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Newbury Sortout 4th October 2015


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I managed to sell a few bits and managed to pick up a couple of bits - was going to get some HD steering arms but wasn't sure if I needed RRC arms or Disco so had a bizarre moment trying to identify parts on my garage floor with my non-technical son using Facetime and a torch for illumination!

Strangely, I would have been better with our daughter but she was heading back to Uni today (only girl on her course doing Automotive Engineering...) so not available to assist!

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Sold some stuff, brought a mud dash cover for £2. Brought some 24 spine half shafts various Salisbury and picked up a 24/23 front shaft for £5. Had the seller try and palm me off with a second apparently it 24/32 as its other half of the pair. I was surprised (I had lots of tat old small bits. Some New alternators and some 101 and 2B wheel steps ) but the sheer amount of old rubbish. Diffs covered in rust up for £30 and people paid money for them. amazes me what gets sold sometimes.J

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Shifted a few bits, bought a few bits, somehow came home with some of Mike's unwanted cr4p and some of Udderlyoffroad's bits too, gawd I thought I was a recovering ****ehawk but apparently not :unsure:

Was it just me or have they got stupid with mixing the vintage tat in with the land rover tat? I found we were dumped in amongst a load of crusty farmyard junk and heard quite a few buyers & sellers complaining either that they had to wade through vintage stalls to find LR ones or vice-versa. :angry2:

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Shifted a few bits, bought a few bits, somehow came home with some of Mike's unwanted cr4p and some of Udderlyoffroad's bits too, gawd I thought I was a recovering ****ehawk but apparently not :unsure:

Was it just me or have they got stupid with mixing the vintage tat in with the land rover tat? I found we were dumped in amongst a load of crusty farmyard junk and heard quite a few buyers & sellers complaining either that they had to wade through vintage stalls to find LR ones or vice-versa. :angry2:

I thought it was a bit stupid too. It wasn't until Nige was telling someone where you were that I even thought to go over that side. I'd have thought they would have segregated them a little better.

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I thought it was a bit stupid too. It wasn't until Nige was telling someone where you were that I even thought to go over that side. I'd have thought they would have segregated them a little better.

Oh, I didn't even make it to the farmyard tat side of the fence... was there much LR stuff over there?

Definitely seemed much bigger this year. Still managed to get a few bargains, but also walked away from a few asking silly money for stuff (£30 for a rusty pin hitch). Bargain of the day had to be a pair of brand new genuine defender seat covers for £5.

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I think there were a number of issues...

Apparently, Newbury Showground are about to start on a new building, hence the bottom corner of the site (normal vintage area) being tucked away behind Herras fencing - Mark Woodward didn't know about this until he got to site and they were trying to segregate vehicles as they came in by asking what you were selling. We did witness one moment of madness when a 'vintage tat' seller got to the loos at the very bottom of the LR side and then identified himself to the marshals - the whole row of traffic came to a halt whilst they argued over how to get him back to his 'correct' zone!

Using the parking field was only slightly successful - they didn't have the space expected to marshal the pre-paid and ad-hoc arrivals and then brought all four lanes into one at the gate! Daft really...

Apparently at 7am, the queue was back onto the M4 roundabout - we need to remember that the Old Sodbury lost use of the site because of traffic issues...

Finally, the event is getting to be huge and will, almost certainly evolve further over time. I thought there were more and more of the 'general tool' traders - folks with rows of tables laden with new tools, cutting discs etc and wonder how many of these type of traders the show can really sustain.

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Finally, the event is getting to be huge and will, almost certainly evolve further over time. I thought there were more and more of the 'general tool' traders - folks with rows of tables laden with new tools, cutting discs etc and wonder how many of these type of traders the show can really sustain.

I over heard one of them saying he thought there were too many of them and he'd only had 30 or so customers all day and that would have been about 12:30/13:00?

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Oh, I didn't even make it to the farmyard tat side of the fence... was there much LR stuff over there?

Well we were over there with all our Land Rover tat :( it did feel like we were a bit "out of it" although the mix was about 50/50 or maybe 40/60 land rover / vintage. I think it was frustrating for everyone TBH.

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Nige and I always refer to the shiny tools stalls as just "shiny ****" and just walk on straight past them. There does seem to be an increasing number of them however.....

At least the event isn't yet suffering the garden ornaments and clothes and completely unrelated tat that things like Billing do.

However there do seem to be an increasing number of them.

IMHO one thing they do need to address is the toilet facilities. By 10am they were already disgusting!

The queue to pay to get in seemed a lot better this year which is a good thing....

Jon

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Managed 27 complete Diffs all priced between £5-15 quid and a couple of nice units at £20...

made the transit squeal a bit, along with stuff bought by the others with me ...and me ...

Mmmmm Transit so much more space for **** than a BMW :D

Not a transit, but a Traffic ;) And for future info as I looked it up after our discussion.... the model you had has a minimum payload of 1079Kgs and the more powerful versions go upto 1269Kg payload.

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