Gaydon Festival of Transport

[quicksilver]

As I mentioned in the grin thread, yesterday I went to the newly-renamed and reopened British Motor Museum in Gaydon. It was one of their event days, the Festival of Transport, a general show featuring classic cars, emergency vehicles and military vehicles - there wasn't a huge number of cars there, probably 20-30 as there are so many other events on this weekend, but a few things of interest. All of these photos are of visiting vehicles and I'm not going to include the contents of the Collection Centre as I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't been yet - suffice to say there is some epic chod in there. For the benefit of those wanting to visit during the Shitefest weekend, Gaydon is about 30 miles from Buckingham, an easy drive through Brackley and Banbury.

 

Anyway, that's enough waffle. Have some pics.

 

The Midas club were there

2008 Midas Excelsior by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

This thing is road-legal. Imagine trundling to the shops in it!

1998 Alvis CVRT Stormer by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

The words of Herr Junkman came to mind when I saw this. "It's fucked", no wait, the other one

1959 Porsche 356 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Nicely original daily driver P6

1965 Rover P6 2000 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Lanchester. According to Flickr auto-tags it's a racing car!

1951 Lanchester LD10 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Not sure what the Challenge was here - how little equipment can you add to your special edition?

1990 Rover Metro 1.1 Challenge by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

This LeaF was rather stylish

1948 Lea Francis Roadster by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Brown and diesel. Spectacular.

1976 Mercedes-Benz 240D by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Seen this a few times but it warrants another look

1975 Renault 6 TL by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

OMGOSFTAX

1972 Ford Cortina 1600 GXL by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Sherpa shite

1984 Freight-Rover Sherpa vintage replica by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Some bonus truck shite

S367 AAV by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Now that's what I call crabby!

1971 Austin 1800 S by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

The crab club had a few cars there

1971 Morris 1800 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Tiger Tiger, burning bright

1965 Sunbeam Tiger Series IV by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Early R8

1990 Rover 216 GSi by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Gott in Himmel. Ist das ein Reliant Robin?!

1976 Reliant Robin Super 850 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Hipster coffee van fail. It ain't no Citroen H

1969 Bedford CA by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

SVM Ambulance Service

2001 Volvo V90 Ambulance by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Woop woop, dat's da sound of da police

1993 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 PS by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

I predict a riot

2001 Ford Transit 190L Hi-Cube by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

And a fire engine to finish

P276 EON by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[oldcars]

Please post them just put a warning. There are scenes which some viewers may find distressing 

[Pillock]

I think I've still got tickets to get into Gaydon as they do the re-entry for a year, hopefully enough has changed that I might tootle down.

 

Thanks for the photos though, feel free to post more of the collection!

That G-plate R8 looks like one of the first, and on a Birmingham reg too - wonder if it was a Rover press fleet car?

[quicksilver]

By popular demand I will post some from the collection once I get them uploaded. I don't think Flickr can cope with such a large quantity of BL tat as the uploader has stopped working - when it's not falsely blaming the problem on my internet connection every photo either times out or is supposedly 'invalid'.

[Pillock]

It has fuzzy logic built in, when you try and upload photos of BL products it goes on strike.

[EssDeeWon]

Is the first 75 off the production line still parked inside? A wedgewood blue connie...

[quicksilver]

Is the first 75 off the production line still parked inside? A wedgewood blue connie...

Never seen that one there. The last 75 is in the Collection Centre though.