Porsche 944 Meet Rutland Water 31st Jan 2010

The meet had been arranged around a month ago by a couple of people on the Porsche Club G.B forum & was intended as an informal get together of all 944 folk who might be feeling sociable. I had certainly been looking foreward to the meet as I had neve been to a '944 meet' before.
I drove up to Rutland via the M11-A1(M) and A14 which was claimed to be 75 miles and around 90 minutes. I have never passed so many speed restrictions and speed cameras in my life and in the end I arrived some hour and 3/4 after having set off. I only saw one 944 along the way and wasn't too sure how many of the 14 folk who had said they were coming would actually turn up.
On arrival at the Rutland Water sports Centre Car Parks ( of which there are several) , after a slight hiccup all of the 944's got together in the bottom car park. Much to my suprise on what was a freezing cold Januay morning there were 15 Porsche 944 of various models Colours and variations all lined up for a great photo opportunity.



No meet would be complete of course without some people as well and there were 16 drivers ( 15 in a 944) and two sigificant others. We all did the milling round , looking over cars and general chatting bit and I am pleased to say I met some very pleasent sociable folk. Some of the folk were P.C.G.B members and many were not but all that I did manage to chat to were a pleasure to meet.



The above pic is of a few folk gathered round the engine bay of 'Peter's car' , if he wanted to have a 944 that would always attact attention and get folk interested then he certainly achieved that with his 'Lux Conversion'. peter told me he started off in a minor way but got a bit carried away


I can certainly see what he means :P , other cars at the meet included an infamous 3.2 litre 944 turbo and cars ranging frm a very nice early dash White 944 lux , various Turbos 220 and 250 , S2's and one Cab. All in all a fantastic selection of 944's to feast your eyes on.


Including mine of course !

As the cold and damp started to penetrate ( us not the cars) we moved on to a nearby village pub which was packed to the rafters with Sunday Lunch folk but they squeezed us all in on various tables around the pub. This was a bit of a pity as we were all split up but it was unavoidable. I enjoyed the company of all of the 6 other folk around the table, we had a roast and a good natter and after lunch we all set off on our own journeys home.
Myself and two ther 944's drove together back down the A14/A1(M) route and we had a spirited little convoy, making some very nice progress through the traffic together before finally going our seperate ways. All in all a very pleasent Sunday indeed.