A Beano to Brighton (aka - Coastal run) 13th september

[rote8]

It\'s a very nice 8!

Thanks Will. :wiggle

The bars are custom made the a guy who ignores the \'keep off the grass signs\' :Giggle and who swears he will never make another set. Can\'t make out if that is because he thinks they spoil the cars look, or because he spent so much time, effort and no small amount of skill in constructing them, and that aged him in the process.

But as Will says they are in an effort prevent the day trippers parking their Ford Escort (substitute whatever crap car you can think of) against the vunerable body parts. Not entirely successful, but have certainly saved some damage.

[clive]

Many thanks for yesterday people even if it was a bit like the Fox Trot, slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, hang on I forgot the STOP bits :Giggle.

It was great to look in the mirror and see a stream of varied Rotarys coming down a beautiful English country lane :mmmm,

Real nice day out with real nice people :Thumbsup!

[Mazdarotaryparts]

Thanks Will. :wiggle

The bars are custom made the a guy who ignores the \'keep off the grass signs\' :Giggle and who swears he will never make another set. Can\'t make out if that is because he thinks they spoil the cars look, or because he spent so much time, effort and no small amount of skill in constructing them, and that aged him in the process.

But as Will says they are in an effort prevent the day trippers parking their Ford Escort (substitute whatever crap car you can think of) against the vunerable body parts. Not entirely successful, but have certainly saved some damage.

Had to change horses to clarify what Ray has said above as it was business related,

When Ray said he wanted "Bull Bars" incorporating in his new body kit and unsuccessfully trying to talk him out of them, I embarked on designing and making what I called "hot rod" style bars that would be as discreet as possible and follow the body lines of the car,

After deciding I would use the 3 RX-8 towing eyes to mount the bumper irons the first problem was that we only had one at the back so a new towing eye had to be fabricated and welded to the boot floor,

Next up was that I knew the bars were going to get hit so the bar mounts were made deliberately to fold up to save damage to the chassis however the bars are made from CDS roll cage tube and they ain\'t never going to bend !

As Ray said though, "never again", which should make this one real unique RX-8

[goldk28611]

Rare shot of Aaron\'s car not being lost :rollinStill one of my fave FDs, just looks so right, still covet those wheels :mmmm



Not everyone was lost...just waiting for those who were to un-lose themselves

:p oops! getting lost twice in 1 day i think is quite an achievement! first time was kinda my fault by just following the RX8 in front and 2nd time was me just being a dope and putting the incorrect (yet close) postcode into the Tom-Tom! Was still a good day even though i spent a few hours going round in circles!

The day didn\'t start too well either as the night before I hit something on the road that caught my air duct under the oil cooler and then in turn it all ripping off and taking with it most of my wheel arch liner too!!! Didn\'t fancy having a tick tick tick noise or a burst/damaged tyre, so a few cable ties later and it\'s pulled up outta the way, great start!!! :rolleyes:

Once again great company and lovley cars. Will get my pics up when i can.


As for the videos! Hmmmmm, Adam you were right - i have 2 mins of videos checking out my car roof! :rolleyes:

I\'m going to rename this to the "FAIL RUN" for me!

Great day all in all and would like to thanks those again that made this day happen and those that attended... looking forward to the next one!

[Nik da Greek]

Finally joined the 21st Century and got some vids up on YouTube. Only short clips, I\'m afraid, but I think they capture the essential je ne se quoi of the whole event (but I dunno what it is, arf! Lol at the French joke) *ahem*

....thanks to Jo and Adam for their camerawork, especially Madame le Jo, a natural film director if ever I saw one :rollinThe start of the first vid is a total classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJDGzib-wFA

Some car park panning, along with dodgy man love!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGyE00D5xH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHbnR6J1r28

Sorry they\'re a bit brief, but we\'re going for quality not quantity here :Thumbs-up. Now I\'m slowly getting the hang of this camcorder malarkey I promise to do better on the next one.

Aaron, where are the pics you promised?........

[Ada7]

Excellent work Nik
Nex time we\'ll have to pass a camera around a bit within the convoy so we can see it from a few angles

Adam

[Test Drives Unlimited]

Thanks Nik,Adam & Jo ,great Videos,can`t wait to the next time now :yes