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New to all of this and want to join the "conga" to Le man we are in sunny cornwall. I am starting to get a little stressed that we are leaving things too late. whats the general deal and do DDK camp as a group ?? :cherry: :cherry:
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Hi there and welcome to DDK.
Try not to get too wound up, that's really not the DDK way. :)

Take a look in 'Future Events' there's a couple of threads there about CLM.
More info available in the members section if you care to join.
As always though, best to make friends first before crashing the party. Please feel free to introduce yourself.
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welcome to DDK :)

As Paul says, info in the future events & members only area :)

What car do you have ? :)
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coalboy wrote:New to all of this and want to join the "conga" to Le man we are in sunny cornwall. I am starting to get a little stressed that we are leaving things too late. whats the general deal and do DDK camp as a group ?? :cherry: :cherry:
Are you referring to Classic Le Mans or the 24 hour?

We don't tend to organise anything for the 24 hour although a few members go.

As said, plenty about the Classic in Future events and members only and things are being organised.
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Ok, remaining calm. It's the classic I was interested in. I went to the Silverstone classic this year and everyone said Le Man was bigger and better and sounds good fun. I've got a 356b outlaw style and a 1968 911L (a very happy garage!!). I'll sort my membership and look at the Le Man posts. Thanks
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coalboy wrote:I've got a 356b outlaw style and a 1968 911L (a very happy garage!!)
We all love pictures :wink:
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Hi Simon, it's Phil from the campsite at Silverstone, glad you made over here. Here's a pic of Simon's 356 . . . lovely.
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Hi Phil, I hope all is well with you. The 911 L is going well and hasn't missed a beat! I,ve got the horn grills for the for the front wings and hope to fit Them soon and Do a quick paint job. We're just fiddling with the 356 and are putting a pepped up vw engine in, a bit of a crime but I'm hoping to do some track time this year. I've got to fit better seats and tried with some 993 seats, look great but I need to Be 2 feet shorter as my heads nearly out of the roof. Hoping to have the 356 sorted for Le Man but the more I look at it the more needs doing, but I guess that's part of the fun...
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Where in Cornwall are you?
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Just up the road from Wadebridge, little hamlet called Trequite.
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Hi Simon

Sorry to be picky but there is an S in le Mans.

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I thought there was just 1 Le Man..... Sorry Barry
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As a general rule you do not pronounce the last letter in French. Therefore we say Le Man even though it it spelt Le Mans. This is unlike German where all letters are pronounced and there it is Porsche not Porsch. Class is dismissed :)
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bjmullan wrote:As a general rule you do not pronounce the last letter in French. Therefore we say Le Man even though it it spelt Le Mans. This is unlike German where all letters are pronounced and there it is Porsche not Porsch. Class is dismissed :)
Never put you down as a cunning linguist Brendan :P
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Post by smallspeed »

just a though on seats; have you looked at a set of elise seats? they're pretty thin/low and quite light. also usually available quite cheaply 2nd hand..
there's a set here on ebay

elise seats

which might work out quite cheaply. appear to come with frames and belt-mountings which is a plus assuming they fit-up to the floor

ben

ps.. lovely 356; don't show my mrs or she'll want it!
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