London to Brighton run (pic heavy!)

[barrett]

(Let me just start buy saying that my camera is totally fooked, the screen is broken so I can't change any settings or see how the pictures come out until I upload them. For some reason it's really biased towards the left of the frame...)

 

Anyway, lots of utter dross in the kit car section today, but a nice big turnout compared to the last couple of years. Great weather too, and Jon Presnell doing the comparing in possibly the least irritating way, which was nice.

 

saw this on the way down, strange to think but it's probably one of the rarest vehicles I saw today

 

This Plymouth Fury wasn't part of the run, but it was parked up a bit further along the trip. VERY old passenger.

 

I got there really early, and when I arrived this was pretty much all that was there. Post-vintage Humber club always pull out a nice selection of motors at this event

 

Y DONT U MAKE IT INTO A CAMPER MATE?

 

Annoyingly, this was lumped in with the kit cars down the far end. I thought most of these were factory built anyway?

 

this was a right bag of LOLZ. And when I say 'LOLZ', I mean 'shit'

 

Continued anon...

[brammy777]

Looks great! I havent been to Brighton for ages now. I really like that Toyota camper, sometimes the best spots are the ones which arent even part of the show.

[barrett]

Yeh, the Hiace was a lucky find. anyhoo, MOAR:

 

One of these ones. yeh.

 

Lagonda

 

tatty Daimler Conquest

 

Car of the show for me was this lovely early Gilbern GT with nice 'welsh' rego

guess da rear lites y'all

 

 

1.3 litres of POWAH. Good Marina/Ital turnout today actually, the only genuine shite there

 

This bird was posing for photos at the finish line. She was dressed as Marylin Monroe and had quite amazing breasts

 

More Marinas

 

impossible to get a good shot of this as it was parked rather awkwardly. Was running an MGB-spec motor and looked really smart

 

For Seth

 

 

this was amazing, driven by a proper Sid & Doris too.

 

Mercury Park Lane V8. This car was so big, I couldn't fit the whole thing in any shots.

 

Ultra-rare Trident Ventura, big fan of these

 

ok, few more to come soon....

[seth]

Can it really get any better than a Marina with a vinyl roof, pinstripe tape and slot mags

 

Those Glibern lights look flashy. Aston DB? Alvis? Something like that.

[barrett]

Some great 'plates today, This one must be worth a fair bit

 

Shipshape and blah blah blah you get the idea

 

shit photo, even by these shoddy standards, but these were being crawled over by everyone that saw them. Didn't get a chance to ask what the deal was with the nearly consecutive plates. GR3 for MPG!

 

it's not just a Vauxhall...

it's a 101 series estate! Pretty rare now, shirley?

 

for Tayne

 

Ancient woman in the passenger seat made the sign of the cross when this Imp finally came to a rest here, she looked totally relieved. Gave me a big grin just before I took this, bet she's a right lovely old bird

 

Note dutch_grrl, not even trying to look like she isn't bored shitless by the sight of this rather lovely signwritten CA

 

 

This is a Sunbeam-Talbot, which surely qualifies as vintage shite (pre-shite, perhaps?)

 

Talbot-Darraq engine with a lovely finned thingy... This is a sleeve valve engine, right?

 

finally, a mental Rover V8 powered Corsair. Ugly, but no doubt very potent.

 

Think that's more or less it now. Just realised i've caught the sun pretty badly, but other than that had a nice day out. Need to get to more car shows, I do love being surrounded by so many other nerds, even ones who drive Sherpa Coupes and E-types (of which there were loads)

[Minimad5]

Great pictures !

 

Dutch_grrl looks rather pretty , you sir are a winner

 

Thanks for sharing your pictures

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

What absolutely superb pictures. I do like that Corsair and the Conquest most of all.

[barrett]

Can it really get any better than a Marina with a vinyl roof, pinstripe tape and slot mags

 

Those Glibern lights look flashy. Aston DB? Alvis? Something like that.

bit more prosaic than either of those! I reckon someone on here might even own one...

[Richard]

Can it really get any better than a Marina with a vinyl roof, pinstripe tape and slot mags

 

Those Glibern lights look flashy. Aston DB? Alvis? Something like that.

bit more prosaic than either of those! I reckon someone on here might even own one...

Austin A40?

[barrett]

Yup! 10 points!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

MGB!

[Marshall]

Whats the story with them Trident things? Never heard of them. Are they anything to do with AC or is that badge just a confusion? Nice looking thing though.

[carlo]

Whats the story with them Trident things? Never heard of them. Are they anything to do with AC or is that badge just a confusion? Nice looking thing though.

I think they were something to do with the TVR group? Lovely pictures, are those Oldsmobiles with the MAS reg?

[wuvvum]

Chryslers, I think, aren't they? There's a black one of those which I occasionally see round Norwich.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Liking the Marilyn Monroe lookyliky.

 

[Rusty Pelican]

I know the Imps owner , lovely person , passenger must be a relative of hers , the relieve sign was because the dynamos borked , just running with two fully charged batterys , which is swapped over when it goes flat , she lives in S, Wales and has to drive home like this , Autoshite the Imping way

[GJR 11L]

Tail lights (Gilbern/A40) are also as used on late Wolseley 1500 and Riley 1.5, are there points for extra anorakage?

 

How can a normal, Human woman not be moved to slight moistness by the very sight of the sexiest vehicle ever to be built in the UK; the CA? Has nobody told her the old "Male CA drivers and others travelling in the vehicle are entitled to fingers & tops at the very least, from any European female who stands still beside the vehicle for long enough to have a photo taken" rule?

 

[barrett]

The Ventura was an abortive TVR project that got taken over by a TVR dealer who built approx. 90 of them. The TVR versions looked a bit nicer, with pop-up headlights, but there were only 4 or 5 of those built... styling by Trevor Fiore, if that's not obvious already.

 

The matching yanks are Chryslers, wish i'd got a bit of info on them as i'm sure there was a story to tell there.

 

GJR11L, i'll try and explain this to the missus, but I doubt it'll hold much water. I'm sure after a day of me walking past E-types and Ferraris to snap dodgy old Marinas has left her confused enough.

[michiel]

Great shots, en doe dutch_grrl maar de hartelijke groeten vanuit Amsterdam!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Whats the story with them Trident things? Never heard of them. Are they anything to do with AC or is that badge just a confusion? Nice looking thing though.

I think they were something to do with the TVR group? Lovely pictures, are those Oldsmobiles with the MAS reg?

I think so. Didn't some kind of crisis at TVR cause one of their dealers (Viking) to set up Trident cars to manufacture these from the TVR Trident prototype after TVR went bust? Or something like that.

 

David

[mattblack]

 

Whaddya know... I 'spotted' that Sceptre in Margate in 2005!