On a very early Saturday morning, me and my old mate Mike the Viking manned up to brave the frosty weather and headed up to the Birmingham NEC in search of what’s hot in motor sport for 2012, hoping to spot a few nice s-bodies in the process! We hit the road at some god awful time and made our way tup north (yes Birmingham is north to us!). Not been to the NEC for some time and forgot how massive it really is with it taking some 20 minutes just to get from the car to the entrance!!! once in we were greeted by what can only be described as awesome, the carbon fibre on this Saker was just beautiful.
Onward into the show and we soon got lost in the maze of shiny custom parts and pretty ladies, so much so we nearly lost track of time and missed the live show. The show was as expected, loud, fast and full of excitement. Our first sighting of an s-body was the second car brought out and was a standard s13 drifting doughnuts around Mr Plato. Sadly due to my amateur photo skills, I failed to capture a pic but did manage to get this time attack GTR.
Back to the show and back on the search for the s-bodies. With so many machines and so much going on it’s easy to miss what’s right in front of you, we did however find these two beauties:
Acorn Motorsport Division’s S13
The Maxxis drift s14a
We popped into see our friends at PPC to find them not selling their rendition of “the best thing since sliced bread” but using the free time to work on their cars and to boot they had a keg of hobgobblin on the go. They were also the only stand advertising for spectators to touch their cars and get involved. Loving the way way you rolls guys and thanks for the overs.
Every year the club holds a FREE Xmas prize draw where every member gets free entry and can win anything from a baseball cap to £250 off a set of alloy wheels. This year was no exception with an awesome prize list kindly donated by our traders. If you missed it this year, dont worry there will more free prize draws throughout the year, you just need to be a member to be entered.
2011 Xmas Winners
Oh! and a massive thank you to these guys, check out their SXOC offers in the trade section.
A big warm welcome…
…to this, the new SXOC home page. The best place on the web for S-body enthusiasts! On SXOC.com you will find the best technical knowledge for the Nissan 200sx, with great technical support from our members. Most crucially, here you find an awesome community hosting and attending some of the best events in the UK. Check out the forum to see what you may have missed over the past 10 years.
At the moment, this main area of the website is pretty basic, with just the essential links directing you to sections on the forum. Soon though, we plan to have added a detailed S-body wiki; a full media page; an SXOC merchandise shop; a quick easy and a secure online membership payment system. All this along with great content in the frequent updates of our club’s blog.
Being the first post, it’s not really the time to tell you which events we are attending in 2012, or how awesome the 2012 Weekender is shaping up. However, it is a good time to introduce you to the SXOC’s media team, all long term SXOC reps and we are on the forum daily.
Time to put a face to that board name!
Meet the team
Dani
Board name: Danielle
Position: SXOC media designer
Amy
Board name: Spirit
Position: SXOC newsletter editor
Chris
Board name: Chriscooke
Position: SXOC social networker
Ste
Board Name: Vigilant Teste
Position: SXOC tame geek/social networker
Ryan
Board name: Cornwall
Position: SXOC PR guy and head chef
2012 is going to be another epic year for the SXOC, so much planned and so much more to get involved with. Keep an eye on this space for updates and reviews of the SXOC’s best events, unbelievable motors and amazing stories.
Cornwall signing off for now 
