sportspider.co.uk events

Saturday 30th April - Spring Italian Car Festival, Brooklands Annual Italian car festival at historic Brooklands. Further details on the AutoItalia website.
15th May - East Riding Alfa Day, Fort Paull, Near Hull
29th May - Scottish Italian Car Day, Craigtoun Park, St Andrews, Fife
Sunday 12th June - AutoItalia Italian Car Day, Stanford Hall, Leics The premier annual Italian car concours event held at Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire organised by AutoItalia magazine. There's always a good turnout of Fiats, Alfas, Lancias, Mazzas, Fezzas and other Italian exotica, with a wide range of models. There's usually a decent autojumble too. Further info on the event can be found on the AutoItalia website.
23rd to 27th June - Spider Trip to Holland The big event of the year for the third year now. This year should be even bigger and better with the Dutch Spider Register celebrating their 25th Anniversary. This year most of us are taking the ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland. The ferry crossing details can be found on this forum thread. Have a look at the photo gallery for some pics of the 2003 trip or search the forum for what we got up to. Photos here and here.
Sat 2nd- Sun 4th July - The Main UK 124 Spider Event Organised by Fiat Motor Club (GB) this has become the main UK Spider event of the year. We're hoping to make this the biggest and best gathering of UK Spiders to date. You don't have to be a Fiat Motor Club (GB) member to join us on the 124 Spider stand although you are of course, more than welcome to become a member. Held in the grounds of the Hop Farm Country Park, Paddock Wood, Kent as part of a massive classic car show - see www.thehopfarm.co.uk. There's also further info at www.transtarpromotions.co.uk which is the organiser's website. If you want to stay overnight, you can camp there free of charge and more importantly, there's a bar. Alternatively, if camping's not your thing, I'm pretty sure there are some B&Bs and hotels nearby. For the last few years, a bunch of us have camped overnight with a few beers and disposable barbies and I'm up for it again. Please note that if you want to join the Spider display stand in the main arena on Saturday and/or Sunday, an entry/registration form must be received by transtarpromotions not less than 14 days before the event. The price for display cars last year was £1.50 - if you don't display, you'll pay considerably more and have to park in the main public carpark outside the arena. To enter, you can either do it yourself through transtarpromotions but it would be helpful if you could let us know so we have an idea of numbers for the stand. Alternatively, contact either branda or jason through the forum for further details on how to enter. We should have registration forms to download nearer the time.
21st August - MITCAR, Coombe Abbey, Near Coventry The annual Midlands Italian Car Day has been running for a number of years now. For details of the venue and directions this year as well as photos from previous years, check out the MITCAR website.