I didn't see him with his car but the Bluebird estate is looking mighty fine, possibly even better than last year as a result of a set of very stylish period alloy wheels.
Not many pictures apart from one of Ed's Datsun as the ground was pretty slippery and I deliberately left my chair at home because it's next to useless on anything but asphalt in any case.
I have taken pictures mainly of exhibits that I haven't seen elsewhere in the region during this year's show season so here they are. The images are large and if you find that you can't scroll across them, change your forum theme to subsilver2 in your CP which won't crop them randomly like the other theme does.
The Datsun, see, I told you it looks good:
A real Rover 75 taken from behind, in front of that an Anglia full of ancient wirelesses, including a rare hybrid that was fitted to the car:
This R16 just gets better with each year, now sporting new wings and looking perfect:
This beautiful Morris 8 had been freshened up but appeared largely original and all the better for it, a gorgeous wee thing:
This Wolseley 1500 was period perfect, right down to the cross plies! The owner wasn't around to ask, but it looked as though it too could have been a largely original car:
This Morris 10 hadn't been got at. A good, honest-looking old thing, no rot that we could see, it had a fabulous patina to it. This was the one that I would have taken home with me if it had been for sale:
I liked it that much, I took two pictures of it:
An entry level, 1300cc OHV Dolomite that looked alright in its Russet Brown:
A refreshing change from the surprisingly large quantity of Morris Minor vans that still ply their trade locally, this similar-looking O type van is the Austin 6cwt version. Still working for its keep, it was looking fine enough to eat your dinner off, but I didn't:
And that was long enough for me to be standing about, there were other entries of course but mostly stuff that's been posted elsewhere on this forum.
The show, traditionally one of the best attended in the region, was smaller this year as the common ground opposite the engine shed is now being built on. That, and the rubbish weather which kept some folk away. The cowards!
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as the impression I got was that, even without what was once the lawn of the hospital for overspill parking, many, many more exhibits could have been present.