F.A.O. Roy from Cumbria

[McRod]

Roy how was the Concours show in Garstang last Sunday?

any pics?

McRod

[Roy M]

Rod

Just found this as I was looking to reply to your immobiliser post.

In a word - crap! Total waste of time. I've just posted this on the PCGB forum (no doubt it will be deleted or edited by the ruling stasi) in reply to a query

Helen - the only thing I can say is get the thing organised properly and let everyone know what is going on.

I turned up at 10am for a 10.30 start after driving 90 miles through rain. There was nobody in the organisers tent so I set to, along with everybody else, trying to get the car prepared. At 10.30 (the official start time) I told my brother we would have to stop and we went for a coffee. When we came back out about three quarters of an hour later people were still preparing their cars! (not just 'leathering off' either - cleaning inside and out and working on the engine compartment) - I chose to leave mine alone as 'those were the rules'

We then kicked our heels for what seemed like an eternity - After seeing my car judged I put all my things back in the car and waited to see what was going to happen and waited, and waited .....

At about 3.10pm (by which time we'd walked around the car park dozens of times looked at the 'stands' as if they were one of these tray memory tests you get at really boring parties) I asked what when we would get some results. I was told 'about 20 minutes' So we waited again.

At about 3.45 there was still no movement (this was nearly 6 hours after arriving) or information forthcoming so we left (I had made arrangements to be home by a certain time)

The next day I e-mailed one of the organisers to ask how I did - no reply. I then saw this post and checked the results - I'm not even listed!! so made the first reply in this list - no reply from the organisers.

To anyone who is interested in entering a club concours I would say forget it - it's a total waste of time.

On many club events in the past I have been left with the impression that the event is run for the benefit of a few using the subscriptions of the many - I'm afraid that this event merely reinforced this.

Anyone who thinks this smacks of sour grapes please remember - I didn't get any result at all so I'm not saying "my car was better than yours and you beat me by two points" I would just like to know how I genuinely got on (because I'll never do it again)

Nice to see Phil though!!

I'll reply to the immobiliser post separately

Cheers

Roy

[layzee]

Lol, it was interesting to look at the exotica but it did look poorly organized! Best car there wasn't even a P-car, a stunning GT40 replica parked in the car park.

I thought the funniest thing was the 2002 MY 996s participating in the concours. Surely isn't much of a challenge to keep your car clean if it is only a few months old

Anyway Roy, I give you full marks for your car and your badass Fuchs.

[McRod]

Ack, shame it wasn`t waht you`d hoped for

Was this an offical PCGB event then?.

McRod

[Roy M]

Yes - Region 18 PCGB event