Northeast Events

Could someone please advise on the status of the following events that are listed in the NE Region's events section of the website:

April 2005
Go Karting - TBC
BMW Quiz - Round 2 TBC Team Names Required Demonstrate your knowledge.
Drive & Dine - TBC

Did any/or are any of these events taking place?


May 2005
Rockingham 21, 22/05/2005 - BMW Gathering.
Lakeland Drive 15/05/2005- Day Trip To Windermere and surrounding Area.
??/05/05 The Car Club is proposing holding a sponsored drive for charity. The plan is to drive in stages, as far as possible, around the coast of Britain. While this is proposed for possibly May 2005, and the planning will be huge, I've offered to help with the North East stage, which is between Whitby and Berwick. Apart from being for a good cause, this event can be turned around to our advantage. If we can attract enough who would like to take part, I will contact local newspapers and TV companies for some sort of media coverage/publicity. It's all early days yet, but I think that this could be a big event for the North East.

Are any of these events further on?  Will they be happening? 

I'd like to know because I need to have a degree of notice if I'm to be able to support or attend any regional events.

If the April events took place, how did people find out about them? If they didn't take place, is there somewhere I can go to find out that they've been cancelled or get an update on what is happening with them?

Also, is the May Charity Run the same that is listed in the thread about a Coast Run?  I've posted in that thread but received no real information on who is organising what or indeed if it is still going ahead.  Are they different events?

I'm not trying to be awkward with any of these questions but recently everything seems to have gone quiet to the point of absolute silence and I wondered if there is something I or anyone else can do to assist?

It would be a crying shame to see our activity remain at the level it seems to be at right now, particularly after two months of seemingly high interest that appears to have completely disappeared after the joint meet (and a successful one as I understood it?) with the Durham Thoroughbreds Group?

AndyS wrote: I remember a road movie from the '70s or 80's set in New Zealand called "Goodbye Pork Pie".  I think you need to change your logon name!

You're not still harping on about that!!!!!

The back is 100% (I think) now. Is the next meet this week or next week?

Been a cracking day of sun today and I managed to get 90 minutes of driving around with the hood down this afternoon.

Spent the morning using a Maguiars Quick Clay bar with the Spray Detailerand then followed it up with Carnauba Wax (Stage III).  Well pleased with the results and certainly drew a few comments when driving through Darras Hall (and I had a stop to chat with the owner of a gorgeous 05 plated C4S Convertible in Lapis Blue - he actually shouted to me whilst at the traffic lights, wanting to know what I used to polish the car!  We then had a good 15 minute chat in which I discovered he'd been waiting 7 months for the car and then wished he bought another colour!  I offered him a swap...alas he didn't take me up on it!).

Nick - I'll be bringing my diary Tuesday night and that route sounds fabulous, so it's surely a matter of when?

I was over at Bolton Abbey (in convoy with a Yellow 348 Spider with LOUD tubi exhaust, 500 bhp 996 TT and a fabulous CSL) via Tadcaster/Boroughbridge/Ripon/Pately Bridge, so hi   if we saw you.