NEC Classic Car Show November 13th to 15th 2009

YOU THINK IM SHEARING MY MEAD .NOT A BLO|||Y CHANCE

I heard you'd gone tea total wingers??

Well I aim to pick you up around 8 am and you have to allow time for seconds !!!

better get plenty of sausages in wingers

Sorry no bangers left as they went up in smoke last weekend .................................................... I do have about 6 different types of tea including black and fruit ...BUT YOU AINT GETTING MY MEAD .

brilliant show British mini owners stand had a nice 59er on there stand which studdy jr and senior and ian were invited to sit in { wearing club shirts gets you reconized } start looking round together untill the over 40s went one way and the under40s went t other way then meet up for feeding time { ha ha you aint got long now senior } lots of frendly peaple who knew wot they were talking about . Ian and Dan took plenty of photos, to follow . now is time to Name your cars ....brilliant day for all who went

I was at this show yesterday too, we had a great time but it was very exhausting, there was soooo much to see

Wow what a great day !
I wuz a bit apprehensive as the media were giving us predictions of flash floods and hurricane force winds. I arrived at Wingnut Towers at about 0815 hours to pick up Wingnut and the Studd's who had been devouring the magnificent breakfast served up by the master of the house. Dan and Peter had been there since 0700 hours recieving a Mini Model tutorial from the master himself.
It did rain heavilly in places, but about halfway there the rain stopped and the rest of the journey was uneventful.
It took about two and a half hours to get there and we parked up and went in passing billboards advertising the forthcoming "attractions" at the NEC. One of them was a 1970's nostalgia bill, which only served to remind me why the decade was crap !
The car show was sharing the NEC with a dentistry exhibition, but we decided to give that a miss. The show was packed with people and we spent longer looking around than ever before.
Dan, Peter and Wingnut spent all their cash on Mini models, and I bought Jaguar books. We finally left the show after 6 pm but had trouble finding our way out of the NEC building, having to ask several officials for directions.
We left the NEC after 7 pm with Wingnut driving and found the A14 had much reduced traffic levels which made the return journey relaxing. We arrived back at Wingnut Towers at around 9-30 pm and I didn't get home until 10-15 pm.
It was a fantastic day with fantastic company. Pics to follow.

This was the 1959 car.

One of the unique cars there was this Triumph Herald hatchback prototype built in 1965 and now restored.

This sofa is a Triumph of engineering !

My last contribution as I shouldn't really be uploading pics in this section.
A 1966 Morris 1800 MK1 similar to the example my father had. Marvel at the space saving Issigonis interior.






It occurs to me that a strip style speedometer fitted to the 1800 and other cars of the period could be fitted to a Mini if slotted into a custom made dashboard.