Flower Farm Four: AS South East meet up! Sun 12th April 2026

[Leyland Worldmaster]

6 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Oh and lastly, man with Audi A2 performs obligatory bonnet removal trick.

@Leyland Worldmaster

 

Cheers to a great morning and early afternoon! Great to catch up with members I've not seen for three years and also meet some new faces!

 

[richardmorris]

27 minutes ago, Three Speed said:

Many thanks to @inconsistant for organising this. Masking tape and Felton worked well for name badges. Great to meet people and have some interesting chats about all sorts of stuff. All good - nice to see so many different vehicles and people and put faces to names I’ve only seen online and to catch up with some I’ve met before. Sorry not to speak with everyone - will try to fix that next time. And take more photos.
Never saw the Ewe tree. Will look out for it next time.

Yew tree is in the grave yard at St George’s crowhurst.  

[richardmorris]

TIPO decided to have its first electrical hiccup and error message on the way back- infotainment system not available,! That lasted about 30seconds before it reset itself.  Obviously telling me I should have come in the new* car.

[FakeConcern]

Great meeting at Flower Farm (thanks @inconsistant!) Mrs Concern and I really enjoyed meeting everyone and seeing the interesting cars.

I took a few crap phone pics so here they are

The Invacar was Mrs Concern's favourite

Handlebars!

Des very kindly let Mrs Concern sit in it, but I can't find the photo I took (just thought that it must have been on her phone!)

Great little detail!

Triumph had the same sun roof as my first Mini, Mrs Concern reminded my of the time the deflector hit an owl in France!

The SJ410 was a time warp car

Also had a great chat with @Sir Chocolate Teapot about them as I used one for work back in the 80s

Red!

 

Citycar...

Aldi

Aldi in bits

Engine access is amazing compared to Mrs Concern's Modus!

Noisy black 200 (I was going to say Sylvia!)

I managed not to take pics of lots of others and somehow didn't see a Tipo at all!

 

 

[Three Speed]

28 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Obviously telling me I should have come in the new* car.

Exactly this. My Traction Avant has never displayed any error messages and I guarantee yours won’t either.

By the way I jiggled a wire and brought my wipers back to life.

[CaptainBoom]

4 hours ago, lisbon_road said:

A fine event and good to see everyone.  Thanks to @inconsistantfor organising us.  

Many fine cars and my pictures would add nothing.  I still think that the Citroen Traction Avant is the coolest car out there, being so far ahead of its time.  Mine in contrast is probably the least technically adventurous.........except of course running on LPG, so here's a picture at the petrol station in Fleet on the way home and the price, which is mysteriously less than anywhere else south of Birmingham.  Hopefully see you all next time.  Perhaps next time we will see @RobT, @Stanky and @CaptainBoom?  Hope they are all ok (I know Rob is ok as away on holiday) 

 

Apologies, I received some bad news early morning about an ex-work colleague who helped me out a lot when I started in my first job (he was like a second father to me).  I dropped everything to head to North Essex see him one last time, I've only just come back, shattered.

It looks like it was a superb turn-out, and the weather was kind to you (which always helps).  It's very heartening to see the variety of Southern Autoshiters.

[wesacosa]

3 minutes ago, CaptainBoom said:

Apologies, I received some bad news early morning about an ex-work colleague who helped me out a lot when I started in my first job (he was like a second father to me).  I dropped everything to head to North Essex see him one last time, I've only just come back, shattered.

It looks like it was a superb turn-out, and the weather was kind to you (which always helps).  It's very heartening to see the variety of Southern Autoshiters.

Really sorry to hear that, Dan. 

[inconsistant]

@CaptainBoom Dan you were missed. Sounds much more important than old cars and there’s always next year. 

[inconsistant]

Thanks everyone! What a great turn out, just when I was starting to think classic car meets were getting a bit samey we pulled that line up out of the bag! Nice one fellow shitters!

A special big thanks to those of you who travelled quite a distance to be there, it’s much appreciated. 

The Kitten Reliant and the CityRover in PLi  spec (pig leather interior) really made my day. Thanks @wesacosa and @Weird Car!

 

 

@Weird Car

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Yoss said:

Oh and lastly, man with Audi A2 performs obligatory bonnet removal trick.

@Leyland Worldmaster

 

Yea, repeatedly! Held it like a shield! Stunning design tho, and how many miles on Alison?  Brilliant

[AltheJazzman]

On 4/12/2026 at 5:26 PM, LightBulbFun said:

hey look, I actually made it this time  

many thanks to @inconsistant for arranging the gathering and to everyone who had kind/nice things to say about REV! glad people enjoyed her presence  

twas good to see @wesacosa made it with the Reliant Kitten, and @Three Speed's daily driver traction avant is fantastic, it reminds me a lot of @Sunny Jim's C15 in how its got all the little trinkets and bits n bobs that you see in a vehicle thats been owned and daily driven for a long time, and not just a show queen  

 

highlight reaction of the day is the fellow shitter who's name escapes me, at the end of the gathering as I was setting off asking me how far i have to go, to which I responded with my route plan and he responds back with something along the lines of "Oh you where not joking when you said you'd been on M25 earlier!" 

'twas I who was stunned at your bravery amongst HGV's and SUV's.

On 4/12/2026 at 7:14 PM, vtec-e said:

Glad to make it to Flower farm even though I was a late arrival, there's always one! My first time to FF and good to meet you all and your cars. I was pleased to assist improving the bonnet opening /closing on the Corsa van, and thanks to @Yoss for a handy rag to wipe off the excess lubrication on my skin.  

@Peter C I was on your wing until a mile before the M40, when the BMW M140 between us failed to keep up with your acceleration. My last sight of you was overtaking on the outside lane of the M40 slip road heading West, from my view point on the M40 East slip road. The MG appeared to run well with no odours or smoke emitted and easily keeping up with the other traffic. Though I was disappointed to not hear any rattling bass when alongside you!

 

Thanks for the spontaneous help @vtec-e and @inconsistant. Being able to open my bonnet is helpful sometimes, although I try not to do it too often. @Weird Car I have found your Youtube channel so I hope to see some interesting odd cars there.

Thanks everyone else for taking photos. I have stolen a few to remind me of the day, and to post something visual in my project thread when it catches up with present time. Meeting everyone in person did inspire me to write over a year's worth of updates on that thread which was more fun than I expected.

We had superb variety of shite, and filled our corner of the overflow car park.

[worldofceri]

Love this. I don’t think you could organise a more  varied and interesting car show if you rented out a stately home for the day and got an insurance company to promote it.

[High Jetter]

55 minutes ago, worldofceri said:

Love this. I don’t think you could organise a more  varied and interesting car show if you rented out a stately home for the day and got an insurance company to promote it.

Diary it for next year? 

[Vantman]

On 12/04/2026 at 15:05, Weird Car said:

Brilliant day, I’m really glad I managed to shift some things around in order to be there, as I said it’s basically a yearly tradition at this point 

 

I’m pretty sure I managed to say hi to everyone this time, sorry if I missed you though 

 

thanks to @inconsistant for arranging it! 

Who owns the Peugeot electric van?

[wesacosa]

2 minutes ago, Vantman said:

Who owns the Peugeot electric van?

a friend of @AltheJazzman who's not on the forum 

[AltheJazzman]

13 hours ago, wesacosa said:

a friend of @AltheJazzman who's not on the forum 

It was pure coincidence to see Will there as he was meeting a shiter to buy or sell some parts. 

The van is a Citroen Berlingo Electrique, and he has 5 of them! He recently lent that actual van to Hubnut for a YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/c-RHbx8WP2M?si=RukfwdFlorCwuZ4z

He also used to run a business called Datman supplying new old stock Datsun parts: http://datman.co.uk/contact.htm

 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, wesacosa said:

a friend of @AltheJazzman who's not on the forum 

I think he was invited by @LightBulbFun, some sort of illumination perversions interests IIRC

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

On 12/04/2026 at 17:15, lisbon_road said:

A fine event and good to see everyone.  Thanks to @inconsistantfor organising us.  

Many fine cars and my pictures would add nothing.  I still think that the Citroen Traction Avant is the coolest car out there, being so far ahead of its time.  Mine in contrast is probably the least technically adventurous.........except of course running on LPG, so here's a picture at the petrol station in Fleet on the way home and the price, which is mysteriously less than anywhere else south of Birmingham.  Hopefully see you all next time.  Perhaps next time we will see @RobT, @Stanky and @CaptainBoom?  Hope they are all ok (I know Rob is ok as away on holiday) 

 

I did not realise your astral was lpg, you did not realise my suzuki sj is also lpg !

But more importantly I am in basingstoke, where is this unicorn lpg station in fleet. Can I have the address please ?

Thx. Steve

[richardmorris]

19 minutes ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

I did not realise your astral was lpg, you did not realise my suzuki sj is also lpg !

But more importantly I am in basingstoke, where is this unicorn lpg station in fleet. Can I have the address please ?

Thx. Steve

Shell on Cove road near Fleet Pond according to autogas

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