MR2 National Day - 4th June 2023

Hi all,

I'm going to be attending the MR2 Drivers Club National Day for the first time this year, so thought I'd post the event up here to see if any MR2 Mk1 Club members fancied joining me?

They hope to have several hundred MR2s from Mk1s, Mk2s and Mk3s, and in addition to that, there will be a selection of other Toyota classic and sports cars to look around.

It's being held at Hatton Country World, which is at the following address:

Dark Lane
Hatton
Warwickshire
CV35 8XA

The show runs from 9am to 2pm, with arrivals from 9am-12pm. No car movement from 12pm to 2pm.

It's just £2 to park up your car for the day.

For more information, and to sign up, please head over to the event page here - https://mr2dc.com/events/mr2-national-day-2023/ - it's free to sign-up, so just the £2 parking fee to pay.

It should be a great chance to get together with likeminded car enthusiasts.

I'll most likely be attending in my turbo Mk1, but may also be able to get someone to bring my V6 if the rust has been sorted on it by then! :)

I may stay over the night before, but will take a look at that once I'm back from holiday this week.

Cheers,
Tom

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Originally Posted by tommundy

Hi all,

I'm going to be attending the MR2 Drivers Club National Day for the first time this year, so thought I'd post the event up here to see if any MR2 Mk1 Club members fancied joining me?

They hope to have several hundred MR2s from Mk1s, Mk2s and Mk3s, and in addition to that, there will be a selection of other Toyota classic and sports cars to look around.

It's being held at Hatton Country World, which is at the following address:

Dark Lane
Hatton
Warwickshire
CV35 8XA

The show runs from 9am to 2pm, with arrivals from 9am-12pm. No car movement from 12pm to 2pm.

It's just £2 to park up your car for the day.

For more information, and to sign up, please head over to the event page here - https://mr2dc.com/events/mr2-national-day-2023/ - it's free to sign-up, so just the £2 parking fee to pay.

It should be a great chance to get together with likeminded car enthusiasts.

I'll most likely be attending in my turbo Mk1, but may also be able to get someone to bring my V6 if the rust has been sorted on it by then! :)

I may stay over the night before, but will take a look at that once I'm back from holiday this week.

Cheers,
Tom

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Will be attending,already confirmed, always a great meet, would be great to see all

Nice one John; look forward to chatting. :)

We have registered interest and will hope to attend. Look forward to seeing you all

Hi Tom, I will be there. Looking forward to meeting you and seeing loads of Mk1s :)

Registered and looking forward to my 1st meet.
Reg

Great stuff all! It's going to nice to catch up with a few friendly faces.

I'll be bringing some of the Mk1 pin badges that are available to current club members for free, to save on posting them out. So if you'd like a FREE pin badge, make sure you're joined up to the club asap. :) :+:

Hmmm. Mine is still in surgery at the mo, but if it's done/finished by then I'll certainly look at attending this if I can...could be the first outing for the beasty post engine rebuild, so a good way to get some bedding in miles done, though expect I'll be a nervous wreck in case it breaks down! ;)

Cheers
Mark

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Hmmm. Mine is still in surgery at the mo, but if it's done/finished by then I'll certainly look at attending this if I can...could be the first outing for the beasty post engine rebuild, so a good way to get some bedding in miles done, though expect I'll be a nervous wreck in case it breaks down! ;)

Cheers
Mark

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Aww, you should definitely come! And don't worry about it being concourse/bits not re-fitted yet; mine'll be one of the rattiest there, hehe. :D

Im usually there, I cant be sure about this year though becuase its the weekend before my sisters wedding and i have to finish her wedding car. its getting a little tight on time.
Should be able to make it down though.

Would be nice to catch up Martin.

I will be there. Coming down with my younger son in my JDM Mk1b T-Bar.

See you all there! 😁

Well, I visited the car today - while definitely off the life support now it's not in a state to MOT as yet, still waiting on some brake parts and some other odds and ends, so this one is a no go. Still, definitely getting really close to the point of it being legal and useable again at least, so hopefully will get to enjoy the summer at least :)

Cheers
Mark

Looks like 70+ Mk1's, how many of those are in the club? the last time we saw some of you was at the Silverstone aniversary bash, wil;l anyone be flying a club flag/banner?

Ah, good thinking! I'll stick a flag or two in my car. [emoji106]

Safely at our accommodation in Warwick ahead of Sunday! [emoji4]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7db7364b20.jpg

I've got some keyrings, a few mugs, notepads and the pin badges with me.

Pin badges are free (one per member), notepads free to members and mugs (£8), keyrings (£5).

All money to club funds. :+:

Looking forward to the meet

Stunning weather today!

Nice to meet up with lots of friendly faces, both new and old. :+:

It was nice dishing out some of the pin badges to club members too. [emoji4][emoji106]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a979ffcf3a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b5edd5315d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4d4f54a29a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a6acd767fd.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...833a92a83a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7f53c86f62.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2259ccfad0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8192428d4e.jpg

Agreed, good to meet many including Mr Chairman. Let me have info to pay for the mug!

Another great day, good to see you again Tom, what a collection of mk1, and others
a positive also was a number of younger owners, met one in motorway service owned for 3 weeks,
A well organised show as ever, thanks to all involved

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Agreed, good to meet many including Mr Chairman. Let me have info to pay for the mug!

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You should have a PM. :)

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Another great day, good to see you again Tom, what a collection of mk1, and others
a positive also was a number of younger owners, met one in motorway service owned for 3 weeks,
A well organised show as ever, thanks to all involved

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Yeh, good to see a spread of ages amongst the owners! :+:

Values

just after National Day my Insurers agreed a value of £6k for our T Bar. She is not for sale, but do members think we should invite a further review? There was a view at National that she might be valued higher and interested in views. We have chased most of rust down over 15 years in our care and she is stock and complete apart from stainless exhaust. I confirmed [after consultation with many!] That she is a very early to UK T Bar. Many Mk1a parts and clearly cross over. 1sr reg Aug 86. She has a cracked c pillar trim and needs some new skirt seals but otherwise ok 94k miles. Just looking to protect the invested £s

Have posted threads previously about auction prices of mk1, on the way to the national met a new owner of 3 weeks, paid £6.5k and was happy that the price was competitively acceptable, your car sounds a well cared for car, personally would check online prices as I would be looking for a higher value as well appointed cars with documentary history £6.5 would be a bargin,
would also be interested in what others think,
John

Thanks, I think we had become used to v low prices and despite the magazines always saying"one to watch" not seeing significant change over the years. I used to have a califorian VW Karmann Ghia 71 that I sold for £6k. They are all now into big numbers.

Apologies if I have missed posts, but I will be at this years meet on 2nd June. Hope to see some of you there. [In the sun?]

Great to hear you will be there, as it is the official anniversary 40th of the mk1should be a good turnout,
Good weather in prospect, always enjoy the meet, will look out for your car in the show ring!!!!!!!!

Received info this afternoon that the National day has been moved to Ricoa Arena CV66AQ
Due to the water on the field, new venue hard standing. Hope to see everyone
Check website for details

Hope you guys have a good time!

I can't make it unfortunately, as just too much stuff going on at the moment, and not got an MOT'd MR2 :(

I did see this post last night about a change of venue as Jed says! HTH

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NATIONAL DAY - CHANGE OF VENUE!
No, it's not a wind-up. Check your emails. Check your Spam.
New venue:
Car Park C of the Coventry Building Society ('Ricoh') Arena
off the A444 'Jimmy Hill Way'
what3words ///float.settle.hoot
The official postcode is CV6 6AQ, but that doesn't take you near the car park entrance, so what3words is best.
Access is directly opposite the entrance to the retail park, opposite Burger King.

and as a heads up, I'm planning to push for a big 40th celebration of the MR2 being released in the UK next year, including trying to get 40 cars at Silverstone to match the 30+ cars we got for the 30th. We'll probably need to team up with some other clubs, but should be a great year/event. :+: