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[Bungle]

you missed out being sick on the inside of your tent and the beans finding your water pistols

my report

took 6 hours to get there

set up a second TMF camping area with jimbos lot, the beans and shifty never found the first one sorry dog

phoned TC and said its stoped raining

set tent up then it rained, so feed baby and had a pot noodle for tea £5 for a BBQ >

stoped raining so went for a walk found TC wet from setting up a tent in the rain

found the rest of the swinging club and tarks and beks + someone else

walking back found big gav quick hello before the rain started again

went to sleep same time as baby 7:30

woke up at 9:30 no rain so went to see whos about

found central mini's area and the rest of TMF got made to drink beer

started raining at 10:45 so went back to the tent

woke up a 7 with people driving around ( why? )

set the beans on jimbo

packed up tent but it was wet, so as i didnt want to put wet tent in car i placed it on the top and drove into the show

went home at 3:30 took 6 hours to get home car problems :'(

[kitch]

I'm in love with the green arden 8 port and i've gone off the honda and vauxhall front engine conversions as the cars at the show had so little space in the engine bay, workin on them would be a nightmare.

I was hoping to see the z-cars minis again but didn't see any, spose the huddersfield spares car is almost a copy of them

Edited by kitch, 21 August 2006 - 01:50 PM.

[ckneller321]

yeh i spent i good chunk of the day looking at the ardon 8 port one

[sheepo]

was the huddersfield spares car the one that was in the magazine recently? i think they must be pretty much the same anyway.

As for the 8 port, that mini is sex! It's got to be a-series all the way, imo. I've have seen it in the mags, belongs to a guy called simon o'sullivan if i remeber correctly (sorry simon if i've got this wrong!).

[blakie]

Im now a mini owner again thanks to mitp, bit doged up but hey, sits in the rain for365 days a year. Let the fun begin.

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[Dog]

I saw that Mini!!

Looked awesome, if a little over priced... how much did you get it for?

[blakie]

£625 down from £750 was trying to get £600 but the little welsh bloke wouldant budge. Still whats £25?

[Tango1300]

found the rest of the swinging club and tarks and beks + someone else

That was me!!!! lol

[Dog]

found the rest of the swinging club and tarks and beks + someone else

That was me!!!! lol

Yep and didn't u look all nice and dry underneth ur brolly!

[biggav]

i deffinatley need to plan the next show in advance, and get mobile numbers from people!!!!!

[Steamo]

My report:

Had shed loads to do on saturday so we were late setting off (7ish). Me and my GF in my mini and my 3 mates in an Audi A4 (1 bini owner, one clubby+clubby est owner and one former mini owner).

1st stop - Lichfield Tescos to stock up on booze and food.
2nd stop - Lichfield 5 mins down the road MY BRAKES HAD GONE!! No pedal and no fluid in reservoir - You just can't imagine how gutted I was.
RAC arrived at about 8.30 recovered the mini and took it home. Whilst waiting for the RAC I was seriously considering jacking it in - thanks to Dan for persueding me otherwise (and driving).

So after we dropped my mini back at home we all piled in the Audi - 5 adults in an Audi A4 for 2 hrs is not what you'd call comforatable - especially when you're stuck in the middle in the back.

Arrived at around 11 with a brand new tent that we'd never had out of the bag let alone put up before (cheers to the 2 chaps who helped us wrestle with the thing untill it was up).

Pic of our tent area
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Drinking ensued at this stage, lots of it. We had a visit from the guys with the "funnel of death" - Its suprising how quickly you can consume alchol with one of those things!

After this we played see how many people fit in the boot of an Audi (3).
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This was inspired by a - "can Dan (6'2") fit in the boot of a mini and shut it (yes)" - game from a few months ago.

We also had a visit later on from a couple of (rather bladdered) members of the Crewe's Missiles. Found out in the morning that they had stolen one of our tent poles (fortunately they abandoned it in the field when they left in the morning so we got it back - a little bit bent).

Went to the show in the morning. had a wander round bought a couple of bits and bobs - rather annoyed because I saw some wicked sump guards on the Japanese parts stand, thought I'll buy one later, by which time they'd sold out.

Some great cars there my these were my highlights:
Removeable hard tops - always thought they'd be a good idea but 1st ones I've seen:
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Superchargers - really want one:
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Love this car - makes me want to paint my wheels Gold
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2 Vauxhall engines (one front one back) now thats just greedy!!
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I love this van - wouldn't change a thing about it (not many cars I can say that about - mine included).
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Did anyone else see the dreadlocked dog?
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More pics of the show here Gallery

Anyhow - got home to this:
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My mini looking a bit sorry for itself. I'm getting worried about what I'm going to find (especially as I have done the fiesta brake conversion - who knows what the problem could be)

Checked all the unions for leaks they were all fine checked passeneger side rear wheel cylinder - drum full of fluid:
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Changed cylinders and shoes on both sides yesterday - back on the road! Oh and fixed the fluid level warning light as well!! (conection corroded and snapped off)

MITP was the 1st mini show I've been to in a couple of years so I really enjoyed it (was expensive though). My only regrets were not making it in the mini and not getting there early enough to have met some people from here but having said that the brake problem could have been a lot lot worse had it happened on the M40 rather than sat at some traffic lights in town.

Edited by Steamo, 22 August 2006 - 09:49 AM.

[Guess-Works.com]

Im now a mini owner again thanks to mitp, bit doged up but hey, sits in the rain for365 days a year. Let the fun begin.

If it had been an 850, you'd have been fighting me for it... still looking for a turd brown 850

[TWICEmonkey]

If it had been an 850, you'd have been fighting me for it... still looking for a turd brown 850

I know of a green one near me, for sale

[Guess-Works.com]

nah, after an original... it's a right pain, as about 4 years ago, I watched one drive into the local scrappy ( which I later gutted for pretty much everything ), and wish now I'd just had the whole car...

[blacktulip]

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chment=18918:attachment]heres a few i took, some repeated i know, i saw a really nice white early cooper with roof rack but missed the pic somehow. took me 3 hours to get there, missed a few turns here and there lol, as u do!! had breakfast at oxford services 15 quid for two!!!!!!! rude or what??