Japfest 10Th May 2014 Anyone?

[Kevpatel29]

Is anyone going Japfest on the 10th May next year at Castle Combe Circuit?

Kevin

[Stuno1]

Is there usually a club stand?

[Kevpatel29]

Not sure if LOC has one, it my first time,

[law2468]

Can you let me know if LOC have a stand this year please :D

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

I'll be going as I do every year but not with LOC as they haven't had a stand for a few years now :(

[Kevpatel29]

I should be attend but will know by the end of Jan, does anyone know how LOC can get a stand, would rather not have the car in a parking lot its too good for that

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

I should be attend but will know by the end of Jan, does anyone know how LOC can get a stand, would rather not have the car in a parking lot its too good for that

Somebody from LOC (staff) would have to book a stand. You need minimum of 10 cars to have a stand.

[Kevpatel29]

Lets start a list of who would like to attend Japfest, once we have 10 min confirmed, then we can try to organise a LOC stand

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[Stuno1]

Lets start a list of who would like to attend Japfest, once we have 10 min confirmed, then we can try to organise a LOC stand

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[Stuno1]

No one else up for a lexus stand????????

Be good to get a range of cars...

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

I would come on the LOC stand if there was one.... I fear it may be too late now. Last LOC stand at Japfest was 2009

[Stuno1]

2009! Wow...thats odd, seems a pretty active forum from ym limited experiance. Bit disappointing.

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

Long story short.....

it was a lot more active but back in 2009 a load of knowledgable, very active members (most running 200's, supercharged, turbo'd etc) fell out with others including LOC staff and started their own forum and have their own stands at shows now etc...

[Stuno1]

Always the way!

[Stuno1]

Same old ... Same thing happened on Mazda 3 forums.

[gibbsy1]

I may be up for this

[Stuno1]

Think it's too late fella and not enough interest :(

[BarneyTT]

Sadly, you have to book club stand space at Japfest really early as it goes very quickly.

After years of attending Japfest on various club stands I gave it a miss last year as most of these shows now have moved away from "classic/ modern classic car" type shows into pure modified/tuning shows, with little in the way of really nice, original cars. Ford Fair is the same, a once great show is now mainly Fast Fords rather than Classic Fords. On the other hand I'm probably just getting too old and grumpy

[Stuno1]

Sadly, you have to book club stand space at Japfest really early as it goes very quickly.

After years of attending Japfest on various club stands I gave it a miss last year as most of these shows now have moved away from "classic/ modern classic car" type shows into pure modified/tuning shows, with little in the way of really nice, original cars. Ford Fair is the same, a once great show is now mainly Fast Fords rather than Classic Fords. On the other hand I'm probably just getting too old and grumpy

It was like that when i went 3 years ago ish. Apparently from long standing attendees it has got a lot smaller and morphed as you say.

Stu

[1374lee]

I am booked in to go with another club as no stand for the LOC.

Thanks.Lee.

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

Look forward to seeing your car Lee..... I'm also attending with another club although I won't be in my IS300, I'm taking my mates RS Altezza

[1374lee]

Look forward to seeing your car Lee..... I'm also attending with another club although I won't be in my IS300, I'm taking my mates RS Altezza

Excellent Chris,we will have to meet up for a chat, will be good.

RS Altezza...very nice indeed.Do you have any pics of the Altezza.What's the difference with the altezza rs to my 6 cylinder turbo?I know it's 4 cylinder and 300bhp,oh and an import.What does the RS version offer then as I have no idea,I'm very new to the Lexus world as you know.

PM me if it's easier as I don't want to clog up this thread.

Thanks.Lee.

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

That's the only pics I have of the Tezza on the right. My 300 on the left and my mates 300 sportscross who also owns the Tezza.

RS Tezza is 220bhp not 300bhp mate and is a 4 pot Yamaha tuned beams engine N/A. It was only available in Japan. There's an AS altezza also but that had the same 1 GFE engine as a Lexus IS200 so is considerably slower.

[1374lee]

Love the pic of the cars outide the garage...looks really good.

Ah right I see,so it's 220bhp then,Somebody told me 300,I thought I had seen something about a yamaha engine to.Well at least I know the difference now,quite a rare car nowadays then I would imagine.

Thanks.Lee.

[ChrisIS200SportTTE]

Yeah mate Tezzas and 300's are rare, only a few hundred if each on Britains roads that's why I took that pic of the 3 of them in a row... Rare sight lol :)