Bangers and Cash

This is a first time event for the MESS, it sounded very interesting and after gauging interest George organised the event for us. (thank you George).

Wow, what a shock, I opened my door at 6am to drive to our pre -arranged meeting point and was instantly greeted with pea soup fog, the first of the year and a much lower temperature 'shudder' after I had found my garage and got going the following is true, I drove to the M1 and north to the M45 and to the A45 before I was actually overtaken and I was doing 55 to 60 mph!

The first photo was taken after we had all assembled at the Coventry airport meeting point and prior to driving to Stoneleigh in convoy, following our local boy (George) in his VW Task Force van. Another photo shows Peter Humphries receiving a book on how to read a map and a compass from George, all tongue in cheek and good fun I might add. George has already earmarked his next victim. :) I do have a good idea.

On arrival we were fully set up in no time, the new marque banners are superfast to erect and really set the MESS apart from the crowd. The classic car display area was not large and once again thanks to Bruce, we certainly had the most professional looking stand in the hall. The auto-jumble and the Bangers & Cash team were the main draw but we were all kept incredibly busy all day with people showing a real interest in the marque. From this point the event was truly a success. We also had Classic Car Weekly take a few pictures of the cars on the stand, I was delighted to spend 10 minutes later in the day speaking cars and auction details with Dave from the Bangers & Cash team, what a really nice and down to earth bloke. One of the nicest things about this event was the totally relaxed atmosphere which has now endeared this event to me.

Many people agreed they would do the event next year and that it would work as a one day event without hotels etc. I will let the pictures tell the story.

NOTE: Golly, I'm really looking forward to the NEC and seeing our new banners in action, when they will really come into their own and sell the marque.

I have to say that I left the venue at 4pm and it was a lovely day, I had some music playing and had an awesome drive home and straight into the garage as the car was still very clean. My car is not doing the NEC this year so this is my last official run out, I will however do a few small events prior to hopefully doing Stony Stratford on New Year's Day.

Many thanks to George Sampford, Bruce Beauchamp, Alan Cavendish Tribe, Peter & Marie Humphries and finally Alan & Sandra Timmis all of whom made this a memorable event.

It was also great to see and meet several Middlebridge owners during the day, Alan Earl, Andy Goss and Roy Therman. We thank you all for popping in and visiting us on the stand.