Cars in the Park Newby Hall 9th May 2010 - NOW WITH TIMES

100GRA · Post by **100GRA** » Sun 09 May, 2010 18:04

A great day after an oh-so-chilly start at Boroughbridge. Many thanks to all concerned for organising the day.

Graham (& Peta)

Orinoco · Post by **Orinoco** » Sun 09 May, 2010 18:04

Hi all
Had a great day today at Newby Hall.

Good to see everyone and putting names to some cars/owners. Thanks to Titan and Zed Carer for organising the display.

A great turnout of varied Zed's, all fantastic. Drove home wishing the hardtop was off as it turned out to be a glorious sunny day! It will be off by next weekend, I will buy a shed to house it in if needs be.

I'll post some pics later.

Looking forward to the next one already.

Regards
James
(Orinoco)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun 09 May, 2010 18:44

Hi all

Had a great day, nice to meet everyone and it was lovely sitting in the sun admiring all our zeds and wondering what is soooo fascinating under the bonnets

It's okay I know it's a man thing

Photobucket playing up, can't upload any pics so I'll try again later.... noticed that a certain pink zed keeps appearing centre stage though

barbie_princess08 · Post by **barbie_princess08** » Sun 09 May, 2010 19:19

Thanks every1 for a great day....weather turned out well in the end....it was lovely to meet every1....can't wait for the next 1 :)

zopar · Post by **zopar** » Sun 09 May, 2010 19:38

So first they put me in the Laundry bag (suppose I should be grateful that is was leopard skin pattern) – saying to me I might shed mega Border Terrier hairs in the Z3 – as if I would

The day then began to look much more favourable at a service station called Wetherby; I then had much fussing from the Ladies whilst I lounged in my mistresses co-pilot seat – knew it was going to be a great day.

Finally arrived at Newby Hall – oh so many ladies handbags to look in and tyres to inspect – no I did nor disgrace myself, at 14 years old I know when to ‘hold it!

My mistress enjoyed meeting the owners greatly – such genuine people, master has now got the tips for keeping Z3 in good order – for a 1st meeting all happy.

If they behave, I may let them go to Harewood House with me in September. Hobbes, Angus & K (Zopar).

Zed Carer · Post by **Zed Carer** » Sun 09 May, 2010 19:47

Pictures currently loading to Photobucket so will post later.

Thanks to everyone who kept me up to date before the day and for arriving promptly at the various meeting points (well all except one - but there always has to be one

) in plenty of time.

Nice to meet old and new faces and even the weather behaved itself

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As for Titan and the parking arrangements

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Just waiting to see what others can come up with for Tatton and Harewood

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seasurfer · Post by **seasurfer** » Sun 09 May, 2010 20:11

Hi Everyone
Great day out and lovely to meet you all. I really enjoyed the day, and joining up with Snoops on the way to the meet was fun.
I had a great drive home, 141 miles, top down till i got to ingleton where it started raining. Got a few thumbs up from peeps on the way home, always makes me smile. First time I have been on a decent run out in old zeddy and he was brilliant

Great to see so many zeds all together and the park was lovely. Dont know who was behind me when i took the photo through my wing mirror, somebody will recognise themselves hopefully.
As you can see, the parking in a straight line hasnt improved

Thanks to all who organiserd today.

Gill

Daz2626 · Post by **Daz2626** » Sun 09 May, 2010 20:32

Great day out again

Thanks to Zed Carer and Titan for your military precision and organising

Canman, keep an eye out for the flying fruit

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun 09 May, 2010 20:33

Thanks ZC for organising a brilliant day.

zopar · Post by **zopar** » Sun 09 May, 2010 20:34

seasurfer wrote:Hi Everyone
Great day out and lovely to meet you all. I really enjoyed the day, and joining up with Snoops on the way to the meet was fun.
I had a great drive home, 141 miles, top down till i got to ingleton where it started raining. Got a few thumbs up from peeps on the way home, always makes me smile. First time I have been on a decent run out in old zeddy and he was brilliant
Great to see so many zeds all together and the park was lovely. Dont know who was behind me when i took the photo through my wing mirror, somebody will recognise themselves hopefully.
As you can see, the parking in a straight line hasnt improved
Thanks to all who organiserd today.

Gill

Zopar is directly behind you with hood up to prevent doghairs flying everywhere. Such a great day.
Angus

Zed Carer · Post by **Zed Carer** » Sun 09 May, 2010 20:34

Just a few pictures of the day

Waiting patiently to get directed to a parking space in the ZR Fan - as someone said "Just like getting on the ferry"

I'm sure that we can fit at least one more in that space

At last we could all sit and relax in the sunshine and admire the Pink Z3

Titan couldn't wait to have a go

Post by **Robert T** » Sun 09 May, 2010 20:57

Well you lot didn't waste much time in getting your piccies up. I went for a wander and when I came back most you had gone - and it was still only 3.15pm - no doubt so you could all be first home and first to post on ZR.

Many thanks to Titan and ZC for their organisational skills. I did my best to make a mess of Titan's artistic layout of the zeds, but he still managed to pull it off.

He forgot the stepladder for me to take the pictures from though.

Off to a bad start at Ferrybridge - we can't even park up to a line painted on the floor.

Waiting to go into Newby Hall

Titan's artistic arrangement of zeds

The pink one that I just couldn't lose sight of - even when I closed my eyes!

So it is a BMW colour!

This one was wombling around with its hat on.

Something old and something new

A lightly modified midget and some extras from The Italian Job

The drive to the show didn't exactly go according to plan. I could swear I set off with a steel grey ///M behind me, but after the first roundabout it had morphed into an Atlanta Blue 1.9! Someone went off on a bit of a tangent, but at least she managed to find Wetherby services.

Just before we left Wetherby I distinctly remember Bill saying that we were going on an A-road that ran parallel to the A1(M). "Can't miss it", he said. The road we took turned out to be a very funny A-road. Three lanes. Looked suspiciously like a motorway. Hmmmm.

At least we managed to find our way from Boroughbridge to Newby Hall without any slip ups - though it was a close run thing.

Noticed my car had a tendancy to not want to roll as I was parking it back in the garage. When I got out there was a distinct smell of hot brakes. Looks like my front left brake is binding and must've been for quite a few miles as the centre of the wheel was rather warm. It will be getting looked at tomorrow.

Thanks for a great day out. Nice to see a good many familiar faces and plenty of new ones too.

Looking forward to the next one.

Cheers R.

gelertd1 · Post by **gelertd1** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:02

What a grand day out!

Lovely venue, great bunch of people and a stunning exhibition from the Yorkshire Formation Parking Team

Even the pigeons behaved themselves (I was parked rather close to a big tree

A few pics - Ferrybridge - convoy (Zeds as far as the eye can see) and Newby

Got 'lost'

on the way home and ended up spending a couple of hours on more of the rather excellent back roads to East Yorkshire and home.

And as a finale to the day - filling the tank revealed that despite all the 'B' road spanking I'd managed 33mpg from a 2.8

Zed Carer · Post by **Zed Carer** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:09

Robert T wrote:Well you lot didn't waste much time in getting your piccies up. I went for a wander and when I came back most you had gone - and it was still only 3.15pm - no doubt so you could all be first home and first to post on ZR.

Many thanks to Titan and ZC for their organisational skills. I did my best to make a mess of Titan's artistic layout of the zeds, but he still managed to pull it off.

He forgot the stepladder for me to take the pictures from though.

Robert - I can't see your photos

Canman · Post by **Canman** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:13

that photo of the parking at ferrybridge, well look close it all goes wrong when the pink one arrives, it changed the whole day really.

Post by **Robert T** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:33

Zed Carer wrote:Robert - I can't see your photos

Might be my anti-hotlinking tweak I made a little while back. Can anybody else not see them? If so, I'll make it a bit less restrictive.

Cheers R.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:37

I can see them fine Robert

aceman · Post by **aceman** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:38

I can see them OK

whiteminks · Post by **whiteminks** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:38

What a fab day!

Excellent organisation ZC and I was amazed at how well Terry's fan shape turned out after fears of multiple collisions!

It was lovely to catch up with old friends like Rob T, ZC, Jontt and Deano and meet new people face to face. Terry was a gas ( well he would be wouldn't he

)

Great to see a lot of girls out in force too like Seasurfer, Snoops, Barbie Princess and Dot and lot of others whose names I can't remember

Rob T and I went to have an ice-cream, a scone and a drink and walk around the plant show. We got a little delayed as some poor old chap needed some medical attention and when we got back to the zed fan there were just 3 diehards left.

Anyway moooooooooooooohst excellent and hopefully see you all again soon!

Zed Carer · Post by **Zed Carer** » Sun 09 May, 2010 21:48

Robert T wrote:
Zed Carer wrote:Robert - I can't see your photos
Might be my anti-hotlinking tweak I made a little while back. Can anybody else not see them? If so, I'll make it a bit less restrictive.

Cheers R.

Robert you have PM

Stanzie · Post by **Stanzie** » Sun 09 May, 2010 22:43

Hi everyone,

This was our first trip out with the Zroadster gang and we would like to thank all for making us welcome. Really enjoyed browsing 'round all the other Zeds and having a few chats on the way.

At least now, we'll be able to put faces to names whenever the threads pop up.

Thanks to Zed Carer and Titan for all the organisation and parking.....that must have been the biggest tape measure I've ever seen!!! Is everything always bigger in the construction industry???

Looking forward to the next one.

Ragtop · Post by **Ragtop** » Mon 10 May, 2010 08:09

Looks like you all had a great time. Always good to see a lot of Zed's together, really enjoying the pictures.

Ragtop

maurice the martian · Post by **maurice the martian** » Mon 10 May, 2010 08:52

Hi all.
A big thanks to ZC for a great day out ,and of course Titan with is piece of string .Great parking.
It was also nice to meet so many friendly people and put faces to names at last ,and to drool over all those tasty Zeds.
Look forward to the next meet.
Cheers Maurice and Andrea.

Orinoco · Post by **Orinoco** » Mon 10 May, 2010 13:52

Hi
Here are some of the pics of the brilliant day.

So here goes.

Zed Carer · Post by **Zed Carer** » Mon 10 May, 2010 18:57

Apologies for pinching gelertd1's picture - but you can get Zeds in a straight line as long they're moving and not just standing still

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w4tkins · Post by **w4tkins** » Mon 10 May, 2010 19:44

Looked like a fantastic day,

Had a family party and couldn't make it

great photos and quite like the look of barbie girls motor (a quality paint job and attension to detail but sorry not the coulour

)

Thers always next year of santa pod!!!!

Titan · Post by **Titan** » Mon 10 May, 2010 20:06

w4tkins wrote:great photos and quite like the look of barbie girls motor (a quality paint job and attension to detail but sorry not the coulour )

The photos really do not do justice to the colour. The pearl paint seems to confuse the CCDs in digital cameras.
In the flesh it was stunning and a work of art to be proud of. I accept it may not be everyone's taste but this one "worked"
You've seen my face driving it but you should have seen the face on a little 3-ish year old girl who was allowed to pose in it and have her picture taken

Ian_C · Post by **Ian_C** » Mon 10 May, 2010 20:15

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Fantastic turnout and looks like you had a great day.

Shame I couldn't make it however I was recovering from a 40 mile charity walk the day before

http://www.keswick2barrow.co.uk/home.asp

Canman · Post by **Canman** » Mon 10 May, 2010 20:18

Titan wrote:
w4tkins wrote:great photos and quite like the look of barbie girls motor (a quality paint job and attension to detail but sorry not the coulour )
The photos really do not do justice to the colour. The pearl paint seems to confuse the CCDs in digital cameras.
In the flesh it was stunning and a work of art to be proud of. I accept it may not be everyone's taste but this one "worked"
You've seen my face driving it but you should have seen the face on a little 3-ish year old girl who was allowed to pose in it and have her picture taken

i'll second that Terry, thought the Zed looked amazing and the finish was quality. some great touches and loved the seats with embroided intials. 19" wheels , remus exhaust, simota, pink head unit, angel eyes. was nice to see some Glamour and made all the other Zeds look almost , dare i say it, dull...... Ashton can go on back row in future

stealing the limelight. one thing for sure that Zed is a real head turner and i loved it. A true girly Zed.

Jonttt · Post by **Jonttt** » Mon 10 May, 2010 20:56

I thought the pink car was great.

If its going to be done it might as well be done well and it sure was

Does not mean you would own it yourself but you had to admire the quality of work and thought that had gone into it. It just worked somehow and would be a lot of girls dream come true as we saw on the day

seasurfer · Post by **seasurfer** » Mon 10 May, 2010 21:03

all the other Zeds look almost , dare i say it, dull...... :

Canman

Gill

barbie_princess08 · Post by **barbie_princess08** » Mon 10 May, 2010 21:04

Thanks for all the comments about my zed, glad you all liked it, i must admit my dad did a great job....to be fair though every1s zed looked spot on n i cud see u all take great care of them! It was such a nice day n every1 was lovely...really can't wate to meet up agen to see you all...really looking forward to santa pod....shud have a wicked time there....once agen thanks so much for all the comments! xoxo

barbie_princess08 · Post by **barbie_princess08** » Mon 10 May, 2010 21:08

Canman, keep an eye out for the flying fruit :devil:

That was soooo funny wen u came out wiv that...am giggling writing this!!! :)

Canman · Post by **Canman** » Mon 10 May, 2010 21:26

flying fruit hurts i can tell you , good job it wasn't a melon, i would much prefer a nice pair , sorry pear in my face

Daz2626 · Post by **Daz2626** » Mon 10 May, 2010 23:48

Canman wrote:flying fruit hurts i can tell you , good job it wasn't a melon, i would much prefer a nice pair , sorry pear in my face

Pears come in tins aswell u know

billz · Post by **billz** » Tue 11 May, 2010 06:15

I have to agree in the flesh Barbies car looks the biz. If some one told you they had done this to there Zed we would probably all cringe. But the colour is the best pink i have seen on any motor and for a girl/woman i have to admit this works. Not OTT or tooo blingy. A credit to her Dad. Barbie think you should do some plugs for your Dads respray company he has done a brill job.

Alfie · Post by **Alfie** » Tue 11 May, 2010 07:17

Excellent turnout and great pics.
A real credit to the organisers.

It's so cool that the world of ZED is still alive and kicking.....

A.

zroadster.net

Cars in the Park Newby Hall 9th May 2010 - NOW WITH TIMES

great day

great day

keep an eye out for the flying fruit!!!