Lancia Beta Forum

Sunday June 6th
Auto Italia Stanford Hall

STANFORD HALL
Lutterworth
Leicestershire
LE17 6DH

copied from Auto Italia web site:

Great cars, great location

Great cars in a great location. The UK’s finest Italian cars will once again be gathering at this stately home venue. Centrally located and with easy motorway access, Stanford Hall provides a lovely backdrop flanked by acres of well trimmed grass. As usual the special lawned area in front of the Hall has been set aside for the concours display that will once again feature the National Fiat and Abarth Concours, Lancias and other selected special cars. A substantial area has also been set aside to celebrate Alfa Romeo’s 100th anniversary. Visitors can expect see a strong turnout of Maseratis supported by Ferrari and Lamborghini supercars.

Entry is £10 for adults, only £2 for children. It's a pay-on-the-day event, no advance booking is required

To register your pre-2000 Italian car for the Fiat and Abarth, Lancia or general concours please submit your application to Phil Ward at phil.ward@chpltd.com


map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=stanford+hall+LE17+6DH&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=16.575836,38.540039&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stanford+Hall,+Lutterworth,+Leicestershire,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.40865,-1.1379&spn=0.016676,0.037637&t=h&z=15 (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=stanford+hall+LE17+6DH&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=16.575836,38.540039&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stanford+Hall,+Lutterworth,+Leicestershire,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.40865,-1.1379&spn=0.016676,0.037637&t=h&z=15)

Club display layout attached

Stanford Hall this Sunday, who's going?

I'll be taking my recentley purchaced Prisma, as I've taken the Beta off the road for a couple of months.
lot's of bodywork/welding needed.
cheers
Tony

I'll be there in the 406  - They've allowed the 406 Coupe OC some spaces to exhibit too - it seems Phil Ward is a fan of them !

PS Don't forget the liners !

thanks for the reminder Stuart

Blimey £10 per person entry an even bigger rip than previous years! If you take out all the displays paid for by owners shelling out for their own fuel and owners clubs supporting that doesn't leave a lot that can be called 'value for money' does it? Anyway I'm still going to be there but Lancia-less as usual

blimey it'll be Austin Cambridges and A40s next.......

;-)

At least the 406 Coupe was built in Italy - which is more than can be said for some Fiats that will be there!

Chaps/ Boyz or whatever

I will be there in a black Montecarlo which I know is not really a Beta more of an overgrown X19, but the FI VX Spider is long term work in progress.

Eric

Hurumph, I may well attend, providing, of course, I remember where I left the car

Mark Wastnidge will be attending in a SKODA Fabia ???

Should be going, probably going to be the turbo again as every other car event for the year i'll be in the HPE :) (hopefully)
So we've got a gamma (possibly), montecarlo, prisma, hf turbo, skoda and another manufacture; looks like its guna be a good turn out of beta's! :D

I'm getting a free lift in Steve Thompsons VX so at least one Beta

John Bower will be going
2 Beta's

I wont be attending - I'll be in France fishing :-)

What for?

Quote > What for? < unquote

Ah, a quiz,

ok, my answer is:  Fish

Nah, if he wanted fish he'd go to Sainsburys like the rest of us.

The motives of fishermen are very obscure, I'd always thought fish were an entirley peripheral consideration.


Back on topic:

I just found out that Phil Ward has put the 406s in the concourse area between prototyes and supercars, I hope mine doesn't come over all self concious :)

Having now found the car in a pub carpark, I'm giving it a miss,
I shall be heading for the CanAm show in Poole they have a bar
and, no that's it really.

chin chin

Had a good day, nice to catch up with some people and put a few more names to faces.
The occasional shower didn't put a dampner on the day, the £50 it cost in fuel and entry did a bit though; one I might miss out next year.
For those that don't know, I took my hf turbo along and it didn't dis-appoint, didn't miss a beat there and back, had a bit more fun on the way home on damp roundabouts etc... the grip is excellent. When the turbo kicks in second going round roundabouts, there's a mixture of grip, wheel spin, torque steer and a bit of lift-off oversteer if you fancy it, great fun.
Back to putting the HPE back together this week, next saturday it might actually be used! ;D
My pic's of the day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanciamad/sets/72157624217016852/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanciamad/sets/72157624217016852/)

few of us at the Can-Am show, Poole

As Marcus said, we had a good turn out of Beta's and the weather was not too bad.

Congratulations go to James Weddell in his HPE VX for winning best Lancia of show

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4680473310_b8c4bdb66b.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4680335978_cb0477b76a.jpg)


see the rest of my photo set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/sets/72157624217205006/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/sets/72157624217205006/)

My Prisma made the 220 mile round trip with no problem but I sadly did not experience the  "in second going round roundabouts, there's a mixture of grip, wheel spin, torque steer and a bit of lift-off oversteer "  :D

I did miss the Beta on the way home, Eric W flew passed me in his highly tuned Monte and all I could do was wave bye ;)

Fail! I'm sure some lowering springs and a turbo would sort that out ;D To be fair the HPE does the same with some enthusiastic driving ;) minus a whooosh and a tsssssssssss; something to doing with the right pedal i'm told.

Tony

You were of couse top company as usual and I did notice you bouncing in the seat Kart style for extra power on that short bit of dual carrage way on the A5. With no turbo I missed out on the woooosh and tsssssssssss and the torque steer and wheel spin. When a Monte runs out of grip it goes into a flickable 4 wheel slide or with clumsy throttle ends up facing in the wrong direction! It was definately more fun on the way there. I loved the drive along the A43 Silverstone road on a slide in accelerate out basis I passed hoards of MGs and a pair of highly tuned Mk2 Escorts proving the worth of Lancia's fantastic suspension designs. 

It was great to meet Marcus I am so impressed with his Beta HPE racing project. I was a shame I did not manage to get you talking to John Day I know you would have found it very useful after his years of racing a Beta Coupe.

Good to meet so many people and sorry if we did not talk.

Eric