoken to the young guy who has it, either he doesnt relise what he has, and I did try and I know others did too, or he just doesnt care,after all its his car, but after all these years, drink the pictures in because if what he says is to be believed and if this car is seen again its ID, stance and overall look will sadly be assigned to history and photographs and other than its plate and four bar (if they stay)will be its only identifying marks. Sad but its his car to do with as he will.
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Post by Russ D on Jun 2, 2015 9:55:00 GMT
And so endeth this fable. Tired happy and spent up we packed up and headed for the Hiway. What a blast of a weekend. Thanks to Chris & Marie's catering service, we were fed, and what a great weekend. As for Billing - till next year then boys and girls.
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Post by Dranny on Jun 2, 2015 19:35:51 GMT
Yes boys great weekend big thanks Chris n Marie for snap
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Post by 32sedan on Jun 2, 2015 21:14:26 GMT
Great pic's as usual Russ. Thanks
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