Lancia Motor Club

Any plans for meeting up again at Brooklands on New Years day? if the recent weathers anything to go by it maybe take a picnic or snow chains :D

Brian
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Yes, as long as the roads are covered in grit!

Hopefully we can raise a number of the local Surrey members to attend if not too hung over!

Jonathan,
Do you mean NOT covered in grit, I'd hate to see your Lovely pride and joy covered in stone chips :o

Brian
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D'oh!

Yes, I'll be there, it's too near to me not to go.

I will however be without car as it is spending the winter in Devon receiving some much needed tlc!

Does anyone know the time of opening please ??

With luck, the Appia and I will be journeying from Essex, although the forecast rain may well put me off !!!

                                Andy

10.00am

I'm not sure if I'm going to make it tomorrow as I've had a stinking coldall over Christmas that I'd hoped would clear, but it's very persistent, I'll make it if I can, but if I don't have a good day and I'll be with you in spirit if not in "Fay". :'(
Happy New Year.

Brian
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Am also considering it (from north essex) but depends if I wake up in time after seeing in the New Year!

Is there a special Lancia meet up point and can one get in at say 12.00??

Tim

We are meeting London to Cape Town competitors and taking pictures before moving on the House of Lords for the official start. i find it a shame members are afraid of using their cars in winter, is it investment values that dictates use instead of driving fun?

Today at Brooklands we counted 12+ of our cars  -  two Aprilias, (Ken's and mine), one Aurelia, two Appias, numerous Fulvias, a Gamma and etc . I missed Ken Cousins but met Will, (who brought his Appia because his Kappa would not start), Alan (the cern), Stuart and others that my wretched memory forbids me to name.

There must have been 300+ cars in attendance and the cafe and numerous coffee bars were doing stout business. The site was fairly crowded and more cars were arriving as I left after about two hours (I have a limited attention span). Lots of interest attracted  by the London-to-Capetown Rally Scrutineering in the old Paddock  -  I particularly liked the 1920s Vauxhall 30-98 with modern Recaro seats.

Luckily the weather was kind (in the morning, rain later) and there was little salt on the road.
Nick

It was a great event and Lancia was the best represented Italian marque; I didn't count them but there must have been at least 12.

Photo slideshow at http://s1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff477/TheoKyriacou/Brooklands%20NYD%202012/?albumview=slideshow (http://s1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff477/TheoKyriacou/Brooklands%20NYD%202012/?albumview=slideshow)

Loved them........esp the overhead pics of the Aprilia....magic, thanks.


P

Lovely blue aprilia!who brought it along?not one I have seen before

Something funny going on with the links here but as mentioned by Nick the blue Aprilia is Ken Couzens and is out and about pretty regularly. It is a post-war S2 car and goes very well indeed.

We have images from Brooklands at www.retro-speed.co.uk but not much Lancia as you all ran away as soon as the first drops of rain fell.

My third attempt to add to this thread due to my new iphone producing photo files in excess of 2MB !!!!!

Anyway, it was a lovely drive to Brooklands, albeit in light rain for half the way. I was lucky to follow the beautiful red 1600HF onto the banking and parked next to it. A few minutes later we were joined by a 6th series B20 that, having seen us drive by, decided to join us, so, 3 Lancias side by side.

I left early, shortly after 1200 hours, the attraction of the day was more the drive rather than actually being there. Brooklands was a reason to go out and a perfect destination (after all, it's where I bought the Appia!!) and a comfortable distance (70mls) on a winters day in a car with no heater !!  The journey home was again in light rain, but I was out in Westcliff when the real downpour started !!!  So the car was put away wet, but a perfect day on Monday meant another drive out purely to dry her off. A truly brilliant start to the new year !!!!

I am now plotting further excursions for the coming months in between work on the Gussie and the B20.

Now to try with this photo, if it doesn't work this time I'm going down the pub !!!

                        Andy

How the heck did that happen !!!!!!!!!

Doesn't warrant a trip to the pub, just a quick snifter at home !!!!!!!!!

                             Andy

Dreaming of Australia...

Tim

Try this !
God how I hate this 256 kb limit on photos which is stupid considering how large digital photo files are these days, which means you have to downsize nearly all photos before posting >:(
Brian
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Brian, we can't have unlimited photo sizes on this server as we'd end up busting our limit. The answer , if you want to put lots of photos , is to create a flickr account and upload there.

Steve,
It's not a case of wanting to upload a lot of photos, just the size of an individual photo, being that the supposedly upload limit is for 8 photos x 256kb is it not possible to have a higher limit? say 500kb if only one photo is posted?
Also with the apparent limitations we seem to have with this server from time to time, isn't it possible to upgrade or use something else, although I do realise that might not be practical.
It's not a case of trying to make waves just the fact of how frustrating having to resize photos can be, and yes perhaps there are easier ways of doing so than I use, but other Forums I use don't seem to be as restricted as this can be.
Brian
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I did up the limit a little while ago and the space available immediately started to go down (quite dramatically). I have put a request in to increase our package size on myzen so that will help.

My photos are generally around 3.5MB so I would always have to reduce them down to put on the forum so 256kb or 500kb doesn't really matter. As a point of note, the Online Database reduces down to 800 x 600 (ish) and these come out at around 160kb a photo so if you are reducing then that sort of size should be fine.

The software isn't sophisticated enough to offer 256 x 8 or 512 x 1. You have a limit on size and a limit on number per post. Your work around would then be to post 8 times each with one large photo if we set a large size - and then we'd probably be back to the problem of space usage.

 ??? But the SMF software allows:
"Max attachment size per post"
"Max number of attachments per post"
but also "Max size per attachment" which presumably currently set to 256? If this is set to 2048 then you could have 8x256 or 2x1024 or 1x2048 etc. Below are the settings for the Lancia Gamma Forum (http://www.lanciagammaforum.com)

Thanks Theo - to be honest I'd made an assumption on the way it works and haven't always looked to deeply into the settings. I've corrected it so now you have:
Size of Picture = 1mb
Size of all pictures in on post = 2mb
Max number of attachments = 8

As I've said we are running closer to the limit - I get the emails from the server - so we need to be careful. But I'd like the server package increased and have asked the committee so then it won't be a problem.

Steve
.... Your friendly neighbourhood SMF admin cowboy .....

Happy to support higher capacity if cost is reasonable.

Tim

Thanks Tim.
It's not much more ... we're on the basic package and there are two levels above. It also means well have the ability to do others things too.

Do we really want endless images interrupting thread chats. Some people get carried away and feel they must post every picture they have, however boring. I propose a separate area devoted to members images.

I would not like to see  the chat interupted but I do rather enjoy the pictures which sometimes accompany the text and hope that my own are not too boring

See your not amiss at posting yourself Peter including links to your business,! anyway I don't really see how they interrupt thread chats, if you don't want to look at them just go down to the next post as the photo or anything else is always at the bottom of that particular post.
Brian
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Aww, Peter, it's always very nice to see pictures from the events along with reports. At the end of the day, what do we really want to see? The cars, of course! :)

Agreed, I like the pictures - forum wouldn't be the same without them.

Flickr works for me :)

With almost 18,000 full size photos all between 3-10mb each
I even link the Betaboyz banner from there to keep the server usage down

the beauty is you can right click on any photo, and download/link any size from a profile pic to full size.

Tony

Go on then, I know when I'm beaten!