Stoneleigh
Posted By : Colin Wake, 08-Feb-2005, 11:27am
Glad someone had a good time, the 5 of us selling outside thought we were going to die of boredom... where was everybody???
We all covered our expenses, but only just. Certainly not a patch on the last 2 years where we have had to fight people off. Normally we have made a dozen or so sales before the gates open with people checking the stuff as we unload it, not this year.
Did you buy most of your stuff indoors???
I can't think that our prices were wrong, we were trying (and failing) to sell decent 1500 hood frames for a tenner, when last year we were getting 4 or 5 times that.
Colin
p.s. Apologies for missing you, I saw/heard you, turned to excuse myself from the conversation I was having, looked back and you were gone, nowhere to be seen!
Email me to arrange the trim panels.
We all covered our expenses, but only just. Certainly not a patch on the last 2 years where we have had to fight people off. Normally we have made a dozen or so sales before the gates open with people checking the stuff as we unload it, not this year.
Did you buy most of your stuff indoors???
I can't think that our prices were wrong, we were trying (and failing) to sell decent 1500 hood frames for a tenner, when last year we were getting 4 or 5 times that.
Colin
p.s. Apologies for missing you, I saw/heard you, turned to excuse myself from the conversation I was having, looked back and you were gone, nowhere to be seen!
Email me to arrange the trim panels.
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Stoneleigh
Posted By : Chris Wilson, 08-Feb-2005, 01:05pm
Erm, judging by the amount of people I kept bouncing off indoors, I think most of us were inside, Colin "W"!! I only needed a couple of specific items, which I got but as always ended up spending a tad more on a few other sundries - cheers Mik!!
(private joke!).
Rugby is my home town so was a bit surprised when I read Colin "L" post about getting lost!! Nowadays, if you blink when driving through Rugby you miss it!!
I thought the day wasn't too bad but it's only the second one I've been to!!
I'm contemplating going to the Historic one during 25/26/27th Feb at Stoneleigh but the admission price and car parking fee have put me off a bit
Here's a link to the info etc>>>
http://www.historic-motorsport.co.uk/tickets.asp
Anyone else going to it??
P.S. Sorry about the use of "W" and "L" in the message but could have been confusing when referring to 2 x Colins' posts!!
Regards
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Posted By : Michael Davis, 08-Feb-2005, 04:03pm
No problem Chris. I never object to spending other peoples money for them
I'm afraid I didn't swell the coffers of many of the traders there on Sunday either. I did spend &163;10 on some electrical switches, but they're for the van rather than the Spitfire anyway.
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Stoneleigh
Posted By : Alistair Banks, 08-Feb-2005, 08:16pm
We spent an absolute mint at Stoneleigh. Four burgers at &163;3 each. Four cups of coffee, two sets of roller rockers,fully adjustable Avo's and springs and a hood frame from outside. a full set of chrome triumph letters, and a serious ear bashing off the good lady. There goes the new front door. and its back to bread and water for another month and a reduction in conjugal rights
HAPPY DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you want to contact me I am now resident in the garage. Does anyone know if you can sleep comfortably in a Triumph Spitfire I can't find a way yet.
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 08-Feb-2005, 09:38pm
I have done extensive research in to trying to sleep in a Spitfire on the Round Britain Reliability Run... it is quite impossible! I got 2 or 3 hours sleep in 48...
James
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Posted By : Chris Wilson, 08-Feb-2005, 10:24pm
The secret to being able to sleep in a spitfire is to be extremely knackered and then you'll sleep anywhere, let alone in a spit!! Trust me on this one - I've slept in far worse situations - once I slept for a whole 5 hours virtually upside down with feet in the air, plays havoc with the neck muscles when you wake up but what the hell - at least I slept and managed to re-charge the batteries for a while longer until the next nap!!
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Stoneleigh
Posted By : Colin Wake, 09-Feb-2005, 11:29am
I have managed to get a good many hours quality kip in my Moss Monaco, and so did my mates, but it did require the use of crash helmets to lessen the wind and exhaust noise.
And it gets very embarrassing when you nod off with your head on the drivers shoulder!
Colin
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Posted By : Colin Lindsay, 08-Feb-2005, 07:40pm
Chris - the biggest problem with Rugby is 1) I was staying in the Travelodge at Dunchurch, which in true Travelodge style is nowhere near Dunchurch... and 2) the road to Coventry (A45?) had roadworks so consequently I twice ended up on the opposite side from the lodge without being able to cross the carriageway at that point!! Trying to be smart and cut across country I ended up six miles north of Rugby, in Harborough Magna, criss crossing under or over the carriageway without being able to get onto it!! Finally I had to swallow my pride and return to Rugby before heading for Coventry and finding the accommodation... eventually...
Colin
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