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[barrett]

Yo! I'm gonna stick a couple of Bromley pics up here instead of just tacking them to the end of Alexg's thread. DEAL WITH IT. Had a nice day at my 1st Bromley, I know loads of people on here were bitching about it being too expensive but it was deffo worth it for the massive variety of tat. I managed to see about 5 of my all-time favourite cars, most of which I've never had a close look at before, and there was a huge amount of lol-worthy shitboxes on display which obviously make or break any car show. tbh I get pretty bored at these things, I reckon I just walked past 85% of stuff without even looking at it and just concentrated all my time & attention on the few real stand-out motors. I still managed to take over 250 photos though somehow.

 

We were supposed to go in Gary's new Simca but it BROKE because it's a rubbish French car. There was this rather depressing reminder on show, a nice empty space where there should've been a car

 

I nearly lolled my cock off at these things, I assume they are both owned by some slightly overweight middle-aged guy from Stroud or something. The purple one had 'TWINK' emblazoned in huge letters on the door cards for some reason. Pics don't really do justice to just how appalling they looked

 

I think this was the only standard Mk1 Escort there. I have literally never seen so many old Fords in my life, they took up about half the show I reckon. I actually like most old Dagenham stuff but seeing a row of 60 identikit 'South London' look 105Es is almost as boring as the rows of Morris Minors and MGBs, plus the fact that everyone who owns an OSF appears to be an oafish titbox. Loads of balding lonely men standing round drinking cheap lager and talking about "fahkin' zetecs" and "fahkin' cahntin' Pintos". All too much for a sensitive soul like me

 

This is altogether more representative of the Escorts there I think. Classy*

 

There were loads of good cars there, honest! This was predictably my car of the show, I just walked around it for ages taking hundreds of photos

 

Early-ish Mini Marcos is another one of my fantasy cars and looked great in orange. Parked next to a Mantis, another thing I've never seen up close before but have always been mildly fascinated with. Happily I can say it does look much better in the 'glass than photos would have you believe

 

There's plenty of pics of the Ogle SX1000 in Alex's thread, but it was another of my highlights.

 

This thing was AMAZEBALLS. I kept coming back and taking more photos of it,. trying to document all the intricacies of the airbrush work

 

Bet the guy can't stop himself from laughing every time he puts petrol in it

 

Granada owners are GR8 at displaying their cars. This was probably the worst example of 'plaque-itis' on show but rest assured there were HUNDREDS of people with less thorough but equally annoying shite hiding their cars

 

Triumph Stags are the most interesting cars in the world*

 

As usual at this sort of event, some of the best stuff was in the public car park areas (which are nearly as big as the show ground itself), here's a selection

 

Loads more pics in my p'bucket album if you want.

 

I'll just leave this one here, you can come up with your own joke about small white Triumph saloons attracting silly looking men to stand in front of them trying to look 'hard'

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Gr8 stuff!!!! Loving the granadas completely obscured by loads of stupid shite that no-one in their right mind would bother reading. The ‘WASSUP’ number plate is BRILLIANT!

[michiel]

Excellent report.

 

 

What the hell is that elf doing (and why is it painted on a Mini)?

[jonny69]

Don't take this the wrong way about your old Ford comments, but you do realise you were in South London, right?

 

But you're totally right about 'that' age Ford owners. Burly looking face, thick neck, thick fingers like Walls sausages made of driftwood that can't completely straighten and they do talk a load of bollocks. And don't drive their cars.

[cort16]

Great pictures. I was at a big show yesterday as you say a lot of the stuffs pretty boring. Rows of stags and bored looking old women the backs of cortinas knitting bobble hats for header tanks.

I'm mainly in it for the old chod. A brown Allegro Vanden Plas with arches full of filler was my highlight of the show I was at. A little border Terrier walked up to it with a look of disgust on it's face before wandering off and pissing on a TR6. I though you really know your cars shite when a dog won't even piss on it.

[costadelglosta]

Good pics. The DKW was my car of the day. Spot on about the Ford section - I actually try to avoid it now at any shows due to the oiks. Actually I heard several men in vests talking of the very same "fackin Zetecs". I did laugh out loud for several minutes at the porno snake lady day van despite having seen it last year then got worried that the owner might be nearby. Whilst eating our sandwiches next to my mate's dad's well patinated Bentley T1 some old boy walked up and muttered "what a shame", which gave us a good chuckle.

[trigger]

I knew i had seen that Granada before!

 

The Granada Club by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Ross_K]

Tell me that's not an old bird with her top off reading the paper...

[trigger]

No, It's obviously Peter Stringfellow INNIT.

[outlaw118]

The Granny Estate lives in Basildon, it's got a 2.8i S front splitter that he's repainted in read so it looks like 2.3i. Knobber.

 

Loving the old Triumph in car park collection.

[vulgalour]

Fords = yawnfest a lot of the time, especially at shows. Give me the visitor car park anyday! That Citroen Ami is definitely a bit of alright. I've started fretting that when I turn up with the club at RAF Waddington later this month that they'll tell me to go away because my car won't be good enough, especially since I dismantled the plaque board it came with.

[trigger]

plus the fact that everyone who owns an OSF appears to be an oafish titbox.

 

[wackywacerwill]

plus the fact that everyone who owns an OSF appears to be an oafish titbox.

 

 

Fack um trig, the cahnts

 

Car park Trumpet 2000 steals the show for me, very nice, very nice indeed.

[vulgalour]

A friend of mine is into his Fords, he has a very tasty ex-vicar owned, now rally-prepped Sierra 4x4 that he's rather good at racing and even he can't stand the OSF crowd because, to paraphrase "Most of them don't know what the fuck they're talking about."

[Cavcraft]

Excellent report.

 

 

What the hell is that elf doing (and why is it painted on a Mini)?

 

The brown colour of the car represents his inner arse, the branch is one of his intestines and the bee fairy is holding on to his split knackers which his wife kicked up his fat arse. The third unsplit one is actually a gooseberry that became stuck in his windpipe and couldn't go down any further because his bollocks were blocking the way.

 

Either that or he's a dickhead. Possibly both.

[michiel]

^cavettes post^

 

[purplebargeken]

Oh dear god, that was the funniest comment I have ever read. Thank you for the tears of laughter that are trickling down my cheeks (face cheeks yeah!).

 

Ken

[Mash]

Plaque boards are a complete deterrent to me. They're not even prizes the car has won (not that it matters because most car show judges seem to be blinkered BMC-fanciers) it just records that all you do is go to every single shitty little show every Sunday and sit next to your car all day not moving an inch, boring the tits of anyone who is unfortunate to ask a sensible question about it then wishes they hadn't.

[michael1703]

Plaque boards are a complete deterrent to me. They're not even prizes the car has won (not that it matters because most car show judges seem to be blinkered BMC-fanciers) it just records that all you do is go to every single shitty little show every Sunday and sit next to your car all day not moving an inch, boring the tits of anyone who is unfortunate to ask a sensible question about it then wishes they hadn't.

 

 

and whats even sadder is the new one that has a slight border of plaques, hide it away until its covered you sad man