Natmeet - 2008 - Victoria

jncook · Postby **jncook** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:04 pm

[quote="Okibi"]W.A. would love to run a Natmeet but last time we tried we only had 1 non W.A. booking and that was from someone overseas.

Does NSW count as overseas??? I actually sent off my cheque!

Postby **Okibi** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:24 pm

Perhaps your accent confused them

, I stand corrected: 1 overseas person and Jean :mrgreen:

(you need to update your sig!)

ASE05 · Postby **ASE05** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:00 pm

Wahoo, what a great w'end for Natmeet and a blast of a drive home

Through the snowy mountains with a couple o Brisvegas folk then on our own after Cowra. I think we travelled on at least 93km of line marked roads from Cowra to Beaudesert

Trucks on single lane roads are BIG :shock:

, SE's have a wear indicator tag for the rear pads and race seats are meant for racing........

A big cheers to old and new friends met over this great w'end Michelle and I had!

We only got back last night at about 2200 :oops:

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:35 pm

Wotsa wrote:For participants, I trust your journey home was as good as mine, through the Snowy Mountains!

We (ASE05s, APD and JBTs) ran up through Bandiana, Corryong, Cabramurra, Kiandra and Tumut to Gundagai. The area had as much rain that day as they'd had in the last 12 years :shock:

....it p1$$ed down on us and we didn't get to see as much as we'd have liked. Will have to do it again on the way to or from NatMeet 2010

. However, we did have two smelly NCs after running over some road kill and getting bits stuck underneath....pooowee! :oops:

Okibi wrote:There was no way to be competitive at Natmeet unless you'd been to previous Natmeets and i'd like to do my best to change that.

Why do you say that? Points accumulated for attendance at the activities, runs etc, concours d'elegance and track event. You just had to be in it and try. I can't see how previous NatMeet experience would have helped.

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:08 pm

Concours d'Elegance collection

Parked at Falls Creek later that day - great run for ten cars to follow Samselectrics up and down the hill

The road to Mt Hotham after the morning tea picnic at Bright - woooobloodyhooo :mrgreen:

Everyone on the track at Winton

AJ · Postby AJ » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:51 pm

ooooh.........a taswegian number plate

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:06 pm

Yeah, there's always someone there to hold you up.

Postby **Okibi** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:09 pm

JBT wrote:..
Okibi wrote:There was no way to be competitive at Natmeet unless you'd been to previous Natmeets and i'd like to do my best to change that.

Why do you say that? Points accumulated for attendance at the activities, runs etc, concours d'elegance and track event. You just had to be in it and try. I can't see how previous NatMeet experience would have helped.

Well, lets hope this is taken as constructive criticism...

Because like most of the W.A. people, I had no idea that we received points for helping with Judging etc.

We hadn't been given a breakdown of the concourse rules so I had no idea I needed to bring my tonneau cover or log book. I knew I had to have the correct factory tools (because Simon had lost point from this at the Queensland Natmeet because he hadn't know - his first natmeet). For some reason they ditched the Modified section of concourse (my car isn't too original anymore).

Someone decided to dock the W.A. club 60 points (from the 100 we were expected to get) for putting our cars on the train to Adelaide instead of driving (even though we had to drop our cars off over a week earlier, got the dirty in transport and spent about $2k each on the Adelaide and back part of our trip. That didn't make us feel very welcome. (I don't think this was discussed with the National Presidents)

Also given we couldn't leave personal items in our car during shipping meant we didn't really have room for "costumes" for that dress up thingo. Not that any of use were really impressed with the concept.

We arrived late on Friday so never got points for bringing our photo.

Lets hope that with each Natmeet we can help improve things. We're not playing for sheep stations and we didn't really attend to be competitive but it did sour the event a little.

For me the event was more about meeting old friends and making new friends. It was also a nice break from work and a chance to spend some time in Victoria.

JBT · Postby **JBT** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:07 pm

I suppose there was a lot of assumed knowledge about certain aspects. There was a link on this forum to a very good guide (PDF) put up by the NSW club for their Concours d'Elegance in October 2007. Maybe questions/information about concours etc. should have been asked/disseminated before departure for NatMeet 2008...

However, the tyranny of distance and the problems you encountered certainly made it a big hurdle for WA participants. Sorry you guys didn't feel very welcome but these two seemed to get on OK

...and these two

Postby **Okibi** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:56 pm

Yup !

I had a great time with my friends :mrgreen:

Crazy Frog · Postby **Crazy Frog** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:55 pm

Oi Okibi - is that a carbon fibre bonnet I can see on your set of wheels :mrgreen:

When did you score the new bling - I reckon it would better match my silver MX-5

Enjoy the hospitality of Gail and the Croweater crew

Postby **Okibi** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:17 pm

Crazy Frog wrote::shock: Oi Okibi - is that a carbon fibre bonnet I can see on your set of wheels When did you score the new bling - I reckon it would better match my silver MX-5 Enjoy the hospitality of Gail and the Croweater crew

It's yours for the right price :mrgreen:

Crazy Frog · Postby **Crazy Frog** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:13 pm

Drive carefully and we can haggle when you get back to Sandgroper country :lol:

I hope your increased oil consumption isn't a harbinger of the demise of yet another \"bulletproof\" 1800 motor :shock:

Blinged-up cars aren't meant to be mountain dríven :evil:

Postby **Okibi** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:01 pm

JBT wrote:...However, the tyranny of distance and the problems you encountered certainly made it a big hurdle for WA participants...

For sure, I finally got my car back tonight 1 month from dropping it off for Natmeet. What is a weekend event for many is a long and expensive process for others. :lol: