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General => General discussion => Topic started by: ...joe on 12 July 2005, 10:51
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just thought i'd add mine for ya'll to see!!
like the others have said it was a good day out, i had a nightmare set off late, company car broke down, got towed back by the RAC and thought i might as well make the effort, set off again in a borrowed car as my golf wasn't in the mood, missed a 3 car pile up on the m25 j10 by literaly a few minutes, got held up by another one a few junctions from the m1, this time 5 cars and finally made it to the pod at about 2!!
was good seeing the few people that came along, its just a shame there weren't more considering we've got almost 5000 members! shows are great for getting the entheusiasm up, getting inspiration and having a good gawp at feature cars you'll have seen in so many magazines.
for anyone who's never been to a show i strongly advise you to make the effort and if the weathers like it was at the weekend its a perfect day out!! even my girlfriend enjoyed it!
anyway....photos!
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oo..id quite like that blue/black rallye interior in the golf like... :laugh:
Dinx :kiss:
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was good seeing the few people that came along, its just a shame there weren't more considering we've got almost 5000 members! shows are great for getting the entheusiasm up, getting inspiration and having a good gawp at feature cars you'll have seen in so many magazines.
I could not agree more with what joe said, 5000 members and 10 - 15 actually turn up regulary to meets
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dinx - that interior was up for sale a short while back :wink:
pinched from another thread but this:
I've got an idea, why not make an effort to come and meet some of us personally at a show instead of being a happy clapper behind your keyboard, you never know, you might actually like some of us. :smiley:
is perfect :grin:
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Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of seeing the black 20vt rallye at shows now?
Its getting to the same point for me as that blooming orange mk1 cab, its always the same and has been around for a while, but the engine conversion has been done and yet, i have never seen it perform. Yeah great workmanship but just getting bored of seeing the same car over and over. :rolleyes: :smiley:
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she's done a few more things since i last saw it, but i know what you mean. i think its always gonna be like that though. when no-rice used to be in guildford i used to go and get all excited about the cars but after a while you've seen them all before. there a a few cars that i love but there's no point making much effort to have a look after you've seen them so many times.
but short of selling it or doing some crazy makeover that'll cost a fortune in this country its hard to know what to do. keeping ahead of the trends is tricky alright!
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i know what you mean slick but the same could be said of our club stands as it is usually the same cars there.
other than doing major make-overs all the time what can you do? just sell up and start another project?
continually evolving your car over years is the way to go. to be fair to janet the owner of the black rallye that is exactly what she has done. new wheels and respray this year, engine last year. this is the same car in '99:
http://www.golfgti.co.uk/pageimages/vwaction99/4.jpg
bit of a difference!
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the only thing i don't like about that rallye is the little cushions in the back!!! womans touch and all that! :rolleyes:
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Oh yeah, i am not denying that it is a good looking car, but tbh, the car was the same up until last summer. The thing i don't understand is that they have put that much money into making it a nice car with the power to match but to my knowledge i have never ever seen them showing it off.
It's all well and good having a car that can win prizes but if you have invested a lot of time and money into the engine then i think it should be shown off aswell.
I suppose this could all be down to me being a bit of a tech head and like to see things working rather than a nice bit of machinery sat gathering dust just being shown off. Seems a waste to me, but as i say different folks difffernt strokes. :cool:
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that '6 engine bay is dead tidy.. also liking how people are now "pimping" their interiors :)
not a fan of the blue/black myself but its done nicely.. the tan interior looks nice too
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IT says we got nearly 5000 members but how many regularly contribute to the site , as soon as my golfs done youll get fewd up of seeing my car at shows , that is until i crash it :evil:
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I should of gone to the pod. why did I sit in the sweltering heat watching the F1.
I'll be a long to some very soon. Just a couple of niggles I want to sort out on mine.
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what 1/4 mile would a std 1800 16v gti run?
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what 1/4 mile would a std 1800 16v gti run?
I reckon you are looking at 16 - 16.5 ish :undecided:
TheDubFather might know this as he was tearing old smokey down the strip last year but I don't know what mods it had on it.
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to be fair on all the guys that didnt go tbh even if you did bring your car you probably wouldnt be able to fit your car on the club stand with the flog lot vr6 club porka lot our lot and junction 29 the top part of the pod was well packed double parking all sortsit was great tosee that sort of attendance! anyway guys roll on edition 38 as i managed to sneak on the stand and ill be able to tell you guys in person about my future plans
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Aye VDUB007 you're right, we didn't have a lot of space on Sunday, at one point I thought we were going to end up having a bundle with the ClubGTI or no-rice or whoever it was that were on club stand 2 as they thought we were in their spot ! :laugh: :laugh:
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We would've had a LOT more space if that stupid Golf+ lorry wasn't taking up half our stand. Obviously their rapidly descending mag and couple of cars they blagged for the stand (elton from jabba and alexb's rallye) were more important than us ..
</bitter rant> :grin:
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