2017 X5 Meetup Potential

[X5-D-Sport]

Are there any Meet-Ups planned for 2017..

Ryan... The Herd sorted a pleasant meet last year, but I was working in Germany at the time....Darn..

any one got any ideas or know if a 2017 meet ??

[Glen]

Count me in !!

[lezmtaylor]

and me ,but would like one within 100miles of Gloucester.

Lez

[RickUK]

I would be very interested in a get together 

[X5-D-Sport]

I was going to encourage a meet-up in the West Midlands - as Centrally as possible - say Services on M40 / M42 / M5 ... or across country nr Derby or Northampton or some place like that...  that way, I'd hope to satisfy the travelling demands of most.... (hopefully)
Maybe do a Weekend -  Saturday afternoon in one locations & the Sunday in another ?

Penny for your thoughts..

It would be great to meet some of you guys n girls, put faces to the names, share some hard earned knowledge & hopefully save ourselves a lot of pennies in the process too..

[X5Sport]

Northampton is in striking distance for me (about 40 miles WNW).  Need to be a Sat or Sun, not that we have had weekday events that I remember.

Bristol was popular a few years back, but too far the Eastern 'posse' such as myself 

[CondorX5]

It would be nice - I remember trying to get to one around Bristol a few years ago, but ended up having to divert for some work or family thing.  Services on the motorway are a good idea, but remember there is a two hour parking limit at all of them or they hit you with a huge charge - unless you pay their extended parking fee. They all use one of thos parking pirate /cowboy companies.

[X5-D-Sport]

Re Parking... Yes agreed... Services could be a parking issue..
Maybe a Harvester close to a motorway, as long as we ate, we could park there for hours...
Just a thought..

[graemeX5]

Hi

Not too sure I think we should go to Raj's as he hasn't been on here for a while and as he's located in the midlands  )

But seriously there was one at RAF cosford a while back that was well attended or we could try and link it up with the BMW car club annual rally which is at Gaydon in August

Graeme

[PokenH00D]

There's an ace 50's Diner at Swadlingcote on the M42
Loads of unmetered parking and excellent burgers.

[CondorX5]

Don't you mean on the A38 between. Burton and Derby? There is a 50s diner on the South Bound side.    I travel the M42 every day of my life and have never seen a 50s diner anywhere on it, plus it doesn't go through Swad........

[PokenH00D]

[quote="CondorX5"]
Don't you mean on the A38 between. Burton and Derby? There is a 50s diner on the South Bound side.    I travel the M42 every day of my life and have never seen a 50s diner anywhere on it, plus it doesn't go through Swad........
[/quote]

No, this one is in Swadlincote and is in an original 50's chrome diner shipped over from the USA
http://www.the50samericandiner.com

[themoog]

That's too far for me... What about somewhere around Coventry. That's pretty central. I'm near Cambridge so its still a 2hr stint.

[RickUK]

I live in East Anglia Herts/Beds/Bucks so reasonably central and could make most locations.

[X5-D-Sport]

What is at Raj's... does he have a garage or a restaurant or some thing.

The ace 50's Diner at Swadlingcote on the M42 sounds like a good area & central for most... especially if some people have to travel a bit.... so it would be good to find a location that we could take a long afternoon at.
I will contact the diner & see if they have any objections to doing some extra trade.. :blink:

I've read that Raj is a font of knowledge for these machines, & worth listening to, so maybe get some input from him also ?