[doc] Eurofest -Thank-You!

["Richard Hanlon" <rahanlon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

There are tons of posts on the subject, and I haven't read them all, but 
just to add my profuse thanks to the organisers for arranging such a 
brilliant event to commemorate our cars' 25th Anniversary.  I, and I am sure 
do the others, have so many wonderful memories it seems incredible that they 
were all squeezing into a few days!  From the emormous events - 75+ cars 
pulled up in a line along the hard shoulder, Hillsborough Castle, the 
Autotest, and of course the unforgettable and let me add quite poignant 
factory/ test-track visit - to the smaller ones.

These included a personal Police escort to the M2 from the Europa when Rich 
Hutchisnon and I turned up a bit late, to a middle-aged chap pulling up 
alongside at the traffic lights, beeping and waving furiously, shouting "I 
built that car, I built that car!!".

Wonderful.  We are all used to the crowds that our cars can pull, but never 
have these been as great or as freindly as in NI over the last weekend.  
Everyone seemed genuinely interested, and in some instances almost overcome 
that we had all made the effort to travel to be there.

Thanks go to all the members of all the Clubs in attendence, and especially 
to the DOI who put such a lot of time and effort into the organisation - 
including a bit of hardcore gardening to remove the braches from the track, 
no doubt!

It was great to catch up with people I had met before and to make new 
freinds, and I am now fully reassured that I will NEVER be selling RHL509X!  
(Not that I had been planning to!)

PS - And I'm sure Hutchinson wiould have done the same for me - his 
compressor certainly bailed me out when I had a flat on the way to the 
Giants Causeway - a problem ably solved by a local chap whose name I never 
got, who pulled up to observe the spectacle and ended up driving me to a 
tyre repair shop he knew who was open on a Sunday!  Now where else in the 
world, or with what other car, would that ever happen?

Rich Hanlon
393/6126/ RHL509X
Now fully convinced to kep my stock front springs!


>From: "Richard Hutchinson" <dickyh11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: RE: [doc] Eurofest
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 12:18:48 +0100
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>I'm just catching up after having a fabulous time at Eurofest.
>
>A massive thankyou to Rich Hanlon and Roisin. Roisin's parents, and
>sister kindly offered to put me up for the past few days, and without
>them I would not have been able to attend.
>
>1274 performed almost flawlessly, apart from the sudden failure of the
>rev counter - not exactly essential
>
>I did have a couple of "DOH!" moments, most notably coming off the ferry
>when the steepness of a ramp caught me out and has resulted in a cracked
>radiator, and broken fan housing. Thankfully Rich Hanlon was able to run
>me to a local Halfords. One bottle of 'Stop Leak', disconnected fans and
>we were on our way again.
>
>We made it home comfortably and the temperature gauge never rose above
>the first quarter mark. Hopefully I will have everything repaired in
>time for Lotus!!
>
>Rich H
>DOC 365 VIN 1274
>
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