Just got back from JAE, a bit of a long day, started at 5am, driving there, arrived just after 7am, when there were surprisly quite a few people up and about.

The show was bigger than last year, although the TOC/LOC stands were spread out much more..

The weather stayed nice... and i am nursing a bit of sunburn.. but the wind kept it cool.

But, it was a fun day, and great to see the old faces and meet some new ones..

Thanks to everyone whos efforts made it happen.

I will post pictures up as soon as they have uploaded...

pcitures start here

Nice one Ian... thanks for showing me what i missed!! :-(

And you just happened to get a picture of an Azure GT 350Z

Lovely car... At the NEC motor show it blew me away! If there was one car I would have signed up for it would have been the Zed!

I want one I really want one I really really want one

Used prices are well OTT right now though and being a bit of a badge person will stick with the Lex (for now)

well.. i do have some more pictures of the 'z' (how is yours anyway dave?) but i didnt want to flood the gallery with them....

there were a couple of nice modified ones too!

It's doing good mate - 1000 miles in a week! (Well, we did go down to Alton Towers last week). Only 200 to go, before I can stop being gentle with her!

Going out for a drive this afternoon and will take the camera with me - will finally get some pictures up on 350zuk.com (and here, if anyone is interested ).

I just wish JAE wasn't quite so far away for me - I'd love to get to that event.

well, there were a few guys from Edinburgh and beyond on the TOC stand mate.. im sure you could've made it..

I see pics of Mat's race car Ian, but not of "The Monster" - was there a problem with it?

or did you just not put any photos up / I am blind and just missed them?

it was there, looking pretty good!

Think there are still one or two problems to be resolved though.

Got some nice TDi stickers on it!

ahh..

well, it didnt arrive until about 4 Matt...

at which time i somehow 'ended up' on BBQ duty... and after that i didnt have the energy to dig the camera out..

But it arrived under its own steam.. and looked (and sounded) pretty damn good!

And what a good chef you made well done thats for taking charge

hi all had good time nice to meet you all,besty thanks for the buttys very nice to ( you will make someone a good wife) lots of nice cars there, shame i had to go but that life,see you all soon.

What a great W/E, loads of fantastic motors of every kind. Started the W/E - Friday Evening with a few beers and a wander round the pitch. The weather on Satyrday was brillant and coupled with show, made out to be a great day, now nursing a bit of a tan - major tan on the neck and the head - lack of hair Saturday night was great to, loads of beer and joking around, even got one of the chaps from the MR2 Club to try some of Matts "Instanely Hot Sauce", mine you we did need to bribe him though. The rules - Hold in your mouth for 5 mins with no drinking etc.... - DAM, he did it, mind you his eyes were telling a different story by the end though - poor Sod

Great to meet a lot of new faces and finaly put the names to the face and also some of the regs aswell.

Have Uploaded a few piccs starting here

JAE 2004

Thanks to all who have been invold in making this happen and also to our Cracking Chiefs for the W/E for not giving us food poisoning

BR
Paul

What can i say, my 1st JAE, what a weekend , arrived friday 5pm put up the tent and non - stop action all the way.
Great to see so many people and a big thanks to everyone who organised the stand, the food,and everything else.
Great to see the race car and the monster.
A big thanks to the judges

Roll on next year


john

There were a few people from Luxemburg there!!! Came over specially!

Great weekend....apart from the obligatory rain! But I'm just a tad burnt from Saturday aswell
It seemed less packed aswell, compared to last year, but probably just because it was more spread out, so thats a good thing.
Looking forward to next year, and wearing sunblock! It should be better now that certain clubs that were annoying as hell have been banned

Well I for one had a great weekend, starting from early Friday afternoon right through to Sunday.
A big thank's to all the organisers and to Fidgits for the charcoal butties !
Also to the judges (the cheques in the post lads)
A big thanks to Besty and Paul for bringing everything but the kitchen sink, and treating me to food, drink and hilarious entertainment all weekend.
It was great to see everyone again after what seemed like such a long year since the last JAE. I hope to see you all again at next years event if not sooner.
Cheers guys,
DUNCAN.

just wanna say thanks to mat and staff for a great weekend,a big thanks to duncan maz,aido,wosket and bird,gordon,gus,pete and his bodyguard,for a bizerk weekend,nice to have met ye mr lex,raz,steve audio,and loads more.see ye next year dudes

Great Weekend Chaps, really enjoyed myself. Thanks to the organisers, thanks to Besty for the tea, and thanks to Duncan for the Bacon Butties.

I feel sorry for the poor lad who had no choice but to "Run the Gauntlet" with the Sauce. That stuff aint no sauce, its a chuffin weapon ! I tried it and I thought my mouth had melted The funny thing is, Aido held the same stuff in his gob, without being paid for it

Dont forget Besty: jagermeister for hangover, Apfelkorn for Heartburn, and Tree-Bark for any other ailment (soft lad)

Ace weekend, thanks to everyone, it was my first time and thoroughly enjoyed it.

please advise how to upload the vodeo of the poor poor nugget doing the sauce !

Great pics, thanks for sharing!!

thankyou doctor jenkin

Just got back in, this was a great weekend, good to meet everyone but I was a little bit bladdered last night and can't really remember that much (Norkep I wasn't trying to ***** on your car at 4am honest!)

Thought I was going to pass out today I felt that hungover, but I've made it home and I'm off to bed shortly! Saturday night was awesome, I tried to make it around everyone but I got totally ****faced and ended up supping all sorts of crap with SteveAudio& co, Rob, Mat, Zee, Ifraz, Nick, Barrie & Jane, in the end the hardcore remaining were Mat, Bazza, Jane and myself, and most of you saw our handiwork this morning - but just wait til you see the pics!

Met that many people I can't remember you all but it was quality to finally put names to faces with Rob Fluff, Besty, Colin, CP409135, , TonyGoose, Turner and LOC's finest gentleman with a great eye for the ladies, Gordon There were loads more of you I met but can't remember the names of - Mat's insanity sauce did the trick for me. Think I did it total 4 times, and I cried like a bitch every time

Zee where's the video mate, need to see that reaction again - "How did it feel like........"

The good news is I didn't ***** myself It smells like beer, honest

Got some good pics to come (only took a few pics, nothing at all dodgy neither - looks like the visits to the specialist are working )

Chris, thanks for cleaning my car mate, did you finally make it back to Brum?

One of the best lines of JAE had to come from Rob - hope it was a good trip home mate, it's been a blast!

**** this is getting like an Oscar's list now so thanks to Rob & SteveAudioX as well as everybody else that helped fit my B2 and Induction - I got called a ****** by some bloke walking down the street when he heard the car coming so it must be working a treat

And Zee, calm down on those measures mate, look what it made us all do to the car Don't even know if I dare post those pics of Mat - "you bell-end"

Had a smashing time at this years JAE.

Must say a Big thanks to the following;
Sp33dy (Jit) for his BBQ all weekend.
Mat C for the under bonnet cover he thought he'd given to Scorpion.
Aido for the SC Airbox and K&N filter & introducing me to that drink..
Rob Fluff for the lubricants- not the type your all thinking of.
Dave E for the Prolex UK stickers.
Colin Barber for your help with Scorpion.

It was a great pleasure placing names to faces too ..
Besty, nice to meet you finally, nice clean motor mate.
Ifraz, I won't mention the magazine you once had.
Matt C, nice to meet you for the first time.
Maz, Top looking car mate .. Very nice indeed.

Also everbody else I spoke to, I had a smashing time ALL weekend guy's....

Thanks to LOC and it's members for making it such a great event time and time again.

I HAVE A SECRET PHOTO, AM I ALLOWED TO POST IT? It envolves Zee's car and TDi??? ???? ???

Fantastic weekend

It was superb to meet so many new members, finally putting faces to names and also great to see the usual crowd as well.

Apart from a little commosion during the night (this is what I looked it in the morning ) it was another very successful meet.

Well done to the LOC organisers, especially Steve for bringing the gazebo and lights etc.

Well done to all the award winners....

The Monster is awesome

Anymore piccies?

What was that mate? Can't remember that - is that when Col went over to those nobs to tell them to shut up - we all went over there when we thought something was going off but I fell over someones tent and by the time we got there it was silent..

And Ifraz, I don't remember taking these but I've got 50 photos!

I can remember.

OMG....we have some great photos are you Aido. Unfortunately most of them are not suitable for the Public forums.

Expect to see them in Gold

As sole organiser of the show gear which only Ifraz has ackknowledged and lugging it 150 miles pulling the crap out of my pride and joy...I wanna say thanks to those guys who helped clean up the crap that everyone else left.

I hope you all enjoyed it.

Yep it was a good event again,some nice cars turned up as well.

Well done Maz for winning the prize that he donated in the first place

SteveAudioX/Colin for helping me with the HID's,all i did was stick the control boxes where you said Steve coz you were scared too

Couldn't possibly name everyone,but nice to see new members and the usual suspects,Matt C thanks for the cigs.

Thanks Dave E for relieving me of a few quid too,and possibly more if those wheels are at the right price ....nice stickers as well
Had a camera in the car and i didn't take 1 pic....

Raz i dont know what you was worried about over the last couple of weeks,car was spot on mate....well done

Not a problem Aido anytime, to be honest I was feeling a bit left out all weekend with no car.

Anyway found a quick way off the site instead of queing and was on the main road within 10 mins.
Dropped Sophie and Becky off at home in Birmingham and got home about 8.30pm

Thanks to everyone this weekend even though I felt a tad bit left out

You lucky git!

We tried coming out of site a different way too and didn't do too badly - we got to the airport in time and Rob will have just got off his nice plane ride with the other 8 people

Youshouldn't have felt left out mate, you've even got TV in the Carina as I remember you showing me just before I took a random pee

Steve, sorry mate never thought to say, thanks to you and all the admin guys / committee for arranging a great weekend - really enjoyed it mate, got a quality photo here of you on the mini motorbike thing!

Forgot to pick those stickers up from you too - any chance you can post them for me please mate?

TIA

Where does luck come into giving a friend a lift.

Only pulling your leg fella

Got some great photo's here to come of the night time and that famous chilli sauce..

I wonder how you found that out Chris

Was a pleasure meeting you all and a big thank's to all that helped, especially Zee

pic of me just before i got told off by security

Ken, you're in the gallery matey!

As promised my photos are here starting with Steve on the mini motorbike.

http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/album08?page=142

I have created a new JAE 2004 Gallery Section

please see here

http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/jae2004

Excellent Steve, and for those dodgy photo's everyone wants to see - look in here for Mat's latest modelling attempt:

http://www.goldmembers.co.uk/loc/forums/in...wtopic=1473&hl=

what a fantastic weekend
just got home !!
after leaving on thursday afternoon

great to see all the regular faces and the new
big thanks to everyone for making it a such a great weekend

and the monster finally turned up
what an awesome beast
was good to see the onsite workshop on how to fit the bodykit to it, just a shame that some of them fell off on the test drive

roll on 2005 !

errmm..........

what kind of beer were you drinking !!

will bring a nappy next year

arghh...... the thought of seeing aido in a nappy

LOL, they don't make incontinence pants big enough for me!

took us 2 1/2 hours to leave the showground

and i loved every minute of it

thanks Mat

am i a lucky git or what !!!

took me 10 mins

and I left just after i spoke to you bazza


just imagining what craig is up to as he is still camping there tonight.

What can i say, my 1st-JAE and i can not wait till the next one Just like to say thanks to Raz, and the guys that was waiting for me at ACE, as i got there late we had a good convoy down i think there was about 8 or 9 cars, it got a bit mad on the M1 but we got there a guys


It was good to meet a lot of new faces and finaly put the names to the face and also some of the regs aswell. and all so big thankyou to everyone who organised the stand, the food,and everything else. (Top job guys) and thanks to dave for the stickers


as all ways all the cars looking good Bazz your IS looks alot better mate, and as for Maz your IS well what can i say it is just the dogs***** its out this world mate


Hope to see you all soon at the next Meet.

Thanks guys had a good weekend

Oooooooh guess what I've bought in prep for the next show - some of that hot sauce and another one which is 5 times hotter

Hmmmmm who's gonna do it next then

lets measure you up then

That's just wrong - no wonder I'm single - I'm off to the tanning salon tomorrow to get a wax like Mat's! Don't normally see it from that angle - good job the chilli sauce hadn't kicked in otherwise there'd be tramlines everywhere

Oh **** how many times did I do that this weekend

Well after seeing that pic of Barrie & Jane's thought I might as well post this one:

http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/jae2004?page=6 (bottom left one!)

Zee will be able to afford proper model's instead of me and Mat one day when ProLex takes off

can someone please post the results of the judging as i missed it?

Hi people.

I'd just like to say that I had a great day and would have been even better if I had remembered to pack a tent and some more clothes! (remembered when I was the other side of bristol so was about an hour and a bit into my journey and the southbound M5 was very busy so couldnt go back)

It was weird but good to finally meet everyone starting at the Ace Cafe with Raz and his cousin (seemed to be a white van meet and a classic merc meet going on) then everyone else turning up after a few "i'm 20 mins away!" I think in the end there was Raz, Mr Lex (and all his mates), Marcus, Shahz, Steve Audio X. It was an entertaing convoy on the way up especially when me and Mr Lex had red at the lights and so had to catch everyone up! Traffic was a tad busy on the M1 but we got there in the end after a tescos mini meet and Raz Rankin mowing down a helpless pigeon.

Thanks to eveyone who organised everying and Fidgets (and the other guy) for cooking the one burger one sausage barbcue!

Met loads of people GRiM (how come you dont post anymore?), Matt, Dave E, Zee, Ifraz, Bazza, Scorpion, Aido - what a character! Oh and Gus at 5am in the morning as we left! Aido and Matt do you remember talking to us? All those poses were pretty funny to watch, seem to remember a few more which havent made it up yet also pretty funny when Aido was walking along farting and laughing at the same time!

cheers for the great time guys.
sorry if I missed anyone.