Tatton Park May 30th/31st Classic&Performance Show (Camping)

I'm looking forward to this.
I need to get my tent out of hibernation this weekend to make sure it still looks okay and all the bits/pegs are there.
I will prob bring a disposable BBQ, but rest of time will either buy food or do stuff that you just pour water on (pot noodle, couscous, instant onion mash pots, supernoodles etc). This way there is no washing up stuff to bother about, and don't have to bring washing up associated stuff. I may bring the camping stove to pop a kettle on, but thats it - no pots and pans.

Stuff to remember (if this helps anyone) in no particular order:
Tent & pegs etc
air bed & electric pump
bedding & pillow
foldaway chairs (essential for evening sitting by campfire)
dog bed/dog bowl/food/poop bags/toy/lead*
disposable BBQ & 1 untensil:'food prodder'
cool box & ice packs
BBQ food/ pot noodles/ mini breakfast cereals/ long life milk
beer
more beer & maybe wine
snacks/nibbles to create/complement beer thirst
toiletries & spare loo roll
some extra clothes
rain coat & umbrella
car washing/final tarting-up stuff (lets put on a good show)
ticket
Wallet/handbag**/phone/in-car charger/sat nav

*not required if not bringing a dog
**not mandatory, but useful

Interesting list Jo, last year Dave brought his tent but forgot the poles :lol:

Luckily I know what he is like and brought a spare tent :+:

I ran out of cider at 1.00am on Sunday morning so I know what I shall be stocking up on this time. How do you cook super noodles and mash potato without a pan?

in the dogs bowl of course!! :D

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How do you cook super noodles and mash potato without a pan?

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They now come in instant tubs the same as pot noodles style (Tescos/Asda have 'em) :+:

Yuch! re: in dogs Bowl LOL Ki

Weather forecast is good (which means it will probably pee it down :shock: )

Hello, am I too late to join the fun with my Black Mk1a?

We (me and my son Jack) can only make it on Sunday, if someone wants the spare ticket(s)(?) for both then please feel free to jump in.

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Originally Posted by John Redmond

1/John Redmond
2/Bill Hulme
3/Tommy (Coverco)
4/Chris Oliver
5/Vyizis (No Contact)
6/MR2MK1Mad
7/Hybrids
8/MK1 Dal
9/Dave Burn
10/Jo & Garrick
11/Tom Mondy
12/Lakes Lad
13/Ki and Lyn
14/Jay Gosling
15/Mark Kingston (canceled)
16/Barrie Pooley
17/Ali Reeves
18/Fred and Doris
19/Stuart Cameron

The list is from my excel master, Mark Kingston unfortunately has canceled, Vyizis has not been in contact. So 18 MK1's over the weekend, I hope you all enjoy the event!

I have one ticket left so a chance for anybody who would to come along.

I've made a slight bo-bo, some of the tickets have 'tent' written on them, if you are not camping, and have one of these, could you do a swap with the campers with no 'tent' tickets. I haven't noticed this before, and I have a couple of tickets myself with tent on them so I can help out if it's an issue.

I'll bring a cool box with soft drinks and some snacks, if anyone has a camping stove I'll bring milk coffee, etc.

Cheers
John

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11/Tom Mondy

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Just realised, that's a new spelling! :lol:

I've had Monday, Munday and now Mondy, hehe.

Looking forward to the weekend!

Cheers
Tom

:+: I can supply a camping stove gas bottles and frying pan,
the weather forcast is for a smashing weekend, see you all soon.
Bill.

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Just realised, that's a new spelling! :lol:

I've had Monday, Munday and now Mondy, hehe.

Looking forward to the weekend!

Cheers
Tom

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Lol! What about Mandy? ;)

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Just realised, that's a new spelling! :lol:

I've had Monday, Munday and now Mondy, hehe.

Looking forward to the weekend!

Cheers
Tom

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Lol! What about Mandy? ;)

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Not since the operation. ;)

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Not since the operation. ;)

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Not since the operation. ;)

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since the operation it could be dandy or randy

mr2mk1chick,

Good list Joe, don't forget the suntan lotion + hat + sun glasses, as it's going to very hot and sunny all weekend !! 8-)

And lots of drinking water for the hangovers... :angel:

See you all on Saturday.

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Good list Joe, don't forget the suntan lotion + hat + sun glasses, as it's going to very hot and sunny all weekend !! 8-)

And lots of drinking water for the hangovers... :angel:

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Yup :+:
Last night i dug out the sun tan lotion & aftersun, and bought water from the supermarket LOL

see ya there

Packed shorts too 8-)

Graham (lakelad) has kindly sent a ticket for us (Jack and I) as he was not able to attend :(

We will now be definitely coming :+:

We can only come Sunday, but will be arriving early ;) so please leave a space for us! :)

Looking forward to it! :)

We are loaded up & ready to go, just have some work work to send before we leave.
Plan to be there about 19:30 tonight (Friday)

Sorry totally forgot about this, been having a really bad time with family recently. Unfortunately i'm working and the car is unwell. Next time tho!

Got back from a very hot and sunny Tatton Park

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Thirteen today, We'll see what tomorrow brings!

John

I would like to thank John and Bill for organising this fantastic event. I also need to thank John
for the supply of pop on the Sunday which really helped after our very late night on Saturday.
It was a pleasure as always to put faces to usernames, this event has to be one of the best on
the club calander, even more so when the sun shines. Here are a few pictures of the stand which
had 13 cars on the Saturday and 14 on the Sunday.

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Just got back after having what can only be described as a fantastic weekend.
John: Many thanks for organising this you deserve alot of credit for what has been one of the best organised events i have attended....thanks :+:

Was nice to put faces to names and also bump into some people that lynn and i had not seen for a long while, even Basil the dog made lots of new friend.......cant wait for the next one :D

Thanks for a great weekend.
Nice to meet everyone.
Posted some pics on FlickR:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hybrids...7619058772948/

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regards
Gareth

Well that was a fantastic weekend! :D :+:

It's the best event of the year and by a long way in my opinion. The atmosphere, the beautiful surroundings, the fantastic cars on show, the lack of "boom boom boom" brigade, the company, sitting around the campfire in the evening, etc etc etc it's a much more enjoyable event than JAE in my humble opinion.

Well done to Jon and Bill (and also Neil on the MR2DC stand) for organising everything, a sterling job done by all :clap:

It was great to see everyone, the old crowd and also a load of new people I didn't know.

There's another event in August and I highly recommend this event to anyone that hasn't been before. Please book your diaries!

Tatton was ace 8-)
I haven't been to a show in ages, and now i've remembered what i've been missing.

the weather seemed to have ben ordered by GOD it was soo good
the MK1's on the stand were an extremely good turnout, and very high standard (made our track car look like a real nail.

It was ace catching up with everyone who i hadn't seen in ages. nice campfire onthe friday & sat
no hangover which was :+:

will post up more whn i get home from work, and hopefully some pics

thanks John & delegates for putting up a great stand :clap:

Great day out at Tatton Park - our local venue :D lovely array of cars and of course lovely people - I do love keeping up with old faces - sorry Bill me old mate - and lovely to see new faces I hadn't met before - we got as near to you as we could - our tail of the roadster to the tail of a Mk1 - great - see you all in August or sooner - me thinks I must look in my diary - and Jo will you get your hubbie to change the colour of his hair please so I don't get him confused with my Steve :D :D ;)

Lovely to see you all.

take care

Pam

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Jo will you get your hubbie to change the colour of his hair please so I don't get him confused with my Steve :D :D ;)

Pam

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LOL - out of the corner of my eye, i got them confused once too :oops:

Just too say, thanks again to all on the stand, you made Jack (my son) and I feel very welcome :) It was a brilliant show and brilliant weather :)

Just one thing, mr2mk1chick you say....

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the MK1's on the stand were an extremely good turnout, and very high standard (made our track car look like a real nail.

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My car (the Black MK1a) is by no means perfect, and for me personally, whilst it is great to see "show and shine" cars, I actually prefer looking at used and "cosy!?" cars that people use on a regular basis. On one stand I saw a tired, but obviously loved ford Anglia 105E, complete with a different coloured patch of filler over the headlight bowl. My childhood came rushing back to me as I remembered a shopping trip with my Dad getting back into our tired old Anglia, a real high point of the day for me, and well worth the trip to the show :)

I guess what I am trying to get at is, don't worry about the state of our cars, different things appeal to different people!

One thing that Jack said made me realise this more than ever, he had noticed that the MR2 stand had a steady stream of people coming on to have a look/chat and even some to have a sit in my car, while the Ferrari stand, was almost empty of people, I can only assume that people were too scared/intimidated (myself included) to ask for a closer look.

Anyway ;) thanks to all who organized the event! :)

A great weekend had by all!

It was good meeting some new faces and chatting to some great people! A nice turn-out of MR2's and well done for the 2 prizes (1st and 3rd in Best Japanese Sports Car) that we got. 8-)

The campfire was good and I managed to be part of the last men and women standing both nights, 4am and 5am. :D

E-type Jag's were two-a-penny! I remembering hearing the tannoy mentioning something about the TVR stand at 3pm but thought it was a raffle or a lost child announcement. Only when I saw a video on youtube I found out they'd done an orchestral start-up en masse.

Cheers to Tommy for the much needed bacon butties in the morning and to the people that complimented my car, even though it was hidden at the back. :(

I'll hopefully make the August one as it was an excellent show.

I'll post pics up later, just going to take advantage of the weather to do some car work this afternoon.

A lot of memories and funny moments throughout, too much to write about everything. Oh, and Bill, you're a legend with your pearls of wisdom and stories of time since past. :)

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What Ferrari stand?... Oh, you mean the fake ones with the Italian flag's and owners wearing Ferrari T-shirts. :lol:

To be fair the classic replica's looked okay, the Daytona one particularly, and the Countach was nicely done.

Cheers again.
Tom

Yes i loved the show aswell (the best ive been to so far in the MR2!) including the weather that played along all day (i also managed to pick up an black MK1 MR2 'turbo' model for 5op from the autojumble which is a bonus ;) :). So i would like to say thanks to everyone at the stand as there were ALOT of MR2's there and everyone there was friendly :+: .

Here are some pictures i took yesterday (sorry i did not get a pictue of everyones individual MR2):

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Thank you
Jack

There are some great pictures there Jack, my son and I searched for MR2 models on every stand but never found any, you must be an eagled eyed collector :+:

Think everyone has said any thing i would have written so i will just say a big thanks to everyone for making me feel at home.

Will make a note that if i am up this way in May or August in the future will meet up with you all.

John and Bill did a great job as has been said by everyone.

Thanks again to everyone

From

Martyn

!st first place of all the japanese cars at Tatton and how proud he must be sorry no name
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and 3rd place to Gary
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thanks to all the members that help me put up the gazbo sail flags and banners
on friday, they know who they are, a big thanks of me, my car was rather full it was good job I had a trailer tent.
well done to all that turned up to make it a great show.
bill.

Sorry Bill i was meant to send you my details for the magazine, i have pm'd you.

Great photo's by the way

Many thanks for a great weekend all

Ki

Ki & Lynnes' (& Basil) amazing (award winning) MK1 AKA "the tardis":

(who said you couldn't go camping with all the luxuries, including the kitchen sink?!)

All the gear & HUGE tent:
http://www.mr2mk1club.com/images/imp...ntoAW112-1.jpg

amazing packing skills:
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All aboard :+:
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i was struggling to think of a name for the car Jo, i think you just named it for me :+: :D

I have sent you a pm Jo with regards to popping down one eve, phone number inc.

Ki :+:

Even though I saw it with my own eyes I still can not believe all that stuff went in a MK1 and they even put the sunroof glass in the frunk :shock:

what can i say.......its a talent :P

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Not really Gareth, not only did you have the kitchen sink but air conditioning, a proper fridge and a bath :lol:

Although it was much appreciated lending us your tv to watch the FA cup :+:

hi what a fantastic weekend at tatton thanks to john and bill for their time and effort in organizing this event.it was a pleasure to meet the other club members and put names to faces ,well done to ki for the first place the car is outstanding and also coverco car is excellent the amount of work he has put in to his car is first class .my son loved Gareth race car and said (dad why don't you turn yours in to one ) :wtf: on which i quickly replied nooooo . looking forward to august and seeing you all again :+: gary


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Looks a great event 8-)

Did anyone get any pics of the white SC thats mentioned in MR2only as winning the MK1 class ?

The pics in the mags are too small to make it out and id like to see more pics of it :mrgreen:

Thanks