2012 national event - North Yorkshire - 1st and 2nd Sept!

[MCHUDD]

Hi Lads.
Is there anywhere to go near Harragate?
My sister in law and her husband are moveing up there for a while and
myself and Mrs mchudd will be going there for a visit arond that time.
Gives me a great excuss to go to a 300 meet.
Cheers Mark.

[foggyjames]

We are unlikely to be immediately nearby, but you'll be in the right area. Should make for a reasonably relaxed drive to get to the venue!

cheers

James

[MCHUDD]

Hi James.
Any chance of a SET IN STONE date as i would need to sort out work.
Cheers Mark.

[foggyjames]

Hi Mark,

Unless anyone can think of any good reasons not to, I'm thinking the 1st-2nd of September.

cheers

James

[Speedy88]

Winrar for me

[thebear54]

Hi Mark,
Unless anyone can think of any good reasons not to, I'm thinking the 1st-2nd of September.
cheers
James

That might just work for us as well James.

John

[MCHUDD]

Hi lads.
Any venues yet? That NYMM place looks nice.
Cheers Mark.

[volvomania]

Please make it in the South, then the overseas croud can come as well.

[thebear54]

Well, unfortunately our plans have changed.
Due to certain obligations on the mainland we will have to take the Ferry over to Holland on the 30th of August so attending any function on the 1st & 2nd is out of the question.

John

[Nimminz]

here's a place i never knew about:

http://www.motorsnippets.com/motormuseu ... tor+Museum

[MCHUDD]

Hi all .
I hope this gets sorted out soon.
I have bought my ferry tickets, just need a venue now
Cheers Mark.

[foggyjames]

Hi gang,

Sorry about the lack of updates. Things have been pretty hectic at my end, with a combination of work, holiday, and getting two cars ready (one for sale, one for a trackday) for tight deadlines. Enough with the excuses, anyway.

Robbert - we were in the south last year - you missed it! We're planning to alternate, but we need to move it around so that everyone gets a chance for it to be (relatively) local.

John - very sorry to hear that - I think we were all looking forward to meeting you.

Details!

Date - This has been decided upon for some time to be the 1st-2nd September. Saturday the 1st will be the driving day (likely to be a checkpoint approach, rather than a convoy - I'm very conscious that we tend to make a pain in the backside of ourselves if we convoy), and Sunday the 2nd will be the show. We'll arrange a campsite (and hotel suggestions, for those who prefer some extra luxury) nearer the time.

Venue for the "show" on Sunday - This needs to be finalised in the next few days so I can get it put in the VOC magazine. I don't have a clear picture of the right way to proceed just at the moment, but I'm hoping to get your feedback on a couple of options - preferably "yeah, any of those will be AOK". I think we're past the "suggestions" stage, but if anyone does have a brilliant last-minute idea, do please pipe up! The motor museums all seem to be small / under-development, so I'm concerned that they wouldn't be able to accommodate us...or keep us entertained for a whole day. Beaulieu or Crich, they ain't.

1) North Yorkshire Motor Museum (http://www.nymm.co.uk/) *and* North Yorks Moors Railway (http://www.nymr.co.uk/). They're just down the road from each other, so it seems rude not to split the day half and half. Realistically, I don't think there's enough at the NYMM to keep us entertained for a whole day, and I'm not sure if they'd be able to accommodate a pile of cars anyway, but we could all pile into 3-4 cars, leaving the others at the NYMR, or something like that. Keeping the NYMM section in there retains the motoring theme.

2) Beamish. That'll keep us entertained for the whole day, and there's plenty of space, but it's not motoring related, and they might not want us to have a line-up of the cars in a special area, given that it's vaguely Victorian themed. Having said that, so is Crich, and they were happy to have us. Locomotion at Shildon is the emergency back-up along similar lines, but there's less to do.

So...do we prefer option one, or option two? I could do with your feedback ASAP (within 24 hours will be ideal, although I suspect I'll not be making a final decision until early next week). Sorry about the short notice, but I'm afraid this year has not been at all kind to me, time-wise

cheers

James

[MCHUDD]

Hi James.
I will go along with anything thats sujested as i don't know the area.
Pity about John, i would like to have met him.
Realy looking forward to this now.
Cheers Mark.

[Hell Driver]

Option 1, North Yorks. please!

[foggyjames]

Thanks for the feedback guys

cheers

James