#295743 - 21/03/2007 19:26
International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 06/02/2002
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Loc: Leeds, UK
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Just incase you missed it in the Announcements Section, the date of this years meet has been set on the weekend of 1st & 2nd September 2007 and will be held in the Manchester area, UK. Please feel free to make you opinions know in this thread. I look forward to seeing you all soon ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif) Cheers Cris.
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#295744 - 22/03/2007 01:05
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: Cris]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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Thanks for all your work, guys! I'm looking forward to strolling Manchester in the daylight when it's not raining. Or, does that never happen?
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#295745 - 22/03/2007 06:35
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Quote: when it's not raining
Often! When I was first moving up from London at the beginning of the 70's, a Mancunian told me that the girls were stunning: I can't say that I've noticed that the proportions are any different to elsewhere: Statistically, not bodily!
Naturally I'll be there, without fail, Mrs. Boxer is wavering!
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#295748 - 22/03/2007 14:16
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Quote: the train is so much more convenient and relaxing
Wow! You can afford the train, most of us have to slum it on the plane!
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#295749 - 22/03/2007 14:22
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
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Loc: Canada
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Quote:
Quote: the train is so much more convenient and relaxing
Wow! You can afford the train, most of us have to slum it on the plane!
Ugh.. with the out-of-the-way facilities, check-in and security hassles, cramped seating, etc.. why would anyone not want to take the plane? ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
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#295750 - 22/03/2007 15:24
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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Hmm. The wife's birthday is that weekend, so I'll have to sweet-talk her into allowing us to come.
Assuming that I can manage that, we're so there.
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#295751 - 01/04/2007 05:51
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Largest ever Dr.Who exhibition at the Manchester Museum of Science & Technology, not ending until Guy Fawkes day!
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#295752 - 01/04/2007 17:27
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: boxer]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4179
Loc: Cambridge, England
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FAC51 25th anniversary exhibition at Urbis.
Peter
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#295753 - 01/04/2007 19:45
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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Registered: 11/01/2002
Posts: 612
Loc: Reading, UK
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Aye up lads and lasses, we'll be there...
It'll be nice to see it again - not been in the Arndale since they blew it up...
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#295754 - 02/04/2007 05:25
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: boxer]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Mmm - Dr Who....
I might have to take different transport, as far as I am aware Manchester != Subaru but I'm looking into it.
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#295755 - 02/04/2007 16:15
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 17/01/2002
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Loc: Manchester UK
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I would've said 'Manchester != Cars in General' simply because of the cost of parking.
Why is everyone convinced that they're going to get their cars nicked in Manchester? In the ten years I've lived here I know of only one person to have their car stolen and that was an X reg Escort in Bolton that could've been started with a screwdriver.
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#295756 - 02/04/2007 16:31
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: andym]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Why is everyone convinced that they're going to get their cars nicked in Manchester?
Oi! Leave off our crown, Leeds is the car nicking capital of the Country! One of my neighbours lost a golf with the kids pet rabbits inside: It was found torched, but they had had the consideration to take the rabbits out and leave them nearby.
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#295757 - 04/04/2007 10:20
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: Cris]
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enthusiast
Registered: 18/12/2000
Posts: 342
Loc: South-West-Germany
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Hmpf, seems to get difficult, but i will try my best to make it.
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#295758 - 04/04/2007 20:55
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
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I know of 3 people who have had 8 cars stolen (5 Subarus, a Cossie and a couple of others) and when I had to visit a client there they told me not to park in their car park as they regularly had kids break into cars and joyride them round their car park until they trashed them or the police came.
So it worries me...
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#295759 - 04/04/2007 21:11
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
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I would've thought it a problem in the less salubrious suburbs and if you like to park on unlit unattended patches of gravel rather than a secure car park. Quote: and when I had to visit a client there they told me not to park in their car park as they regularly had kids break into cars and joyride them round their car park until they trashed them or the police came
Where the hell was that?
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#295760 - 09/04/2007 20:22
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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A travel company, which may have recently been part of a merger...just north of Manchester, near the motorway.
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#295761 - 09/04/2007 22:39
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 14/01/2002
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Rory, I could tell you somewhere in Glasgow not to take your car or the same would happen. I'm sure you could tell me about somewhere in Edinburgh. Every city has its car crime but I'll not let it ruin my enjoyment or make decisions for me re taking my car on a trip. Relax... besides... you're insured ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif)
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#295762 - 10/04/2007 07:26
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
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![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif) Totally agree (was probably just being slightly argumentatively pessimistic) Currently trying to see if we can work it round child care. Lexie will be a bit too old to just be carried around in a sling this year!
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#295763 - 18/05/2007 07:17
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
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member
Registered: 24/05/2000
Posts: 108
Loc: UK
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I had my Scooby stolen whilst sitting at a set of traffic lights in Manchester, so it does happen. A nice coloured gentleman with a knife opened the drivers door (I know, it should have been locked), and politely asked me to get out. Which I did. Fortunately, I was sitting at the traffic lights right outside the hotel I was staying at. A quick call to PC Plod, and they caught the blokes on the M60 about 15 minutes later. On the flip side, I drove my Evo 6 around Manchester for more than a year, and never had any problems at all. On the childcare front, just ask Craig ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif) Failing that, I'm sure there will be plenty of us parenty types who could help out. Andy.
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#295764 - 21/05/2007 20:45
Re: International Owners Meet 2007 - Date Set !!!
[Re: Cris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
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Looking forward to seeing you all there. Should be fun!
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