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Earlier this year, Karl and I went along to Birmingham Audi to look at new A4s – as he said we were “only looking”… but somehow a few hours later we, well, Karl, was signing on the dotted line for, yes, you guessed it, another A4 Sport! Whilst chatting to the salesperson I jokingly said it would be nice to bring some older Audis to the showroom and somehow it all snowballed from there… a few days later I spoke with Gina Biswas and we arranged a meeting, at which we were amazed to hear them offering to clear the whole of the second floor for the Club display!

Woodvale was once again an excellent show with so much to see and do that it was hard to squeeze it into one day. The only downside was that once again people promised to attend (even paid their £5) and then did not turn up on the day. It would be fine if they at least let me know beforehand! If this keeps happening, I just might have to start “naming and shaming”…

Malcolm Gulliver and I went to this year’s Festival – partly because Audi was title sponsor but also because Audi was using the Festival to celebrate its 100th anniversary and had brought cars representing all periods of Audi’s illustrious competition history. Audi’s central feature art installation, a 35 metre high automotive ‘monument’ simply called ‘Progress’, was truly breathtaking and must be one of the most ambitious and stunning sculptures ever constructed for Lord March’s unique and world leading annual Festival.

As Fleet is just a half hour’s drive from Bracknell, I didn’t have to get up too early – a bonus as for most shows we have to be up about 6am! So with Hayley off gallivanting, I set off on my own at 8.30am, to be met on my arrival at the show by Olive Jones and Alan Knight, and to be joined later by John Scott, who’d had his own personal tour of the Fleet area, the signage for the show being far from good)!

Sunday, July 19th: Birmingham Audi will
clear the second floor of their showroom for Club
Audi to mount a display of up to 20 Cars – so
we need to have a very good turnout to fill the
space! If you live in the area (or further afield)
why not come along – please let Mandy know
you’ll be coming so that she can keep an eye on
numbers. As a special extra Club Audi members
who attend will receive a guided tour of the
showrooms and behind the scenes.
The display will run from noon to 4pm but
display cars will need to be there at 10am to give
us time to get the cars up on to the second floor
and arranged into a display. Birmingham Audi’s
address is 780 Stratford Road, Shirley B90 4BQ.
Committee Member Mandy Smith is our
organiser so please contact her with your
details so she can finalise arrangements with
Birmingham Audi. Mandy can be contacted
on 0121 357 2984 or 07710 306 059 or at
smith.mandy83@yahoo.co.uk.

For more info on Birmingham Audi go to http://listersgroup.co.uk/Audi/Birmingham