FoTU 2022? Completed it, M8.

[Skcat]

Was a lot of fun! Some of my spots! 

Funny enough I test drove this w123 last year, Glad to see it got a loving owner! 

[Soundwave]

A few more pics? Oh, go on then... 

 

[mat_the_cat]

4 hours ago, Soundwave said:

Particular highlight was being a couple of cars behind @mat_the_cat's V8 Stellar on the way home, and listening to lovely V8 noises. Then going our separate ways, and then somehow ending up in front of him on the A46. More lovely V8 noises as he overtook!

Ah, I stopped off in Melton Mowbray to have a look at the house my grandparents used to live in, so I guess that's how you got in front without noticing!

I thought I spotted you winding the window down as I passed 😀  I've just got back now, after another enjoyable drive - it really does make me grin.

[wuvvum]

A couple of photos that I took.

Here is a view of the concours area taken from the steps of the house.

But wait, do mine eyes deceive me?  There, in the foreground.

That looks to me suspiciously like a wild @alcyonecorporation, outside of his natural habitat...

Later on as I was leaving this surprisingly tame deer watched me go, having previously checked out @dollywobbler's Ford.

On the subject of critters, there was also a hamster.

[Soundwave]

And a few more... 

[wuvvum]

Wow, I managed to completely miss that blue Mitsubishi estate.

[GregZX]

2 hours ago, N19 said:

Random snaps. 

That Solara Minx came all the way from Glasgow. A common sight on the southside of the city. I've had a wee chat with the owner on FaceBook as he gets it MOTd at the same garage I get my ZX done.

[Spottedlaurel]

What a great day! Highlight for me was the lovely Manta A conveniently sitting on the corner of a block so it could be properly admired, and seeing the Peugeot 604 and Renault 30 drive along in convoy when I was standing close to a CX. They're the Holy Trinity I try and find on French holidays, and I managed it this year before I've even got there. Way too many other cars to list.

Also fantastic to catch up with people who I've been going to shows with for approaching 30 years in some cases, and to see the younger members of SL family + daughter's boyfriend enjoy the day. If the date works out OK next year there could be a convoy....

[GR8 PL8 M8]

5 hours ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Admiring those unexceptional cars in the park

If anyone is in the FOTU Facebook group I encourage you to check out the ongoing "Colin the Cayman" argument. Apparently a modern luxury sports car is "unexceptional" because it's a 1 of 2 colour? Correct me if I'm wrong but that surely makes it more desirable to the masses? I'm not joining in but I'm reaching for the popcorn...

Most of the other cars I'd put down to steward error or the driver not knowing the rules/system.  I'm sure I saw a Healey Enigma in my rear view on the way in, I wouldn't have minded that ending up in the wrong car park as I quite wanted to have a look at it! A quick scout of the modern car park didn't locate it but I did find some misdirected chod.

The Maserati MC20 confused me, it had a piece of paper on the dash saying "guest and media", I don't know why they couldn't have put it on show but somewhere else. Maybe by the toilets...?

[Schaefft]

I guess it's not particularly unexceptionable but I was surprised to see this SVX parked close to the moderns. Apparently a media/guest car. Also bonus super clean E39.

[wuvvum]

That's @alcyonecorporation's Alcyone isn't it?

[N19]

re: modern cars

What might be an interesting addition for future years is an area for 'future unexceptionals' ie cars registered in the last 10 years that, in another 20 years time, will be the bread and butter of these events. (if we can afford fuel at £7.65 a litre, and the planned ULEZ expansion to Peterborough of 2037 doesn't materialise).

[JJ0063]

2 minutes ago, N19 said:

re: modern cars

What might be an interesting addition for future years is an area for 'future unexceptionals' ie cars registered in the last 10 years that, in another 20 years time, will be the bread and butter of these events. (if we can afford fuel at £7.65 a litre, and the planned ULEZ expansion to Peterborough of 2037 doesn't materialise).

Basically a designated car park for Dacias?

[WillCarter]

28 minutes ago, GR8 PL8 M8 said:

If anyone is in the FOTU Facebook group I encourage you to check out the ongoing "Colin the Cayman" argument. Apparently a modern luxury sports car is "unexceptional" because it's a 1 of 2 colour? Correct me if I'm wrong but that surely makes it more desirable to the masses? I'm not joining in but I'm reaching for the popcorn...

Most of the other cars I'd put down to steward error or the driver not knowing the rules/system.  I'm sure I saw a Healey Enigma in my rear view on the way in, I wouldn't have minded that ending up in the wrong car park as I quite wanted to have a look at it! A quick scout of the modern car park didn't locate it but I did find some misdirected chod.

The Maserati MC20 confused me, it had a piece of paper on the dash saying "guest and media", I don't know why they couldn't have put it on show but somewhere else. Maybe by the toilets...?

Just been reading this, truly embarrassing. The bloke not only arguing that it being apparently a rare spec combination makes it unexceptional but then tripling down on it made me want to cringe my face off. And then the barely literate owner (who is a friend of Mike Brewer in case you wanted to know) saying people are only complaining because she's a woman was the icing on the cake. That's enough secondhand embarrassment for one night.

[Gompo]

31 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

I guess it's not particularly unexceptionable but I was surprised to see this SVX parked close to the moderns. Apparently a media/guest car. Also bonus super clean E39.

I suspect the E39 is also a 'media' car, I think it is Paul Garlick's, who used to be connected to Pistonheads and is probably somewhere else now after some time in the promo 'wilderness'.

[Sunny Jim]

Home now and knackered. I left at 5am and got home at 11.30pm with 500 miles of driving in between which makes my average speed for the entire day 27mph!

Thanks for the photos, I didn't get round to taking many and any that I did take would now be duplicates so I won't bother posting them.

[alcyonecorporation]

1 hour ago, Schaefft said:

I guess it's not particularly unexceptionable but I was surprised to see this SVX parked close to the moderns. Apparently a media/guest car. Also bonus super clean E39.

Yea, that's mine. I didn't feel it was unexceptional, like the CX, various DSs, the Avantime, several Caymans and an MC20 I saw on the back field. 

The media car park could have been a weird little diversion but it was just Paul's car and mine I think. 

I made it home despite the best efforts of a ricked battery and an unhappy starter. Neither are hard or expensive to replace, eh. 

And yea, the E39 is Paul Garlick's. 

I parked there because I was told to park there [was covering the show for a mag]. 
I also backed into a sign and fell into a hedge while using said ladders, so there's also that. 

[MJK 24]

What machinery did the Hamster man arrive in?  

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

There, in the foreground.

That looks to me suspiciously like a wild @alcyonecorporation

Steps tribute band in spectacular fail!

[alcyonecorporation]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

Steps tribute band in spectacular fail!

There was a sign on it. 

It said,

'Beware: steps' 

[Lacquer Peel]

I took very many pictures. Please enjoy this condensed selection of shite and the Renault van next to A Bridge. 

[rml2345]

Excellent day out, although it appears I missed flipping loads of good stuff. Will need to be a bit more thorough next time.

Meanwhile, here's a picture of some of the Scottish contingent on the way home. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Volvo Volvo Volvo & outliers

[Lacquer Peel]

Sweden 🤝 Scotland

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Lacquer Peel said:

I took very many pictures. Please enjoy this condensed selection of shite and the Renault van next to A Bridge. 

Is the 323 wagon Hirst?

[Spottedlaurel]

3 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Is the 323 wagon Hirst?

No, he wasn't there (sadly).

[wuvvum]

7 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

What machinery did the Hamster man arrive in?  

Oliver the Opel off of the Botswana episode.

[wesacosa]

some great pictures by everyone. Despite being there over 5 hours and walking the site multiple times there are many cars I don't remember seeing. Guess there just too much to take in

[Coops]

Thoroughly enjoyable day yesterday. Managed to get Captain Peacock there and back, 110 miles each way, with a dodgy leaking clutch slave cylinder (big bottle of dot4 to top up) and an equally dodgy oil leak (1/2 a litre top up each way). Plenty of interesting things to look at. Here he is in position in his magnificent Russet Brown-ness. I was very surprised to see 2 othe Princesses, especially one in the concourse!

[Pieman]

13 hours ago, N19 said:

 

Is that owned by anyone on here?  That's identical to the Escort my dad owned when I was little.