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whats happening?

Look in here for details of the fourms weekend makeover project. We will be doing a Transit restoration project over a few weekends and auctioning it off for charity once completed. Everyone is welcome to come along and take part.

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Re: whats happening?

Postby transitgeoff » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:43 pm

8) 8) looking good, so the v8 was/is ok then :?: :?: :D
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Re: whats happening?

Postby Nadjenka » Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:50 pm

transitgeoff wrote:8) 8) looking good, so the v8 was/is ok then :?: :?: :D


You need to look at the pictures again Geoff :wink: :lol:
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Re: whats happening?

Postby madbri » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:02 pm

Nadjenka wrote:
transitgeoff wrote:8) 8) looking good, so the v8 was/is ok then :?: :?: :D


You need to look at the pictures again Geoff :wink: :lol:

bit like us men :roll: :roll: sas style in and out b4 u no :wink: :lol:
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Re: whats happening?

Postby transitandy » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:11 pm

looking good 8) 8) 8) :wink:
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Re: whats happening?

Postby The Panther » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:48 pm

Looking good lads 8)
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Re: whats happening?

Postby AndyG » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:54 pm

Excellent work and incredible progress considering the lack of promised help :!:
Very well done to all those that have turned up and worked their socks off :!: :D

That includes the Catering department run by Nadjenka from my old but faithful MK5 :D
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Re: whats happening?

Postby rob-xcar » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:02 pm

Looking really good. cant wait to see this finished :D
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Re: whats happening?

Postby madbri » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:13 pm

Andyg wrote:Excellent work and incredible progress considering the lack of promised help :!:
Very well done to all those that have turned up and worked their socks off :!: :D

That includes the Catering department run by Nadjenka from my old but faithful MK5 :D

x2 realy soz i couldnt aford 2 get there :(
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Re: whats happening?

Postby Luke » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:17 pm

Just got home 1st time since thursday :D

i had an absolutely brilliant weekend - really enjoyed it 8) 8)

the highs - joining the 2 together, fireing it up seeing Tony reverse it out into the open for the 1st time anddriving it round myself 8) 8) and the laughs we had up till 2 in the morning :shock: :lol:

and the lows - realising the turnout wasnt going to be as good as expected, finding the V8 was not gonna run :( 4 days without a shower :x

but looking back the highs far outway the lows :mrgreen:

but overall it was a blast BIG thanks to everyone who turned up - i'll not name names as nobody slacked out of doing anything and whatever the level of skill they had to add everyone put in the same effort 110% 8) 8) and dispite the close to the bone pisstaking no one fell out :shock: :lol:

certanly was a once in alifetime experiance - because i'm not doing that again :shock: well maybe not ............. :lol:

but still this isnt finished :!: :!: :!: - we achieved as much as humanly possable in the time we had with the low turnout and problems we had, gaz is still going to paint it and much of the build up is still to do so if you want to do a bit you still can we'll be back down tomorrow to carrry on - we will get this on the road and down to Transitmania if it kills us :lol:
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Re: whats happening?

Postby Grenadekid » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:25 pm

Great work to everybody involved, would have loved to worked on that project, unfortunately not realistic as it was so far away. Its bound to be a Great credit to yourselves everytime you see that van after its finished :D
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Re: whats happening?

Postby madbri » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:27 pm

big respect to u all :wink: cant wait to c it :mrgreen: maybe il b able to aford transitmania :) il try and keep the holiday cheep and hide some pennys :oops: :oops: :wink:
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Re: whats happening?

Postby rover » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:44 pm

Just got home again..

It was great to see it driving on six wheels 8)

Now we know it drives ok it will be even more incentive to get it finished for Transitmania (and after the dissapointment of the V8 being scrap I needed it :( :lol: )

I'll be back again in the morning :D
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Re: whats happening?

Postby madbri » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:46 pm

whats wrong with the v8?
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Re: whats happening?

Postby KH_Towbars » Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:59 pm

I'll be back tomorrow with some speaker cable and to run some live wires for lighting etc.
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Re: whats happening?

Postby AlanN » Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:20 am

Had such a good weekend and made some great friends. I took over a hundred bits of video, which I will try and stitch together the best I can later this week, its not a full account of what went on, as they had a 2 day head start on me. Heres the moment it first moved.
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