XPower forum gathering at Gaydon tomorrow!!!

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Re: Welcome to the Midlands
« Reply #3 on Yesterday at 4:35pm »

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Anyone from the midlands going to the X Power forum do at Gaydon this Sunday? 10.30-4.00 Theres at least 50+ cars going!!!
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seantf
« Reply #4 on Yesterday at 6:59pm »

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hi colin
can u give more details
cheers mate


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colintf
« Reply #5 on Yesterday at 8:02pm »

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Hi Sean,

www.xpowerforums.com - look in events bit, with the forum part of website


so far as I know 60+ MG's (mainly Z's but some F / TF's as well?) are going there as an XPower forum day out. 10.30-4. We'll have our own parking area as well

also a bit in MGCC mag Z register this month

Ive cut n pasted the following from the xpwr forum!

Just to confirm, the day is from 10.30 until 4.
People are free to come and go as they please throughout the day.

There is no entry charge to get into the grounds
We have a reduced rate to get into the museum of £6 for Adults and £4 for kids, under 5's get in free.
To get this reduced rate just say you are with X-Power Forums at the pay desk in the museum.

For those that haven't been to the museum in the last couple of weeks the museum entrance is now at the front of the building instead of the back where it used to be. The shop is now downstairs in the museum, but the cafe is still upstairs or round at the back entrance.
Land Rover Experience and Karting is available by booking it at the pay desk in the entrance to the museum.

As regards to Parking!
They have't decided where to put us yet so I don't know where we'll be yet.
But the museum assures us that there will be good signage to direct us to the correct place. I was told to say that you should all just follow signs for museum Visitors and then there will be signs for X-Power Forums from there.

I'm hoping this will be the tarmac car park at the bottom in front of the museum, but I can't say that for definate, so don't get your hopes up it may still be the top gravel car park.

So, hope to see the many of you on Sunday.
And lets hope the weather isn't to bad on us

[Steve White]

Wont be going, even though its very near me.
Reason being I have been to several meets & shows there in the last year, and once you have looked around the 'show' there is not a lot to do if you have already seen the museum several times before, so there is just not enough to attract me back again.
Facilities are also not great, especially the cafe which can only accomodate a couple of dozen people, sp on a busy day you end up queing for ages.

Initially there was talk of them getting use of the Aston Martin test track which is virtually next door, and would have encouraged me to go. But assume they realised that it wasn't viable when they looked into insurance implications and the likes?

[colintf]

Likewise, lost count of the number of times I've been and looked around - still going though!!

[colintf]

Good day out hosted by the XPower Forum!

Counted 6 TF's no F's there by the time I left (but I was home in time to see the BTCC on TV - come on ZS's!!

Did anyone else from here go?

There was one unique blue coloured TF (so much so the VIN plate is allegedly blank in the paint code part!) I know the owner has been talking to Scarlet Fever. Hopefully he'll join us, and we'll see this car again!??

[Keith Williams]

Glad you had a good day out at Gaydon. I enjoy the good country road run to Gaydon from Coventry, but again there is not enough there to hold my interest with too many visits.

Another 'excuse' for me was yesterday, I was marshalling up at Cadwell Park for the MGCC. You saw more TF's than me. The MG Trophy race in particular was down in numbers - 13 ZR's but only 3 TF's. Well that was one more TF than the Silverstone meet though, so numbers are improving.

The car that turned most heads on the day was a ZT 520 - oohhh it sounded so nice accelerating down the straights. I love my F, but would not have minded swapping for that car for the drive back. But then again, the trip back with the roof down was something even the ZT could not do

[Jo]

Have to agree with you there Keith, the ZT 520 sounded fantastic and was a good race to watch.

It would be nice to see it on more of a power circuit (Silverstone).

Shame a Ford won.

We left before the endurance race finished. Do you know who won it?

Cheers

Jo

[Keith Williams]

Jo - The Enduro was cut short by the red flag at lap 19 out of 29 due to an incident.
Car No. 93 - Tom Stewart (MGB GT V8) won the race.

You can catch up with all the details on times and who won what on www.msttiming.com/mgcc/2006/mgcc.asp?season=2006.
Those nice timing people at MST have a full listing of laps and timings for all the cars in each race.

[Jo]

Cheers Keith