North West Car Fest 25th March

[P6bJOHN]

This is not a meeting, and I have no connection with Myerscough College, but I noticed this show on the Old Classic Car site, and it is being organised by the Motorsport guys at Myerscough College north of Preston, and they race a Fabia VRS which will be there (amongst other vehicles of theirs.) Various motor clubs inc. the Preston Supercar Meet seem to be going. So I thought it might be of interest. Here's the link.

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/forum/phpbb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11719&highlight=

[pete8tch]

Exellent post, may have a wander over to this .

[Evil Miyagi]

I'll have a drive to this...

NW meet anybody

[P6bJOHN]

I'll be there, but in my Rover, the VRS of 1971

[sharkrider]

I'll have a drive to this...

NW meet anybody

I'm currently off that day, so would consider it....... I don't have any funds for fuel though :(

[foxyvixen]

Looks interesting, am up that way over that weekend so may pop in on the way home

[carlos-666]

I'll have a drive to this...

NW meet anybody

CARLOS AND JENNY MIGHT GO TO THIS ,,ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT STARTS ???????????????????

[P6bJOHN]

I emailed the link, and the reply was for display cars to be on site between 9 and 10 am, so I would read that as from 10am. I'll be at the head of the queue for the breakfast bacon butties, but I only live 5 miles north.

Edited 14 March, 2012 by P6bJOHN

[Stu vRS]

Only 15 mins away from me, pass it everyday, I'd probably be up for it

[carlos-666]

hi all just going to give the car a quick clean ,and then i'm off to the car show at myerscough college in preston

[Babs]

I'll be popping along later!

[P6bJOHN]

It was a bit of a wierd show, very slow start but then a wide variety of cars slowly appeared and then slowly left. But, I did see this:

and then this

Some of this

This, with a rear engined Rover 3.9 V8

A Ford pickup using this

Then I had a little nod in my chair beside this, which is mine

Until some noisy Porsches woke me then I had my sandwiches.

[carlos-666]

hi ,i went to this ,,how good did the college fabia look ,i want one .it was a good event ,a few more cars would have been nice

there was nobody taking money on entry .which is a pity coz it was a charity event ...better planning needed next year

[Babs]

Was a decent day, just a shame that cars were coming and going all day.

Ideally could have had more advertisement, too.

[P6bJOHN]

There is an article in our local paper stating it might become an annual event. I think they didn't realise the need for greater publicity, add the clocks going forward, the big 2 day classic show at Trafford park, Garstang auto jumble and the Weeton Stages rally all on the same day would not have helped. The charity collection was just a few people rattling tins late on. I hope the post show debrief will highlight these problems. If they have it next year they should allow a longer lead in on the publicity, look at what is also on in the area when they pick the date, and organise better exhibit display information/parking. It has the makings of a good event.

[jlwah]

I'll be there, but in my Rover, the VRS of 1971

Had a red one of those when I was a student. Great car and pretty modern at the time - the BMW of its day.

Regularly ran out of fuel in it and for some reason, mine hadn't got the reserve lever on the dashboard and it took me a while to realise that it required 2 gallons of fuel before it would restart!

It was pretty thirsty too. I remember a spirited drive up the A1 in the company of a Porsche 924 and a 5 series BMW and I could visibly see the fuel gauge needle moving anti-clockwise I reckon it did about 15 to 17 mpg, still petrol was only about £1.50 a gallon at the time.

Ended up getting £100 for it from a scrap yard after it'd been off the road for 12 months as parents refused to give it any more garage space!

[P6bJOHN]

I'm in denial about the fuel consumption!, I'm the idiot that buys a V8 auto as we hit a recession and rampant fuel prices. I have seen 24mpg at a steady 65 on the M6, but its somewhere around 18 normally, and if I'm out with some naughty boys of my aquaintance in their TR6's, well I try not to think about it.......

It does seem to attract well preserved ladies of a certain vintage when I park up, the old Rovers must have seen some posh totty action back in the day.