Richard's mystery drive - Sunday March 1st

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Richard Sanders has volunteered to lead a drive on Sunday March 1st, with Chris as navigator (no guarantees that we won't get lost!!).
Destination and length will remain a mystery, but are likely to be dependent on the weather! It will involve a visit to a hostelry somewhere!

We will meet from 10:00, aiming to depart at 10:30 .... meeting place is yet to be determined, so please keep an eye out for further posts here and also updates to the event notice accessible from the MX5OC home page.
Hope you can join us!
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This is the same day that the West London area are going to a Breakfast Club at Goodwood.
 http://www.mx5oc.co.uk/forum/forums/t/3597.aspx
Maybe an idea to think about meeting them there? Would involve starting a little earlier…
?

 

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Thanks for pointing out the “clash” with the Goodwood Breakfast Club - this wasn’t one of their events that we thought would be of particular interest to members, we’ve earmarked the “softtop sunday” for a visit later in the year.

I know Richard has already mapped out a route for Sunday. However if he and the majority of other members would like to head to Goodwood instead, then obviously we can change Sunday’s plan, although it is getting a bit close.

Would anyone else prefer to go to Goodwood?

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Thanks for pointing out the “clash” with the Goodwood Breakfast Club. This isn’t one of their events that we identified as of potential interest to members - we’ve earmarked their “softtop sunday” for later in the year.

I know Richard has already marked out a route for Sunday, but if he and/or the majority of members would like to go to Goodwood instead, we can change the plan for Sunday although it is getting close.

Would anyone else prefer to go to the Breakfast Club?  

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 Apologies for the double post - the first one came back with an error, so I assumed it didn’t send!

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 Please note that the meeting place for this drive will be Rownham’s Services West Bound from 10:00am, departing 10:30am. 

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Sorry i am in essex for the weekend i will not be there.

Have a good time.

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 Hi - thought I could make it but looks unlikely now. Look forwardto hearing where the mystery drive ended up!

Cheers

Nicola

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 [:(] Sorry guys cxan’t make it this time, finish late start early on Sunday. Hope you all have a good drive.

 Anyone interested in going to Beaulieu on Sunday 5th April for the MX5 photoshoot discount on entry if you arrive before 11am please let me know and we can meet up.

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Hello all those we met by coincidence at the services… we nearly joined your run by mistake.

 

Hope you all had a great time and the pictures wern’t totally spoilt by the three “imposters”

Hope to see you all again at Beauliea as discussed and maybe even the treasure hunt/bbq on the 12th July.  see here for details

 

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 Hi great to meet up with you all at the services today, it was a real “double take” when we came out to see that we were surrounded…[:O]

As Harco has mentioned, don’t forget to come along to Beaulieu in April…looking forward to seeing you all then…[;)]

From another one of the “Imposters”…[;)]

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 Great run today, even with only one seat and no carpets!

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Richard, many thanks for leading the drive on Sunday - great route and I’m amazed at how you made the weather much better than had been forecast!

The scenery was beautiful with some great driving roads, especially zig zag hill [:)] … and I ate far too much at that carvery! I’ll add the photos from the day to an album on this website when I can find a few spare moments.

For those of you who couldn’t make it on Sunday the mystery drive took us to Shaftesbury in Dorset, which is the home of Gold Hill, made famous by the Hovis advert. I’ve also just read that the town featured in Thomas Hardy’s novels (as “Shaston”) - I’ve read several of those, so I wish I’d realised before going there rather than after!!  

To the three “imposters” - thanks for your posts and good to meet you. I’m glad you appeared before we all drove off, otherwise we’d have been wondering who the mystery cars belonged to!! As you can see from my new post, the area’s April weekend drive will be replaced by a drive/visit to Beaulieu for the photo shoot, so looking forward to seeing you and many other club members there. Let’s hope the sun shines on us [:)]