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| CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW | |||
| THE NEC BIRMINGHAM | |||
| November 13 / 14 / 15 | |||
| Capri Club stand 2C6, Hall 2 | |||
| The theme for theNEC Classic Motor Show 2009 was |
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| "50 Years of the Motorway". We worked our on theme of | ||
| "40 Years of the Ford Capri" into the display too, and this | ||
| is what we came up with ... | ||
| Six magnificent Capris +10 metres of brand new Armco | ||
| crash barrier + a load of brand new traffic management | ||
| equipment = 1 Award Winning Display ! | ||
| Set up day was Thursday, show days Friday, Saturday & Sunday. | ||
| Great atmosphere, great people, hard work, but LOTS OF FUN ... | ||
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| Above : Russ Harris's 3.1 litre MKIII with many discrete modifications | Above : Reg Gartside's MKI 3.1 litre 'Broadspeed' Capri - true 'muscle car' | |
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| Russ White's black 3.0'S' is a true inspiration to buy a Capri ! | Above : The last registered Capri. 'G'' plated Brooklangs 280 of Simon Boothroyd | |
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| Chris Hayward's 2.8i representing the early Capri Injections | Simon Boon's MKII Black & Gold JPS | |
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| For all our efforts over the past few months preparing the Capris, the | ||
| display equipment, and the hard work on Thursday setting it all up, we | ||
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WON BEST THEMED CLUB STAND 2009 AWARD ! |
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| ... "get in there !" | ||
| Pictured above : We went 'mob-handed' to the presentations and had a | ||
| great celebration afterwards - drank the bar dry ! Thanks Roy for the pic. | Stuart's MKI 1600 GT XLR on Meguiar's stand - superb end to 40 Yrs Celebrations | |
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| "CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES AHA !" On main stage with Mike Brewer | Above : This is how our stand looked at 1pm Thursday - set up day | |
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| Above : We all posed with Sue and the 3-IN-ONE team .... | ... then onto our own stand (Above). Our team shirts with 3-IN-ONE logo on sleeve | |
| The huge 'motorway matrix' sign that looked over our display | Thanks to all this year's crew : | |
| and made our theme for the display very clear for all to see ! | Lisa Gwynne (for sewing the back drops) | |
| Rosemarie (for the new table covers) | ||
| Special thanks for the photos go to : | Russ & Lisa Harris / Russ White / Simon Boon / Reg & Wendy Gartside / Darren | |
| Chris Hayward , Jef Lofts, Simon Jaggs , Francis Ellingworth, Roy | Chris / Helen / Dawn / Simon (Mr G.) / Jaggzy / Jef / Rach / Becca / Sam / Pete | |
| Fairbrother, Kevin Folds. | Glynn / Craig / Martin G. / Francis / Clare / Jamie | |
| Jamie & Laura (For sticking hundreds of coloured dots on the matrix signs ! | ||
| Special thanks also to the following companies who helped to make all | Julie for helping back at home with display equipment and preparations | |
| this possible : | Anthony for all the hard work before and after the show picking equipment up ... | |
| ARMCO DIRECT ~ For supplying the shiny new crash barrier sections. | loading / unloading and taking it all back ! | |
| H W MARTIN (Traffic Management Division) ~ For supplying the cones | ||
| signs, road cylinders (red & white posts that the chain link hangs from) | Dates for next year's show are NOVEMBER 12 / 13 / 14 | |
| and the reflective road studs. |
Alan |
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