by GPM01 » Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:51 pm
It's understandable that people struggled to make it to the build weekend. As Geoff pointed out, fuel is expensive and people have jobs/businesses/lives to lead.....Money is tight for a great number of us through no fault of our own, and I for one would not like to see anyone criticised for not coming up if it wasn't practical for them to do so....I've been involved in this kind of project before, and it's quite normal to have a turnout of 25% of what is promised......At the end of the weekend, we got a lot of work done, and the van was driving under it's own steam, with the people who could make it.
Some people were quite local, and I include myself in that (110 mile round trip) and others were from a long way off. You're gonna get that whatever part of the country you do something like this in.... Originally, we were gonna use a unit in Ipswich weren't we? The only reason the van was built in Sheffield was because Tony helped us out, otherwise it wouldn't have been built at all....!
Everyone involved put in maximum effort to get the van to where it is now, and a few of the people who live a reasonable distance away are gonna make sure it's finiushed for TransitMania.......
Every bit of help was very much appreciated, whether it was help at the build, donations of cash or parts, or just encouragement and good wishes from forum members. Any parts or cash not used yet will still help as there is still work to do and stuff we may have to buy for the finished article, so you can be assured nothing will go to waste.
Once again, many thanks to everyone involved for making it possible.
If you want a real van.......You gotta get a Transit!!!!
, im the chairman for a street fair committee in a small village who gets complaints when nothing is happening and when it does they complain that it wasn't what they wanted, there is only five of us and when we ask for help like running a stall or helping on the gates, we get a yes till the day and no help turns up, so i know how everyone feels about all the work you put in and how it feels when you have finished at the end with that nice feeling of trying to make a differance and succeeding like all of you 
theres loads of us 4 some reason just coundnt make it 
me 4 1 as ive a holiday in the nxt week and work r screwing down on the hrs big time 
so dont fall out and not talk theres transitmania soon and that was affected enough on the turn out last yr due to pennys for a lot so dont just say fuc this transit sh*t ect were all 1 transit family so lets get on with it please 
u ad enough jeff?[
all day for me and a 380-mile round trip with trailer. (did have a 3hr wait at services ,(due too bad traffic around london) in coach park, perving at the pussy. 
