Hey,
Is the LRW show worth going to? Who else is planning on going?
Pete

I will be there on the Challenge South West club stand- Not been to LRW show before but most people seem to rate it highly.

Yep ,Its most definatly not one to be missed , although it was very wet under foot last year ,

I will be going and should be around the OEC stand , I wont be at the beer tent, Im not paying £ 3.80 for a pint

I'll be there on the discovery owners club stand, and its one of the land rover shows I ve never beeen to so shalll see if its as good as folk say it is

If it wasn't wet underfoot it wouldn't be the same. I have often raced at Eastnor (on my MTB) in 24 hour races a few weekends afterwards. What MTBs call Land Rover hill (i believe it is also known as Gearbox hill) wouldn't be the same without being ripped up by Mud Terrains. Will be my first time there with 4 wheels.

Shows arent shows without a down pour , Ive just come back from the North somerset show and guess what , It rained but when we finaly walked a mile to the car the sun shone at its best , Typical

We shall be there again this year....

Simon

I'll be there too, loitering with Andy & Andy (chaplin & Graham) on the allisport stand.

I'll be there on the SLRC stand. It's my first season going to the shows - my first was Gaydon. It will be nice going to Eastnor as I worked in Worcestershire for 10 years and loved the area. It also means I shouldn't get lost getting there...in theory

7-8

I'm certainly wanting to go this year...just need to get dad to take me in the Disco as it micht look a little strange to turn up in a 206!

I will be there

I don't know if I will be there for a day or both days

I reckon I will go. I was going to go to Billing, but if I go to LRW, then I can get off to the Pyrenees in July a couple of days earlier!

It's a nice, friendly, fun show - particularly the Shire Club! However, it's useless from a commercial point of view - and the organisation is dreadful (from a Traders perspective), so we won't be there under the guise of X-Eng.

Can't go this year as it's Sarah's 40th birthday party on the Saturday.

Might go next year under-cover though!

Si

Si,

When you say its no good from a commercial point of view. Is it worth me going to just get some "stuff"?? I managed to get all sorts of bits & bobs from Billing last year, & I feel like inflicting a bit of damage to the old credit card......if its worth me going to LRW, then I can get to the Pyrenees on the Friday of Billing instead of Monday after??

Just need a couple of toys & gadgets, and its nice having everything in one place.

Martin

I'm only there on the Saterday because I've got to do the family thing on the Sunday as my sister is emirgarting to the USA the week after.

Are your siblings telling you something Jules?

Godlykepower, I am sure that the traders at Eastnor will be keen to welcome you with open arms - and cash tills! IMHO Billing is better from the point of view of finding a greater number of traders. IMHO there is a lot more to see generally at Billing.

Chris

Hmmm....I enjoyed Billing last year, lots to see & do. I had only owned my first LR for a month, so felt like a kid in a toyshop.

Dont particularly NEED anything this year, its just an excuse to go away for a weekend & spend some money on gadgets. I only really need a silver mod & BFG for my spare wheel. Im sure I can pick that up there??

I will be able to have a few extra days in the Pyrenees if I get the shopping for gadgets out of the way quickly.

I won't be able to go as the 90 won't be ready and there's GCSE's!

You think !

QUOTE (GBMUD @ May 30 2008, 12:20 PM)
Are your siblings telling you something Jules?

Chris

i will be in eastnor this week with work i will post how mudy it is
as to getting lost its easy to find j7 of the m5 follow signs to malvern over the hills as you drop down turn left at the sing
ooooohhhhhhh and the malverns look very tempting to play on but its not woth the fine if you get caught
and they may try to empound your truck (not that i would ever do somthing to find that out you understand)

I've been to the show the last two years marshalling for LRE and with the Shires. It's a good show, great club atmosphere in the club and camping areas. The Shires throw a good party, especially combined with Camel Trophy and NTMK. The commercail bit is quite small and would not fill two days if I wasn't marshalling.

The off road courses are great, did the extreme in by 200tdi and the intermediate in my standard Td5 Although I think D-Lander Rich cleared the extreme course in 16 minutes last year having paid £25 for the one run round

Unfortunately Muddybottom seven sisters is the weekend afterwards, so I can't spare the time this year

It's usually a nice friendly show, not massive and not really busy, plenty of room and not bad facilities. I'll be spending the weekend on the Shire's stand again this year.

ok the camping fields are drying out for the show weather has been good but this is still plenty of mud you can play in
regareds old leafer

Check out the CRAG stand for some cool patio furniture, quite comfortable and cheap as logs.

Discount for forum members carrying a copy of the Times and wearing a red Rose in their left buttonhole.

I will be there on Saturday.

Over in the uk for a break.

Interested in a chat? Give me a call on 075947294!

Cheers.

Just got back. Spent an absolute fortune. Got a Mantec RAI for the Puma so will befitting that before I leave on Fri. Er indoors purchased new lead, collar, water bowl, harness and bed for the dog. Almost as much as I spent .

Strangest thing. When on the Devon4x4 stand I got approached by 1 of the staff, introduced himself and it was a mate from when I joined the Army 21 yrs ago. We'd both gone different ways and lost touch. So an hour later I then had to hunt for er indoors, and I was in the doghouse .

good job you got a new bed to sleep in then

So who did the advanced course, and how many cleared it, without a tow? Saw at least 7 having a tug out of the "American Dips", and one broke a rear diff. Apparently, that was the fourth that day (Saturday). Quite a few had problems with the Camel Humps too, mainly V8s with their water affinity.

did it sunday it was not that bad all six cleard in discos did have to pull a 90 out tho hehehehehehehe
mind you it is our local mud even tho we not alowed on the tracks
to be honist there are harder green lanes if you look hard enuff

p.s
you cant beat the sound of a misfire on a wet v8

This was my first "big" show as a Shire's committee member. I was impressed, especially the weather - although I do resemble a lobster at the moment . We managed to get 8 vehicles on the stand for Saturday, and squeezed in a latecomer on Sunday.

We had a team entered into the scrap yard challenge again. This year they disabled two Discoverys (a 200 and a 300 tdi) in a number of ways and hid the ignition key. We had to get it running, with all of the bits they had removed, start it with the key, drive forward across the arena and back up. We won our first heat in a time of 2 mins 57 secs - a time not beaten all weekend

The semi-final was this morning against the Series 2 club, and we managed to win that in a time of 6 mins something. This then put us in the final against the Camel Trophy Owners Club. There was a bit of a score to settle here as we lost to them in the final last year. Unfortunately they pipped us to the post by what probably would have been about 30 secs. Both teams struggled to find the ignition keys, but our undoing was a starter relay in the wrong plug under the dash

We weren't bitter... But Chairman Dan (V8bertha) did run off with their trophy at one point

I'm told there were less people than usual this year, and there were a few traders noticeable by their absence. Possibly a sign of things to come in all things Land Rovery with the economy/fuel prices as they are?

I would have gone, were it not for it being Sarah's 40th birthday party. 24h later - i'm still feeling hung over!
Last year with the Shire club was brilliant and even if I don't go as a trader next year - I'll be ther with the Shires!

Si

Just having a quick look through the many photos I have taken this weekend (well I do have a new camera!) - and I thought I'd better post this one.

Some of you may know Guy Shepherd our Returning Officer. He normally looks something like this:



He has been known to drive a Land Rover or two, and if you were at Eastnor this weekend, he was presiding over a skills challenge while dutifully sacrificing his own Range Rover.

Yesterday evening, he happened to be passing and spied our vacant twist off-ramp-style thingy...



Ain't ETC a wonderful thing?

Yeah - it was an excellent weekend

It's always been my favourite show as its in a stunning setting (I always make sure I get up as the suns coming up and take a wander around the site), always seems to get good weather and with the Camels and NTMKLRC it's always a sparkly weekend of beer/wine and chocolate

Took me a while to find the autojumble, but I was glad I did. Managed to get a few bits and pieces for George (Dave if you decide you can't fit those wings in the workshop let me know ) which made me *very* happy. also got some contacts for some ellusive bits.

Scrapheap was as usual, the adrenalin filled stress fest it should be. Shires did brilliantly and I was so glad it was a Shires/Camel final again. I noted they'd put the Disco's on the opposite sides of the arena so we couldn't have the big bundle we had last year! Excellent effort by both teams - same time next year chaps?

Next year I'll be there with George and hopefully we can have some leafs represented in the twist off

Only regret was I didn't have a chance to get to the driving Challenge guy sorted out But the Scrapheap took up most of Sunday.

Looking forward to next year, be good to see you there Si, [ whisper ] glad you had a good weekend [ /whisper ]

There was a lot of red skin about by sunday afternoon.

Anyone hear about or see the Toyota that allegedly got wrote off on the off road course.

We had a superb weekend as usual with Tango and entourage as house guests..well for food anyway

its the only show I go to, the setting is superb and has a relaxed feel that you don't get at any other show IMHO

Picked up a few bits from the traders as you do

Be there next year, My boy so wanted to go round the off road route, Nick chickned out, and I was told there was no way I was taking HER Disco round...full stop

Still the Hybrid might be finished by next year

Duely noted.

Tick tock, tick, tock................

I had a top weekend with the Challenge South West guys- far too hot and now in need of some serious aftersun... Got a fair amount of p1ss taking at work today

Really enjoyed the show- and managed not to spend too much which was a bonus... unlike the bloke with the portal axled disco running the huge boggers who managed to blow two axles just driving over a couple of cars in the arena... that may cost a bit to sort out...

Overall we drank too much- ate too much -had too much sun- not enough sleep... perfect weekend really!

was that disco the one that was on the cover of LRO a couple of months ago? lmao!

Nope- and LRO claimed that it was the worlds tallest disco IIRC? This one was on something like 54" boggers...

....and broke something expensive sounding in the front axle trying to drive over the pile of scrap cars.

It was indeed quite funny watching him killing his silly disco on the cars

I had a brilliant weekend with the Shire's crew, good entertainment, some very interesting bits of machinery on display around the show, didn't spend much which is always good

You mean this one

Yes that it exactly the one... sounds very expensive to me!

It locked up outside the OEC stand , Suggestions were made to find an SJ Zook ,let the tyres down ,drive it under the disco , blow SJ tyres back up , Drive away . Problem solved

There seemed to be alot of evening noise from this area



But when I walked the dog past at 6am It seemed to be very quite , Strange that , Well actualy not so quite , I swear I could hear Frank snoring

Yay- that would be us then... Noisy us???

Franks snoring has been best described so far as 'a rhino being murdered with a chainsaw'...

Afraid the show was a bit too much for some ,

And the pic above was taken today