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Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 7:57 pm
by JT7196
Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:28 pm
by John-B
Well done, Alan, to brave the rotten weather.
JT 7196 & TYF 173F & Q603 AAN (Moss written on spare wheel, Moss Roadster on DVLA) What's the Daimler radiator from? A DJ254? It's got a radiator cap which not all Daimlers had.
Heavy showers early, then Gillingham really copped a huge sleet storm about 11.00am. Car in ditch between Gillingham and Shaftesbury which failed to navigate a hairpin bend.
I lost my back end temporarily.
Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 3:20 pm
by Vortex O'Plinth
A small stand but two very nicely presented cars...
...and some very nice machinery in the car park ...
...even if it's not 'ours'.
Not wanting to have a serious 'de-mud' afterwards I left the SP at home and went in the Mustang, which ended up being parked behind an identical one - common as muck!
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Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:25 pm
by John-B
Alan, I didn't see the sucker-fixed overtaking mirror. Did it fall off?
(Not that you could do any overtaking in that car
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Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:14 pm
by John-B
Another two cars at the show:
The white one was with Ferraris, I think, but I immediately thought it didn't look like any Ferraris. I was told it's a replica with a BMW engine, but a replica of what? The rear lights look bog-standard mass-production lights and very un-Ferrari. However, the whole car looks very smart.
The Jaguar is huge, extremely wide. I'd love to drive it on a track, but on the road? It's from Haynes International Motor Museum at Sparkford, just down the road.
Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 5:11 pm
by JohnM
They were actually all replicas, John - made by a company called DNA Automotive. The white one is a DNA 2Fifty Cali, and is a rebodied BMW Z3. The others were (I think) a 3Sixty and 4Thirty which are MR2-based, and a 5Cudo, based on a Ford Cougar. They all looked pretty real to us, though!
Nick - didn't realise you were in the Mustang - we did hear a few "comments" about modern tin boxes as we sat eating our pasties, though
A'l - well done on organising the stand and more importantly the tea, biscuits and chairs! Pat and I were most appreciative ( and Louey our dog says "thank you" to Peter for the bit of pastie!) Well done!
Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 5:24 pm
by Vortex O'Plinth
There were quite a lot of likely looking 'classics' both in the Show and car park that a quick feel under the wheelarch revealed as glassfibre replicas. This however I think was genuine....
Edit:- Having posted the above, just out of interest I checked XBV 943 on the DVLA website - year of manufacture 1950, engine 4257cc!
Hmmmn, so another Mk VI special then - is nothing sacred? (My 'Stang may be a modern box John - but at least it's a genuine modern box...
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Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 7:27 pm
by JT7196
Hi Chaps ,many thanks for the overwhelming support and kind words , managed to get my Lanchester back home relatively unscathed , still going to need a few hours to get her bottom clean once more though !
It was relatively busy most of the time and bl...dy cold all of the time unfortunately !
Still it’s always great to meet up with fellow members even though I will have probably have forgotten your names by the time I write this
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Unsure if I shall be doing this particular event next year, but all things being equal, I will still be doing the July and November, plus of course the Classics and Super cars at Sherborne Castle in July ,
Best wishes A’l
Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:10 am
by JT7196
Hi Chaps, here are some pictures that were taken at the above event.
Cheers A’l
PS, I have managed to secure some very nice cars for the Footman Jame Classic Car Show in June ?
Two 1920’s Lanchester’s and Kevin Bennet's Daimler SQ
Re: Classic Car Show Shepton Mallet Feb 10th & 11th 2018
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:25 am
by JT7196
JT7196 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:22 am
JT7196 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:10 am
Hi Chaps, here are some pictures that were taken at the above event.
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Cheers A’l
PS, I have managed to secure some very nice cars for the Footman Jame Classic Car Show on 16th &17th June
Two 1920’s Lanchester’s and Kevin Bennet's Daimler LQ3/20