ALPINA Display Gaydon 2006 Sun 20th August Event Details

Post by D4 » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:24 pm

Glen

wondered where you'd got to... weren't you one of the last to leave??

L8 ALPINA · Post by **L8 ALPINA** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:31 pm

Yes i was evicted from site and told never to return. So next year i will have to be in disguise. Only kidding, sorry i never stopped for a chat but you looked busy and stressed out,

Post by D4 » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:46 pm

L8 ALPINA wrote:Yes i was evicted from site and told never to return. So next year i will have to be in disguise. Only kidding, sorry i never stopped for a chat but you looked busy and stressed out,

yes busy and stressed as always...but glad you and the rest had a good time...

Petrolhead · Post by **Petrolhead** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:22 pm

Sorry for the late reply, but just wanted to say how good a day it was. Dad is really grateful of Andy, managing to get the office to send him the display pass, and squeezing him on the stand, thanks!

I was out all day before hand, in the pouring rain, cleaning it, hoovering it, and giving it a good once over. I spent the two days before that cleaning the engine bay with that gunk stuff, boy did it stink!

We really enjoyed the day, day enjoyed meeting even more like - minded people, and I enjoyed looking at all the other nice Alpinas and Beemers out there. But what we both really enjoyed was the Aston Test track. We did it the year before, so we bought two tickets this time

We went out at the same time as James in his B10 3.3 the first time, and we both hung to the back so we could go faster catching up with the guys infront. We managed about 160, he managed about 150, but it was close!

Overall a great day!

Post by D4 » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:18 am

Alex & Jezza welcome back to the UK..

got the pics - thanks

Pics from Jezza and Alex can be found Here

Petrolhead · Post by **Petrolhead** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:42 am

Thanks for putting them up nice and quick Andy!

Post by D4 » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:13 am

jezza's-son wrote:Thanks for putting them up nice and quick Andy!

glad to be of service...

Petrolhead · Post by **Petrolhead** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:55 pm

Andy, I see you got a mention in this month's 'BMW Car Club' magazine in the 'Festival Fever' section, for organising all the Alpinas at Gaydon, and deservedly so!

Post by D4 » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:03 pm

yes.. but disappointingly my article on the factory visit wasn't included - neither were the details of our October pub meet in Colchester...

Post by **neil** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:44 pm

Hi all

Quick note to say it looks like you had a great day and the photos help to give me a sense of what I missed.

Glad it all went swimingly Andy !

maybe I'll make next year

Post by D4 » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:21 am

good to have you back Neil... hope you all had a nice time...

I want to try and organise the pic pages so that we can get view them all from one page and have a bit more detail like cars that where there etc.. but my html is a bit limited - i'll chat to you about it on wed if you're planning on attending...