gaydon 2014

Why not ask David Frith at next months Question and Answer session 

Norrie wrote: It could well be that with proper planning Gaydon could be extended to a full weekend

Gaydon. so is it the geographical location or the same old format? I live in West Sussex towards the Gatwick side.There has been nothing here since I joined. I do enjoy the club, but have done more than 5000 miles in the last 12 months travelling to events.

However, I would encourage anyone to come up with a viable alternative.

Edited by Norrie - 11 Sep 2013 at 8:27pm

The furthest east is Maidstone I think for you, still a fair trek from Ramsgate.

In fact here I go again, Santa Pod, Wellingborough Northants, Sat night hotel or get up silly o clock Sunday!

Yes I believe some regional boundaries might change or have, sorry I don't know the detail. Officially I was put in the SE region, but I am with the Wessex and will remain so. The boundaries are a nonsense really, for example the SE region has a pub meet on 18 miles from the Wessex one??

Just go to anything you want at any region I am sure you will be welcomed.

Cambell wrote: My house to Gaydon and back is 672 miles, potentially 3 tanks of petrol for me. It would be nice to hold the event in Edinburgh one year but lets face it, that wont happen.

You're right, it won't!

The Edinburgh comment was tongue in cheek. Unfortunately most of the major car events happen in The South. Yes, the south of Britain, not just England. The NEC for example, is south for the majority of the UK landmass. 

How can it be a can of worms I think its healthy conjecture 

pee wee wrote: i wood go to more things but every thing is miles away all the south east pub meets are 60 70  miles away as gaydon is 400 mile round trip

I had the same problem with the closest pub meet being Dorking however after speaking to the chair person it was sugested that i start up a pub meet in my local area. Which is the Maidstone pub meet and has been successfull for the past 7 years. So why not start one up in your area all you need is a nice friendly pub with a good size carpark. Then just advertise it on the forum and hopefully some members will come along. I can also put it in the club magazine for you if you send me the details.

Thankyou for your kind words. The concours will be going ahead this year i am in the process of finalising the arrangments. It will be at Bentley Wildfowl once everything has been finalised i will advertise it.  I will look into Dover castle for the future. 

There are already a number of shows such as this in the UK. I am uncertain how they compare in size to the USA meet. A number of us went to the German show at Beaulieu this year. There is also the Players show at North Weald www.players-show.com.

The suggestion posted above is a good one, perhaps the car club, who I understand is meeting with or has met with the clubs of those other marques may consider pulling together. I guess one potential issue might be if the other clubs over shadowed BMW?

However a venue like Silverstone, could include a track day and vast amount of space if for BMW national event. It has many fixed facilities and I am sure that for example the club could hire the Silverstone Racing Club facility, which has a bar, catering facilities and own grandstand, they add a big marquee to it for F1, so no reason they could not for a requirement which exceeds the numbers permitted in the club. Opposite there is a concreted area where I am sure the car club could display 2-300 cars or if not this could be given to vendors as it is at large meets.

Silverstone has young persons driving experience and the 4 x 4 experience, there could also be track passenger experience in the Silverstone track cars, Lotus, Aston etc.

This is just a suggestion, I am sure there are many others, would be glad to hear them.

This simple fact is there has to be something going on, more than just a lot of very nice static cars.

Edited by Norrie - 17 Sep 2013 at 11:33am