East Midlands AutoItalia - Stanford Hall : 10 Year Anniversary!

[varesecrazy]

It was good to catch up with everybody,

thanks again to the Events Team,
hope everybody got home without incident,

1 pic - can you tell what the weather was doing..,


Charlie

 

[Cento Painter]

Thanks to all those that put in the effort to make these shows a friendly relaxed place to be.

The hospitality is overwhelming as usual. You cant control the weather, but the atmosphere is always sunny !

 

[gazmac]

Good day out thanks very much !!?

 

[Aj80]

Heres the ones I got of the forum sorry if I missed any of the cars guys

 

[Steve gt]

Had a great day , thanks to the guys who organise these events it takes time an a lot of effort and I think the size of the forum stand they should be proud , good to see a nice spread of of cars old and new .??

 

[ben]

Phew, just home, finally! We were lucky we managed to get all that stuff back in the VW, good job Tetris Meister gadge !

So - well, firstly, of course, thank you to everyone for showing up, despite the horrific rain in the morning. That was a pretty depressing drive there, wondering if it would be a complete wash out. Luckily, we had our sun in the afternoon so at least the marque was dry for the packing!

T'was a strange event this year - it seems like AI didn't make any effort at all! How could they not even book a catering van...! Madness. It was for that reason that we had to cut the drinks and food short, there were too many members of the public coming over and taking them as they had no where else to get stuff

But still - as I said to a number of people, I see Stanford now more as a place where all the FF members can meet up, regardless of what's going on with the rest of the event - and in that respect, pretty successful day - pretty big turnout

Let's just chuck out a few more big thanks - Andy Monty for providing the breakfast sausages, Freebo and RuSZ for helping out the cooking MACHINE that was jatkinson :bow:

I've got the proper gallery up now (https://www.fiatforum.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=4007) so if people could upload in the relevant sub section there, that would be awesome

So apart from that - Happy 10 years to shows for us (hope some of you found the cake!) - and roll on Mitcar in August (thread going up soon!)

Thanks again you wonderful lot - really hope you enjoyed yourselves!

 

[dave]

T'was a strange event this year - it seems like AI didn't make any effort at all! How could they not even book a catering van...! Madness. It was for that reason that we had to cut the drinks and food short, there were too many members of the public coming over and taking them as they had no where else to get stuff

Should have sent some one to tesco to stock up on value stuff and started selling to public at £5 a pop would have had enough money for ffbus mk3 at the end of the day.

 

[DRSIK]

duplicate post

 

[Steve gt]

Yeah only other catering was doughnuts n a cafe that charged £4.50 for a sausage sarnie !

 

[DRSIK]

I had a great day - it was brilliant to meet everyone and have a chat.

Thanks to all the organisers for making it all run so smoothly

And I picked up a new steering wheel :slayer:

 

[blu73]

Good to hear it went ok, really gutted I couldn't make it this year and looking at photos there seems to be lots of cars/people I not met before too. And several cars I would really like to have a poke about at too.. I'm looking at you DRSIK and you Steve gt, really wanted to see yours in particular - so you best come next year so I can

 

[dave]

was Babysei there?

strange this came up today of all days too https://www.fiatforum.com/cinquecento-seicento/426331-10-years-ago-over-6k-now-yours-400-quid.html

 

[MFrV1]

Once again Fiat Forum steal the show!


I agree with Ben: It was weird that the AI staff didn't provide more catering and stalls (unless they didn't bother turning up because of the weather).


Thank goodness that the burgers were great.


Need to fix my Punto...

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

I agree with Ben: It was weird that the AI staff didn't provide more catering and stalls (unless they didn't bother turning up because of the weather).

That was the exact reason, it was organised, they were just no shows.

 

[dave]

strange i can understand an ice-cream man not turning up as he would have his regulars on a Sunday so make more on his rounds sunday is the best day for an ice-cream man/woman. but burger van wont have no where else to go an people would still want to eat in the rain

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

strange i can understand an ice-cream man not turning up as he would have his regulars on a Sunday so make more on his rounds sunday is the best day for an ice-cream man/woman. but burger van wont have no where else to go an people would still want to eat in the rain

You're assuming it weather related, they might have double booked or had technical issues.

 

[dave]

You're assuming it weather related, they might have double booked or had technical issues.

i didn't assume it some one else said it and you quoted them and said it was the exact reason

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

i didn't assume it some one else said it and you quoted them and said it was the exact reason

I said they were no shows, I didn't mention it was anything to do with the weather. I was quoting as it's what my response was in relation to.

 

[Andy Monty]

:yeahthat:

we had a good chat with Mike (ai photographer) and Phil

 

[Stu DemonD]

Mike is Phil's son.