micra_wrc

good job with the garage, love it

fingers crossed for your op, hope it goes as planned and you recover quickly

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for those that might need reminding, the clocks go forward at 01:00 on Sunday 27 March

I've noticed that the weather has been milder lately, but might be too early to put the thermals away,

it was snowing last week for petes sake!

Bring on the brighter days and nicer weather

Thanks for the support guys

Grant will be taking the unit to all SRC rounds this year.

Lewis, not sure where we'll be for the Granite, either scrutineering or service area probablt.

Stuart, hope you get to see some rally action today.

Race Retro event was down near Coventry.

Jimmy was driving in the rally stage and Bill Gwynne Motorsport brought along the 92 Legacy that they restored and look after

We also had the Pirelli simulator on our stand

and brought along the Sierra Cosworth

and the retail unit

The evening dinner was a fundraising event for the Vision, hosted by Kevin Furbar

I think Grant and I were just in awe of some of the names and faces that were there and were happy to just be in the background and absorb everything.

dancing girls

Nicky Grist giving the after dinner speech

and winner of Colin's "Ford Martini" overalls, with Jimmy, Hollie and Alison.

The woman in the red is Gemma somebody, a TV presenter on something or other

one of the games in between courses was to see who could make the best paper aeroplane.

Each table had to nominate an "engineer" to build it and a "pilot" to go up to the front and fly it

can anyone guess who was the engineer at our table?

ok, seems I can't edit my first post

Calendar of Vision events 2011:

19 Mar 2011 ... Border Counties Rally ... Jedburgh, Scottish Borders

16 Apr 2011 ... Granite City Rally ... Aberdeen, Grampian

14 –15 May ... Rallyshow ... Cornbury

21 –22 May ... Scottish Motorshow ... Knockhill Fife

27 - 29 May ... Jim Clark Rally ... Kelso, Scottish Borders

19 June ... The Lost Boys Rally ... Lanark

25 Jun ... Scottish Rally ... Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway

30 June -3 July ... Goodwood Festival of Speed

17 July ... Total Jap Scotland ... Knockhill

24 July ... Subaru Weekender ... Wales

6 Aug ... Speyside Stages ... Elgin, Moray

3 Sep ... Merrick Forest Stages ... Wigtown, Newton Stewart

17 Sept ... Rallyday ... Castle Coombe

1 Oct ... McRae Forest Stages ... Perth, Perth & Kinross

A lot of people, myself included, will see this thread as more of an update thread, on what you are doing, where you are going etc. By its very nature it might not generate a huge amount of replies but it will keep Colin McRae Vision in everyones minds.

ok then, seems that folk are lurking and at least reading the updates

I'll udpate my first post with the events we're attending and details of cars that will be there.

John, the Subaru weekender is happening.

We'll be taking the unit and probably one of the cars to it.

I know that Prodrive are supporting the event and we're trying to convince them to bring N1 WRC to the show.

We'll be going there for the Sunday show, will give the Saturday tour around Wales a miss.

We've already done 3 shows in 2011:

Monte Carlo - George Sq Glasgow is the closest location that we've traded at so far

Snowman - heavy weight jackets and beanies sold very well.

Thanks to GMac and Scooby222's crowd for helping Grant out at that event

Race Retro & drivers ball - didn't really sell that much as we were located next to the jumble sale

The drivers ball was great, I'll put up some stories and pictures later.

Imy

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I'm going to stop posting in here about what we get up to with the Vision events.

It just feels like I'm just talking to an empty room or going on about it to folk that are not interested.

I'll keep my updates to my Facebook page

cheers,

Imy

I thought i was going to read *i've been for a test drive as i fancy a change bla de bla* for a moment

...

ha me too!

good to see that Gus hasn't joined the dark side

ha just clocked this post

think I remember this, Grant said that you drove by in your works van/car and he knew it was you cos it didn't have any branding on

it !

I was like eh? ok then

yikes thats a lot of change.

All the best for the move and hope you settle in the new place ok

imy

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Happy Birthday Del

Dinnae listen to them, some older men can be attractive

wont make it this year, its the same weekend as the Pirelli International and we're on Vision duty

been to the last 2 and they were cracking weekends

have fun y'all

imy

awful news

Our sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of both Graham and Connor.

thanks to "friend of spot2" for taking the time to sign up and sharing your friendship with us,

he sounds like a true enthusiast and will be missed by those that knew him

Imy and Grant

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the first event that the McRae Vision are attending in 2011 is the Glasgow start point of the Rallye Monte Carlo Historique rally on Thursday 27 Jan.

Around 50 teams will start from Blytheswood Sq and, after going through control in Paisley, will travel through Kilmarnock, Dumfries, Scotch Corner then down to Dover, bound for France.

The Vision retail unit will be at George Square.

Come along and experience the festivities

Click for info on RallyBuzz site

thanks to those of you that have replied.

Things have been rocky in 2010, with some great highs and crappy lows.

Priorities have changed and it was hard to decide to sell the Banana, but we don't really use both cars and with maintenance/fuel costs going up, it was the sensible thing to do.

We're going to carry on helping with the Vision events and will be lurking about the forum and online.

Interested to see if the new committee bring some life back into the club and we've still got the RA to go to some events

Happy new year everybody

good call cathy!

congratulations to your new wee arrival

all the best to you and your family

well done everyone, sounds like a good day, the presents will be appreciated by Yorkhill.

how much was raised this year?

1. STI Pretender

2. Greersport

3. Greersport

4. Burgy_51_

5. Burgy_51_ wife

6. Mr badbaz

7. Mrs badbaz

8. scooby222

9. Mrs scooby222

10. empty heed

11. empty heed 2

12. bigbob

13. miss bigbob

14. terzo neil

15. Midnight21

16. gbsti

17. Mrs gbsti

18. bobbyc

19. Mags

20. Des

21. Des's Mag

22. Dougs Scoob

23. Mrs Dougs Scoob

24. Joe G

25. Mrs Joe G

26. And Joe G Junior

27. jimser

28. caitlin

29. gary d

30. leslie

31. craig

32. loopy lou

33. Irish Al

34. Lynsey

35. Kebab Nemesis

36. burgy_51_ brother

37. burgy_51_ brothers patner

38. Meercat

39. Meercat

40. Dale

41. marky.t.s

42. scary mary

43. marko72

44. Miss 72

45. Karps

46. Mrs Karps

47. s25yme

48. Mrs 5yme

49. Scoobymark

50. Scoobymark Wife

51. Scoobymark Scooby mad wean 1

52. Scoobymark Scooby mad wean 2

53. Scoobymark Scooby mad wean 3

54.

55.

well done Robert, Glyn and Dale

fingers crossed for a smooth handover and a new future for the club

for those that don't know, these are the candidates for the role of Chairman and Secretary and voting will run until 30th Nov 2010

Chairman of SIDC

candidate 1 - Frenchy

candidate 2 - STI Pretender

Membership Secretary of SIDC

candidate 1 - SHESCOOBY

Candidate 2 - jointly between BalliSTIc & thefastone

just back from the 1st scottish scoobies xmas ball and had a blast!

Hadnt laughed that much in ages and it's also a while since I woke up feeling slightly rough

thanks to Dave 222 for organising this and getting it together, the venue, dinner, dance and atmosphere was spot on

thanks too to Bobby and Gary for sorting out the music. The equipment, set and tunes were great and really helped pull off a great night.

nice to socialise with everyone again and great to see folks in kilts and frocks

the secret santa gifts were a brilliant touch, though I ended up with a bottle of Buckfast!

the windy up toys and Stig stuff kept folk amused, esp at our table where we had racing grannies and horses.

lets see the photos and vids, there were plenty of pictures being taken.

oh and Dave, well done in the karaoke but its probably best you don't apply to the X-Factor

imy

I read your thread subject and thought oh no, somethings happened already

good to know the car is ok lol

I use ferodo in the RA and not had any problems.

Didn't like Mintex cos they squeek during braking.