The Official XJ40.com 2019 Meet Thread!!!!

[Showman89]

Should of stayed for dinner - looks fantastic there!
Someone from the Isle of 'Fannit would of really put a lid on the melting pot of international diversity.

[KingfisherJon]

It was a fantastic couple of days. Brilliant cars and top company. I also regret not staying for the Saturday night dinner, definitely won’t make that mistake next time! Talking of international, Suffolk/Norfolk is well known to be a different world

[old del boy]

Nice to meet up with friends old and new , pretty good showing of our xj40's on the day , i counted at least 16 cars and we filled our allotted area on the grass outside the museum entrance , poor old Mark from Oxford had to park up alone in the car park with his very smart 3.2 which he has done extensive improvements to ,

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Excuse the camera phone pictures , it's just easier , the early birds in Chesford car park

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I've tried to post several pictures with appropriate text but i just can't get the hang of this new way of doing things so i'm not even sure what you'll get but is was a good meet up and staying over at the grange made it all the more enjoyable ,

Derek..

[pimgmx]

Nice pics, Derek, thanks for sharing!

I’ll be in my way home later this evening and will share a selection of my pics tomorrow.

A wonderful weekend out: it was great meeting XJ40 owners from all over the country and beyond, both Saturday venues are high on my ‘need to visit again’ list...

[naki_k]

It was a fantastic couple of days. Brilliant cars and top company. I also regret not staying for the Saturday night dinner, definitely won’t make that mistake next time! Talking of international, Suffolk/Norfolk is well known to be a different world

You guys missed the best bit.
For me, i mainly go for the social aspect of the meets.
There is always next year.

[pimgmx]

I just learned the hard way that picture embedding has become close to unusable on the forum...
It only supports very low resolutions, as the error message illustrates.

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Since I use the same online pictures on different web sites, I use a single resource for my pictures: flickr.
The changes for embedded pics mean I'll have to break tradition and provide you with links to pictures below, rather than show you embedded pictures in this post...

You guys missed the best bit.
For me, i mainly go for the social aspect of the meets.

Can't agree more!

It was a loooooooooong weekend for me, arriving at Birmingham airport at 7:30 in the morning.
I took my time to pick up my rental, have breakfast and then drove over to the Midland Air Museum for a bit of Vulcan tyre kicking.

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Next stop was Coventry's Transport Museum, another venue I wanted to visit last year but didn't have the time for.

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Derek's car and this nice DB7 were the hotel car park welcoming committee...

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Those alloys are a straight fit on an XJ-S, so I was rather tempted to source a tool box and some bricks...

Friday evening quite a few of us met in the hotel, and thanks to Darren we had a BIG table for dinner.
Next morning we left for Gaydon, 8:45 from the hotel car park to be in front of the museum at 9:15 sharp!

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A surprise visit: not long after the majority of '40s had parked Leo-from-Denmark joined us in his XJ-S!

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View from the museum entrance: not bad, methinks...

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The inevitable happened: no meet is complete without a parts exchange!
For those interested: a boot lid DOES fit on an XJ40 rear seat...

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One of the more well-known XJ40s in the UK scene: 'Rusty' and proud owner Kevin

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I'll spare you all the Gaydon museum pictures, except for this one, a bit of elite automotive alphabet soup...
They had a C, D and E Type in the museum workshop

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Our next stop for the day was Caffeine and Machine, a brief and pleasant drive from the museum.
Their love for everything petrolicious goes as far as their door handles!

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The XJ40s joined a very eclectic group of other cars and bikes...

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Last but not least: dinner at the Saxon Mill.
We visited twice(!) last year; our group of nine was not disappointed this year. The beginning of a tradition?

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If you have patience for almost 200 pictures, here is my full album covering a wonderful weekend: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pimgmx/al ... 0106043101

[FindTheRiver]

Hi All

A few extremely amateur snaps from me, too!

I'll upload a couple of videos to my Instagram also, which you can find here: https://www.instagram.com/carsofallscalesinwales/?hl=en

Great to see some familiar faces again, and to meet some new ones.

Cheers!

C

[Showman89]

Great photos.
I love cars, love meetings, but for me, I actually enjoyed the social part the most. Great weekend and fantastic company - pleasure to see some old faces and new friends.

[Showman89]

Just come across this on Facebook- some great shots of our 40's as well as a video of us all arriving - fantastic!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... Hn380XeVCc