Daimo B
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This sunday we had a VXR - 888 owners club meet at Donnington. All of us met up and then drove in colour co-ordinated cars into the circuit.
Had a VXR owners meet at Donnington. About 100+ cars.
I've got some video clips of the BTCC, Form BMW, Form Renault, Porkie GT cup etc on teh first laps which i'll upload tonight.
Oh, and I think it may be time to invest in a "proper" camera instead of the Sony Cibershot thing we currently use lmao
How many Astras????
We had loads fo VXR Monaros, Mk4 Astra 888's Mk5 Derv 888's, Vectra VXR's etc as well.
130+ ish...... Coming into a corner? Get out my way punk lmao
More at
http://public.fotki.com/DaimoB/general_me_-_pastti/donnington_btcc_and/
These are not my images, taken with a much better camera than mine 
Errrr, which one was ours again?
VX220 and VXR220...
Monaros (nice Supercharged on there)
HSV's
Veccys
Mk4 888's
[Edited on 31-07-2006 by VXR]
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Pablo
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very nice!!
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Cybermonkey
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great turnout!!! nice to see the HSV GTS's, Calloway tuned 5.7, 300kW
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Marshall
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ahhh, this wud explain why the local white 888 diesel followed me back to boston for a while (i was coming bk from kings lynn). It stayed a couple of cars behind me for a bit, but then when it did overtake bloody hell does it shift. such a beautiful car too. I loved seeing it in my rear view mirror, it really does look the best in white.
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Ry_B
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Very nice pics!!
Looks like a mint day 
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by Charly
ahhh, this wud explain why the local white 888 diesel followed me back to boston for a while (i was coming bk from kings lynn). It stayed a couple of cars behind me for a bit, but then when it did overtake bloody hell does it shift. such a beautiful car too. I loved seeing it in my rear view mirror, it really does look the best in white.
Wasn't with us, we only had 3 Mk5 888's with us. Two Silvers and a Black.
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gianluigi
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http://images15.fotki.com/v337/photos/4/48802/3845506/DSC01820-vi.jpg
what a photo
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Marc
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Nice pics. Some nice cars there. The burnt orange Monaro is a  colour.
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Eck
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Derv 888's are
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Nice pics. Some nice cars there. The burnt orange Monaro is a colour.
i dont see a burnt orange monaro  i see a burnt orange GTS, which is based on a VT Commodore
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Daimo B
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Originally posted by Marc
Nice pics. Some nice cars there. The burnt orange Monaro is a colour.
Took us just over an hour n a half to get from Kent to J23A M1.. Including two sets of SPECS cameras ont eh M25 and M1 (40mph) which go on for miles........
Don was asleep, I was crusing at about 100kph  and the Orange GTS came past me at a fair old rate... I cruised up to 130kph odd and he'd was stilll pulling with ease.....
Then i sw it on the stand, he must have been running late to pickup someone/something
Plus you northen lot have got it easy, theres bloody no cameras covering every square inch of the road up there.... Unlike down here, where you can't go on any major road without being watched 
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Cybermonkey
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its based on a Commodore
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Kerry
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all lined up in colour order looks
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mark_d
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looks very impressive
you should had swapped everyones number plates round and laugh at people trying to find their own car 
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Adam_B
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quote:
Originally posted by VXR
Plus you northen lot have got it easy, theres bloody no cameras covering every square inch of the road up there.... Unlike down here, where you can't go on any major road without being watched
we have these things called pikeys, they destroy them with things like expanding foam, car tyres filled with petrol and of course good old spray paint. aparently.
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A.Nam
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Was a class day, i was sat in the middleand could see all the 'colour coding' cars and thought it was a vxr meet of somekind, ment to go down and have a look but didnt in the end, that carbon vxr on the VX stand was plan stunning!!!!
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Robin
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so no one actually ever bought a silver astra vxr then
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mark_gsi
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good pics there saw most of these at croft when it were on there
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3CorsaMeal
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love that orangey colour of the monaro
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mwg
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Originally posted by robmarriott
so no one actually ever bought a silver astra vxr then
Theres one in Kendal where I work. Looks quite classy in silver 
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
we have these things called pikeys, they destroy them with things like expanding foam, car tyres filled with petrol and of course good old spray paint. aparently.
Ahhh see we have pikeys, but usually ther are doing over a bank or something. They leave the speed cameras for the chavs...
I just mean the traffic observation cameras, that can still be used to tell if your speeding if your tonking along and going past all the other cars like they are going backwards
Rob, yeah, Silver is the most un-common colour, but we didn't have any there yesterday, but there are silver owners. They just look to plain, bit like a lower spec model.
Nam, you mean the VXR Developments model. Carbon bits all over it... Good to show your products, but looked tacky as hell covered in carbon bits. If i owned the parts, i'd have to spray them.
Bonnet weighs 3 kilos, standard one is about 11 kilos (Or 7 kilos, can't remember). But it looked cheap, tacky and nasty. The vents didn't line up to the bonnet, some of the vents were starting to point up (Heat??) etc. Bet you they want about £500+ for it also!! I'd expect better quality.
I was gutted after speaking to him about the blue one. Thought it had real carbon wheels, but its just a carbon cover on the outside of the rim, although the wheels are magnesium so not too bad.
[Edited on 31-07-2006 by VXR]
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3CorsaMeal
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must be hard keeping to speed limit in a powerful car, i find them boring enough in my lil corsa
beat it feel like your idling
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Marc
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
i dont see a burnt orange monaro i see a burnt orange GTS, which is based on a VT Commodore
Sorry David 
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Marc
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quote:
Originally posted by VXR
Plus you northen lot have got it easy, theres bloody no cameras covering every square inch of the road up there.... Unlike down here, where you can't go on any major road without being watched
Not many cameras in North Yorkshire no 
I had a Monaro VXR come up behind me on the ring road yesterday, pooed my pants!
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