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Received a phone call today at 11:30am from James @ Snetterton, 'Rob you can take time off this afternoon to valet a customers car cant you??'

We do, do a bit of valeting on the side of all the breaking we(makes a change, making a car look nice rather then taking them apart)

So when we found out that Jason Plato wanted his Porsche Turbo professionally valeted, we thought it would be rude to say no

We arrived to find the paddock bustling with btcc trucks, cars and technicians(they were all there testing)

The car was in the middle of the RLM Silverline pit area - so as if valeting a top racing drivers 100k porsche wasnt daunting we also had to do it in front of the whole team, Jasons fathers and members of the public!!

Even when we put it in one of the pit garages to finish detailing it we had a handful of guesting watching us...lol

luckily the job went like clock work, the car was a bit of a state for which we gave Jason some banter for when he came to see us

The car looked absolutely spotless when we finished and most importantly Jason and his father were over the moon with the finished results - they were both shocked when we said we didnt do it for a living

it now came down to payment - before we had a chance to name a price we were offered a amazing deal!!

we are hopefully getting Mr Plato to endorse our website, also we have been invited back to the touring car race meeting as Jasons personal guests, full vip treatment which he said was available to the public, money cant buy tickets! whilst we are there we should also be getting some professional pictures taken with us and jason by the teams media team!!

to say ben and i left happy was an understatement, even though we were working and it took some hard graft to get the car sparkling we had a great afternoon. We have been a great chance at some awesome media coverage and publicity and to top it all off we met a racing legend, who im pleased to inform is such a nice guy, we had a good laugh and a joke with him with hopefully more to follow in 3 weeks

All this would not have been possible without James(safety james) - really appreciate it mate!!

anyway i thought i'd write a quick report for you guy to read - hope i havent bored you too much:blush5:

some pics of the day are below

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Us with JP:

Epic. I hope you got paid some gold coins for that one

What a nice car and the plate'o' (sorry) is superb. Finished the car off nicely. What's happening in three weeks time then? Do you both get to ride his brolley girl?

haha cheers stu..the afternoon is still such a blur

nah we didnt charge JP a penny - i think the deal we got with him is payment enough

well up for the brolley girl too...lol

you going this year bud??

No idea fella, no idea. What's this deal then? For you two to give up an afternoon free of charge??????

did i not explain it clearly? oops

he has invited us for the whole weekend as guest of his, including some professional pics for website etc...also endorsing our website in some way, he gave us his personal email address so i'm sure we can work a few more bits into the deal - he seemed really kean to help us out, im sure his words were 'come on now lads, you let me know what you want and i'll sort it.'

think thats worth more then any fee we could have charged - we already hit our sales target for the day anyway

Excuse me being dense mate, I must have missed that earlier. Oopsy

Sounds like a fair deal, bearing in mind you had a great and memorable day and had already hit your target anyway.

yep 3hours well spent if you ask me

Nice one guys. Pleased for you and a bit envious of course in a nice way lol.

Eddy

Nice one guys !!

well done guys nice to hear he is a decent chap