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Post by rhyds on Mar 20, 2022 22:56:32 GMT 1
I popped along today to help on my mate's stand and took a few pics flic.kr/s/aHBqjzGuEMThe show was a fair bit smaller than usual, but still had a great selection of motors. What you did notice however was how a lot of stands had "make work" type projects on the go (e.g. how quickly can you swap the engine in to a Minor). I'm guessing as its the first restoration show since covid everyone finished their projects during lockdown! |
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Post by rhyds on Mar 20, 2022 22:56:58 GMT 1
Lovely pics you've taken, thankyou  I'll have the 3 x Cortinas please I think they were all 2.3 V6 ones as well |
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Post by rhyds on Mar 21, 2022 10:22:46 GMT 1
great pics the bloke who owns that blue regal supervan has more of an obsession than me hes got 14 reliants  some barsteward stole the badge off the back of it at the show though  I saw the Reliant stand and immediately thought of you lol! As for stolen badges at the show, I once heard of someone stealing an entire "badge bar" (with the old style metal RAC/AA/Club badges) off a vintage morgan at a classic car show a few years back. It was worth a few grand and wouldn't really make sense on anything else, so was probably another morgan owner. |
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Post by Joepublic on Mar 21, 2022 10:32:52 GMT 1
great pics the bloke who owns that blue regal supervan has more of an obsession than me hes got 14 reliants some barsteward stole the badge off the back of it at the show though I saw the Reliant stand and immediately thought of you lol! As for stolen badges at the show, I once heard of someone stealing an entire "badge bar" (with the old style metal RAC/AA/Club badges) off a vintage morgan at a classic car show a few years back. It was worth a few grand and wouldn't really make sense on anything else, so was probably another morgan owner. I doubt any enthusiast would do that, more likely an opportunist / Beasty Boy? NEC employee or contractor with access over night? |
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Post by rhyds on Mar 21, 2022 12:40:34 GMT 1
I saw the Reliant stand and immediately thought of you lol! As for stolen badges at the show, I once heard of someone stealing an entire "badge bar" (with the old style metal RAC/AA/Club badges) off a vintage morgan at a classic car show a few years back. It was worth a few grand and wouldn't really make sense on anything else, so was probably another morgan owner. I doubt any enthusiast would do that, more likely an opportunist / Beasty Boy? NEC employee or contractor with access over night? It wasn't this show, it was a in CM magazine about 10 years ago, apparently it happened at an open-air show, and the suspicion was that the only folks who would know that they were worth stealing would be other enthusiasts. |
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Post by Joepublic on May 25, 2022 10:13:31 GMT 1
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Post by Noberator on May 25, 2022 11:50:15 GMT 1
IMO that colours.  I'm out.  |
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Post by Rhubarb on May 25, 2022 14:34:02 GMT 1
10 grand tops
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Post by chippie on May 25, 2022 14:41:42 GMT 1
Having lived in South Africa, I can vouch that yes there were ‘odd’ Ford cars out there, including the Capri Savage, a V8 engined beast…
Saw lots of oddballs that we don’t see many of over here, Hillman Hunters with Peugeot engines…( as you’d expect when the Rootes group sold out to PSA), Sunbeam Tiger with the 4.2l engine….
A great place for preserving cars, due to the climate….not many rotted away….
As Rhubarb, don’t think it’s worth the expected ££££££££££, nor do I like the non original colour….Yeuk…
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Post by valhalla on May 25, 2022 23:06:13 GMT 1
As Rhubarb, don’t think it’s worth the expected ££££££££££, n or do I like the non original colour….Yeuk…Insurance would be cheap!
.....and you could find it in the car-park fairly easily, as long as there were not too many Triumphs in there of the same era.....
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some barsteward stole the badge off the back of it at the show though 
