NEC Classic Car Show - November

[beko1987]

Trigger appears to have broken down with an alternator failure on the way home...

[oldcars]

First time I'd got to see Trig's Marina too! IMG_20181109_111952.jpg

I thought that was his, i loved it. Class. WANT.

[oldcars]

Trigger appears to have broken down with an alternator failure on the way home...

Nightmare not what you want.

[dollywobbler]

I stayed locally last night. A45 in the dark was scary enough! Just about to start driving home.

[trigger]

Things didn't end so well for me, had a brilliant weekend at the show (although I wasn't there Saturday) where my Marina got a lot of good feedback, apparently the lads on the stand were inundated with people asking if that's Trigs car and if he was about!

 

 

Now bearing in mind the cars only done around 150 miles since 1981 so driving it 180 miles home was never going to be easy, I made it to Branston Hut service's where I stopped for some grub and a poo (I'm glad I went now!)

 

 

As when I came out the battery was completely flat!

 

 

My fan belt was loose and the battery had discharged itself and I nipped it up and jumped it off my power pack and hit the road again, made it another 50 miles before my lights started getting seriously dim...

 

 

So pulled of the A14 into the middle of nowhere and decided to make use of the my recovery on my insurance.

 

 

First man can out in a Transit and charged the battery up for me, meanwhile the owner of the house I was outside came out, I was expecting him to moan about the lights but he just wanted to look at the car and show me his Mk1 Escort that he had just finished restoring! Bit surreal!

 

Then a recovery lorry turned up to take me home!

 

 

 

Right result! Nice guy too who was more than happy to do the job as he was having a quiet night and was bored, chatted the last hour home and got back at midnight!

 

[worldofceri]

 

Bit quieter this morning.

[Wack]

Things didn't end so well for me, had a brilliant weekend at the show (although I wasn't there Saturday) where my Marina got a lot of good feedback, apparently the lads on the stand were inundated with people asking if that's Trigs car and if he was about!

 

 

Now bearing in mind the cars only done around 150 miles since 1981 so driving it 180 miles home was never going to be easy, I made it to Branston Hut service's where I stopped for some grub and a poo (I'm glad I went now!)

 

 

As when I came out the battery was completely flat!

 

 

My fan belt was loose and the battery had discharged itself and I nipped it up and jumped it off my power pack and hit the road again, made it another 50 miles before my lights started getting seriously dim...

 

 

So pulled of the A14 into the middle of nowhere and decided to make use of the my recovery on my insurance.

 

 

First man can out in a Transit and charged the battery up for me, meanwhile the owner of the house I was outside came out, I was expecting him to moan about the lights but he just wanted to look at the car and show me his Mk1 Escort that he had just finished restoring! Bit surreal!

 

Then a recovery lorry turned up to take me home!

 

 

 

Right result! Nice guy too who was more than happy to do the job as he was having a quiet night and was bored, chatted the last hour home and got back at midnight!

 

 

 

I once broke down in Norwich , guy turned up in an old ford cargo recovery truck to take me back to Warrington , got it on, hitched the trailer up and we set off , in a straight line from norwich to warrington, didn't go on a motorway, barely saw a dual carriageway , going up hills in derbyshire at 15mph , took 8 hours to get back

 

he said the AA only pay direct mileage so that's the way he goes , straight as a die, I bet it was only doing 5mpg up some of those hills

[anonymous user]

Looks like it was a good show, I haven't been for years as I'm not good in crowds, so thanks to everyone for the photos as I wouldn't get to see any of it otherwise

[Noel Tidybeard]

i suppose there's a lot of loom on an estate that could leak smoke so a small one from the altenator is a bonus!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Meanwhile, on the Motoren Werke Car Club stand, this classic:

 

Yeah, that's right. 

 

 

[danthecapriman]

Sorry to hear of your breakdown Trigger! Still, you looked fucking cool doing it in the gorgeous Marina wagon though!!

 

 

Note to self: get your arse to this event next year.

[CanaryinManc]

I once broke down in Norwich , guy turned up in an old ford cargo recovery truck to take me back to Warrington , got it on, hitched the trailer up and we set off , in a straight line from norwich to warrington, didn't go on a motorway, barely saw a dual carriageway , going up hills in derbyshire at 15mph , took 8 hours to get back

 

he said the AA only pay direct mileage so that's the way he goes , straight as a die, I bet it was only doing 5mpg up some of those hills

 

As one who was born and still has family in Norwich, but mostly lived in Manchester, I've had more than my fair share of this journey over the last 40 years. While the roads have improved over the years, the DCs and Motorways don't head in the right direction so even in a fast car don't save much time over the mostly single track A47/A17. I do normally go A1/M62/M60 though to avoid the crawl across A57/A616/A628 Woodhead Pass. Even so this trip has always taken 4.5 to 5 hours - traffic has increased as the roads have improved.

So I suspect given his limited speed your recovery driver would have been no quicker using the indirect motorways.

[rovamota]

We had a great weekend there and even had a disco light ball.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

WHOOOOAAAA! Reynard!  

 

 

2000HL? 

[oldcars]

We had a great weekend there and even had a disco light ball.

Loved your stand. All the things on the back wall with colour charts and stuff, brilliant.

[rovamota]

We do try to make an effort with our stand on a limited budget and your nice comments are appreciated. Some of the other club stands looked decidedly laclustre despite them probably having much more money and members than us.

[oldcars]

Loved this on the back wall.

[oldcars]

Few of the stars of the show for me. I don't take many photos but the car above and these below stood out for me.

 

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

We do try to make an effort with our stand on a limited budget and your nice comments are appreciated. Some of the other club stands looked decidedly laclustre despite them probably having much more money and members than us.

 

 

Always a good display Kev - but you must be relieved I wasn't there this year, asking to put a heavy carrier bag of seventies mags in the boot. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Meanwhile, on the Motoren Werke Car Club stand, this classic:

 

Yeah, that's right. 

 

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Marketing opportunity rather than genuine support for a classic show. Their PR department must be celebrating another coup.

[fordperv]

This guy was great

 

 

He saw me showing an interest in the vehicle, gave me a ww1 helmet to put on, he urged me to climb into the vehicle as well. While teaching me a bit of history

[trigger]

I had a good look at your Princess stand too, i thought it seemed a bit of a shame that they tucked you away in the corner a bit though.

[inconsistant]

Finally got a chance to add my photos, will try not to duplicate what's already been posted.

I thought it was a cracking show, with very little repetition from recent years.

Some really interesting cars across all halls with a lot I didn't know existed or had never seen before. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

Just edited up my show footage. It was well over an hour! I've trimmed it down to 54 minutes, but it'll still need a 'several cups of tea' warning. Should be live tomorrow.

[inconsistant]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Respect to the owner of this, who drove it all the way from Suffolk. Apparently the only car on the MB stand that wasn't trailered.

 

 

Car of the show for me, against very stiff competition, was this purple Gilbern Invader (?). MegaYum!

 

[dollywobbler]

Afraid that's not true about the only driven Merc. I saw the red drophead (not even sure which model it was, but fairly post-war) on the A45. I overtook it in the Invacar!

[Alfamale]

Can’t believe that nobody has mentioned this little honey:

 

 

Or for for rareness have a Saab Delta:

 

 

And then AlfaFemale surprised me with a pressie. She’d paid for me to have a go behind the wheel in a Delta Integrale. Had a whale of a time with the chap accompanying egging me on to keep the car on boost.

 

 

 

Great day out.

[richardmorris]

Saab delta pic looks amazingly like a Lancia! Am I missing a crucial link?

[Alfamale]

Saab rebadged the Delta and sold it as the 600. Never made it to the UK, or really sure which markets it was sold in to be honest.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

That might be a TiX, the 1982 Alfa GB limited edition based on the 95 bhp 1.5Ti to clear stocks. I had a chocolate brown one, UPH425X. That one hasn't got the (not unobtainium) lower body decals though but it's got the white grille.

They were almost all unregistered 1981 built cars that were tarted up.