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m.lowe
18th December 2006, 20:08
myself and my mate Mac spent the morning with Andy Fenwick, Lee and George Tindall and their spanner man plus the two lads from Tyne Tees tv Andy Kerr whos gonna sit in with Andy for the Xmas Stages.

After a few laps of the Langbaurgh track through the fog with Lee and then the Tyne Tees lads Andy give me a few laps blast round in the kit car Astra which was bloody fun and had a fun moment on the back straight in 6th doing 105 mph when Andy braked and we got round the top bend
Dave Craven popped along for a quick look before heading back to his office as he said "its warmer in there"

My thanks to Lee for inviting me, Andy for the blast round and what a decent fella Geordie is to chat with
Thanks lads and hope yas do well at Croft [:Y:]
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5994/comingoutofthefogyv5.jpg
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3517/astra11nj1.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2544/astra22nk3.jpg
PuddleJumper
18th December 2006, 21:46
Jammy devil! :p : The Astras were awesome in the BRC a few years ago and despite their age they still look (and seemingly go) very well.

When and what is the event at Croft?
m.lowe
18th December 2006, 22:17
30th december xmas stages @ croft
sxis
19th December 2006, 00:44
damn good looking car !
calibr
27th December 2006, 04:46
Hmm. Is this the old rally car to Armin Schwartz and norwegian F2 champion Bruno Arntsen?

CalibR
m.lowe
27th December 2006, 18:11
This car came from Germany and the reg swapped from another of his other 2 kit car astra shells
Neil J
29th December 2006, 20:56
I`ll be at Croft tomorrow for the Christmas Stages.

It`s very wet and windy here at the moment as I`m just down the road,
but that wont put us off having a good day speccying :)
Guffy
1st January 2007, 13:31
This car came from Germany and the reg swapped from another of his other 2 kit car astra shells



Here it is with its original reg,
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/Guffy1969/VXAstra.jpg
Koppomsbo
1st January 2007, 16:01
that looks like a swedish reg plate ??
Guffy
1st January 2007, 16:53
that looks like a swedish reg plate ??

I wasn't sure which country it was, but it certainly isn't German...! but saying that just because it came from Germany doesn't mean it has to have a German plate on it..!
Koppomsbo
1st January 2007, 17:44
I wasn't sure which country it was, but it certainly isn't German...! but saying that just because it came from Germany doesn't mean it has to have a German plate on it..!



I know that, i just saw that the plate looked like a swedish one..
m.lowe
1st January 2007, 18:08
one of the guys in the team said they got it from germany
most important thing to me is that I had a good blast round in it and its fecking quick