That's a real shame Ian, I was hoping to finally meet up with you
That's a real shame Ian, I was hoping to finally meet up with you
Someone must be able to grab Ian and give him a lift guys. Come on!
Club spirit and all that!
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Hiya guys. Will there be any stalls for parts for sale for the 5 gt. I've never been before so just wondering ? I desperately need 2 speed line wheels to get these nasty wheels off
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have a good day guys if anyone can film any 5s running ill add to the video edit cheers
whats it like there today guys?
Not a great start for me, I'm currently stuck on the M6 waiting for the AA, car just died on me, noticed when I was cranking I couldn't hear the fuel pump. Bridged the wires in the relay and the pump ran but still wouldn't start. There was definitely fuel at the carb. So then checked for spark and that's my problem. I think it's the tdc lead. Will get the AA to run a continuity test and see. If anybody has a spare tdc and king lead they wouldn't mind bringing to pod that would be ace. Will update further when I know what's actually wrong. Just hope I manage to make it.
remember sunday guys pfc magazine are there and they are featuring robbie and rtoc so please make the photographer matt very welcome
Drove up to the local premier inn today, car ran good all the way here even in the monsoon rains got about a 1/2 hours drive to pod tomorrow morning so see you all there
just got back in after a 1hr delay cause traffic was bad, id firstly like to say thanx for everyone who attended the pod 1st ND day, well ive never seen so many cars parked on the stand, robbies car performed great all day i think 10.384 sec was the fastest his car ran faultless, a personal best too and btw rob and aud great seeing yas again
also great to put loads of faces to names and again some great people of the clan that ive not had the pleasure of meeting before mainly alex, gtphil, lee, mojo and many others
there wasnt any show n shine in the end as there wasnt any interest which left time for people to do what they wanted, a massive thanx to matt the PFC photographer who took some excellent group photos
ian could you pm me some history of RTOC as they will want it for a cover story..
ill let you write it up,
nice to see the new jet car do a 5.1 lol too
all in all i highly recommend doing this next year please comment on this guys before i lock this thread, also today the camera i normally use i couldnt find so please can anyone with vids only whatsapp me em ill pm my mob if you need it, Bad bit of the day james broke down just befor home but hopefully nothing major, ill upload vid when clips are in and ive had to convert it
again thanx EVERYONE
good day I would be up for this again next year same place
Where were you hiding??? I didn't see you once mate!
Great day out all good for next year
Hope everyone got home safely
A lot of requests to join the RTOC facebook page came in the evening.
Must have made a good impression
top day had a great laugh, met loads of people and i think the skips made up the most of any other cars there lol. Shame the car decided not to play ball and died on me during all three attempts, even more thanks to the many many people who towed me on the day lmao. Finally sorted it after everyone had gone turned out to be water leaked on to the coil lead
Good to meet everyone and put faces to names. the red 1971 detamoso pantera was my favorite of the day.
I rocked up pretty late and couldn't believe how many cars were on the stand. I ended up parked over by a fence
It was great to have a chat with a few old faces, I didn't catch most people this time round.
I'm inspired to use and mess around with the 5 again now
Have to admit was a great day dissapointed I could not run please the car made it to the event in (can't say it made it all the way home but it made 90% of the journey back).
I am just uploading some pic's and videos to my photobucket, doesn't really take into account just how many RTOC car's were on the stand. Next year we should get a couple of big flags and a fence banner aswell, lots of interest from peeps on the car's and some good runs
Gary aka Scwartz EVo3
Neil Dawson
Mick LOL (R5mJH)
GTPhil
Gary (Schwartz)
Philr5t
Turbo ted 10.384
b18ftmojo
I was in the silver 21 the 5 dint wanna go due to the rad fan not kicking in just before I joined the m1 thank god....
Whoa, what happened on Mojo's run!?
Oh yeah, sorry I did see your post on it. Not paying attention my end
These things always happen at the most opportune moments
Accidently deleted my pics from the day. My fave 5s were the 3 dimmas. The blue on one the stand and the black and white ones in the camping area.
I had an awesome weekend even it was a little AA themed Thanks to everyone who's helped organise the day and everyone who turned up. And everyone who helped me with parts and what not.
For anyone who didn't go you missed a cracking show and an awesome rtoc turn out. The amount of awesome cars that turned up was amazing. Best show I have ever attended for sure
We had a fantastic 1st time as a newbie. Was feeling it on Sunday.Great turn out and good to put some names to faces. definatly going again next year this time hopefully a low loader wont be required to get us there and back he says! But i was determined to get there this year with the 5. Amazing to see everyone muck in when it was required to help fix peoples cars brillant club spirit and hospitality
Thank you for an awesome time.
Here are a couple of photos, more to follow.
After the rain!!
Whos is that van sure i saw that in the group photo Thanks Mike and the team for all your hard work.
And there it is yesterday.
Now can't wait for next year.
Once again thanks to all.
As mentioned by most a good day out and was good to put some names to faces. The 5 was good aswell. Although I had 0 boost there or back. On the way up I only had part throttle because I'd clamped up the throttle cable without a rubber piece in between the cable and clamp. Thanks Logg for the fix.
So I assumed the 0 boost was because of the lack of throttle. But no on the way home again 0 boost😕 I in my wisdom put the actuator on and put the circlip on over a year ago and then meant too adjust the nuts to the right place to get my desired psi but obviously forgot. I no what a 1.4 non turbo feels like now 😂
All this chat about breakdowns and club spirit reminds me of the good old days.
matt you truely missed a absolute beaut, i know you couldnt come but this is the best turn out ive ever seem as anyone will tell you
ill be compiling a vid soon for rtoc youtube channel, then ill be closing this thread, remember there is a saturday night special in september that some of us attend on the day
A marvellous turn out for the club - I had an ace weekend. I arrived around 11am ish on the Saturday and just about managed to get the tend and gazebo up before it started raining - glad I brought that gazebo.
We all piled in the gazebo and had food and beer while it was raining, some great banter and laughs going on!
Phil turning up on the AA truch was a gem, even better that he manged to beat his PB with a bub 13 second pass........... and was then (eventually) towed home again having cracked a liner. He took it on good spirits though!
Really nice to meet some new faces including the committee guys who I've never met before. Also really nice to catch up with some old friends.
It was the first time I've been to the Retro Show (and the first time I've been to Pod in 10 years) but I'd most definitely go again, I loved the huge variety of cars.
Roll on next year!
Please stick any ND photos in here;
https://www.rtoc.org/files/?path=Events/National day 2015 retro show/
Sounds like you had a good weekend, just a shame had to miss it this year due to bad planning on everything
The link for uploading the photos is Here
Had a great weekend as always though sadly I wasn't able to bring the cup car due to a slipping clutch on my van.
Here's a short vid from Santa pod of the event with some clips of our stand.
http://youtu.be/-2bprpKmZR4
Top vid
Looks like an awesome show, way better than FCS last year if you ask me!
So jealous at you guys......
awesome vid pods official retro 15 vid loads of 5s on there mine wont be that good
Wow, what a great official vid!! GTT's really well represented on it too, good effort guys
The best bit though is that Wright's Mini van going round the slalom course
rtoc nd day 15 some vid but my camera was playing up oh well best i could do with the tools i had
https://youtu.be/cwC713Pvfkk
datsun GTR is fun lol
Weird. I'll try it on another device.
Was a great event last Sunday at Retro Show with a fantastic turnout of cars, good to meet some more of you. Looking forward to ND2016 already!