Come great pics Joe.

I followed that Pantera up the hill I couldn't hear mine running.

What a great day out, thanks to all who organised (and their partners!)

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm174/Airwave133/Fiat163018.jpg

I'm looking forward to next year already.

The hill run was excellent, but the silly fool who over cooked it in the classic ferrari should be shot. Did he do much damage?

Cheers!

What's the story with the Ferrari?

Yep great day and great turnout! I'll put my pics up later.

hi. great day and had a brilliant time going around drooling over the amazing cars there. good to see lots of coop owners down there to and a big thanks to the guy/ladies who put the club stand up and grub for us.
and you all got to meet the moany bugger who moans about his car all the time lol.

thanks for joe and others who looked over my car for me and joe seams to think its ticking along great :-)

peanuthead moan about his car? never! - well maybe once or twice lol.

there were alot of coupes there, i was amazed how come no bonnets were open, i came over to have a look and everyone was shut

I forgot to say thanks to Joe for your advice on my brakes

I've had my head buried in the back-issues of AutoItalia magazine I bought on Saturday (6 for £10, March/April 1997 has the "new" 20V and 20VT Coupé's in, March 2000 has a review of the 20VT Plus )

An excellent day out.
Have lots of pics, will put up soon.

tx for the BBQ grub too.

Slightly off topic...
Just fixed my steam engine Vinci LE
(covers fellow coupsters with white smoke
on arrival at Meets, very romantic)
i guess they dont mind too much.

The manifold decided to part from the head,
could see the gap from underneath ! 4 loose
bolts, so just tightened them up.

Anyhow, now im v happy.

my bonnet was open most the day? mostly so people could advise me on what was breakinf newxt but everyone thought it was fine.
i got worried as it started puffing alot of smoke on idle for a long time when left idle for a long time but joe was soon to tell me that was quite normal and at worse a turbo seal slightly weak. if it pops i want a upgrade anyway :-)

Its the early signs as I mentioned on Saturday but perform the 10 minute test and that'll confirm this issue for sure

Great news, it was certainly leaking but thought it would have been cracked. Nipping up a few bolts is a lot less expensive

Replied to PM's and sent pics for those I of you that I had pics of your cars.

Gangsters.

One thing, I really think the coupe is getting a bit chavy now - I mean seriously some of the colours people are spraying them now!!

very good...actually looks OK!

Just to say thank you to all the members that came to Brooklands, it was nice to see everyone there, be it new members or old members

I got a couple of photo's of coupe parking area, after i climbed up on the fire truck, i'll get these up later. As for the video's of the hill climbs, i'm going to order a firewire card for the PC, as when capturing it on the laptop, result's in the footage being jerky and missing bits.

il be doing the 10 min test and saving for a gt28r i think :-)
big thanks joe

Okay okay guilty...

i can't belive i actully missed half the show as i didn't relise there was more there :-( missis was getting bored to. il go with my bro (coop owner before me) next year and look around properly

Peanut - how did I miss you? I was hoping for a natter!

did any one see the dark grey coupe leaving brookland and putting his/her own hole in the O Zone layer???

think there was a porto behind it!?

who ever you are, you really need to change your turbo ASAP!!!

Andy Essex possibly was it a Vinci?

Yeah it was a Vinci I couldn't breath following it.

oh it was you infront of me then Paul,
i was getting smoked out to i dropped back to make some clean air...

Yes, that was Andyessex, the LPG car with a very loose manifold.

I believe he has it sorted now

Ha
Sorry PorkyPaul mate.
Once it was warmed up it ran ok.
Go me back to Braintree ok, some 1hr 45 mins drive.

Manifold had 4 loose bolts. Did it myself too without
draining the coolant. Im getting flash. Undertray was
the biggest fccker I've ever wish to met, took an
hour to put back on.

I also had steering wheel vibration, due to square
alloys, something the last owner left me plus I hit a
pot hole in December. Anyhow, all that vibration might of
made the manifold come loose on route.

Very glad not a cracked manifold. I guess its always worth
trying to grab an uncracked one from any local breakers
in case of future cracking ?

Also got wheels sorted now. Im actually now experiencing
smooth Coupe driving for the very first time.

At the next meet I'll try not to shorten anyones life !

Andy,

I am so glad that you took the "Smokey Coupé" title away from me. I gained the title at Bluewater in December and am so pleased to be able to pass it on

Bob

When i first pulled up,
I was followed by a plume of great white (smoke)
you should of seen the looks I got from other coupsters.

As far as i know, it wasnt smoking on the m25.

Didnt the BatMobile have this feature?

here's a video I found of the hill climbs of this year's Auto Italia meeting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maJYbZfuGQM

Looks like everyone had a good time. Was gutted i missed it i couldnt get the day off work. Gonna come to the next one though