East Anglia very mini meet 18/12/2010

[RatCav]

Well myself and the wife (Chloe) went to Bury St Edmonds to meet up with jpbiketransport (John) and his loverly and heavily pregnant wife Joy. It was a grand day out. Light snow everywhere and it decieded to drop just before we were leaving (not the baby that is ... the snow). All of us arrived at 1 ish as planned. We did the customary looking at cars and pointing things out. Ooogling at engines, wheels, oil and dirt (well oil and dirt on mine as Johns was spotless especially for a 17 year old car). The girls however ran indoors where it was warm and dry found the table and pointed at us standing in the cold getting all excited. The weather got the better of us and we went inside to order. We then found our way to the bar. I would say that we hit the beer with vigour, but John and I were driving, Joy was pregnant, and Chloe didn't want to be the only one getting drunk lol. Food was ordered and the conversations started. Us about anything automotive with a heavy slant towards our trucks, the girls .... errrmm .... well they talked about girly things like shopping, hats, shoes and babies ... well they might of I wasn't paying much attention as the far more interesting subject of 4wd, and chunky tyres, engines was blatantly more interesting. Well things moved on and we all got engrosed in chatting, getting to know each other and all manner of topics covered ranging through driving experiences, politics, prison service, and daft laws of the world. Didn't cover religion though

I must say both John and Joy (Hmmm thats the same names as Chloes Grandparents lol) were both great people and both myself and Chloe really enjoyed our day out. Thanks once again for the wheels buddy they will be grand and I am really looking forward to scrubbing them up and making them look purdy. Only took one photo as we left 5 hours after arriving, but here it is.



Bless them standing guard in the cold and snow

[BoxCleva]

Wasn't the 3rd member of the 'Anglia Massive' in attendance ?

[RatCav]

Nah ... Mr "he who shall not be named" couldn't make it unfortunatly. However in his defense he was still recovering from Bingo and had a relative invasion

[BoxCleva]

[fogman]

[jpbiketransport]

Really was a good laugh, both me and Joy really enjoyed ourselves, After everything i sad about having no snow in bedford, I got home to a good 10 inces of it Ive currently got smaller tyres on the front then the back so no fun for me Ive got a 2wd beast


Its deeper then it looks,

[RatCav]

[fogman]

[RatCav]

[fogman]

i can tell your so jealous CatRav its group has an even more exclusive membership that of the "east anglian massive"

[BoxCleva]

You're 4x4 is sorted though now isn't it mate?

[fogman]

[RatCav]

[jpbiketransport]

So im in a little club of my own now then.....the only one with a 2wd frontera

[RatCav]

Your not the only one. Plenty of people out there having issues after not using it for a year or so. As I said its more likely your autohubs binding. I would also recommend getting it jacked up so all four wheels are off the ground and spin each wheel forwards and backwards. If your feeling confident start her up while in the air and get all four wheels rolling and have a looksee.