Terenure Show

[/QUOTE]It was not a "club event" any more than the BTCC is. The person who paid for the day (Larry Armstrong) asked for older cars ("up to E30") and offered space up for the BMW Car Club. I relayed his message onto the forum like I was asked! I also went to the bother of ringing people with older cars who don't use the forum but I don't think any turned up!
When I arrived, there were 12 cars on the stand and I went looking for Larry to see if those coming at 2pm could fit in but no joy in finding him. I tried phoning him - no answer. I eventually saw him at the stand chatting to a group of people and I felt like a plonker standing there waiting for him so I went off.
With an 18 month old screaming because I wouldnt let him drive every car and a wife who wasn't feeling much better, I gave up!
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Fair enough, thanks to Larry for his efforts, obviously the aim was to give priority to classics but also have the stand full.......not always poss to please everyone. Anyway at least it didn't rain and the cars that were on our stand attracted their fair share of the fairer sex,you can't beat a sunny day !!

Gerard here.

I would like to say thanks to Larry for making things happen on the day, Larry is a member and as such it was a club stand.

Unfortunately due to Larry's work commitments and the fact that I had a prior engagement(competing in my Ritmo at the Dungarven Hillclimb) and was not going to be there, the advance preparation was not sufficient for the event. So thanks again to Killian for getting things together at the last minute.

I am disappointed at the sniping by some people on the forum. It was our first time at Terenure and we had very little feel for the style of event and our objective now should be how we make Terenure 2006 an event that we will be proud of. 

kbannon wrote: jez - everyone thinks Im real sensitive. Im not!

come on, everyone knows you're a big girl!

My view on it, I came in the afternoon, is: It wasn't perfect, but then again it was the first time. I don't hink there is a need to fight over it but an healthy discussion might give us a great plateform to have a better stand next year and the years after.

Having seen the show i think that the name of classic and vintage car show might be a bit too much as there was a lot of recent cars. An E36 M3 is already in my book a classic. I also think that with all the cars in the club we have plenty to get a 30 to 40 cars stand next year.

M3DAVE wrote: Robbie, I'll give u the rest of the numbers if you want, the exp date is the problem, Do u know anyone who can get me a passport ????

lol

Fey! wrote: For some reason, I thought that this was an event that the club had visited before.  Obviously, from what Ger just said, I was wrong. So, who's up for displaying their car(s) next year?

The organisation that displayed before at Terenure was the BMW 2002 Ireland group. Some members of this group are members of the club, some not. Contact was made with them re organising a club stand, but no replies came from the leaders of the group. Larry is a member of the group but not a leading member. The BMW Car Club Ireland Section have been trying to improve communications with this group and have them properly integrated as the Ireland Section Historic Register, but with little success.

I hope this clarifies things a little.