Roll up roll up... OcUK Manchester (French Car) Meet No. 2

Because I'm a big dirty manc! Bwahahaha! You will all fear my l33t R0v3r :D

Seriously though, I don't know why it's called the Manc Meet. Probably because we're 'near' Manchester.

What would you call it Gilly? The Yorkshire Meet? Pft, sounds like we're all off to do rude things to goats and sheep tbh :p
 
:eek: You guys are slacking, this thread was on page 2!

Anyway, met up with Si last night at the pub and we went for a little drive. Thanks to Si for coming out almost as soon as he got home from Uni. Should have told me to **** off :D

The drive was great, the weather was not. High winds, no visiblity and wet roads... but we still managed to get up to some rather silly speeds down the straights! Si mentioned to me that he was suprised how well my car was keeping up with him, so :p to all you frenchies. Pulled out of the pub carpark and we both went for it... hehe, bet he didn't like my car sticking to his bumper all the way up the first incline.

As well as all this fun, I also had a little bit of a scary moment when coming off the motorway and following the bend round. I noticed the junction and had to brake pretty hard. Cue the back end stepping out :eek: Glad to say that was the only tail-out action throughout the whole drive.

Got an idea of where the dreaded junction is too. Following Si, saw his brake lights come on followed by his hazards. Couldn't help but chuckle to myself at past memories.

We're off back out again on Wednesday evening with thedazman, and I'm taking a mate up to show him the roads on Sunday afternoon, so if anyone fancies a quick blast, you're welcome to join us :)

Oh Si, T-Cut for the mostly acceptable win!
 
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Hmm, Si, now who's slacking :p

Met up with Si and Daz tonight to give the roads another going over.

To mine and Si's amazement, Daz (thedazman) pulled a Coco :p When we got to the 2nd pub, he was nowhere to be seen. We both started having doubts about whether he had overshot the junction of doom, especially when he wouldn't answer his phone :eek:

Eventually, he answered and when we told him where we were, he said he had gone straight past that pub and carried on!! Oh, how we laughed.

As for the driving, the weather wasn't too bad, but the roads were quite wet so I (yet again, Si shot off into the distance) was taking it easy. Up on the high roads, and we were greeted with some serious fog, so had to reduce our speeds to 30mph... even that was too fast for the conditions.

Coming towards the end of the route, me and Si were stuck behind a Corsa and a Punto (Daz was nowhere to be seen at this point). Si overtook the Corsa on a bend, followed by me, and when he went to overtake the Punto, the driver decided this wasn't good enough and put his foot down. Was comical to see Si's Saxo continue to storm past what was probably a chav in his 55bhp lawnmower.

Oh, we stopped in the 2nd pub for a pint and Gilly will be pleased to know that a certain barmaid still works there ;)

If tonights events are anything to go by, then this is going to be another quality meet.
 
Coco said:
Me & Gilly act as responsible adults :)
Infact there's still a few parent/guardian-slips to be handed in for the trip, come on kids sort it out.

And where's this jinxed junction your banging on about? I swear I can't remember a sausage about it.
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LOL. You two were the craziest (read. silliest) kids there. :p

You were going so fast and your car so light that you probably went off the edge and managed to glide over to the other side. That or you just saw a bend ahead of you and took it at speed.

How fast were you actually taking the bends? All I remember is seeing you getting further and further away.
 
lol, I've been very busy recently and so have had no time to check this thread, but that post got my attention. ;)

My Rover will get up the hill fine... in first gear! :D

Yep, meeting at the services at about 11 seems perfect. Not too early and not too late. I think the day finished at around 4 and after all of the fun at the services, IIRC we finally got to the restaurant for just after 12.

Regarding what Mark said... I think the way we were driving, services > restaurant took about... what... 10 minutes? :p

My alternator belt has gone a little bit slack, but I don't dare tighten it up in case the bolt snaps again!

If I fall behind at this meet, I've got an excuse. I'll have a passenger. You guys are lucky, as if I was passenger-less you would all fear the wrath of my 103 horses! :o
 
lol Si!

daz, I've got AA cover now :D My mum bought it for me for my birthday, lol. Think she's trying to tell me something. Oh wait, she drives a Rover too :p

Pft, Team BFC sucks! You want Team BRR! I'll leave it up to you to see if you can work it out ;)
 
*bump*

Almost 15 days to go guys! That's 2 weeks! I'm excited already :D

Working my ass off to try and afford a full tank of petrol for the day :cool:

Got a few things to do to the car before it's ready, so I better get
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Oh, if there's anyone who's going to come but their name isn't on the list, let me know please and I'll add you. The meeting time/place and a route will be set nearer the time, so please, everyone keep an eye on this thread.

Are you guys from the south still ok to come up? :D
 
A rare 5 door Rover Turbo ;)

Very tempted to do an engine conversion on mine. Sure, it's going to be a hell of a lot of work, but that's just making me want to go ahead with it even more.
 
12.5psi... just over 200bhp, and that's just as standard ;)

My new engine isn't going into the car as standard... getting a rebuild beforehand :p

250bhp anyone?

Then I'll add my flufffy dice, badly tinted windows and remove the boost cut from MEMs and crank the boost upto 25psi :D :rolleyes:
 
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:p :D What's the power output of yours at the mo?

Fancy a race at this meet? 1 thing though... you HAVE to stay off boost! Otherwise it's unfair.
 
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