Bolney meet

[John_M]

Look like the Bolney meet is back on for this year...

Link (http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?threadid=73109)

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[Martin F]

Yep, i just got in and saw this in my emails, one not to miss if previous years are anything to go by.

Will post up some details later on.

[Martin F]

OK, just to add a bit to this.

This event is usually massive and attracts attendees from all Jap car clubs. However it is held in a residential area so 'boy racer' antics will be frowned upon, also Sussex Police are aware of the meet and will try to attend.

When
Saturday 23rd April
(Time TBA but usually around 11am)

Where
Its held at the Bolney Stage pub in Sussex. Shown as the public house in the middle of this STREETMAP (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=526715&y=123290&z=3&sv=526715,123290&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=885)

From A23 southbound - after passing Gatwick, take slip road signposted to Bolney Village. At top of slip road, turn RIGHT into Broxmead Lane. Then at the end of Broxmead lane (about 600yds) turn left and the Bolney Stage pub is on your right hand side.

From A23 northbound, take exit to A272. At first roundabout take second exit and look out for the Bolney Stage pub on your right hand side.

Pub Grub
Usually quite good and reasonable, lets hope the new owners do the same. However can be long queues towards 1pm

Lets make it a good meet and hope that residents and landlords are happy to keep this as an annual event.

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[John_M]

I'm defenately going and aiming to arrive about 1030 - 1100 (which should get you a good spot up near the pub).

Anyone else?

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[Martin F]

May well pop along. Will see what the weather is like on the day.

Nobody else ?

Here's a pic from one of the previous years to give others an idea of the scale of the event
http://www.bouncingbullet.com/gallery/bolney2003/images/bolney17_jpg.jpg

[Martin F]

Update
Well, Bolney is now only 1 week away so I thought I'd put up one post that you can all copy it to your Forums and ensure that everyone knows what's going on.

THE START TIME:

The official Start time for the meet this year is 11am ** NO SOONER **. As we have the GT Battle guys having a display in the main car park, we need to give them time to set-up everything as they want it, therefore, please do not turn up before 11am.

THE DONATION:

We are making a donation to "Bolney Under 5's" this year ... as a way of giving something back to the people of Bolney Village - for allowing us to take over there village every year. All we are asking is ?1.00 per car ... this will enable us to give them a nice little donation. "Bolney Under 5's" is not a local football team (LOL !http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif it's for the children in the village under 5 years of age. There will be a member of JapUKMeets at either end of Bolney Village with a collection bucket. Hopefully, you will also recieve a GT-Battle flyer on your arrival.

PARKING:

As previously mentioned, the carpark is ONLY available to the GT Battle guys - so please do not park in there. Additionally, please be sensible where you park - and DO NOT park in front of property entrances, across the entrance of slip roads, etc. We need to ensure everyone in the village is able to get in and out of their property without any difficulty and ensure that we do not block any roads off ... otherwise we'll annoy the locals.

POLICE:

Sussex Police HAVE been notified of the meet and all being well they will be driving through regularly. If they cannot drive through as regularly as hoped, and we get idiots doing fly-by's then I will be phoning Sussex Police and asking them to come down.

FLY-BY'S:

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do NOT give a demonstration of what your car is capable of by doing a fly-by or anything like it. Bolney is going to be RAMMED with people (including children) as well as lots of cars. This is NO place to by driving at speed ... and I will have no hesitation in dealing with it should someone decide to be a moron (i.e. I'll be getting the Police involved).

GT-BATTLE:

As mentioned above, the GT-Battle guys will have a display in the car-park. This will contain some of the cars that are registered to compete in GT-Battle as well as a few other chosen cars. Additionally, you will be able to register for the event - and find out more about what is going to be happening.

THE PUBLIC:

The new owners of the Bolney Stage Pub are NOT closing the pub so that it's just us there - there WILL be other members of the public turning up (even though I advised them to close to just us). Therefore you might find the odd non-Jap motor trying to park amongst us. I sure some of the local residents will be out and about having a look at some of the cars as well.

LITTER:

Last year there was LOADS of litter scattered all over the place - where people couldn't be bothered to put their rubbish in bins. I went around picking up a lot of it and binning it along with the workers at the pub. Please use the bins rather than just dropping rubbish on the floor.

NEXT YEAR:

We need this year to go well to even have a chance of having another meet next year. Therefore, please do everything you can to help this meet go smoothly. We all doing all we can to ensure that the residents in the area will be ok about the meet and will not try and stop us coming back next year.

MAGAZINES:

I understand that J-Tuner magazine and possibly another magazine will be in attendance with a view to doing a write-up about the meet ... so get polishing and waxing those cars.

[EmmaG]

Weather reports are not looking good for this, lets hope that they are wrong!!

[dunk shaw]

Dont think i'll be sober enough early enough to get there http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif have a good day if your going hope the weather is more of today http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[John_M]

Good show again this year (if a little damp at times).

Poor showing of Supras there though in comparison to the other marques.

Have loads of pictures but not sure how best to post ? ? (mods http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/help.gif )

Pub excelled itself with food and drink easily obtainable and staff walking up and down the street selling from trays also. ?
There were a couple of small minded people who wanted to show just what their car could do ( http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/spank.gif ) but overall the event seemed to go really well. Police showed their presence a couple of times but seemed to turn a blind eye on all the dodgy parking ?http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif .

Hopefully the locals and publican felt it went well also because it would be a shame to lose this show from the calender in future years.

[Martin F]

Didn't make it afterall http://www.mkivsupra.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

But glad to hear lots of attenedees.

John you can either attach to a post, but only one pic at a time and need to be less than 100k in size. Or if not email them over and i'll put them up on the webspace.

[John_M]

Bolney stage

[John_M]

Crowds

[John_M]

Gunmetal grey and Silver Supes

[John_M]

Love those Lexus wheels on Blue Supe

[John_M]

Think this is Paul Whiffins black Supe with others

[John_M]

Supra on road

[John_M]

Silver Veilside

[John_M]

Couple of Supras on parked on corner

[John_M]

Nice ICE

[John_M]

Some nice skylines there also

[John_M]

another

[John_M]

One on the road

[John_M]

Other marques include rx7's

[John_M]

MR2's

[John_M]

Evo's

[John_M]

A rather lovely looking GTO

[John_M]

And one or two scoobies

[John_M]

Loads more but need to find another way of presenting via thumbnails or something.

[Chris Rocks]

looks like a good turnout, espcially given the venue type ( ie pub car park )

-c-

[Martin F]

Always is a good turnout at Bolney.

Looks pretty impressive when all the same marques park together

[The Restorer]

Ooh, them Skylines look gourgeos.

Quote[/b] (John_M @ April 24 2005,17:08)]Loads more but need to find another way of presenting via thumbnails or something.
Hows about setting up a gallery for the Bolney pics?

[John_M]

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Bolney 2005 Photos (http://photobucket.com/albums/y176/John_M_photos/Bolney%202005/?start=all)