So the other weekend I took the family out for a traditional British day out at a steam fair & county show type jobber at Clumber Park. Ate plenty of home bakes cakes and home made fudge and all that stuff which is cool. Enjoyed the British summer weather, yes, it rained. A lot. Heavily.
Well, there was an interestign selection of machinery at the event, so kick back, relax and let the fibreoptic pixies do all the work for a few minutes as the pictorial repesentations manifest themselves upon your PC screen.
I love old trucks, especially old fair ground trucks.
This Foden rocked. Slam that on banded steelies and you'd be rockin cool. Reckon it could use a chop?
Quick, distract the stall holder! I want one of those J40s for a tot rod project!
So on came the classic car parade.
The announcer was about having an orgasm over this Merc, kept going on about how in 1959 you could buy a Ford Popular. Or a Merc rag top obviously - the only two choices to the motorist in '59. Divot. Nice car.
Jowett, pride of Bradford. The announcer bloke kept waffling on about the Javelin though.
Amazingly this 1927 (IIRC) Jowett is not a Javelin.
Loved the Rover P3. Always had a soft spot for these and that was even before I saw Klunks...
Pub landlord was present
I was reminded of The Young Ones. Not perhaps the thought which strikes every mind when they see a Triumph Mayflower, but the number plate... Remember Vivian's hamster?
And the missus has one too. dis beeatch is into da driftin scene innit, JDM-yo.
Big old truck
ERF tug was manly. Sounded good too.
A little bit Lewis
And then is suddenly tail slides into the barrier takign out a WI cake stall and three ferrets.
Or maybe not
Now bear with me as Imay get bits of this wrong, but this special car is a prewar Jaguar chassis (which would make it an SS not a Jaguar) with a Lea Francis body on it and a Nissan 2.8 straight 6 diesel in it. But no hot rods allowed.
Bloke reckoned he'd turned down £50K for it. Really.
Now here come some pictures of classic/vintage busses and trucks. I don't know enough about them to make informed or witty comments, so I won't say anything here....
Now this Cortina was proper old-guy spec. Lovin the caravan mirrors and the brush painted Mk1 Escort wheel trims on there.
Selection of additional rear lights too.
yuppie scum must die, and all that 80s nostalgia
Daimler slag blag wagon
Lord Snooty and pals
Fiat's finest hour?
"If one more kid says 'look mumy its Harry Potter' I swear I'm getting out of this car and they won't find the bodies for weeks."
The anoncer bloke just couldn't help himself with the "witty" gangster gags with this one.
Nice car though.
Nice Mk2 too.
Blimey O Rilley
I could have bought a solid and decent one of these (RMA) abotu 10 years ago for £1500. Needless to say I didn't and the bloke who did probablty either banger raced it or made big cash on it later.
Basil!
MG Version is odd looking, but snobs prefer them
Traveller, the good kind.
"Is it a Z car or the other kind?" asks the announcer, who obviously has a mixture of prozac and instaspaz in his thermos.
A small military presence was maintained incase the Retford Ladies Rotarian Association attempted a coup. Again.
Anyone remember the movie "Killdozer"?
^^^ Want one of these for my car....
Imaging "detailing" that?
the techy bits. I think thats a fuse box.
rat look is big in the tractor scene this year.
Dem is 22s? Fek diz I iz rollin 76s man. Ya!
Never, ever worry about YOUR tail pipe emissions again. Imagine the MOT on one of these buggrs. Thats at tickover as well....
now onto the bike display in the "show arena", not exactly an arena of death or anything
althogether now - born to be miiiiiild.
this last one made me think of "Mutiny on The Busses"
When I was about 7 I wanted to be Reg Vardy. Or rather Stan Butler. Is that odd?
front row of the Somerset Grand Prix
NOE WAI! WANT WANT WANT! Articulated Atco!
Is this snake a fake?
a little bit of Seth?
some pog-yog?
Oh its a great life on the busses....
this AEC truck
had this mini steam traction jobbie on back
cute.
Another Riley RM. Did I tell you about the time I could have... for £1500? I did? Oh.
A dash of Elan
Not for sale. Needs a small block for sure.
now some truely big mo-fos
^^^^ Some of you may remember someone chopping one of these down into a pickup based on (IIRC) Jag axles. Very much a early 90s rod.
I bet he's heard all the Harry Potter jokes as well
Sorta home made looking?
like the rimzies on this. Pair of game old birds were with it. Think Patsy and Edina. Then add 20 years.
There was a party going on in the Austin.
Nice E-somethingoranother.
I'm wondering if this is some cleverly contrived scene look that the Fordsters are gettin' down with YKT old skool style?
A fine brace of P6s
Silly shortened Mini
Another combination. I have a secret thing for these. Maybe its that Stan Butler thing again. Oh dear.
I'm not even sure that The Goodies could pull this one off.
Proto-mini-moto? Love it.
ton up teds.
Morris Tourer. I have evil thoughts for this one.
Mk3 was clean and made me want it.
Anglebox again. flippin anouncer bloke wouldn't believe that this is a stock colour. Which it is. Monaco Red unless I am very much mistaken. Which I often am.
Merc
Yokel tot rod
I have no caption for this photo, except to say that I will bet significant money that he comes from somewhere near Rotherham.
Some more steam traction stuff. The engineering and detail work on these is actually awe inspiring.
How cool is this kid? And he knows it though...
the other prancing horse brand...
Check the rack out on this....
there was even a demo of these things in action doing like corn threshing or something. Sadly, I am depraved and this reminds me to much of a certain "machinery" website.
whats that? A V8 burble?
Must investigate....
MGB was nice
Escort was ol Skool
caterpillar tractor buggy thing was nuts. I want one
I don;t even know how to describe this except I think it was designed for bagage handling on the railways. Needs a R1 motor or something?
'32 Ford
Now I kinda get fairground organs. There were several on show and all playing. Oddly enough this one (I think it was this one) was playing a very odd version of Sandy Shaw's back catalogue. Not what you expect from a steam organ. Luckily it didn't attempt her version of the Smiths classic "Hand in Glove" but it did rattle out "Puppet on a String"....
tot tractor?
mo rat
Yo dude, impressive organ
I rather worryingly "get" stationary engines as well.
and when I am too old for all of this malarky, and I have to give up my driving licence and all, you know who I'm gonig to be? this guy, thats who....
"Pass me another digestive biscuit Doris my mug of tea is going to get cold"
Well, there was an interestign selection of machinery at the event, so kick back, relax and let the fibreoptic pixies do all the work for a few minutes as the pictorial repesentations manifest themselves upon your PC screen.
I love old trucks, especially old fair ground trucks.
This Foden rocked. Slam that on banded steelies and you'd be rockin cool. Reckon it could use a chop?
Quick, distract the stall holder! I want one of those J40s for a tot rod project!
So on came the classic car parade.
The announcer was about having an orgasm over this Merc, kept going on about how in 1959 you could buy a Ford Popular. Or a Merc rag top obviously - the only two choices to the motorist in '59. Divot. Nice car.
Jowett, pride of Bradford. The announcer bloke kept waffling on about the Javelin though.
Amazingly this 1927 (IIRC) Jowett is not a Javelin.
Loved the Rover P3. Always had a soft spot for these and that was even before I saw Klunks...
Pub landlord was present
I was reminded of The Young Ones. Not perhaps the thought which strikes every mind when they see a Triumph Mayflower, but the number plate... Remember Vivian's hamster?
And the missus has one too. dis beeatch is into da driftin scene innit, JDM-yo.
Big old truck
ERF tug was manly. Sounded good too.
A little bit Lewis
And then is suddenly tail slides into the barrier takign out a WI cake stall and three ferrets.
Or maybe not
Now bear with me as Imay get bits of this wrong, but this special car is a prewar Jaguar chassis (which would make it an SS not a Jaguar) with a Lea Francis body on it and a Nissan 2.8 straight 6 diesel in it. But no hot rods allowed.
Bloke reckoned he'd turned down £50K for it. Really.
Now here come some pictures of classic/vintage busses and trucks. I don't know enough about them to make informed or witty comments, so I won't say anything here....
Now this Cortina was proper old-guy spec. Lovin the caravan mirrors and the brush painted Mk1 Escort wheel trims on there.
Selection of additional rear lights too.
yuppie scum must die, and all that 80s nostalgia
Daimler slag blag wagon
Lord Snooty and pals
Fiat's finest hour?
"If one more kid says 'look mumy its Harry Potter' I swear I'm getting out of this car and they won't find the bodies for weeks."
The anoncer bloke just couldn't help himself with the "witty" gangster gags with this one.
Nice car though.
Nice Mk2 too.
Blimey O Rilley
I could have bought a solid and decent one of these (RMA) abotu 10 years ago for £1500. Needless to say I didn't and the bloke who did probablty either banger raced it or made big cash on it later.
Basil!
MG Version is odd looking, but snobs prefer them
Traveller, the good kind.
"Is it a Z car or the other kind?" asks the announcer, who obviously has a mixture of prozac and instaspaz in his thermos.
A small military presence was maintained incase the Retford Ladies Rotarian Association attempted a coup. Again.
Anyone remember the movie "Killdozer"?
^^^ Want one of these for my car....
Imaging "detailing" that?
the techy bits. I think thats a fuse box.
rat look is big in the tractor scene this year.
Dem is 22s? Fek diz I iz rollin 76s man. Ya!
Never, ever worry about YOUR tail pipe emissions again. Imagine the MOT on one of these buggrs. Thats at tickover as well....
now onto the bike display in the "show arena", not exactly an arena of death or anything
althogether now - born to be miiiiiild.
this last one made me think of "Mutiny on The Busses"
When I was about 7 I wanted to be Reg Vardy. Or rather Stan Butler. Is that odd?
front row of the Somerset Grand Prix
NOE WAI! WANT WANT WANT! Articulated Atco!
Is this snake a fake?
a little bit of Seth?
some pog-yog?
Oh its a great life on the busses....
this AEC truck
had this mini steam traction jobbie on back
cute.
Another Riley RM. Did I tell you about the time I could have... for £1500? I did? Oh.
A dash of Elan
Not for sale. Needs a small block for sure.
now some truely big mo-fos
^^^^ Some of you may remember someone chopping one of these down into a pickup based on (IIRC) Jag axles. Very much a early 90s rod.
I bet he's heard all the Harry Potter jokes as well
Sorta home made looking?
like the rimzies on this. Pair of game old birds were with it. Think Patsy and Edina. Then add 20 years.
There was a party going on in the Austin.
Nice E-somethingoranother.
I'm wondering if this is some cleverly contrived scene look that the Fordsters are gettin' down with YKT old skool style?
A fine brace of P6s
Silly shortened Mini
Another combination. I have a secret thing for these. Maybe its that Stan Butler thing again. Oh dear.
I'm not even sure that The Goodies could pull this one off.
Proto-mini-moto? Love it.
ton up teds.
Morris Tourer. I have evil thoughts for this one.
Mk3 was clean and made me want it.
Anglebox again. flippin anouncer bloke wouldn't believe that this is a stock colour. Which it is. Monaco Red unless I am very much mistaken. Which I often am.
Merc
Yokel tot rod
I have no caption for this photo, except to say that I will bet significant money that he comes from somewhere near Rotherham.
Some more steam traction stuff. The engineering and detail work on these is actually awe inspiring.
How cool is this kid? And he knows it though...
the other prancing horse brand...
Check the rack out on this....
there was even a demo of these things in action doing like corn threshing or something. Sadly, I am depraved and this reminds me to much of a certain "machinery" website.
whats that? A V8 burble?
Must investigate....
MGB was nice
Escort was ol Skool
caterpillar tractor buggy thing was nuts. I want one
I don;t even know how to describe this except I think it was designed for bagage handling on the railways. Needs a R1 motor or something?
'32 Ford
Now I kinda get fairground organs. There were several on show and all playing. Oddly enough this one (I think it was this one) was playing a very odd version of Sandy Shaw's back catalogue. Not what you expect from a steam organ. Luckily it didn't attempt her version of the Smiths classic "Hand in Glove" but it did rattle out "Puppet on a String"....
tot tractor?
mo rat
Yo dude, impressive organ
I rather worryingly "get" stationary engines as well.
and when I am too old for all of this malarky, and I have to give up my driving licence and all, you know who I'm gonig to be? this guy, thats who....
"Pass me another digestive biscuit Doris my mug of tea is going to get cold"