What a Great Rally

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What a Great Rally

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Just a quick word to congratulate everyone in the Lincolnshire Group who were involved in planning and running the International Rally at Hibaldstow. The auction by Tim and Co was great fun and lots of bargains were had by the punters. I even made £7.20 profit!

I was delighted and a little surprised to be awarded the Overseas Long Distance award - 337 miles from Bangor in Northern Ireland - really thanks. Overall Biddy did 700 miles from start to finish with the only issue being fuel vaporisation and stalling with little or no warning on too many occasions in the very hot weather and traffic queues.

We are just home tonight and Biddy is happily back in the garage for a well earned rest - me too!

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I agree, superb rally and well organised. Well done to the team :thumbs:
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Hi All
Just a bit of fun - Hibaldstow at the centre and the starting points of everyone on the attendance list last weekend.

A really good spread from across the country!
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I like that!
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Nice way to display that info.

I admit to being slightly disappointed at the relatively few attendees from London and the South East though.
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Hope that top mark was the one for our local chairman Billy Melvin.

As you an see it is drawn as a straight line, which most of yourselves from the centre of the country can probably manage, but us poor folk here have a lot of miles to cover to come to any event south of the border,
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Yep that's from Oldmeldrum.
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joiner wrote:Hope that top mark was the one for our local chairman Billy Melvin.

As you an see it is drawn as a straight line, which most of yourselves from the centre of the country can probably manage, but us poor folk here have a lot of miles to cover to come to any event south of the border,
Even us locals have similar issues. I'm probably no more than 40 miles from Hibaldstow as the crow flies, but avoiding Lincoln city centre (no north - south bypass) added 20 miles or more...
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What a great rally indeed. We thoroughly enjoyed it, tremendous thanks to all involved in organising it.

As one of the very few members that ventured up from the Southeast, we too were dissappointed at the low turnout from this corner of the world. Will have to see what we can do to improve on this for next year.

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"I admit to being slightly disappointed at the relatively few attendees from London and the South East though".

Well Dave, the London Group were represented by Alan Palmer, Dave Turner, Russell Lewis (and his children), Andy and Martin Pitcher, Jeff Richman and myself. Two of our cars received awards and it was a 100% turn out from members who turn up at our meetings. If we include honourable London members Richard and Tracey Dracup that's a fair turn out. Based on alcohol intake I think we did surpassed expectations :cheers: .
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joiner wrote:Hope that top mark was the one for our local chairman Billy Melvin.

As you an see it is drawn as a straight line, which most of yourselves from the centre of the country can probably manage, but us poor folk here have a lot of miles to cover to come to any event south of the border,

Future passport and Sporran checks at Border control are not going to help with journey times :lol:
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I have always enjoyed the adventure of a long drive to an International Rally, further the better. Hibaldstow was only about 20 miles for us,it felt like a drive around the block but at the moment that distance was welcomed as I am not able to drive/sit or stand for long. We did enjoy the rally though, well done to all the team, and it was good to catch up with the folk we found. Poor old Tilda has not left the garage for over a year through no fault of her own. I remain hopeful in the fact I get myself plated/bolted/and surgically pieced back together in time for next years International Rally, hopefully this time with Tilda.... The clock is ticking....... :shock:
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TILDAS PILOT wrote:I have always enjoyed the adventure of a long drive to an International Rally, further the better. Hibaldstow was only about 20 miles for us,it felt like a drive around the block but at the moment that distance was welcomed as I am not able to drive/sit or stand for long. We did enjoy the rally though, well done to all the team, and it was good to catch up with the folk we found. Poor old Tilda has not left the garage for over a year through no fault of her own. I remain hopeful in the fact I get myself plated/bolted/and surgically pieced back together in time for next years International Rally, hopefully this time with Tilda.... The clock is ticking....... :shock:
Didn't see you at the rally David, glad you made it and enjoyed it. Hope you get to go in Tilda next year! :wave:
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