Due to the hugh success of the NBO last month at Lightwater valley with people travelling from places as far as Aberdene isle of weight/man and jersey as well as every part of the UK we have renamed the northern big one as the

NATIONAL BIG ONE ######
to be held at LV on sunday 14th june 2004

The organisers will be the newly formed NIDC (Northern Impreza Drivers Club )
More details will be released shortly .

Lord Harding,

Can't wait for this one!!!!

Martin

Sounds like a great idea lets hope for some weather like this years NBO

Looking forward to it already :D

Alasdair

Lord "John" Harding
can i be the 1st on the list :D
Cheers Simon

If it's going to be national couldn't it be a bit more south :D

Rich

If it's going to be national couldn't it be a bit more south

Why? From the north of Scotland to the south coast of England, LWV is virtually central;)

bah, I've been rumbled.... :D

Rich

Lord
put me and the family down wooden miss it for the world,thanks for a fantastic day all credit due to you and martin and the commitee.
cheers jazz.

Jazzyjef

It's gotta be said the NBO 2003 was a cracking day :)

A great deal of hard work was put in by John/Martin + the Cumbrian Scoobs and the Tyne Tees Scoobies to acheive what must be the biggest and the best Scoob meeting of the year.

How come two local scoob groups could organize and pull off the NBO when the SIDC couldn't manage to arrange anything ?
ie National Day :(

Great to know plans are being made for NBO 2004 already :D
Looking forward to next June already :):):):):):):):):):)

Simon

Simon

Whilst the NBO was a great success and had a fantastic turnout and everybody enjoyed it and was well organised

The National Day at Donnington included Track Time and the Venue had to be hired

We simply haven't been able to secure a venue at the weekend in the right area for any money this year. The last venue we tried wanted £12,500 pounds 50% Payable NOW

The Committee are meeting soon to discuss the exact issue

If Members weren't worried about including a track element in the Day then it would be alot easier

In the meantime we are fortunate enough to have individual groups organising events like this.

Don't forget about events like
Japfest,Trax and Rally Day



Phil

We just did a show at croft and it didn't cost 12,500k......

:D

Indeed but Croft isn't Central enough

LWV is Miles from me in Essex BUT it is Central hence the Good turnout

You are never going to please everybody

Donnington is ideal but they had no free weekends available :(

Dare I say it but Beford is a good venue but History prevents us from going there

Any way we are hijacking a thread here so good luck to the NBO2

Phil

Phil
I raised the SIDC National Day question on 17/1/03 on th SIDC forums and a debate ensued if you remember.

Whilst i appreciate and fully understand the problems regarding the cost of a track for a day it makes me wonder will things be any different next year ?

Worth mentioning that the NBO wasn't held in a central location but peeps came from as far away as the Channel Islands, Wales and the far north of Scotland to meet in a field.

Oh and the other thing was the venue did not cost a penny but approx £1200 was raised for charity :)

Cheers Simon

All those that are saying the LWV is not central seem to have forgotten about Scotland, Wales etc.

LWV can't be more than 230 miles from London (along one road BTW so easy to find), thats only 3 good hours driving (good as in solid not entertaining). I only live about 30 miles from LWV but managed a slight detour to meet up with the dales posse in the south lakes before going the scenic route (160 miles total). Why do we all have cars? To look at and polish or to drive??

I am sure there will be vast improvements to be seem in NBO2 over an already excellent NBO1 with more to see and do and who knows NBO3 could be held at a track venue somehwere in the UK. We would all like to have the entertainment of track action (either participating or watching) but how many people can justify the expense, risk to warrenties, risk of damage, etc.

All respect to Lordy and co for exceeding everyones expectations on a budget get together, good luck with the organisation of NBO2 and let me know if I can be of assistance.

Kev

Simon

We are arranging several meetings with track venues at the moment to progress this forward

With the up heavel with the circuits at the moment it is still proving difficult

We will get there..................... eventually

In the meantime don't forget the events like Trax and Rallyday which the club is activley involved with

Phil

The NATIONAL BIG ONE 2004 will have new features to set the standards for all scooby owners meets

This was our first meet organised by a few people who had a <vision>


I was disapointed that the SIDC did not offer to have a stand there for their committee to meet the club members and sell T-shirts etc

thanks go to phil for the raffle prizes which raised so much money on the day but i would have liked to have seen some of the SIDC organisers get involved in what most people have classed the NBO as the event of the year .

prehaps next year we can count on more support /sponsership from the SIDC as there isnt a lot going on in the North East/cumbria area for SIDC members

Bl@@dy good idea Lord harding :D


steve

Lord Harding,

You know that you can rely on the FULL support of myself and the members of the Tyne Tees Scoobies with the organisation of the NBO 2004 and any other future events.

The last one was an incredible success (for a first attempt)and shows what the subaru community is capable of with a little bit of commitment and enthusiasm from a couple of local owners clubs.

I am aware of many groups in the North of England that have members with a passion and commitment to get more out of their scoobs. This should be the driving force to our vision of a Northern Impreza Driving Club, which would have the sole purpose of bringing together likeminded individuals and groups for such events as the NBO etc.

I think we may need to talk further with our friends in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Scotland (and anyone else that is willing to share our 'vision' for the future.

Speak soon

Martin

Hang on a second...

First NBO 2004 Corner :D:D:D

Roll on the next one. i won`t be late this time......promise :D

Nbo was great especially the hotdogs in lwv put me down for the next one please lord harding

Martin
The northern impreza driving club is a very good idea as member of s.i.d.c we feel that there do not do a enough for the member of the north,most of the track days go-karting etc seem to down there nick of the woods as for rally days not seen one of them advertised yet,so martin you can count myself and wife as the frist new member of the n.i.d.c from the york area.
hope a lot more of us northerns feel the same.
cheers jeff.

The SIDC is more than Happy to offer any help we can

We held back this year because Lord Harding and his team had done a Fantastic Job

Lord please email me Phil@sidc.co.uk and I'll arrange to come and see you to see what we can do to make the 2004 event even Bigger

Phil

I reckon we should make our overnight camp available to everyone next year as it was a great sucess, especially for anyone travelling far, we had a few Scots this year :)

We only travelled from the East Midlands, but still made a weekend of it with a North York Moors run on the Saturday :D

Hi Charlie
good to hear from you again

As part of the features of the NATIONAL BIG ONE a weekend holliday oop north would be a great idea camping/boozing etc for the sounthern based northerners !!!

as always we will be looking for you and Gridlock mickey to co-ordinate the northern invasion :D:D

What a great idea.

How about a marquee, a live band and a BBQ the night before?

PARTY>>PARTY>>PARTY

I can just imagine Lord Harding's face now!!!!!!!

That looks like something for the NIDC to sort out John.

By the way, have you all got your copy of the Japanese Performance Magazine. Myself and John will be autographing copies shortly. LOL

Martin

Martin
What about a creche for us new mum+dads,if not we have to sort something out,hope you had a good day on sunday in my neck of the woods.
cheers jeff

Jeff,

She'll be drinking pints by this time next year!!!!!!

Great day on Sunday thanks.

Hope everyone is well

Martin