Gaydon Motor Museum - 3/7/16

[Roverageous]

Late last night I decided that the thing to do today would be to visit Gaydon Motor Museum. I got there and it was some sort of Rover / BL tat show even type thing going on. Mr Hi-Viz warden wouldn't let me park my car in the main car park and insisted it should be parked in the arena with all the exhibitors. So that was jolly nice, or it would be if the front end wasn't covered in bird turds - and generally filthy. Ho hum, I parked up, abandoned it and pretended it wasn't mine.

 

Actually had a really good time and probably enjoyed looking at the 'show' more than the museum. If I'd paid £14.00 to just spend time in the museum I might think it wasn't particularly good value for money - not to mention there was no evidence of the first ever production Rover 75 which was probably more than half the reason I decided to visit. None of the staff seemed to know where it was - but it wasn't there.

 

Here are some visual highlights of the day:

 

All pumped up:

 

Diesel Countryman:

 

Special:

 

Purple R80OVR:

 

Hull registration:

 

FIT:

 

Honest:

 

Twins:

 

Scale:

 

Hydrolastic cheese:

 

This smelt just like my Dad's old one:

 

Ohhhhh yes:

 

Gatecrashing the 800 party:

 

Cute:

 

Lellow:

 

The red one was unfathomably shiny:

 

Aggressive:

 

MAJOR Rangie LUST for this:

 

Birdsplats:

 

Nom:

 

My Dad had one this colour, allegedly:

 

Shite, not shit:

 

HEY, ANYONE RECOGNISE THIS?

 

That's all folks.

[Brodders]

I can't think of anything else to say apart from that looks like it was quite a line up at the show.

 

Did you get to see any of the BL or ARGroup concepts? Some of them really do look nice from what I have seen on here, and pointed to a bright future that, unfortunately, never quite materialised.

[HMC]

I recognised the moto bild suspended ex-partridge fastback. I was hoping to get across to see the revamped exhibitions during shitefest but didnt manage it. Hopefully they've got more of their BL/arg curiosities on display, I'd love to get up close and personal with the 2 door saloon metro and the " pizza delivery " MGF / metro development mule.

[Roverageous]

The main museum was good and nicely done, but must admit the collection in the other building was a bit... I don't know how to put it.

 

Lots of unloved cars there 😕

 

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[trigger]

I would have loved to have gone to this, i was thinking about going to the museum next Sunday in fact, sooner gone to this though and made more of a day of it.

[Flossy]

Any idea what reg the red sd1 was? A very clean b reg one passed me on the way back from Chester about 6 last night

[Motown]

On 7/3/2016 at 8:31 PM, Roverageous said:

Gatecrashing the 800 party:

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z378/timhough1989/Gaydon%203716/20160703_132742_zpsaylebfss.jpg

Always nice to see an old picture of my car 😍👍

[somewhatfoolish]

Photobucket really are a massive collection of turds.