Peak District Run, Sunday 30 May, 10am Quackers

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

6 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary said:

Julie, as an AO, her events, be they meets, or the more usual runs out and her area in general represent the absolute gold standard of how these things can be done within the Club. It’s not a coincidence that it’s often possible to find at least two or three other AO’s, present at the events, purely there as a guest, enjoying Julie’s organisation with our fellow Club Members, and no surprise to find the events as well attended as today’s.

 

Its important to remember that today’s, like many of the Peak District’s is a run out with, knowing Julie, several meticulously researched stops, at local small businesses in the Peaks. It is critical for the safety of all those attending, and for the public also present that control is kept and attendees know when to behave accordingly, and when fun can be had, hiding steering wheels and so on! Since I became an AO years ago, I remember being advised the best way to do this, was to make sure that attendees were Club members, and that these organised runs were one of the membership perks.

 

Local meets, in one fixed location are different, here, as a club, it’s true, we do encourage non-members to come along and chat to us, even come out for a pax ride, if they’re potential buyers. And the Peak District, like hopefully all our areas, is just as welcoming to these people - you’d struggle in fact to find better hosts than Julie and Glenn. But that’s a very different scenario to being part of a twenty car plus run on narrow Peaks roads and through occasional small Peaks villages.

 

It is testament to how well organised Julie’s runs are and how almost invisibly, it feels, we are kept in line, that bar the odd mechanical breakdown, they have always been incident free.

 

Just wish I was there today, in this glorious weather, as planned, rather than preparing to get the car on ramps to find out why my clutch decided to go awol yesterday.

 

 

 

Here here Dave, well said! 👏

 

Planning the meets and routes is a difficult and time consuming thing to do, I had a small taste this morning and it's not as easy as Julie makes it look 😂

 

Hope you get the car sorted soon, I'm dieing to take a look!

 

@Julie Hall - Peak District AOthanks for a great day again, it was fantastic to see so many of us out. Also a bug thanks to @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AOfor being the sheepdog, I was truly gobsmacked when everyone actually arrived at the lunch stop 😂

 

Great company, stunning cars, beautiful roads and amazing scenery.... nailed it as usual 👌

 

Great to see some new members on their first Peaks WSCC experience, hope you enjoyed it and hopefully we'll see you on the next one!

 

What a line up!!

 

[Weekend Warrior]

Great run out today it was good to catch up with you all . As ever the day was top notch and good fun Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for another memorable outing ,my Daughter loved it and can’t wait till the next one ,She especially liked the scenery and being with so many other similar cars .

Thanks to @RobH72 for leading us back to the A50 ( Lauren thinks we should meet up with you again ) and @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO For the blat over the tops to meet up with the others at the start ,an exciting 15 mins or so Lauren loved that .

[Rob Hunter - Club Secretary]

@Weekend Warrior you are welcome Steve, good to see you again mate. We will have to arrange something over your neck of the woods soon 👍

[ianali]

Ali and I had a great day. Thanks too those that organised it all, we found the mix of people, cars, the drive out and food stops a perfect blend. Was great too meet some fellow owners. I’ve been a member of various car and bike clubs over the years, and can honestly say, that this one tops them all. We shall return! Cheers, Ian & Ali.

[Stuart]

[Stuart]

Fab day. Thanks Julie/all

[Scotty72]

Another fantastic run through the peaks with some stunning scenery on the back roads.

Thanks to @Paul Hurdsfield for the loan of the socket set to fix my coolant hose mishap! And thanks again to @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for organising it.

See you all soon...

[Andy83]

Becky and I also had a great day! a big thanks to julie and all involved in organising also great to meet everyone along the way will see you all again soon 😎 

[Scotty72]

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

I've taken plenty of pics today, but this is my favorite @BillyPee 'An eyeful of Westfields'

 

 

More to follow.

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

Thanks all for parking so well! it does make such a difference. We just need to keep the 'tin tops' away so we can get better pics without them in the way!

 

 

 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

@Scotty72 @neptune @Julie Hall - Peak District AO

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

 

[neptune]

Well what a perfect day for my first outing of 2021. Planned meticulously as always by Julie.  A big thank you to @BillyPeefor herding a few of us stragglers and showing us such truly spectacular scenery . 

Great to see familiar faces after so long and lots of new faces.

 

thanks as always.

 

 

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Thank you Julie (and Glen) for organising such a fantastic route today, who’d have that on a Sunny bank holiday we could have found so many empty roads, WELL DONE 👍

Here’s my selection of pics, no GoPro footage though. 😟