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Personally I think the success (or otherwise) of paid clubs, or indeed internet forums, is pretty reliant on the enthusiasm (or otherwise) of those people who give up their time to run them. The AVO club is fortunate to have an enthusiastic committee, and I think this is reflected in the healthy membership numbers. If we didn't organise anything, didn't invest in new spares lines, didn't spend flippin ages researching material for our magazine, and weren' prepared to spend hours on the phone helping people with information about prospective purchases or restoration projects, then obviously the members would say 'no thanks, I'll spend my £30 down the pub instead'. It's the same with OSF. If those in charge didn't invest all of the time that they do to make the site what it is, then there would be no advertisers, no contributors, and as these sites don't run themselves for free, eventually no OSF. There's been plenty of internet forums that have disappeared due to lack of interest, as well as paid clubs. It all comes down to effort and enthusiasm in my humble opinion.

Just to add a bit of balance to the thread: Firstly, there have been issues of late with regards to membership, which is the unfortunate result sometimes of unpaid volunteers having to put work and life commitments first, but which has now been addressed. Apologies to anyone affected by this. For anyone thinking of joining, the membership fee does cover a bit more than access to a ‘forum that nobody uses’., i.e. - A 52 page quarterly colour magazine (which I spend a lot of time putting together). - Club spares and regalia, where we try to offer the best possible value for members. Some examples include: Petrol filler hose, £26 Ebay v £14 AVO club – saving £12 RS2000 clutch cable, £35 Ebay v £24 AVO club – saving £11 - A free valuation service, plus help and advice on the phone or by e-mail from the various registrars. - Free entrance to our annual national day held at Hatton, for members who bring their AVO cars (a saving of £5). - Events, which in the last few years have included the last ever trip to the now demolished AVO factory, where 50 AVO cars drove through the gates for the final time, an invitation to the Ford 100 years celebration and the chance to drive round the test track at Dunton, and a near 30 car turn out for a drive on the historic Brooklands race track. - And there’s also a forum, which our new chairman has recently spent a lot of time upgrading and improving, and which will soon be much easier to access by members. That’s what £30 covers if you decide to join the AVO club, and not just access to a forum. As stated in the previous posts though, you can get some great advice and help on this site as well, and I’ve attended some excellent OSF events myself over the years and always found everyone to be very friendly.

Lovely car that mate! Cheers Does anyone know which edition that feature was in?

glad I read this post as the green rs2000 is mine! Didn't realise it was in there, so I'll be after a copy as well

that was the problem with mine - I changed it and no more smell of petrol

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my wheels were done at spit and polish and were great, but I have heard mixed reivews about them. Leepsons are meant to be quite good I believe (never used them myself though)

You can get them in Halfords. They sort of work, but be prepared for lots of swearing and bruised hands.

I had to replace my accelerator cable in the car park before leaving, and then the clutch cable went and snapped on the way home. Not a good day for cables......

I put an Aldrige one in mine and was a bit disappointed to be honest. It took bloody ages to fit, and looked a bit crap at the end. Having said that, I've seen others from Aldridge that look great, so it may have been my dodgy carpet fitting skills..!

I wimped out and left the Escort at home today, but here's the pics that my daughter took :

That's a real shame - personally I thought the marina was a great venue, and my kids always ask if we're going to Brighton again whenever they see a sign to it. Let's hope we can get an equally good venue this year, and a big thanks to the organisers for taking the time and effort to organise these events

Some one I know had a problem like this, and it was because the condensor was knackered.

Is there actually 12v going into the rev counter when the ignition is on?.

Completely different set up, but when I had no power to my coil it was because the connections to the rev counter had corroded. The rev counter completes the circuit, hence no power. Once I cleaned up the connections it fired up straight away (took me 4 hours to suss that one out though..!)

that first picture of the orange cortina is from the first car mag I ever bought - I remember thinking that car looked the absolute danglies at the time - still looks pretty good now

I bought a metal garage - it cost £500 delivered, and does the job fine.

I actually pinched it from a bmw forum believe it or not..!!

what do you think of this..? (pinched the photo from another forum..)

I'll be leaving Clacket Lane services at about 9.45am tomorrow if anybody fancies joining me for a bit of a convoy down to Boxhill..?

Here's mine :

the blue mk1 was stopped on the roundabout with the hood up when I left Was a good meet, and a great location

...are a few more L2B pics :

I got home fine, but when we stopped off to get petrol there was some guy with a white mk2 on the phone to the AA - throttle sensor had gone he said....