Hirst at The Car Show

[Guest]

I went to Thornes Park. Here are the pictures with Autoshite-exclusive captions.

 

 

Escort Estate. Like the club slogan, it's about as original as "no job too big or small". Have to wonder what the MG boys nearby thought about their cars not being considered classics.

 

 

Doesn't really look right parked on a field with the radio turned off, it should be churning up the grass with We Call It Acieed blasting out of the speakers and a load of bony-fingered runt-of-the-litter types inside it waving bottles of cider around and threatening to chin everyone.

 

 

Beige Acclaim. It's quite an oddly dull shade of beige on these Acclaims, reminds me of schools programming. Super clean though!

 

 

"I'm going nowhere Lynn"

 

 

For sale: Strange selection of coats. Would suit vagabond, bag lady or similar.

 

 

No Place Like Home had a Cortina in it, didn't make it any less rubbish though. I wish there was an episode where the main bloke saw all the other characters lined up in the road and drove over them all, then went off a cliff. Might have been good, then.

 

More pictures to follow.

[Guest]

 

Is it an estate or a shooting brake? It's an estate, Vauxhall would never have called it a shooting brake. They should have done.

 

 

Stacker! I like these a lot, wonder how many mob hits this one has been involved with in its lifetime?

 

 

Look at that! Victor Estate. Mental. The estate version looks really clumsy, which helps.

 

 

Put your bonnet down! We don't need to see that.

 

 

GR8 4 INTERCEPTING PACKAGES DROPPED OUT OF A PLANE

 

 

Pog's Surveying Co, Poggleswade 733737. Cash only. No, no reason. I just don't like cheques or cards, all that fuss. You know how it is.

 

 

The People's Princess.

 

 

Mint Celica. Big bald man in the background, he was nothing to do with it.

 

 

I like this generation of Cresta, they're like a big slab where they just decided to put a little bit of coke bottle styling just in the end there.

 

 

Vega Cosworth Twin Cam! These are really interesting, but you're probably not bothered. Find out yourself. If you don't think that's a handsome car, you might want to re-evaluate your life.

 

 

Bonus back shot.

 

 

Best car there. Just look at it! It's not even a daft size, which means it is ideal for parking down narrow alleyways at night.

 

 

Bet you can get loads of empty coffee cups and Chinese takeaway cartons on that dashboard to boot.

 

And that's your lot! I didn't have much battery life left. Sorry.

[michiel]

Qual over quant eh? Good stuff.

[GJR 11L]

Grand selection there, one minor point:

[anorak]Your Victor Estate isn't a Victor Estate, it is in fact a VX2300 Estate.[/anorak]

But yes, it was a bit of a strange shape, bless its big, leaky engine.

 

Vega Cosworth Twin-cam? Thanks for drawing us into its world of weirdness, now I want one. The single camshaft version appears to have something in common with Skoda in the engine department, a thing that's addressed by the 16v version.

[pogweasel]

The single camshaft version appears to have something in common with Skoda in the engine department, a thing that's addressed by the 16v version.

Is this a game?

Is it an aluminium (a-loo-min-um) block with an iron head??

[GJR 11L]

That's exactly the quirk that I had in mind, Pogweasel. I'm sure there's a perfectly logical reason for that seemingly odd way of building an engine, but it always seemed arse-about-first to my mind.

[carlo]

I think that poor little girl's about to get eaten by that Dodge.

[Cavcraft]

MGB pick-up is lush.

Used to drive one for a tyre company and quite literally used to drop off super singles in it.

One time two fell off the back and nearly smashed in to some old giffer who went all crazy ape shit on my ass.

They were horrible things to drive but yet still had a weird sort of appeal to them.