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Cotswold Cruise - Cornbury House - 7th June

BartyB

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The Club will be holding the annual Pirelli BBQ at Cornbury House on Sunday 7th June. As well as getting the chance to enjoy some fine barbequed fare, this is an excellent opportunity to catch up with fellow Club members, check out the Club Shop for clothing for the season ahead and enjoy the convivial surrounding of the Club's most precious asset. We know many of you will be going along so we thought you might like to join in with a cruise, sorry social run, up to Cornbury House as we have done previously.

As it happens, our good friends from the South West Region are holding their WOTY the same weekend and will be staying at a local hotel. We have therefore arranged for our cruise to start from the Cotswold Gateway Hotel, Burford where they are staying on the Sunday morning so we can drive up to Cornbury House with them via this route. If you want to join in please let us now by posting your details in this thread. More details here.

Alan & Fiona
 
Hi Alan&Fiona

I would like to join you on the Cotswold cruise to Cornbury house on the 7th June see you at the Gateway

Wayne

Bicester Cayman
 
Hi Alan and Fiona,

That sounds like fun, would you put my name down as well please.

Thanks,

Martin
 
So far we've got...

Wayne
Martin
Alan & Fiona

Anyone else feel like joining in on this?

We've also arranged another shorter run AFTER the BBQ to accompany R15's French guests back to their hotel at Heythrop House near Enstone, if anyone wants to join us for that. Entente cordiale and all that.
 
Hi Guys,

We are coming up from Surrey with friends in a blue Cayman S but since we can't see ANYONE coming up from Surrey Region I guess we will see you all there. Should be arriving around 12/12.30ish so save some burgers & hot dogs!

Hope weather is a fantastic as it was today and the BBQ is equally as good!
 
OK. Who ate all the sausages?

James? No he was busy lovingly hand crafting (lay off the hand crafting please) some Hi Vis fetish wear with a special appendage (nobody will believe it anyway James) to even attend the BBQ. Alan? No. He was too tired from doing his clogging exams (have the blisters healed?) and was concerned that too much meat would impede his triple reverse double flick with pike. The French visitors? No they did not recognise them as saucisson and thought they were crotte but were not surprised the English actually ate them.

We desparately need to find the answer to this question as our kind sponsor and provider of the event, Pirelli, can not believe the number of those little parcels of meat that were eaten today.

Please someone knows the answer!

Alter Rentner.

Meine wurst ist Luftgekuhlt
 
Kirk,
it was supposed to be a secret that I am channelling my addiction into a bespoke hi-viz fashion range. The range is now nearly finished and will be shown at the London and Paris fashion weeks and truckfest. The pushmepullyou HI-viz range, from me to you, will soon be released on the public.
Regarding the sausages from the bbq possibly found being used as tyres in Canada.
 
Just a vote of thanks for a fantastic day. Barby was great as indeed were all the Porsche lining the streets. Thanks Porsche Club & Pirelli!

When I have worked out how to get tons of images I took of the days events, I'll get them up there.
 
One has just heard on the London truckers' fashion grapevine that James will shortly be launching a range of fluorescent budgie smugglers under James' 'Thong for Europe' label.

A inside contact of ours has reported seeing some confidential designs that appear to incorporate some kind of inflatable insert linked to an electric sensor and a Sparklets CO2 gas bulb on the front of the garment. It is somewhat unclear as to the exact function of this component but there was some speculation that it is an airbag type safety device to prevent injury to the lower body of the wearer in circumstances such as a poolside stumble, a terrorist attack or possibly when attacked by a cuckholded clog-dancer. Another contact felt that the insert is some kind of a variable-size appendage enhancement system as it bears a dial which starts at 0 (labelled "Avete bisogno di un microscopio") and goes up to 11 (labelled "Molto Grande Pacchetto") which suggests that these garments could be aimed at the Italian truck drivers' market.

Our contact also said that James was overheard to say (with the help of a novel CIA/GCHQ smartphone app called Google Bugs) that he will unveil his range at the Milan Fashion Week which takes place on Jun 20 "" Jun 23. We have therefore booked tickets to attend the event and will report back in due course.

AB
 
Indeed Martin. A very big thanks to everyone from R31 who came along and supported our cruises to and from Cornbury House and who attended the BBQ and did their bit in demolishing the very excellent barbequed comestibles provided.

A huge thanks too to all the hard-working Cornbury House team who looked after us all so splendidly and the Club sponsors who generously gave their time and committed resources to make it probably the best (and biggest) Club barbies we've ever been too.

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Alan & Fiona
 
Didn't know about this as was slightly out my area and to be fair i was booked into an event in my MG at the cotswold wildlife park. But i passed you guys coming the opposite direction (i was heading to Burford) at the Stow traffic lights and i have to say it looked a very impressive convoy. I nearly waved, then remember i was not in the Targa so it would look like some strange bloke in an MGTF waving and i put my hand down.
 
Pleased you thought it looked good Ben. Astonishingly we managed to keep all 15 cars together for over 35 miles.

BTW, R31 will wave to anyone. Maybe next time we can persuade you to join us going the same way in your Targa... [;)]

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Alan & Fiona
 
Dear all,

All this bon homie about cruises (is that the ship variety or the one they call curb side crawling?) is all very well but we are drifting off the point. The information about Jame's new line of Hi Vis wear is bang on and I think with a suitable Porsche logo applied should be made available in Club Shop toute suite. I understand that James is prepared to model the garments (please get your legs waxed first) in the club shop at the next AGM but has insisted that more room is made by the removal of shop fittings etc as the extendable protuberance refered to by Alan is still in the early stages of development and there have been a few unfortunate accidents. (think Soyuz space craft in 1967). However, whilst this really important fashion news brought to us by Alan (please make sure you report to us after your trip to Italy) is vital; of paramount importance is the sausage issue which only James has so far tried, in his rather limp way, to resolve by suggesting they were shipped off to Canada to be used as truck tires. This is just about a feasible notion but when I saw a sample of the sausages at the BBQ on sunday they did not seem to have the correct tread pattern and were bias ply when everyone knows that radial ply sausages are essential for the stiff Canadian winters. Come on! There were hundreds of you there on sunday gorging yourselves on free sausages so wake up and start coming up with some answers.

PS Who was that bloke half waving at us in an MG? Clearly not a marque expert.

OAP Working for the furtherance of Hi Vis

Luftgekhult
 
I am a recent convert though still have the TF as a) it's not worth selling atm and 2) whilst a riot to drive it reminds me how good the Targa is :)
 
Just be careful which leg you pull.
Use one of my hi-viz thongs with infatable appendage, now available which Velcro labels- left, right and (now exclusively for the launch) middle .
Never pull the wrong leg again.

Kirks I realise the tread pattern of the missing sausages are wrong for trucks but I am sure there were definitely some used in the F1. It could be just a coincidence as those Pirelli supplied products don't last long either.
 
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