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**Midlands Breakfast Club meets - 2008**

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:28 pm
by Coxy
As some of you may have seen or read, or even attended for that matter, towards the end of last year, we started up the Midlands Breakfast Clubs up in Four Ashes nr J12, M6. These proved to be very popular amongst fellow car enthusiasts and have brought together a fine array of sports, performance, retro and classic cars to drool over on an otherwise boring cold Sunday morning! We've been getting between 50 and 60 cars turn up at the meets and have basically outgrown our current meeting place, so we been in talks with the RAF museum at Cosford and have booked in dates for the Breakfast Club meets for the rest of 2008!
This is basically a free for all event, held on a Sunday morning, where a group of like minded car enthusiasts can get together and talk cars!! There is no fee for attending, no fee for parking, no fee to the museum. The only thing you need to bring is some money for breakfast (if you want it!!)
It also has the pull of the RAF Museum at Cosford, so you can even bring the wifes/girlfriends/husbands/children along as well! They have excellent facilities and there is plenty to see!


Next meet of the Midlands Breakfast Club - Sunday 3rd February 2008

The museum has a little more to offer than an Industrial Estate in Staffordshire and has something for all the family. We've been in talks with the Museum and their caterers who will be opening up earlier than normal to do "breakfast" baps, teas and coffees. I can't promise you'll get them as cheap and the bacon probably won't be as thick, but look at it this way, you get to go round the whole museum and see lot's of cars as well for nothing!

We must emphasise that the RAF Museum have been good enough to have us there (again!!) and we would like to show them some thanks and respect by driving in a safe manner whilst there, and now showboating, donuts or burnouts as there's plenty of Maccy D's car parks to do that kind of thing!!

Full address is:

RAF Museum Cosford
Shifnal
Shropshire,
TF11 8UP

Full details of facilities avaible at the Museum can be found here
http://www.rafmuseum.org/cosford/index.cfm

By Road

Cosford is centrally located with good motorway access from the M6 southbound (Junction 12) via the A5, one mile from junction 3 on the M54 for northbound travellers. The Museum is only thirty minutes from the centre of Birmingham and ten minutes from Telford. We have a large free car park on site.

* On A41, less than 1 mile from junction 3 on the M54
* From the south leave M6 at junction 10a
* From the north leave M6 at junction 12 and follow A5 west

Hope to see you there!!


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Slide show of cars from previous meets!
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confirmed dates with the RAF Museum Cosford for the rest of 2008 are as follows:

Sunday February 3rd
Sunday March 2nd
Sunday April 13th
Sunday May 25th
Sunday June 29th
Sunday July 27th
Sunday September 7th
Sunday October 5th
Sunday November 9th
Sunday December 7th

We have separate allocated parking between Hangers 2 & 3 and the new Cold War Museum. The are is good for 150+ cars!
All meets are from 09:00 till Midday(ish), but feel free if you want to stop on longer and have a look around any of the Museums. Everything is Free (apart from the food!)

The cafe/restaurant area will be putting together a breakfast deal (more than likely something along the lines of a drink and a bacon/sausage bap). Unfortunately, we have no control over what they charge, but you don't have to have any!

Hope to see you there!

The Breakfast Club!

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:31 pm
by Coxy
Here's a few pics from previous meets!

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There are plenty of other cars there but I kinda guessed the Audi's may appeal more!!! :D :D

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:32 pm
by MarkB
This would be better placed in the Meets and Trackdays forum. I'll move it for you :)

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:00 pm
by GrahamS4
I'll have to play it by ear for the meet, but I just have to say hubba hubba drool at that blue RS2 in the pics above!

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:48 pm
by Coxy
Couple more pics to drool over for now then!! It's the wifes car!!

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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:21 pm
by MartynC
That RS2 is a minter, wish I still had mine!

See you there sometime.

MartynC

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:05 pm
by Coxy
Been over to the RAF Museum this morning and sorted out a few details for the meets with the Marketing Staff. Must say, it's changed a fair bit over the past few years and the Cold War museum is stunning!! The venue itself is ideal.
We will be parking up in between the new Cold War Museum building and Hangers 2 & 3.

This is the parking area here with the Cold War Museum to the left:
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There are marked parking space for around 80 cars and you could easily fit double that in the area that we have been allowed, plus there's an area down the bottom for 250+ cars as well.
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This is also right next to the entrance to the main Cold War exhibition which in itself is mindblowing and well worth the visit!
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This is what you can expect to see inside the Cold War Museum:
everything from Migs to Missiles, a Green Goddess and some cars )inclduing a Bug and a Trabbie, and a piece of the Berlin Wall!
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:06 pm
by Coxy
Right opposite where we will be parking up is the Main Visitors centre and Cafe area.

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Here's the Cafe area where you can grab your breakfast!
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Plenty of seating side should you wish to grab a bite to eat and get some shelter from the weather!
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We have come up with a combo deal for people coming to the Breakfast Club with the Catering company there. They will be doing either a Bacon or Sausage Bap served with a choice of tea of fresh ground coffee for £3.00.

It's not as cheap as what we have sold it in the past, but they have far greater overheads, and look at it this way, you get to look around one of the best Air Museums in the world whilst your at it for no charge at all!

and there are many places there where you can take some superb pictures!

I got a bit snap happy this morning as well!
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Looking forward to seeing you there!!

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:28 pm
by Coxy
Website now up and running, click on banner for link.
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if someone on here has a banner for this place, I'd be more than happy to add it to the links page

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:02 pm
by Coxy
There should be a good turn out of Audi's (again!) as we've got people coming from Classic-Audi, Club-Audi, Quattro Owners Club and Quattroforum to name but a few!

We had a bit of an Audi meet up the the other week!

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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:54 pm
by Peakz
So how was the meet today?

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:21 pm
by Coxy
Peakz wrote:So how was the meet today?
125 cars turned up!!

With a very impressive line up of Audi's!!

S2, S4 and ur S6 plus about 8 ur Quattro's and a few more!!!

25 Porsche, 20 Lotus, a couple of TVR and a couple of Ferrari's!

Not bad really!!

plenty of pics here!
http://www.midlandsbreakfastclub.co.uk/page4.htm

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:28 pm
by Coxy
a few tasters!!

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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:36 pm
by quattrokid1
Coxy................................................................................................................................................................................................................ perhaps you should come up to sleepy Scotland and cast your magic up here!!!
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In the summer I am gonna get a meeting over at East Fortune jacked up and visit Concorde. We did this last year with a few mates and was spotted on pistonheads..... perhaps a fully publicized event will pull in some interesting machinery???

I'll be there if no one else is!

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:34 pm
by grizz
Anyone going this weekend ......g