Event Festival of the Unexceptional 2019 - free camping and free breakfast available!

[Ghosty]

Cats' face just says 'WHAT HAVE I SPAWNED'

[mitsisigma01]

20 hours ago, Ghosty said:

An interesting thing noted at the FoD is that both mine and Mr. Fowler's Volvos are orignally Surrey registered. There's a good chance they might even have come from the same dealership when new! 

And my Sigma was first owned by a Buckinghamshire company and Mr Fowlers Volvo was a Horsham /Gatwick car local to me! 

[flat4alfa]

Glad Tony Harrison took so many photos, I did tease him that many of us won't been needing to take many photos as he'll have it covered...  And here we are!

Tony is one if the founding members of BetaBoyz club, and was in the pristine white Beta Coupe 

[beko1987]

10 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Glad Tony Harrison took so many photos, I did tease him that many of us won't been needing to take many photos as he'll have it covered...  And here we are!

Tony is one if the founding members of BetaBoyz club, and was in the pristine white Beta Coupe 

I didn't bother taking many pictures at the FoD because @quicksilver had that more than covered! 

[trigger]

I didn't take many photos as I forgot my bastard camera!

[ianamk]

I will tow the company line for the first paragraph.

Thank you all who attended, it takes a huge amount of planning  and we all volunteer to man the event....its not in our contract to impersonate a Police officer or dress like an 80s keep fit fanatic. It's nice to see our efforts resulted in an enjoyable day!

 

Now,towing the personal line.

I am well aware I let a "few" Autoshite members into the classic car parking without a ticket, I'm yet to receive your bribes so a parking ticket is on route!! However, I refused to put a faded MK3 cavalier into a carpark,surround by dull plastic blobs........I may or maybe not be responsible for parking a certain car near the toilets. 

If you have any images of me wafting around or abandoning the Defender,feel free to share! Never under estimate what 90m of red electrical tape can do!

If you have any feedback or ideas,feel free to PM me.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

I didn't take many photos as I forgot my bastard camera!

'Film Stars' are in supposed to be in front of the lense anyhow 

[flat4alfa]

4 minutes ago, ianamk said:

 

When I saw the Carabinieri on the way in I did chuckle!

Fantastic effort!

[egg]

Another one I found wot I like.

[wuvvum]

Ooh, arty.

[Six-cylinder]

49 minutes ago, ianamk said:

I may or maybe not be responsible for parking a certain car near the toilets. 

I had been looking for the culprit who spoiled my picture of the toilets!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I had been looking for the culprit who spoiled my picture of the toilets!

To be fair, the toilets were probably the right place for it. Missed a trick by not getting a Ferrari to park on the other side....

[Brodders]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

When I saw the Carabinieri on the way in I did chuckle!

Fantastic effort!

Same here, it was a great touch.

On the day, PBK and I were admiring the handiwork of those responsible for finding the only modern which could fit so perfectly under that tree, so top marks for that too. 

[ianamk]

By the time we got to 10:30, both me and my fellow officer of the law were exhausted! Basically we were being more flamboyant in our directions and clapping every italian car.....mearly waving non Italians in.

Surprised I missed a Ferrari !

The idea of the Carabinieri was conceived on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning was ordering army surplus trousers(they are genuine 1983 Carabinieri trousers) followed by purchasing 120m of red leccy tape from screw fix.....only 90m was used on the Landy.

The stickering was done in my single garage as it was raining outside.....hence the wonky effort.

So when I said months of planning.....slot is last minute. Com

 

 

 

[hairnet]

On 7/21/2019 at 8:25 PM, beko1987 said:

 

@JohnK he's not got any bruises on him anywhere has he? Did they save the face? (Sorry man, I'll tell her off in the morning!)

'please dont fall on me'

[hairnet]

ive been taking photos longer than @catsinthewelder has been alive 

i still get the photo of feet/grass/nostril

the pic of james at the tent door with his hand out is class

[clayts450]

Pistonheads coverage and comments

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1822062

[beko1987]

This is where we find out if @trigger can handle the fame! 

[clayts450]

AR Online

https://www.aronline.co.uk/opinion/events-2019-hagerty-festival-of-the-unexceptional

 

[SiC]

On 7/22/2019 at 10:05 PM, ianamk said:

I will tow the company line for the first paragraph.

Thank you all who attended, it takes a huge amount of planning  and we all volunteer to man the event....its not in our contract to impersonate a Police officer or dress like an 80s keep fit fanatic. It's nice to see our efforts resulted in an enjoyable day!

 

Now,towing the personal line.

I am well aware I let a "few" Autoshite members into the classic car parking without a ticket, I'm yet to receive your bribes so a parking ticket is on route!! However, I refused to put a faded MK3 cavalier into a carpark,surround by dull plastic blobs........I may or maybe not be responsible for parking a certain car near the toilets. 

If you have any images of me wafting around or abandoning the Defender,feel free to share! Never under estimate what 90m of red electrical tape can do!

If you have any feedback or ideas,feel free to PM me.

Well your outfit was convincing enough for my wife to genuinely question why the Italian police were guiding people into the event!

[Jon]

Trigger winning a plastic mug makes news in New Zealand:

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/114449730/unexceptional-morris-marina-estate-wins-grand-motor-show-title#comments

Apologies in advance for the 'news' link - I usually avoid stuff.co.nz like the plague but was searching for another atricle someone had mentioned to me. Anyway, it reads like many other stories I've read online covering the event, so is mostly directly quoted press release. But whatever, Trigger is now famous* in both hemispheres!

Anyone got any other links to other foreign countries picking up the story?

 

EDIT: Please don't scroll down to the comments section, as they often make Youtube comments look intelligent and well measured. 

[egg]

Also in the Mail

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-7272575/The-best-Festival-Unexceptional-car-drab-models.html

[trigger]

'Reallyloud' Darren has done a really good feature on the car and classic website with lots of photos.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/magazine/2019/festival-of-the-unexceptional-2019/

And it's also in Classic Car Weekly.

[Ghosty]

@purplebargeken Did you see the Apache?

[SiC]

7 hours ago, Ghosty said:

@purplebargeken Did you see the Apache?

Yes, he was drooling!

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, I did and I was. Loved it, it looked familiar yet not, first one I have ever seen

[Joey spud]

I thought that was a decent write up from 'Reallyloud' Darren.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 7/24/2019 at 1:35 AM, Jon said:

Trigger winning a plastic mug makes news in New Zealand:

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/114449730/unexceptional-morris-marina-estate-wins-grand-motor-show-title#comments

 

23 hours ago, egg said:

Also in the Mail

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-7272575/The-best-Festival-Unexceptional-car-drab-models.html

I notice a fair few of the reports have just cribbed off each other more or less verbatim. Saves money instead of having to actually attend the whole thing..... #lazyjournalism

[ianamk]

On 7/23/2019 at 10:56 PM, SiC said:

Well your outfit was convincing enough for my wife to genuinely question why the Italian police were guiding people into the event!

 

Love it,genuinely one of the best compliments received! We are trying to decide what European police force will be parking cars next year......but I feel I've set the bar rather high!

The Car and Classic write up is probably one of the most in depth write up to dates,excellent!

[Zelandeth]

Seems like this is probably the most logical place for me to dump my photos from the day, in no particular order.  I've not seen these on an actual monitor yet, so forgive me if they're still in need of some editing.