Here are the first few car shots from what was a fantastic day out for everyone....

 

Here are some of our winners on the day.. we had fantastic prizes inc a free night at Holiday Inn Express, a Nextbase Dash Cam, Family tickets to Goodwood Revival and so much more all thanks to our event sponsors :-)

 

CarSnapped pictures from our event are all available at carsnapped's facebook page www.facebook.com/carsnapped - please have a look at our day there :-)

 

Some more of my pics from this years event for you:

 

and some more:

 

Next batch:

 

Another batch for you :-)

 

Yet more :-)

 

Some more:

 

Another batch:

 

Thanks Tony, great video!

Guus

 

Looks like a great day out so far, some great pics and a cool video too, so many beautiful well turned out cars and the motorway drive looked very cool. It must have been a sight to see so many Jags in convoy, I bet there were more than a few double takes.

You've done it again Steve
Well done and many thanks on behalf of all for your tireless efforts

Jim

 

Almost the last batch of photos for you :-)

 

The last of the car shots that I have from the day..

 

A big thank you to Steve for all his and his families hard work through the year and on the day, it was a really good day, even the sun came out to make our Jaguars look their best!


A thank you also to all the sponsors of the event ( especially Furniture Clinic, as I won one of their Leather cleaner kits ) hopefully you will continue to support us over many years.


I was truly shocked and saddened by how much Brighton has slid into decline in 12 months, as was most of my friends that I showed the photos to!


The big ferris wheel by the pier has gone, all the little shops in the arches are boarded up, as are the public toilets, all the lovely blue and cream wrought iron work ( that Brighton is famous for ) is rusty and falling apart and fenced off.


£11.00 for four hours parking in what resembles a ghetto, I feel is way too much.


This is a rant at Brighton council, NOT at Steve, who as always did a brilliant job organising the annual Jag forum meet.

 

Here is the final picture of the lot.. the banner signed by everyone for posterity! I had hoped to be able to get it to Jim in time for the Scottish event but I haven't had the opportunity to get it off in the post this week due to family time :-( However I know Jim has a fresh banner there for everyone thankfully. Apologies for that.. I have uploaded all my images to OneDrive and will pop a link up here for everyone on Monday so everyone can download any of the images they want from there... see - the event that just keeps on giving :-)

I will also (finally) be getting the synopsis of the day up, be getting in touch with our sponsors (with pics of their donations being passed to our winners), and tying things up for this years event early next week.

However, please note that our discount codes will keep on working for you in the months to come helping reduce your Jaguar costs - please, please make use of them as this will encourage ourt sponsors to remain with us for next year.

Very finally (yes I know very bad grammar) thankyou to every one of our sponsors, PaulJag and family for their massive help on the day, and everyone who took the time to attend our biggest ever Brighton event!!

I am still busy talking Theresia, my wife into letting me organise this again for next year - so keep an eye out for the new thread and expect some great changes and improvements to make this yet again, the biggest and best event we have ever run in Brighton - 2017!!

 

Steve,

Well done for superbly organising the latest Brighton forum meet. The sponsors and prizes just keep getting better.

Graham

 

Hi Guys, I am still working on things here with sponsorship photos and a synopsis of the day *but* in the meanwhile I have made all my photos from the day available on OneDrive - please feel free to view and download any that you like :-)

The link is here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resi...t=folder%2cJPG

 

Additionally Steve from CarSnapped has taken some superb shots of our event - please visit his facebook page and take a look

 

Welcome to our JaguarForums.com Brighton Convoy & Meet event for 2016.

The weather was good on the day, especially considering that it had been raining just the day before.

It was 7:15am on the day when Paul & Tia (PaulJag) pulled up outside my house - both in XJ's. A sight that I could happily enjoy any day of the year - three XJs outside :-)

Paul and Tia packed what I hadn't been able to fit in my XJ and we set off for Pease Pottage Services. I was well chuffed because I was completely organised and due to be at the start of the event in plenty of time for the first time ever.

As we pulled into Pease Pottage Services there were Jaguars all over the place, and groups of people chatting in the car park. Steve from CarSnapped was at the entrance getting lots of shots of arriving cars - he had been there since sometime just after 6am I believe!!

It was then that I realised that all my change for the car parking at Brighton was still at home (so much for the first time ever :-)) so I left Paul & Tia to get things setup whilst I popped back home to get my change (£16 of change - Brighton is not cheap nowadays).

On getting back to Pease Pottage I found Paul & Tia completely on top of things - everything was laid out, and attendees were all busy signing in and collecting their goodies. Afterwards I found out that Paul & Tia have run events in the past - they were incredible :-) Many thanks to them for the copious amounts of help and support through the day!

We managed to collect the majority of the people into the conservatory area and ran through the days itinerary prior to everyone heading off for Brighton seafront.

Some Jaguars made it down in advance of the main convoy, with others grouping together just prior to entering Brighton. There was the usual problems with the traffic lights and controls breaking the convoy up but we managed to keep the general grouping right down to Madiera Drive.

There was, for a short while, a huge queue of Jaguars waiting on parking, with others parking, and a few already parked - definately marking Madiera Drive as Jaguar territory for a short while at least.

The parking meters gave us problems as usual.. the most common issue being that they would take all but £2 of what you needed to insert, and then reject all the coins you had inserted.. but eventually everyone was sorted and headed in for breakfast.

Whilst everyone was in for breakfast I went round all the cars trying to get some good shots.. admittedly no where near as good as the shots CarSnapped managed to get.. my shots are here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resi...t=folder%2cJPG and you are very welcome to viw them, and download any that you especially like free.

After breakfast there were huge amounts of people looking around the cars.. we had everything from a Project 7 through to E-Types, Mk II, a 420 and so much more. Tony was there from Harwoods with the all new F-Pace and was attracting quite a lot of interest..

The majority of the cars had dashboard sheets on the dash so they could be considered for the new prestigeous JaguarForums.com award of 'Best Turned Out Jag' for 2016 making it easy to see who was with our event.

Holiday Inn Express Crawley arrived onsite just before the Prize Draw to personally hand over an unexpected prize of a free nights accomodation - Many thanks to them for that!

There was some issues late morning with the parking, resulting in things being moved forward so the Prize Draws and the new 'Best Turned Out Jag' Award presentations all kicked off at about 12:30 if I remember correctly.

We had some fantastic prizes, all drawn by Tony from Harwoods, with the finale being a bottle of champagne from Harwoods Jaguar and a superb luxury car shampoo and polisher set from PrestigeCarCareShop for the JaguarForums.com 'Best Turned Out Jaguar'

The day was a great Jaguar day out - absolute luxury with the range of cars we had attending on the day! Our prizes included, to list just a few of, a dashcam, filter cleaning systems, workshop manuals, vouchers, mugs, a free nights accomodation, champagne, luxury shampoo... and so so much more.

Huge thanks go to the following companies who got involved this year, and in some cases went beyond anything I could have hoped for: Harwoods Jaguar Brighton, Carsnapped, SNG Barratt, WaxOn-WaxOff, Autoglym, Haynes Manuals, Scratch Shield, Furniture Clinic, PVD, Moto Services, Holiday Inn Express Crawley, Rimmer Bros, Lancaster Insurance, NextbaseUK, Revs UK, We love Brighton, JagTechnic, The Automatic Gearbox Centre, Carphile, Revs UK and MotorMartin.

Massive thanks go to everyone who attended this years event, and anyone else I have not mentioned who took the time to get involved and help make this the biggest and best event we have run to-date.

Please remember that the discount codes listed in this thread should work right through to close to our next event too!! Helping our event keep your Jaguar running costs to a minimum.

And finally please keep an eye out for the thread for our next event :-)