Vintage steam Rally - Widnes 27/09/15 (pic heavy)

[Bren]

Some pics from the rally -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favourite was the galaxie station wagon - seen in every early 70's cop show, but at eighteen and a half feet long you may struggle to park it at aldi.

 

The yellow cougar was for sale for £9.5 k, it was tidy with the 302ci motor.

The sublime green cuda had a 340ci lump.

A nice afternoon, lots for the kids to do, stationary engines and many other things, also free admission.

[anonymous user]

Were there steam engines as well, or just a load of HGF?

[Bren]

No full size traction engines, but many stationary ones.

 

I took a few pics but there were quite a few cars on show.

[mercrocker]

That Cougar would seem to be reasonably priced.....

[Cavcraft]

An AR80 and a Mk2 Cavalier SRi? Worth the entrance fee alone.

[hairnet]

coulda gone to this ffs  *upset as fuck*

[Grundig]

I went along to this today, parked at the collage & rode up to the park on the old double decker bus - forgot my camera so no pics 

No full size traction engines, but many stationary ones.

 

 

There was one full size over by the steam powered fire pump thing  -  red & yellow in colour, it was driving a generator 

 

An AR80 and a Mk2 Cavalier SRi? Worth the entrance fee alone.

 

FREE admission & good weather inc 

[the judge]

I live literally a 2 minute walk from this,but had domestic nonsense to attend to. Most annoyed,I thought it would be pants!!!! My daughter went with her auntie and said there was a spitfire there,I thought she meant a Triumph and not a plane!!! Gahhh

[Bren]

I have gone the last couple of years - to be fair it is very good considering it is free.

[PiperCub]

Loved my Cav SRi I owned for about a year in the mid-90's, from an era when Vauxhall knew how to build decent cars people actually wanted to own and were proud to own too.

 

AR80 's - one of the best bikes ever to ride utterly flat out and feel like you are doing 100mph (despite the reality being just over half that) with surprisingly good handling and braking for such a tiddler. Shame you seldom see them now, guess they all got thrashed and trashed!

 

Free entrance fee? Wow, nothing free down here!! (Jealous? - erm, yes). Looks like a real good show from your photos, love the variety even if not all are my taste, much more interesting than the one marque or one type shows.

[Banger Kenny]

I live literally a 2 minute walk from this,but had domestic nonsense to attend to. Most annoyed,I thought it would be pants!!!! My daughter went with her auntie and said there was a spitfire there,I thought she meant a Triumph and not a plane!!! Gahhh

 

There was both (on Saturday) - just like a good old "classic car cliche" spotter game

Annoyingly they had no Messerschmitt's to get full marks - only "someone's about to get their bubble burst" etc. etc.

I did like the bus trip from the car park - (why didn't I do this for the past two years I've visited instead of walking up the hill is beyond me! ) gutted I didn't do my best Jack Harper/Blakey impression

This honey is usually at the brill Transport Museum in St Helens doing trips on show days.

[sloth]

DAT BUS.

 

 

 

 

SPENT.