1st 4x4 Market - Bournemouth, Dorset 16th March 2008

Holding the first ever 4x4 Market at Matchams Stadium & Leisure Park, Bournemouth/Ringwood area 16th March 2008.

Would dearly love to have a Landy Rally / Bofa 4x4 Rally display there. So far:-

"Stuck in the Mud", a new LR`08 team that have just booked from West Sussex.
Yours truly with the Rangie.

PLUS

Fred in Tango 1?
Team "Scout About"?
Bofa Bill and his merry men?
"Landrovers and Wine" and "Dorset 4x4" (LR`07)?

Who's up for it????????

TPB???

come oan Tim.

bofa bill wrote:

TPB???

come oan Tim.

I have just PM'd Tom just before you did this - My dad and I are def gonna be doing entering the Bofa/Landy Rally....I will see if I can come to http://www.matchams-stadium.com/ - I reckon it could be good

Great news, even better if you make it to Matchams and meet some of the others.

BTW, you're Team Taff and coincidentally I've just had a Welsh husband/wife team book called "Taffy & His Dragon". What with all the Jocks this year, all we need now are some Paddy's and we'll really confuse those Frogs and Krauts!!!

Nah, never was into that PC rubbish.

Sorry Tom won't make it, travelling back then.

Hi Tom

Thanks for the offer but I will not be able to make the 16th

looking at the 18th May at Tulleys farm - are you planning a similar presence at all the events ?

Mel

That's a shame Mark, next time perhaps? You too Mel. Yes, we'll have a LR / Bofa display at all the 4x4 Markets - plus a fair few of the national shows as well. Any excuse for a party me!!!!

Hi Tom,

Yes, sorry, had to change my holidays. Best of luck :!:

Sorry Tom,
Too far south for me...

Jon

Sorry Tom, working again tat day, but last shift for 3 and a bit weeks - yay!

Likewise, I am doon for duty but as its in my area I may pop in with my 'company car'

Do so Bill, I'll listen out for the blues and twos.

Great! In the Events section April issue of LRO they have listed the first 4x4 MARKET as 9th March instead of 16th March, consequently I now have to spend this Sunday standing on the gate of Matchams with a bunch of complimentary tickets for the following week as disappointed buyers and sellers turn up. Just what I need the weekend before an event.

Sh1t Tom, you do get some bad luck! When you coming to Powis Castle by the way mate?

out of interest, how many people turned up at the weekend thinkg the 4x4 market was on?

cheers kieran

278 - all of which were given a complimentary ticket for next weekend. Yep, that's 278 x £5 in lost revenue. NOT FUNNY. And this was after the phone was red hot Saturday with confused people ringing up to see if it was the 9th or the 16th. Without them enquiring, reckon it could have been more like 378 or more.

Not only that, but next week as folk are looking in LRO's Events guide for somewhere to go, naturally they will go straight to weekend of 15th-16th March, thus by-passing 4x4 Market altogether as according to LRO, it was held last week. A double whammy!

Will try for some sort of compensation from LRO but I know I haven't got a snowball in hell's chance. Like i've said on many an occasion ... SH1T HAPPENS!


Captain - Friday 25th April. Hit the beer tent methinks - you up it? After the session either cab it back to Middletown or stay in the caravan and cosy up with me. Up to you cheeky

Tom,
Sorry to hear about LRO's bo**ock dropping.

Funny how it never happens to the big boys that we all love so much isnt it!!

We appear to be getting quite a few exit hits on the 4x4calendar page since I moved it from the links section to a direct link on the homepage (hope you dont mind), so hopefully that'll be doing you a bit of good.

blooming heck thats alot of people sorry to hear about that

good luck this weekend

Sure is mate! And of course you're right Jon, things like this don't happen to the big boys, just to saps like us.

Of course I don't mind. The 4x4calendar.co.uk thingy is for everyone, so folk can do what they want with it and in this case it will do me a bit of good in the long term. Notice I've got VentureOverland on my home page too. Arghhhhhhh, must stop caressing each other like this.

Latest news 1- Fred and Geoff are coming down to Bornmuff in Tango 1 for the 4x4 Market 'Landy Rally Display'.

Latest news 2 - Fred has just bought himself a spanking new Disco 3!!!

Latest news 3 - Tom hasn't.





















This Disco 3 ... wonder if he'll be fitting 44in tyres, a 5 litre lump or spraying it orange?

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fone Tom whilst I was working.
POURING of rain so I thought I would drop by.
Passed the other side of the fence, blues and twos blairing, and tom falls into another glass of the 'Vino collapso' oblivious to the rain and noise.
never got an invite in so gonna be disturbing them in middle if the neet.

wicked wills

Weil ther we go then.
Went to bed after nites, as one does.
Woke up ther and thot...........

Ill contact the team and maybe pop doon before the end tae help clear up etc.

THER IN THE RUDDY PUB.
and before the official finishing time.


grrrrrr

bofa bill wrote:

THER IN THE RUDDY PUB.

grrrrrr

PUB? No we weren't, honest !!! lol lol

Will see you there on 25th Tom.
Not sure about cosying in the caravan, been there in a tent with you before but you never know if there is no cabs i'll grin and bear it!

how did it go today tom?