If the Leaving cert is over i'd try make this.

 

Yes Gearoid i'm going, i've 4 cars definite for a stand, some of the lads have given me money to put on the credit card already. Here's the details i've found out about travelling there

The boat leaves Dun Laoghaire at 11:10am on Friday the 20th, arriving into Holyhead at 12:49pm. It takes 1hr39min for the ferry crossing. Ferry link. http://www.directferries.co.uk/holyhead_du...haire_ferry.htm

Here's the link for the hotel in Leicester. Good few dubbers stay there each year

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/h...elsearchresults

Hotel's good enough, nothing posh but comfortable. Leicester is good to go out in, good pubs and clubs, it's only 20 mins from Bruntingthorpe.

Link for the show promoters.. http://www.gtiinternational.co.uk/ They'll be selling the tickets online soon, last year it was £14 on line or £17 at the gate

The boat leaves Holyhead on Monday 23rd at 15:30 arriving into Dun Laoghaire at 17:09

When i priced it it was working out at around €300 including Tickets to the show, ferry and hotel. Not bad at all, that's based on sets of 2 people sharing car and room.

 

Might be alright....let u know round Feb........plans are a Foot as they say,car wise.

 

Gearoid do you have Gerrard Meehans number? The guy who has his old silver mk2 is looking for bodywork done and asked if i could get his number. If you have it could you pm me please

Cheers

Ray

 

Im part of the dustyMauves convoy so i'll be there G60 n all

 

QUOTE(DustyMauve @ Dec 3 2007, 06:04 PM) [snapback]93531[/snapback]
Gearoid do you have Gerrard Meehans number? The guy who has his old silver mk2 is looking for bodywork done and asked if i could get his number. If you have it could you pm me please

Cheers

Ray


PM sent

Thanks for the info on the hotel, that was going to be my next question

 

The VAGE club had a stand there this year. Might be worth having a chat with them Gearóid. It would be better to have us all in one area rather than have 2 smaller Irish displays.

 

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The VAGE club had a stand there this year. Might be worth having a chat with them Gearóid. It would be better to have us all in one area rather than have 2 smaller Irish displays.


I'll get on to Mick and see what he thinks

 

Good Call Geo

 

Ill be going anyway and maby another car or two so we can put them on display to
rise the numbers but be warned I plan to spend most of the weekend on the strip

I noticed The VAGE club were a bit out on its own away from all the action this year so
if this goes ahead try demand a good location.

 

ya would be good to have a big Irish stand/presence there next year,we were a small bit out of the way alright but so were a lot of other clubs and we were on lovely dry ground which was worth the extra walk ..

 

I would be keen in takeing the mk3 to this if some could pm me info and if i would get on a stand it would be my first show across water lol

 

Yeah i hopefully will be there in the mk2 16v all going well and its finished ( it should be )

 

Yeah right Aaron!!

 

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Yeah right Aaron!!

Indeed Geo was talking to james about painting it end of jan / start of feb

 

Sure that's only the start of all the work! When are you dropping over the engine?

 

Hey guys, this will be a good show id say. Will the " Golf limited" be on the Vage or Vagdrivers stand this year though??

 

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Hey guys, this will be a good show id say. Will the " Golf limited" be on the Vage or Vagdrivers stand this year though??


it has been suggested that a strong irish presence at this would be good ,two or three different irish stands split up would not have the desired effect so it would be nice to be all together ,having the golf limited on the vage stand was a bonus imo as it drew the crowds and let people know there is something going on over here in Ireland too.Dela ,any chance you'd put away that shit stirring stick as hopefully all that is behind us..

 

If i dont make wortherse, i will deffo be it this one!

 

there will be a strong Irish contingent this year, by the looks of things...
a large plot with both stands would be ideal..........anyone got a large flagpole we could borrow.........i've a tricolour in the garage we could use!

 

I'ill be heading over to this to, should have one or two more cars along with me

 

No need to have separate stands as far as I'm concerned. We can all park our cars in the same display surely? Anyone who is interested can contact Paul or Danny or some of the other VAGE lads and book a place on their stand.

I will almost certainly be at the show but I might not have a showcar with me. In fact I probably won't.

 

I will be there anyway.

Im not trying to stir shit here or anything but what will we be calling ourselves over there

If we can agree on something I will get a banner made up.

I would suggest vagdrivers as it has an active forum to back it up.

 

Nearly sorry I started this, I didnt intend to make any split or cause trouble, I agree that a unified large stand would be the best, but depending on the number of cars going maybe two stands would be required, which should be fine as long as we request that they be beside each other?

That would give us lots of space and a large Irish presence in one area

 

Club stands are allocated space based on the number of cars owners that register individually with Autometrix.co.uk when booking tickets for the weekend. Sally was the name of the girl I dealt with in January last year for the VAGE stand; I registered for a stand and the space we were allocated was confirmed on June 10th, once everyone who was putting cars on it had themselves registered as being part of our club display. Our location last year may have been due to the fact that it was only our first time having a club display.

So, the way I see it is
(1) we register for two stands; VAGE and VAGdrivers, and request that they are adjacent, or
(2) register for one stand (called the combined paddy veedubber spud-atin association or similar) and everyone registers as going on this larger stand - we can then fly whatever banners we want once we have our little patch of Ireland in the middle of Bruntingthorpe!

I'm booking a stand for VAGE as soon as I go back to work after New Years, so if folks want to lump in with us, I'll be happy enough with that in the spirit of peace, harmony and shiny volkswagens!

Sure ye can let me know what ye want to do, but either way I'll be reserving a display stand space regardless.........?