Volvo Owners Club's 2006 National Rally

[Chris_C]

There is a class for working cars, however, I thought the limit was 20,000 miles a year, but I was informed this weekend it was 10,000. Thing is it's all models together again, but I can't think of a better way of doing it, otherwise you'd have a working, "shiney" and moddified class for each model of car. And then what would happen if you had a working modded car !!!

[Alec Dawe]

I had fronted up to the BKV just to meet some of the people I had been talking to on here, to look at other cars, pick up advice, and perhaps buy to odd part, so my 240 was just in the condition its in every day, or at least every weekend after its Friday wash, and I had no intention of entering it into any class at all, what with the vandalism dents on the bonnet, roof rack marks on the roof, and the 'key score' down the drivers side, but was persuaded to enter the 240 class by the officials on the gate.
I would have prepared a better history sheet, not that we know too much about the car's history, instead of the hand scrawled sheet, and I knew that I had no chance at all of winning, but what the heck, its another Volvo for people to look at, comment on (mostly favourably), photograph, etc.
Had a great day, met lotsa nice people, got lots of good information, bought a couple of Volvo oil filters cheap, won the raffle!!!!
Good Day Out, and yes, I'll enter the BKV at any rally I manage to get to I think. Next time in the Working Vehicle class, once I can prove mileages.
And yes, I think that anyone should enter now, although I was very dubious when I arrived.
Like most, my car is for driving, I don't have the time nor money to indulge in the polishing the engine mounts standard of preparation, so I'm, never going to have a BKV winner, but is it a show, and no one told me off for entering, and I had fun, so I'm going for it again.

(Does any of this make any sense to anyone???)

[IC]

Alec, it was good to meet you and your car on Sunday! Hope that the sat nav that you won in the raffle helped you get back home I agree, everybody should enter their Volvos in the BKV!

[brens-s80]

Hi alec,

good to meet you on Sunday. Realy enjoyed the event and all the 240's that were there. It was great to meet those people who's enteries I had read and replied to. Your car was well up there ( I took lots of photo's) and it was great to see that device you had posted about on the forum at last.

Well done on the SatNav win , enjoy. hope to see you all next year.

regards

Brendan

[Mike_Brace]

Originally Posted by MissDMeanor

I agree that any Volvo should feel comfortable entering the BKV. It isn't just about pristine cars, but the owners and stories about their cars too

My Italian lhd was entered - it had a wash before its MOT the previous Tuesday. As my GLT was off the road it had been pressed into working role and had covered 2,600 km by the show on Sunday. As I'd been working long days up till then it didn't get washed, but had some junk removed to be replaced by some other. I never have time to lovingly clean and polish my vehicles, but people may be interested in them so I enter! Mine was, apart from the Amazon, the only dirty one on show (again). The Italian one is supposedly my "tidy" car but this has done about 12,000 miles in the year.

Mike