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248 Pictures Are Now in the Gallery Click Me
248 Pictures Are Now in the Gallery Click Me
248 Pictures Are Now in the Gallery Click Me
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After leaving at 12:30 we arrived at the NEC at 2pm ready for a wander round the show then to watch the live action show at 6pm
Due to me working nights the night before and only having 2 hours sleep i was tired so if some of the pictures are blurry blame me

The show was spread over 11 halls of the NEC with areas set aside for different aspects of motorsport. The areas included F1 Racing Car Gallery, EVO Track and Road Car Gallery, National Motorsport, Group C Feature, Live Action Arena, Autsport Area, WRC Feature and much much more.
I dont really know where to start so ill go in the order of the pics on the camera.

Graham Goode Racing's GGR 500 Subaru Impreza, This is the latest development from Graham Goode a well known Subaru specialist who will convert your standard WRX or STi to a road eating 500 bhp model. Of course a price comes with this, £22,000 for the conversion, ouch


TSL's Group N Subaru Rally Car


Ultima GTR


Juan Pablo Montoya's F1 Car


The Formula 1 Wall

FOS Racing concept car (this car was approc 4 foot long)


Lotus Exige


Ralliarts EVO 8

and another


Evo 8 Road Car - Laura you would have been sat in this all day


Stunning glitter paint Nissan Skyline R34 NUR Spec


£150,000 Gull Wing Corvette

WRC FEATURE AREA

Ford Focus WRC


Skoda Fabia WRC


Subaru Impreza 2002 WRC - For Sale £200,000


Sebastian Loeb's 2004 Citreon WRC


Marcus Gronholm's 2004 Peugot WRC


Petter Solberg's 2004 Subaru Impreza WRC

I want this spoiler - £10,000 though


Sierra Cossie - Especially for Dazza and team ford lol.


Vauxhall's Astra Coupe BTCC


Vauxhall's new Astra HPC due out in the summer fitted with 19s as standard and kicking out an incredible 240 bhp. A stunning colour and wide arches looking mean too.




Vauxhall's VXR220

The new Ford Focus WRC for the 2005 season - what a spoiler




and their Group C Fiesta WRC


Vodka Kick Sponsored Focus WRC


David Coultard - i had arms at full stretch on full zoom lol

ITV F1 commentator Louise Goodman




The F1 Trophy - Rob and Richie are going to kill me


TVR Race Car


Unusual Mini


Masserati 250 F


Look at the back wheels on this

Audi Quatro - this is a mental old school rally car


Uniroyal VW Beetle


Good old MK1 Escort cant beat it


Metro 6R4 - another mental old school rally car


Some pics from the live action arena

Various other pics..............

Of course this wasnt everything but i hope you enjoy the pictures and the report.
Would like to also say a big congratulations to the winner of a very special item in the auction. Jenson Button's race worn crash helmet from last years Canadian Grand Prix and a day out at the tyre testing at Silverstone and a day with Jenson himself. This was £5000 well spent and all proceeds have gone to the Tsunami Appeal.

Well thats it, well done to everyone who organised the show and ill be back next year

great pics john, and enjoyed reading the report, looked like a good day out there.

were the pic of the ladies

great review john wish i went

I have the pics of the chicks lol

Birmingham Autosport 2005 - Sunday

I'm writing this after getting back and i'm knackard to say the least.
It was an amazing day, so much to see and do in the 9hrs we stayed.

Setting off at 6:30am from the meeting point, straight down M53, M56 and M6.
Pulling into the services for breakfast to start the day fed and watered.
Some sexy chick loving scooby's, scooby at the services, and she had a nice motor too.

Directions.
M6 J4a onto M42 south.

Arriving at N.E.C. 9am
No problems parking or getting there minimum traffic.
Inside the N.E.C. It was split up into the following area's,
which had to have been half a mile in length.
My poor legs can vouch for that, I’ve shrunk lol.

Halls
4 Performance driving experience.
5 Live auction area
6 Career's of Motorsport / After market show.
7 Ford Arena
8 Sport performance. / Autosport Stage.
9 F1 Racing gallery / Evo Road Gallery.
10 National motorsport.
11 100 years of motorsport / Cheffins Auction.
18 Oval Racing & Track.
20 WRC / Auto sport engineering.

Into the main buillding. WOW
Where to begin it was awesome, cars, lights and loads of sexy models
Off we went to collect our AAA passes.
All Area's Access.
Receiving a nice pres looking pass card to where around your neck.

And the journey begins, as we walked from the classic / History section.
The day before they had an Auction and we seen a Mk1 Ford escort which didn't sell?
It was £ 4,000 below its reserve which was £44,000 yeh!
It bid up to £40,000 due to its history?
It begun life as a tin of beans loll,
Only kidding Ford lovers.

Anyways moving on, more to gasp at, at every turn.
And how sexy were those georgous models were,
except the one who had only half an hours notice lol.

It wasn’t long before we made our way to the live arena,
3hrs had passed allready in a flash.

Into the arean,
And we were enetrtained by cars through the ages.
From the earlist models of lambogini to the 2004 lambergini.
And you wouldn't believe it unless I told you, but a lambergini Tractor!
Talk about king of the crop lol.
And it did look stylish as far as you can take a tractor.

The pink babes, came from no where and selected a lady and gental man from the audience,
only scooby's b*tch was pick to take a ride in a WRC n' class rally car as co-pilot.
She loved it as we all sat laughing,
hoping she wouldn't say anything to embarressing at the end of her white knucle ride lol..
(she didnt).

Then more cars, vans and 3 wheeler robin reliants.
Don’t laugh they were doing donuts,
wheelies and driving very fast in reverse.
Quads jumping over cars, had to see it to be impressed.
There was so much more but we can save that for the dvd.

After the show back to the main halls and checking out the trade stands,
wheeling and dealing lol.
There were so many money cannot buy you this cars.
Your going to have to check out the gallery to understand what I mean.

In a nut shelll it was a fantastic day out and so glad I went.
Just trying to convince my legs to move lol.

p.s. Will work on a the gallery in the morning, so tired.

Great pics John, i will include them in the gallery.
God only knows How many we have lol.

All quality reports sounds like ive missed a quality event (Damn Bills), some quality photos John loving the WRC cars cant wait to see yours webby! Realy jealous of Kim getting a go in rally car you will have to tell me all about it at the meet!