Just to say what a great day it’s been, and well done to all who organised it. Being a new ‘5’ owner, and being on my own, there were many people who were more than happy to share their knowledge, what a great bunch, even the traders!
Pity about the weather at the end of the day, but hey!, it was good for most of it!
When’s the next one?
I hope everyone agrees that it was a very enjoyable day, many thanks again.
Enjoyed the air museum, enjoyed watching the time trials, etc,… good selection of trade stalls and car exhibits. Even tried the standing quarter. Mrs Valiant says you can’t get better value for just 4 quid.
Thank you for a brilliant weekend Yorkshire! We had a super time, the Ramada hotel was lovely, as was the dinner and the company was great. As usual D.J caused a stir…firstly with his tie on Saturday night and secondly with his yellow trousers today!
Likewise, enjoyed a super day. The weather was kind to us in the main, great to see old friends and make new ones. As Trevor said, it really does restore one’s faith in human nature to see so many lovely people gathered together…
This was my first attendence at a '5 day and I have to say it was very good and also a good venue as the air museum was a nice distraction and made it a 2 part day as we just came for the Sunday. We would have liked a few more traders stands but on the whole well done to the organisers it was a fun day and was awesome to see so many '5s in one place, I’ve never been in a car club since I was a member of the Capri Club a long time ago (now stop laughing they are still cool cars and mine ran a top spec V8) and I was impressed by the MX5OC today. Looking forward to next big one!
An absolutely fantastic weekend. The Heartbeat run was excellent and well worth going for alone. The Rally was as good as ever. I even managed a sneaky 15.05 on the standing 1/4 mile. Many thanks to all who participated in the organisation and management of the weekend. You all did a magnificent job[Y]
A big thanks to all the organisers for all their hard work in making this a brilliant event. Those of us that have done it before, know just how much hard work is involved behind the scenes in creating a great event for all.
As I was early this morning (9.30am) , I thought I would take a shot of the cars all lined up. I then took another shot 2 hours later, I could not get them all in, even with my camera which has a wide angle lens!
Great time. Nice, like-minded people, some great cars, good deal on parts, got a photo of me driving onto the ‘pan’ (parking area) from the Digital Photo guys, a new Club Cap and had a good nose around the Air Museum site too.
Left around 2-2:30 not sure exactly but 10 minutes down the road it started to spit with rain and I just got the hood up before the deluge! After that it rained on and off, light and heavy, all the way home - but it was a good run back. Traffic reasonably light and people taking heed of the road conditions for a change. Funnily enough it ‘seemed’ shorter going back
I forgot about the digital photo guys, they got a shot of me going in too. Yes, I got a good deal on new top and bottom gear shift boots I needed, and some polish from Maguires.
Good to hear you got home safely, and was good to meet you today, hope to speak again soon.
Me and Gill got back to Essex at about 6.40 last night which was a great run down. Expected a lot more traffic !! I’ll say firstly that we did have a good day. It was great to catch up with old friends from across the country, and chat to some new ones. It’s always such a great social event and the people make it a great day.
It was good to see Kens new car (Silver Bess ?? [;)]) and loved the Mk2 that entered the ‘Hot MX5’ from Irleand. There was some fabulous cars in the car park. One fabulous looking white Mk1 with wide arches and very wide wheels … and I found a car that was almost a clone of mine !! Think it was from Scotland. I had to do a double-take !!
Secondly, unfortunately I must say that the ‘judging’ for the Cool catagory was ridiculous !! I know it takes so much time and effort to put on such an event, and like I said ‘overall’ I had a good day out and was glad I came, BUT something definate needs to be put in place for how the ‘show cars’ are judged. Although all the people that enter agree that it still fun, it is taken seriously, and people (including myself) travelled a very long way yesterday and put in a massive amount of effort to get our cars there and on show only to be made a ‘mockery’ off. It will get to a point (and it’s almost there) that people are going to ged fed up and just not bother.
That said … congratulations to people that won yesterday. [;)]