Billing Pictures.

F Body · June 21, 2009, 12:08:11 PM

Well done AACI Peeps it was a good show

Liked the new show ground format and it seemed popular with the punters

Cool Dinner at the bottom end of the show field :

Met up with loads of old friends and had a natter

Here's my pictures in no particular order ( selfishly I just snapped vehicles I liked )

Did I mention yellow is my favourite colour

My favourite true 4th Gen colour :

Nice Ass

It's an Autosol thing

"THE" F Body :

It's quite clean underneath

I'm liking the Mercury grills a lot

Hudson Lead Sled

Damn Pick Up followed me all the way up the M1, knew I should have bought it

Interesting to see old & new side by side

My 1st 5th Gen Camaro being sold by American Car Imports the company I bought my Camaro from. £37k for a high spec V6

Told you a V8 was gonna be over £40K here

Now some of the 5th Gen reviews say the interior is really poor, OK it's not Audi quality but I liked it

Still the greatest looking most pointless vehicle Chevy ever made :

Rocky · June 21, 2009, 12:46:04 PM

Wheres mine? Was a good show though i should have got there a bit earlier.

F Body · June 21, 2009, 12:50:05 PM

Quoting: Rocky

Wheres mine?

Your telling me the Vert was there

Rocky · June 21, 2009, 01:04:12 PM

Dont tell me you walked past it.

Only joking i was in the yellow Iroc

HardRockCamaro · June 21, 2009, 01:39:12 PM

Quoting: F Body

My 1st 5th Gen Camaro being sold by American Car Imports the company I bought my Camaro from. £37k for a high spec V6

Told you a V8 was gonna be over £40K here

That is shameless price gouging.

A V8 over here is about $32k, landed here with everything paid (£27k) and any conversion work it should be about £30k imho.

I hope they don't even sell one the greedy b*******.

F Body · June 21, 2009, 02:25:43 PM

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

That is shameless price gouging.

Yep supply & demand

The new IVA test ( replaces the old SVA test ) seems to be causing all the importers some major headaches

You can't add any extra lighting, so yellow HID LED's seem to be the only way to go to get red America indicators flashing yellow

FUBAR · June 21, 2009, 02:59:06 PM

FUBAR · June 21, 2009, 03:05:56 PM

And some Arty ones

Gator · June 21, 2009, 03:51:12 PM

hey mr fubes they look great nice work

and me night diner ones came out ok

can you send me the original file of the one with the truck at the front all lit up (the last one)

FUBAR · June 21, 2009, 04:05:28 PM

Jump on MSN.

Flip Martian · June 21, 2009, 04:24:41 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Can't believe I didn't even realise the bloody show was on. EFFING EFFING EFFFFFFFFFFING HELL...

Great pics by the way - love the old Chevy pickup.

American Car Imports always seemed way overpriced when I was checking out their site in the past...

Bloody poobags...

art b · June 21, 2009, 05:14:29 PM

Quoting: Flip Martian

Can't believe I didn't even realise the bloody show was on

ya numpty...

theres been plenty of threads about it here and all the other forums....

Motorama · June 22, 2009, 02:52:03 AM

Quoting: FUBAR

And some Arty ones

Love the fins shot, can never get the angle right when i take them.

Dave's 56 Imperial, Mike's 59 Caddy 'vert, my 59 Caddy 'vert and Micks 59 Buick 'vert.

ianjpage · June 22, 2009, 03:07:30 AM

Quoting: F Body

Liked the new show ground format and it seemed popular with the punters

Explain pls ??

Looks like a good show - nice pics all

Incursus · June 22, 2009, 03:21:04 AM

Great show, not seen the field that full for years. It was full by the time I had to leave (12ish)

F Body · June 22, 2009, 07:39:04 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

Quoting: F Body

Liked the new show ground format and it seemed popular with the punters

Explain pls ??

Well the classic dinner was always full,the kids slides were busy and there always seemed to be good foot traffic around the trade stands becuase people were walking the full circle

ianjpage · June 22, 2009, 07:53:07 AM

Quoting: F Body

Well the classic dinner was always full,the kids slides were busy and there always seemed to be good foot traffic around the trade stands becuase people were walking the full circle

lol ok cheers but i was refering to:

Quoting: F Body

new show ground format

Flip Martian · June 22, 2009, 07:56:26 AM

Quoting: art b

ya numpty...
theres been plenty of threads about it here and all the other forums....

which I'd have probably read if I'd been on the forums recently...

STILL! There's always Coombe Abbey next weekend...

rebeltrucker · June 22, 2009, 10:22:30 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

lol ok cheers but i was refering to:

Quoting: F Body
new show ground format

I think what he means was having the traders facing *inwards*, rather than down both sides of the right hand road. It makes a lot more sense to me, and as has been said better footfall for the traders, cause people were walking around the whole thing.

Ace show. Sorry i couldnt manage the whole weekend.

F Body · June 22, 2009, 12:01:31 PM

Quoting: rebeltrucker

I think what he means was having the traders facing *inwards*, rather than down both sides of the right hand road. It makes a lot more sense to me, and as has been said better footfall for the traders, cause people were walking around the whole thing.

I said that without posting

Motorama · June 22, 2009, 02:04:20 PM

I dont know what it is with Billing

I love the Summer Nats, always have, always try and go for the weekend. Had to camp this year as the hotels were silly money thanks to the Grand Prix. There always seems to be so many scuzzy people about that have no interest in the car, and all the nastiest kids you ever see.

We had to stop 3 little herberts trying to kill some baby swans on Saturday night, took a load of abuse from them and their parents. We then didnt get much kip as we were worried they might damage our cars.

As far as this years show goes i thought Sunday was good. It had a very nice chilled atmosphere. I thought numbers seemed down though, the main took longer than usual to get full and the side fields were pretty empty.

As for the journey home, dont even go there

F Body · June 22, 2009, 02:30:17 PM

Quoting: Motorama

There always seems to be so many scuzzy people

Pikeys for the loss

Quoting: Motorama

It had a very nice chilled atmosphere.

Everybody did seem very laid back, may something to do with all the AACI Peeps not having to watch their back anymore

Quoting: Motorama

As for the journey home, dont even go there

That's why we left just after 14:00pm and sailed straight through

I see this being the beginning of the rebuilding of the AACI into one of the best Yanks car clubs

FUBAR · June 22, 2009, 03:04:22 PM

Quoting: F Body

Quoting: Motorama
As for the journey home, dont even go there

That's why we left just after 14:00pm and sailed straight through

Was fine for me, coupld of 60mph bits on the M1 but otherwise fine.

Although... I think there was a Q south of J14 though

Motorama · June 22, 2009, 03:45:10 PM

Quoting: F Body

That's why we left just after 14:00pm and sailed straight through

We left at 8 pm! We didnt light our BBQ till 5. It was the best bit of the day watching all the cars roll out

I normally go across country to the A5, then down to Dunstable, cut across to Tring, A41 to Berkhampstead, then were only 5 mins from home, and it takes just over an hour but the car was so over loaded because we'd camped i thought we might be better going down the M1 at a constant speed rather than killing the trans and brakes uphill and down dale. Was stop/start from J15 to J13 and then about 45mph all the way to J8. Took us best part of 2 hours to get home

FUBAR · June 22, 2009, 03:48:13 PM

That sux