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CHR15E · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:25 am Post subject:

Fair enough.

It'll have to be a V6 I'm afraid though. None of that 4 cylinder rubbish here. Laughing

Well apart from my brothers 820. Might try and get him to tag along as well.
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syzsounds · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:51 am Post subject:

Mike V · Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject:

I would be up for this. Not too far for me to travel.

Just hope the weather is good! Smile

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Lord Sterling · Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:06 pm Post subject:

Hopefully I will be able to attend this as its just down the road from me, this time I hope to be in a Rover instead of the Micra Laughing

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Alex 'Wedge' · Suspended Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 576 Location: Devon

I will almost certainly be going to this. Quite what I will be in at the moment I have no idea. May be the SD1 if I get it ready in time, may be an 800. Who knows! Laughing

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BScotcher · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject:

I'll be going to this. Bit of a trek but looks worth it. Will be in an SD1 Vitesse.
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CHR15E · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject:

Is the SD1 club attending in any capacity?

More than welcome to tag along with us.
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Richard Moss · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:34 am Post subject:

The SD1 is also not a Longbridge car - do you think that the people who gave you a hard time before might make a fuss?
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BScotcher · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:44 am Post subject:

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CHR15E · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:11 pm Post subject:

metelmickey · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject:

i'm going in my 827 honda Very Happy

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Slamm · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:00 pm Post subject:

Copied and pasted from Rovertech.

Press Release 14/03//2010

The Pride of Longbridge, 17th April 2010

This years Pride of Longbridge will take place in Cofton Park Longbridge on Saturday the 17th of April from 9.30am until 4pm. This is the nearest Saturday to the date on which the majority of the Longbridge workforce was made redundant five years ago.

Wholly organised by the Austin Federation, this year’s event uses a slightly different format than in previous years. In this the Austin Federation acknowledges with thanks the financial support of the Longbridge and Northfield Wards of Birmingham City Council.

There will be no large convoy to the event. However, if participants wish to meet friends and travel to Cofton park together the Avoncroft Museum (B60 4JR) and coffee shop will be open from 9.00AM to serve as a brief gathering point and refreshment stop before participants travel on to Cofton Park by a very attractive route. Austin Federation marshals will be on hand with a route map from Avoncroft Museum to Cofton Park until 10.30AM. Avoncroft Museum cannot provide space for people to wait for a long period of time for others to join them.

All vehicles with a Longbridge connection are welcome, from Austin 7s to Rover 75s, MGFs to Austin Devons, MGBs to Vanden Plas Princess limousines. Famous names involved include, Vanden Plas, Morris, Wolseley, Riley, Honda and MG, as well as the core Longbridge brand of Austin.

Please join us in Cofton Park, opposite the Longbridge plant, to mark the fifth anniversary of the closure of MG Rover.

Longbridge closed abruptly in 2005, making a whole community redundant. Since then the Longbridge area has gone through enormous change, with workers retraining and much of the area being redeveloped for a new future in modern industries and education. The plant is producing cars again, albeit on a much smaller scale, but the community as whole remains both optimistic and proud of the century of innovation and mobilisation. The Austin (as locals will often call it) fathered between 1905 and 2005. No other UK plant is as significant to British and world motor industry history and no other car maker produced iconic egalitarian cars that motorised the masses and revolutionised the very idea of what a car could be, twice, in 1922 and 1959.

The Pride of Longbridge rally is a celebration of those great achievements and a chance for the community to gather in Cofton park alongside the plant and enjoy the vehicles they and their forebears created.

Please come and join us if you have a vehicle with a Longbridge connection (remember the factory built engines for cars as diverse as MGBs and Jensen 541s) and be part of an event that is as much a pilgrimage as a car rally.

Or just come and enjoy the range of vehicles attending, Cofton Park is a public space and will remain so on the day of the event, something which helps give Pride of Longbridge is unique community feel.
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