Golfs At the NEC

I have a few pictures from the Classic Car Show, the quality is not too good as the lighting was poor and the camera was struggling. How can I post them, should I put them in the gallery? Has anyone that was there got any better pictures?

Saturday was an outstanding success. The lads on the Club stand were doing a great job and the times I went by there was a lot of interest in the cars. I’ll let them tell you more on that.

We (myself and wife) took part in the parade on the Saturday. Two sessions of about half an hour with around another 30 cars of all types.
On the afternoon parade the Golf was singled out and was asked to do a final solo lap of the arena, with a full running commentary by the show organisers, about the car and what it represented.

We all know that the Golf is a true classic due to its place in motoring history and that it was a classic in its own production lifetime. Well now so do the visitors to the NEC. We even managed to upstage the TVRs despite their showy and noisy antics.

The Golf has truly arrived on the Classic Car scene and we have to thank Andy for getting us there. A stand at next years show has got to be a must, put me down for the parade again and next time we’ll try and do all three days. We really enjoyed it.

Totally agree with that Dave, it was really good to finaly see the mk1 represented at the NEC after seven years of ownership. Had a really good chat with "hairyarse" who has given me a great deal of encouragement to get my car finished after one very long restoration.

Appreciation must go to the lads who spent their weekend tied to the stand without whom the mk1 would not have been represented

Thanks on behalf of us mk1 owners

Quick pic of my car sneaking out if the garage, yes that is 7 years of dust on it.

mk1inbits

8O  thats sweet

how can you keep that for 7 years in a garage and not even clean it!!!
























can i have your grill? :mrgreen:

Yup! Well done! !

I got there early on Saturday and every time I tried to speak to the guys on the stand there was a small crowd. Very popular stand it seems, even though the 'pitch' was tucked out of the way ! Excellent work! Having done this before I know what hard work it is……………….standing all day answering the same questions over and over! Nice to meet the owner of the Mars red car (Jeremy, I think, aka, 'JustMatz'. Thoroughly nice chap!)

Jules

Thanks Guys n Gals, Good to know our hard work was appreciated. I was there on Saturday from 8am and up from 5! I WAS surprised at the interest we got. One guy couldnt get enough of "Walts" cabby,- well he was the former keeper.    All credit goes to a yery YOUNG Jeremy who was there all three days.  8O  Loads of potential newbies too.

Thanks for the support guys. Talking about what we love made the day go quicker.

Doug

Thnx for putting the pic up so quick Alan - looks fantastic - you must finish it!!

good work guys

Doh…..sorry mate didn't realise it was you  


Hi Alan, looking good!  welcome to the forum!

Dave

and Doh again…I didn't realise you already knew about it!

Ho Hum.