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General Category => Microcar Events => Topic started by: Big Al on January 29, 2013, 12:29:55 PM
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OK, new date list now updated with more info and a few corrections.
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Thanks for putting that together Al. Just what we needed!
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Re-copied and pasted Al's list
Microcar Rally Date List 2013
February
6th to 10th – Retromobile, Paris.
15th to 16th – The Weiner Auction by RM Auctions in Atlanta, USA.
14th to 15th – Bristol Classic Bike Show, Shepton Mallet.
March
1st to 3rd – Antwerp Bouwcentrum, classic car show and jumble. Belgium
29th to 1st Apr – Ace Bond Bug Easter Rally at Marston Green, Birmingham
April
11th to 14th – Micro Maniacs at Thirsk, 07912 579278
12th to 14th – Early Bird Bond Bug Rally at Cirencester.
20th to 21st – Bristol Classic Car Show including slalom event. Shepton Mallet
21st – Drive It Day, many events.
May
1st to 8th – Bugs in Wales, centred on Aberystwyth. Bond Bug Club
5th to 6th – Reliant Owners Rally, Nottinghamshire. More detail to follow.
5th to 6th – Stratford Festival of Motoring, Microcar class. 07794 004477
6th – Classic Car drive in day at Popham Airfield – popular event booking now required, MEC
should have some tickets.
17th - 19th – Berkeley Enthusiasts Club AGM Rally at the Bubblecar Museum, Lincolnshire
18th - 19th – 'Fantastic Plastic', Specials/one offs/production car event for polymer based vehicles at
Lucern, Switzland.
19th – Micro Maniacs day run. To be anounced
24th to 26th – Bubblecar Museum Rally, Langrick, Lincolnshire
24th to 26th – Bond Owner Club at the National Water Centre. Nottinghamshire
25th to 27th – Reliant International Rally at Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove.
June
1st to 2nd – German Scooter Rally at the Bubblecar Museum. Lincolnshire
6th to 9th - Manresa Catalonia Microcar Rally (near Barcelona, Spain). This requires booking.
Nick Poll offering convoy route from his home near Toulouse onward or Chris Thomas
looking at pedestrian group attendance.
7th to 9th – SALT 7 East bloc cars meet Cheshire, Jodrell Bank, Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
6th to 9th – Northern Microcar Rally. Micro Maniacs
14th to 16th – Bond Bug Rally at the Bubblecar Museum. Lincolnshire
21st to 23rd – Heinkel Trojan Club and Messerschmitt Enthusiasts Club Rally at the Bubblecar
Museum. Lincolnshire
27th to 30th – Ray Glendinnings Rally at the Bubblecar Museum. Lincolnshire
July
5th to 7th – Bath Microcar Rally at Keynsham Rugby Ground. Wynford Jones 01823 490666
11th to 14th – Jim's Heinkel Trojan Rally, Yorkshire, Jim Hacking,
11th to 14th – Messerschmitt Owners Club Rally in Wickstead Park, Kettering
14th to 26th – Bonds Abroad. BOC tour of Normandy.
28th – RUMcar open day at headquarters, Schoolhouse Farm, Staplehurst.
August
23rd-25th – Cheshire Microcar Rally, Soss Moss.
23rd to 25th – DWAC, details to follow
29th to 1st Sept – National Microcar Rally, Three Counties Showground, Malvern. National Microcar Rally Committee with Nick Haddon.
September
6th to 8th – Beaulieu Autojumble.
13th to 15th Christmas at Drax, Micro Maniacs bash.
October
11th to 13th - Bond Bug AGM and Pie and a Pint Rally at Cirencester
17th to 20th – Oktoberfahrt, Micro Maniacs
19th - 20th – Red Oktober at Crech Tramway, inside the village.
November
15th to 17th – NEC Classic Car Show - expected Microcar stands
No info on
Messerschmitt Rally in Germany, or other German events. Swedish, Finish or Belgium Rallies. Scots and East Anglia.
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Bonds abroad easter rally _ havnt exact details as away from home at moment. Based around easter week . South wales ..
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You do know that if you take your Bond Minicar on the "Bonds Abroad Rally " you'll get kicked out the club by he who makes all the rules Cornock.
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Dear Al
I note that you have the wrong date for the Manresa Rally in Spain ( 8-9 June 2013) and you have missed out the Schoolhouse Farm Open day which I believe is 28th July 2013.
Are there any other errors or ommissions in Al's list? I hope not.
Chris Thomas
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Thanks Rob.
As is always the case I start doing the list and suddenly info comes in so it is already superseded. No Reliant action yet, must remedy that, as their are plenty of fans of Tamworth's finest out there.
It is noticeable that there is a succession of events being held in the grounds of the Bubblecar Museum at Langrick, now they have got the site mainly developed and the infrastructure complete to ease hosting duties. There is talk of a phase two as well as non museum/camping area projects to be done, so they are not resting on their laurels yet a while.
If it were not for the National taking on Malvern's Three Counties Showground again, the South, and especially the South West, looks bereft of action unless you have a Bond Bug. Thank goodness Bath survives.
Sadly I will probably not be able to host a 50cc car day/weekend to go to the FBHCC meeting at the Bishopstone 'Drive it Day' this year as I had hoped. I will be in mid moving mode without organized space unless something alters.
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Dear Al
I note that you have the wrong date for the Manresa Rally in Spain ( 8-9 June 2013) and you have missed out the Schoolhouse Farm Open day which I believe is 28th July 2013.
Are there any other errors or ommissions in Al's list? I hope not.
Chris Thomas
Indeed yes, spotted the Manresa error, it felt wrong when I read back. I put it on my scribble covered calendar incorrectly by hand! Updating.
New list posted replacing the old.
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Perhaps Rob would like to amend his typing out of the list too so as to eliminate any confusion.
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He could await that easter date - I can verify it wed night when home from oop north
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For some reason I am unable to see either of Big Al's lists but I can see Rob Dobies. What am I doing wrong please? Jean
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Same here its not just you . Actually I thought bob was being tongue in cheek as al hadnt posted a list at all . Emperors new clothes ?praps its just my blackberry cos there is a link at the bottom jean
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I'm no expert but I think you have to have "open office" on your computermobob to be able to open that kind of file. I dare say Jim who IS an expert will tell us!
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Al's original .doc attachment opens-up in Word, fine.
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Bob. I have re-listed Al's corrected list. Easy, just copy & paste.
Jean. Under Al's original listing there are the words ... dates 2013.doc click on this on his listing and it will bring up Al's Microsoft Word Document.
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Brilliant! What a list! no excuses now for not attending at least some of these. Fantastic Plastic sounds fun!
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Thanks Rob, I followed your instructions and got the Word document, I shall know next time. Jean
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bond rallies now quite the thing - a hardcore of owners who meet twice a year at least for a weeks motoring . 28th march onwards at Pandy. members only i think. have done a couple - isle of wight and isle of man all good fun . get your bond out i know there a few in hiding
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It is great to have knowledge of these events. It surprises me that it takes an independent to advertise some of these events to organizations which should be in good communications with each other as they share many common events in a niche interest. We come back to National Microcar Club/Microcar Monthly mag/website etc. There are many folk who have not the motivation or money to belong to multiple clubs. The attraction of membership is often access to spares and information. Another is specific enthusiasm but that normally needs time to develop. If you are an inactive owner it is easy to drift out of the whole scene once membership ceases. A one stop shop might revitalize things. Lots of reasons why it will not happen though. Meanwhile the Bubblecar Museum threatens to host half the Microcar events and publish a general Microcar Magazine. So they might take up the vacant position by default. Might be a few miffed folk over that but all is there to play for.
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Its good to see someone is actually making the effort and if it takes a business to achieve enthusiastic results then so be it. They may find producing a mag worth reading is not quite so easy though. Hope they prove me wrong!
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have looked online and seen the cheshire micro car rally at soss moss ( listed as being date tba ) being 28 august to 1st sept but surely this cannot be right it's the NMCR
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The benefit of dates being passed round the interested parties. It would be easy to dismiss the 'early' NMCR date and assume it will be later in September. However Beaulieu is 'early' too. As stated this is because over the years the weekends process back and eventually the religious dates and holidays have to move or become out of place in the year. Much like having a leap year.
Maybe the Steggells are not aware of the date clash with NMCR as all these dates are only just coming to the notice of folks. A National cannot be complete without a load of Bonds being present. Used to be great at CWLP/Burford as many used to convoy down on the day and arrive in a cloud of smoke to the tom tom beat of their massed Villiers. Something of a high spot of the day for any car nut, be they Bonders or not.
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just confirmed with clive steggel that the Cheshire Microcar Rally is at Soss Moss, cheshire the week before the NMCR so weekend 23-25th august 2013 . please amend the calendar - thanks
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Done.
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Not microcar but the Saab International Rally in in Britain this year as a one off. 2nd to 4th of August at Wicksteed Park, Kettering. So if your a Saab fancier then a rare chance to see some Scandinavian examples of early strokers without going on over water.
Once we have all put in our local favourite Rallies in our private diarys, and the more popular Continental Microcar orientated ones are identified, that is a pretty full year if you want it to be.
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And another Microcar Rally, a darned good one too.
19th to 21st April Kasterlee, Antwerp, Belgium for Euro50 Julien Dams on isetta300@skynet.be. This should be modelled on the DWAC format of a fair amount of touring rather than sitting in a field. No distance to drive to unless your in the North West, Richard.
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The BEC has just used a round robin email to publicize its rejuvenated self and that it is getting involved with several more events this year. So I need to edit the date listing for better info soon. Great news as the Bond Owners Club have also made their info more accessible than in the past, embracing the internet a little more.
Now I am posting mostly British stuff. With all our friends and RUM members from abroad checking the site out that might be lacking. I do not know if it is possible to create a sort of notice board where events can be pinned up by any forum member without having the normal thread of messages to look through? Such an international Micro date listing would be a quite attractive resource to Micronauts, I would have thought. It is really down to ease of displaying the information. If there was one certain place where an event needed to be advertised it might prevent clashes of interest and duplication of effort. Also travelling Micronauts might get a bit of extra bubbling in when away from home for whatever reason. Just a thought.
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As previous I am quite happy to let boc sit quietly to one side at the present , bonds i should say are almost all owned by enthusiasts , in uk anyway , there's nothing here for the investor . Leave us alone ;)
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The BEC has just used a round robin email to publicize its rejuvenated self and that it is getting involved with several more events this year. So I need to edit the date listing for better info soon. Great news as the Bond Owners Club have also made their info more accessible than in the past, embracing the internet a little more.
Now I am posting mostly British stuff. With all our friends and RUM members from abroad checking the site out that might be lacking. I do not know if it is possible to create a sort of notice board where events can be pinned up by any forum member without having the normal thread of messages to look through? Such an international Micro date listing would be a quite attractive resource to Micronauts, I would have thought. It is really down to ease of displaying the information. If there was one certain place where an event needed to be advertised it might prevent clashes of interest and duplication of effort. Also travelling Micronauts might get a bit of extra bubbling in when away from home for whatever reason. Just a thought.
HI Al. Do you think you could forward the BEC email to me please, my Berkeley owning chum around the corner has let his membership lapse and cannot get in touch with anyone to renew, he is computer illiterate. I'm guessing they may have a new membership secretary?