Well before I get on to Devils' Advocate time, I'll say that I handed out 30 car passes, so Make that 29 NSX and 1 CRV.
AS for the annual meet (Something else was sugggested which I'll cover in a bit). The first year was an experiment to see if we could all get together and meet face to face as Matt says, with the poeople we chat to on here. And in that case it was very successfull as not only did we get the largest gathering of NSX's that anyone had heard of outside the USA, but we also won best Club Stand without even knowing/trying. The second year was because we all enjoyed the first year so much.
As for the modded car scene, I'm not totally against it, some mods are good if done for a reason and tastefull IMO, but yes there is the "pot-smoking-tattoo'd-chav" types that attend these with exhausts the size of wheelie bins and sub-woofers that make your ears bleed. BUT, these are the same people that look at the NSX and say to me " yeah nice car..........one day" We are all fortunate to have these cars, and I'll put my hand up saying that when I was 18 I had a Mk 2 Escort that was probably the equivelant to todays chaved up Civic. As Low Flyer was saying, as we get older, your taste changes, form cars to music. these chavs of today could be the NSX owner of tomorrow.
Now Future "Annual Meet" idea (if you're reading this far!!) it doesn't have to be at a car show. We pick a location, hopefully somewhere central to everyone, or as much as possible, find a nice reasonably priced hotel and book a function room, bit food bit entertainment or something along those lines. a few of us that were left towards the end of the day thought that would be a laugh.
I'll end with Thank you all for your comments, was my pleasure this year, just bad timing with all I have on just now, but I'm glad it was a success and I look forward to seeing everyone again in the future.
Cheers
Jim
