10th anniversary meet UK

What a great weekend! Great turnout, learned lots about the differences between the different specs. Thoroughly enjoyed meeting you all and every aspect of the event.

Many thanks to Joe, Rich and Claire for organising and hosting - and cooking great breakfasts, by all accounts!

Roll on next year.......

[Aredubjay]

We unfortunate folks who were banned from the meeting by a small obstacle called an ocean, are looking forward to seeing pictures of the event. Please post soon!

Just a quick note to say thanks for all the help and advise today! It wa s great to meet every one and see all the great cars, it made me feel sory that I missed saturday! SEE YAH NEXT YEAR!!!
PS (HOME SAFE AND SOUND WITH OUT TOO MUCH MESS)

[svxistentialist]

Hi Tony, Randy, and all the gang.

Great meeting, lovely to meet everyone. Sorry I could not wait on Chris from London, too tight a schedule for the ferry, but we can look forward to meeting at the next one! Any luck with the oil leak?

John and I had a wonderful weekend, and thanks in particular to Rich and Claire for doing a thorough job, and I suspect, using up a few favours with friends to look after us. Thanks to everyone who came along, we should have strings of photos for the site when all are developed and jpeged or whatever.

My own was the first SVX I had ever seen. It was great to see so many other cars and compare stereos and so on.

Will chat more tomorrow, have covered 1250 kms, not counting rough seas, in the last couple of days, need my beauty sleep.

Well done everyone.

Joe

[svxistentialist]

My tag line is too obtuse. Nobody twigged the line is from The Wild Bunch. UK SVXers are too young to remember Sam Peckinpah.

Will junk it and try something from Tarantino.

Joe

[svxistentialist]

Just noticed, your mail crossed while I was posting.

Glad you got home OK, and trust the experts set you straight on the leak. Looking forward to seeing you again some time, maybe we can organise a minimeet later in the year.

Joe

[Phil Hill]

Morning all.

Pleased to hear everyone got home safe and sound. We took a somewhat tortous route via family and friends........ but all is well.

I'll echo the thanks to Rich & Claire, made us all feel very welcome, organised a couple of nice rides out, and a superb evening venue. Oh, and a fantastic Sunday breakfast !! And let's not forget who's fault this all was eh Joe ??

I'm collating the digital pictures I've already got. What I intend to do is add a picture credit to recognise who "owns" each picture. That way no-one get's into trouble over copyright !! With the various picture owners permission, I'll compile a CD of pics and send to anyone who's interested in a copy. To that end please can Graham let me know if he's OK for his pictures to be made available. Also if you've got any of Sundays pictures you want to add Graham, drop me a line.

Tony, I tried to return your e-mail but BTinternet bounced it back so empty your inbox please !! Same for anyone else with pictures, either PM me or e-mail me and we'll make contact offline.

Aredubjay and our american cousins, I'll post some pictures and a little review of the event soon.

Best regards

Phil.

[b3lha]

What a great weekend.

Thanks to Joe for cracking the whip and getting everyone to turn up, and to Rich and Claire for their hospitality. We really enjoyed meeting everyone and putting faces to the names on the screen.

Can't wait until the photos are developed.

Phil & Belha.

[svxistentialist]

Good to hear from you bucks from Bucks.

I say uniques, because you are probably the only ones in the UK with 4ws. However, I must check with Chris in Edinburgh, not sure what his is.

Very impressive, by the way, how your car almost does a U-turn in a narrow street. Mine needs a whole carpark.

When we have all photos developed, we have two things to attend to pretty soon. First, we need to agree on an appropriate shot to portray the meeting, that we could apply to a t-shirt, or possibly to a mouse mat. We would all I am sure like something like that to commemorate the very first SVX meeting. History was made.

Also, Andy from Guernsey needs a few shots and a written precis of events to forward to Subaru UK, who wish to feature us in their trade mag.

Both of these articles would be appreciated by our American cousins.

Keep in touch as you get your photos developed. Convert the best into jpegs, we will run a beauty contest to see what photo images are most attractive, and represent us and the cars to good advantage.

Joe

[Andy]

Arrived in Torquay with some trepidation. Would I find a group of anally retentive nerds?

My fears were unfounded, what a great bunch of people! Unfortunately, I had to disappear early (great relief for all others) as I am sure the rest of the weekend was equally enjoyable.

Special thanks to Joe for getting us all together and to Mr & Mrs Rich for the amazing hospitality.

Unfortunately we caught the bad weather yesterday (Monday) as we travelled home and we were all badly seasick. I have only just got out of bed now 9pm Tuesday.

Can't wait till next years meet, just hope the weather is better.



Andy

[Phil Hill]

OK everyone,

I put some photo's from the meet into my Personal locker, only a couple at the moment. The "review" is still ongoing, I'll post it up as soon as it's finished.

Anyone who is interested in a CD containing all the pics I have, please drop me an e-mail or something.

Phil.

[svxistentialist]

Thanks Phil, the photos are way cool. Just got my first set of APS snaps back today, some good, some crap, but a few nice ones. I still have rolls in the other two cameras unfinished.

I will finish off the rest and get developed, and then see about uploading the good ones.

We had nine cars in total, but seven was the total at any one time. Compared to looking at US pics, it is odd that only one of the nine was wearing a rear spoiler. We are obviously a more conservative bunch than our colonial cousins, a brash lot {No reflection on you, Phil and Belha, that spoiler on yours is real neat, very professional finish.}

Let us know as you get your shots processed.

Joe
And Chris, nice black & claret car. I had press photos to show you, but we can do it again, something to look forward to.

[MartyMcFly]

Looks good!

I would have loved to be with you up there on the British Island.
I have never seen an SVX except my own.
I hope that there is a meeting in the middle of europe some time.

best wishes

have a nice weekend

mfg hrc

[Phil Hill]

I've posted about another half dozen pictures in my Locker for everyone to view.

More to come soon !!

Phil.

Great pics, especially Torr Abbey.

Hope that you have an extra big locker for this lot!

Re your offer of a cd, I would like to put in an order please. Tho' I suspect that you are going to be tied up for some time in your locker - not literally, of course!