The Naked Rallye with Blue Steels

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Actually managed to make it to FCS this year after that year's was missed due to Brother-in-law's Stag do. Rowell's done a really great round up of the goings on so I won't go over that again here but just a few developments here:
1). My oh shit moment came a week before when, in my haste and laziness and whilst balancing with one foot on my spare set of 'clones and one foot on the bottom rung of my ladder I was attempting to retrieve my golf clubs without having to move the Rallye out of the garage. I managed to get them down from their peg but realized too late I couldn't get back down afterward. So I made the decision to throw the clubs, hoping to clear the car. They didn't and all my irons, drivers, and putters came straight down on my bonnet and front wing.

Gutted.

As luck would have it Ryan (pug_306 / 306gtispares) had a smoothed bonnet and grill for sale in Black! Some things were just meant to be. Downsides were it was a Phase 2 bonnet, but beggars can't be choosers and I've always fancied a smoothed grill. So off I popped for the four hour round trip to Thetford and back.

Fitted it a few days before FCS as easy as pie, although removing the decals it came with took nearly 2 hours!!!! Really pleased with the look and will update with pictures when I can.

2). Arrived at FCS a wee bit early:


This main field would soon fill with the usual C2, Saxo contingent. There was a nice field to the right of this picture that had been claimed by a single Renault club (Private camping! Jealous!). Being the first to arrive I was charged with getting a good spot. With this pressure on my shoulders I did manage to find what was a fairly quiet spot. But as the hours rolled by, and still no one else had arrived! everywhere began to fill up.

You know what they say about 306oc members, like buses they are. No sooner had Rowell, Bates etc. turned up that Team Matt (Rallye, Cheese et al) appeared as well. My site choice seemed to be approved by the group at large so we set about BBQing.

By the time the guys had shown up that field that had been empty 2 hours earlier now looked like this:



Predictably I was the first in bed (I lasted until about 11 when I was falling asleep in my chair)

The show itself was great. Many thanks again to everyone who organised, let me out as passenger on track, or otherwise cooked for me it really is appreciated. I didn't grab many pics as there was so much going on. A really good stand, although disappointed we didn't have space for the marquee.

Only got one pic of our stand:



Good turn out on our part, with great to see so many 306s. Not really sure what the 306s next outing will be. Probably for a photoshoot in October, or down to Bash's to have those coilovers fitted! We'll see.