The Petrol Stop 2013 Events and Shows

2013 Events & Shows

Including-

VWNW

Gilbern Owners Club National Meet

Manchester Bike Show

Passion for Power

And many more

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Introduction

Where to start, this is a bit of a departure for me and possibly a regular publication with a

focus on a review of all the events and car shows The Petrol Stop has attended over the

previous year. I suppose you could describe it as a bit of an annual, covering far too many

weekend excursions that have been on the website, in one place for your enjoyment.

Attending shows is something I have a passion for as it not only allows me to get coverage

of some of the cars featured on the website, www.thepetrolstop.com, but also lets you see

where the classic car movement is going and how its evolving.

I hope you enjoy and please leave me some feedback either on the website or Facebook/

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Thanks for taking the time to have a look.

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2nd February2nd February DubFreeze, StaffordshireDubFreeze, Staffordshire

3rd March3rd March SpringDubs, YorkshireSpringDubs, Yorkshire

23rd March23rd March Manchester Bike Show, EventCityManchester Bike Show, EventCity

26th March26th March Donington Collection, Donington ParkDonington Collection, Donington Park

7th April7th April Passion for Power, EventCityPassion for Power, EventCity

7th April7th April American Krispy Kreme Meet, ManchesterAmerican Krispy Kreme Meet, Manchester

19th May19th May Alltypes, Bodelwydden CastleAlltypes, Bodelwydden Castle

27thMay27thMay Capesthorne Hall Classic Car Show, CheshireCapesthorne Hall Classic Car Show, Cheshire

30th June30th June Gilbern Owners National MeetGilbern Owners National Meet

21st July21st July Awesome Summer Bash, ManchesterAwesome Summer Bash, Manchester

28th July28th July Capesthorne Hall Classic Car ShowCapesthorne Hall Classic Car Show

4th August4th August VWNW, Tatton ParkVWNW, Tatton Park

10th August10th August Scirocco Narional Meet, RAF Cosford, TelfordScirocco Narional Meet, RAF Cosford, Telford

17th August17th August Tatton Park Performance and Classic Car ShowTatton Park Performance and Classic Car Show

21st September21st September Manchester Indoor Classic Carr ShowManchester Indoor Classic Carr Show

15th November15th November Lancaster Insurance Classic Car ShowLancaster Insurance Classic Car Show

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Well I’ve not been to this for a few years (last

one being in 2011) and have been looking

forward to it for months. For those who don’t

know Dubfreeze marks the opening of the

VW show season in the UK even though it’s

not really a car show!!!! It’s more an autojum-

ble with a small show and shine, but it’s used

as an excuse to blow the cobwebs off the

cars that have been in hibernation over winter

or get some much needed parts or inspira-

tion. Particularly with a walk through the car

park, but more on that later!

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The last few times I’ve been the weather

have been miserable at best with snow on

the ground or heavy frost. This year though

clear skies were forecast which did mean

DubFREEZE did live up to its name when I

had to de-ice my car at 7:30am before head-

ing down to Stafford from Manchester. A

quick pit stop for breakfast at a local motor-

way services just showed how much Dub-

freeze is anticipated as it was being used as

a meet point for a local VW club and we were

still 60miles away!!!!

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The show and shine is a small in door affair

but with a great cross-section of VW scenes,

from aircooled to watercooled, modern / ret-

ro /classic, concours to modified and rat look

thrown in!!!!! The rat look beetle just blew me

away.

The autojumble was the usual mix of new and

old with specialist companies offering every-

thing from full engines and interiors to pin-

striped saws!!!!

Outside though is where things get interest-

ing for me, as I mentioned this isn’t really a

car show but it is used as an excuse to get

your car out and with the weather being so

good and the gritters not being needed this

year, the car park was rammed with all sorts

of vans, cars and everything in between. I

took that many pictures I’ve had to split them

down in to sections for vans air cooled cars

and water cooled cars and everything else,

which includes the autojumble and some oth-

er non VW classics seen in the car park!!!

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Well the UK Dub scene is well into the swing

of things and the next show on the list was

Spring Dubs. So it was an earlyish start on

Sunday morning for the 75mile run over the

Pennines to The Great Yorkshire Show

Ground, Harrogate. This was my first time at

this show but from what the website promised

a show and shine, car club stands, an au-

tojumble and trade stands all in a covered ar-

ea, so that was all the boxes ticked for me for

a spring morning.

All was looking good on arrival, good parking,

good marshalling and good initial spotting of

retro cars on the way in.

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From there though it all seemed to lose its lustre,

don’t get me wrong everything promised was

there, well I assume the autojumble was some-

where because I didn’t find it, just a lot smaller

than what I was expecting. The indoor area was a

single, granted fully enclosed, shed but that was

it. The two large open sided sheds shown on the

website were actually used for the overnight

camping. The Club stand area only seemed to

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This shows saving grace though was the

show and shine, the quality of cars attending

was fantastic and all deserved to be in there

and really set a true benchmark for the sea-

son ahead. Out of all the cars the black Bee-

tle got the nod from me for the aircooled, alt-

hough the Dukes of Hazard Beetle wasn’t far

behind!!!! As for the watercooled the BBS Kit-

ted MK1 Golf had it all the way. The T5

pickup though was very special for all the

right reasons.

As usual at these events a walk round the car

park to see what people were running in the

run up to full show season. As it turned out I

think most people, like myself, had arrived in

their dailies which left slim pickings. Although

saying that those who did bring over their

pride and joys and projects didn’t disappoint,

the green Ghia was something to behold.

Hate to say this but this will probably be one

that I won’t attend again, not that it wasn’t

well run in fact it was very well run, it just

big’ed its self-up a little too much. Still never

say never.

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Snow on the ground is not what you need

when you’re running a bike show but that’s

what Manchester woke up to!!!! It didn’t

dampen this event though, granted the car

park was a little lacking in bikes, and can’t

blame any riders for taking the easy 4

wheeled route. This was the second outing

for this event and what a long way it had

come over the last 12 months when com-

pared to last year. More room, more dealers,

more clubs, more traders and more bikes to

look at modern, retro and classic over two

halls

The Modern Hall-

Filled with dealers and manufacturers, if you

wanted a shiny new bike all tastes were ca-

tered for. From all out sports bikes, cruisers,

off road and scooters, the likes of Honda,

BMW, Suzuki, Aprilla, Harley Davidson,

Ducati plus many more were all in attend-

ance.

The Classic and Club Hall-

Now were talking, with over 35 clubs as well

as an individual show area with another 50

plus bikes in it as well as custom and

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modified, this was the hall I wanted to see

most. Last year’s show was lacking in this de-

partment probably due to it being a new

show. This year though, all the boxes were

ticked. Everywhere you looked you were

drawn to something, shiny chrome, awesome

paint job, radical modification, fresh out of the

box restorations etc A few things did stand

out to me, the East European/Russian club

stand, converted pushbike stand, and Velo-

cette stand, just because the bikes shown,

particularly the later ones were just works of

art.

To top it all off the band providing rock music

were also spot on really adding to the atmos-

phere as well as a few Triton’s.

Between the 2 halls and around the outside

were there traders, I recon you could have

bought anything you may have wanted, new

leather jacket, boots, helmet, tool, sidecar!!!!!

I was wondering round for over 2 and a half

hours thoroughly being inspired by this event

(not just me either by the looks of it), so much

so the thought of a project bike once again

entered my mind, just need a bike licence

first.

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The entrance is rather underwhelming, but

once you walk round that first corner into the

first hall on cast your eyes on the two rows of

vintage F1 machinery that lines the walls you’ll

be forgetting how to breath!!!! The first line of

1960’s cars with their exposed engines, narrow

tyres and lack of racing livery are truly a sight to

be seen. So low and small without the air foils

of later cars they somehow seem purer, undilut-

ed racing machines. Unlike the 50’s machines

opposite that seemed bulky and heavy with

whose vast engines out front.

First off, I’m a big Formula 1 fan so it wasn’t go-

ing to be long before I headed over to Doning-

ton Park to visit the largest collection of F1 cars

in the world. After all I’d driven past it enough

times going to the racing and events

(Restoration Show). So with a day booked off I

made the 200 mile round trip to indulge!!!

Now a little history, Donington Park race circuit

has F1 credential with it being used previously,

most recently in 1993, for the European Grand

Prix. It was even touted very recently with con-

struction work started to replace Silverstone as

the permanent home for F1 on these shores,

though it all fell through in the end. So it’s easy

to say that this is one of the best circuits in the

British and a deserving home for the collection.

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From the 60’s you walk through to the start of

the war for control of air, and the wings start to

appear the air intake move up above the drivers

and striking livery adorns the cars. The Pent-

house livery, I must admit I was quiet taken with.

With every car there’s a little history, races en-

tering, won and years run etc enough to let you

know these epic machines has a life before re-

tirement to be ogled at by petrolheads.

If that wasn’t enough, it was just the first hall af-

ter all, you walk through a short connecting

walkway, lined with memorabilia, helmets, steer-

ing wheels, race adverts…… the windows have

the track layout outs on then from all over the

world.

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Its then you reach the next door to the second

hall and look up “Williams Hall” and step in and

once again your breath is taken away. Car after

car showing the Williams racers coming through

from the 80’s through the 90’s with that illustri-

ous “most advanced F1 car ever” 1992 FW14B

car with active suspension, semi-automatic

gearbox and traction control, to the 00’s. It’s

fantastic to see the progression so clearly and

be able to compare a car from one season to

the next. Even the advancement over say 5

years means the cars bear hardly resemblance,

something you seem to forget when watching

season to season on TV.

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Then it’s into the next hall, again you glance up

“McLaren Hall” and like the William’s Hall it’s a

sea of cars charting the much longer history of

the team from the 60’s to the present day, which

can be easily seen in the change of racing col-

ours. Comparing cars side by side is just a stag-

gering opportunity, especially when you only an

arm’s length away.

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But wait we’re not done yet, past the trophy

room, you enter the “Vanwall and BRM Hall”

oh yes the Vanwall Hall, with a display of

each of the cars in there racing green livery

that set out to bring the world championship

to the Britain with a British driver and suc-

ceeded. Only to be wound up due to poor

health by the owner a few short years later.

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Power and Power and

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Now in its 3rd year, this indoor show has

come a long way. Now rebranded this classic

car show now included for the cancelled

"passion for power" event from late last year.

What this meant was the usual classic car

event with all the car clubs, traders and indi-

vidual showers, all up on numbers from last

year, now joined by some classic and mod-

ern day prestige machinery, by the likes of

McLaren, Roll Royce, Lamborghini and Fer-

rari.

Add to that the awesome Italian Replica

club, granted there were a few MR2 specials

but the P4 was just staggering in the finish

and attention to detail.

That was also the same with the GT40 stand

where you would not know, the white one

especially, weren’t the real McCoy.

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Walking around took nearly 3 hours the club

entries were both traditional, MG, Stag, Ford

Capri, Mini and more unusual Lancia, Talbot,

Metropolitan as usual it’s the club entries that

can make or break a show. Here though the

mix of clubs meant you could see a real cama-

raderie between the people showing and at-

tending, chatting and swapping stories giving

the whole event a relaxed atmosphere. the on-

ly thing that got temperatures raised was the

heating, which as tradition now states, has to

be switch in to full!!!!!

There were a few standout highlights for me,

the (Inter) National Microcar Rally club stand

just had such an awesome mix of cars that I've

never seen before including a BMW 700Sport

Coupe, Scootacar and Frisky to name a few.

Most of them will now be appearing on here.

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Next the outstanding car at the show, believe

me this was tough actually whom I kidding!!!!

as soon as I saw this from a distance I knew

it was something special, add to that I'm a

huge Lamborghini car, the bright yellow Urra-

co?. It even pipped the black Countach!!!!!

This was the first time I'd seen one of these

underrated Lamborghini's in the flesh and it

didn’t disappoint.

This was a great show that really has come a

long way since 2011 when it was the inaugu-

ral show at the newly opened Eventcity. One

that will stay on the calendar as I believe next

year it will attract more exotic and the cream

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Back in April I headed over to Event City near

the Trafford Centre in Manchester to go to the

Passion for Power car show, a show I highly

recommend, but on the Sunday it was also

the monthly American Auto Club NW meet at

the local Krispy Kreme. Located some

300yds away from the main show so within

walking distance meant this meet had a mas-

sive turn out. With cars from the 50’s to now,

pickups, Jeeps, a big rig, hot rods and even a

rockabilly model walking round for pictures,

as meets go this was a doosey!!!!

Compared to the usual meet this was some-

thing special as the car park was just full of

American metal really allowing you to em-

brace the lifestyle and perfectly set off against

the 50’s diner style Krispy Kremes. Hell noth-

ing better than walking around looking at

muscle cars with a donut and coffee in hand.

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The empty top of the field really did show that

something was missing as well as the lower

numbers of aircooled, particularly Bugs this

year. Good job the vans and dune buggies

made up for it.

However if watercooled was your choice then

there was quite a variety on show from the

staple Golf's in all marks, Polo's, Corrado's

and of cause Scirocco's. Add to that a splat-

tering of Audi's, Skoda's and Porsche. With

Dubfiction taking what a club can show to

new levels. All the cars were low, custom and

without doubt of seriously high quality.

This is a show that well and truly on my calen-

dar in the last few years I've not only attended

but had my Scirocco on the Scirocco Registers

club stand, which meant I got to see the whole

show from start to finish. So after an early start

(6am) I drove the 70 miles from Manchester to

Abergely to meet up with my fellow Scrirocco's

before heading back to Bodelwyddan Castle for

the day. And what a day definitely one of two

halves. The start was one of low cloud and the

constant threat of rain while the afternoon was

clear blue skies and sunburn!!!! This could

have something to do with the poorer turn out

of show vehicles and clubs that has become

the norm for this show.

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Another club on the top of their game was the

MK1 Golfs Club, with the awesome selection

of drop tops, including that Vilkus hard top

version.

The blue one below though was simply stun-

ning and all day there were people walking

round it, taking more time than they would

normally do just taking it in, which just shows

how good this car was.

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Highlight of the show, hmmm that’s a tough

one, although there were a lot of cars attend-

ing a stand out car is tough, there were some

great caddy's and Polo's but one that really

got me was the red Mk1 Jetta below. It was

probably something to do with the rarity but

also the stance on those ATS Cups wheels

was just perfect. I also loved the leather

straps holding down the bonnet on this Golf

In addition to that a special mention has to

go to the bay window fire engine was really

nice to see, who'd have thought that you

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Capesthorne Capesthorne

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I had this on the radar for the last week but had-

n't planned on going until Sunday evening when

I saw some pictures of that days show over on

Retrobeutes. With rare cars a distinct possibility,

weather looking good for at least the morning

(not bad for a Bank Holiday Monday in the UK)

and my little one suitably bribed with the promise

of ice cream and sweets we loaded the Scirocco

and made the hours’ drive over to the stunning

Capesthorne Hall first thing in the morning. This

was not only a place I’ve never been too but al-

so a show I'd never been too so I was looking

forward to it. On arrival at 10:30 things weren't

looking good, although the MG club stand direct-

ly in front of the Hall was a sight to be seen, the

rest of the showground seemed a little quiet on

the car front!!!! This probably had something to

do with the , as mentioned before, it being a

Bank holiday as well as it being a second day of

the show. However while we were there cars

kept flowing in,

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Andrew Greenwood shows always have an

open policy i.e. if you cars old enough and

you drive there just to look round you may be

ushered onto the show ground rather than

the car park. This rolling attendance which

included a Ferrari Dino as well as custom hot

rods and retro Renault's meant I was con-

stantly on the move.

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The choice of cars due to this open policy is

always varied to say the least with some rari-

ties showing up that will be getting their own

articles in the next few weeks namely a 3

seater Talbot Matra and a GTM Libre, two

cars I had never seen before.

Put these alongside the usual staple diet of

European marques from the 1940's through

to the 1990's as well as the fantastic turn out

of huge American barges. These never fail to

surprise me on their sheer scale and size

and seeing them moving to and from the are-

na shows, most of them if not all just dwarf

there European counterparts by feet rather

than inches.

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Gilbern Gilbern

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This event has been on my calendar ever since

Gordon Johnston contacted about his T11 Pro-

totype and saying there wasn’t enough Gil-

bern’s on the site. He was right, none of the

Gilbern models were built in massive numbers

which is probably the reason they don’t pop up

at Classic Car shows that often. If they do their

usually walked past with only the true petrol-

heads giving them the attention they deserve.

After all this was Wales’s only sports car manu-

facturer. Gordon had told me about this nation-

al meet and a few weeks ago he called me

again to confirm that his car would be attend-

ing. So partially wanting to see these cars, I

also wanted to see the T11 (below) in the flesh.

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I always enjoy attending club national meets,

previously this has included the Scirocco

Register and TVR Club, and you get to see

not only concours cars that attend shows but

the cars that keep the marque going with dai-

ly and ongoing projects/restorations parking

up. You also get to see the club, not the fo-

rum but the friendships that are made

through the love of the same badge and the

catch up that happens once a year as well as

putting names and faces to avatars and user

names. With that are people walking round

and seeing what been done to others cars

and talking about mechanical triumphs and

failures.

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One thing that did stand out, unlike some

sanctions of classic/retro car clubs, was the

acceptance of modified cars and not just

the“it has to be one way” or “best kept as it

left the factory”. There were cars with modern

Vauxhall power plant, Cosworth engines and

well as modified V8’s!!!!!

There must have been 60 cars that had made

the pilgrimage over to Eddrig House and the

setting within one of the walled courtyards

really added to the whole event, something

you would just not have gotten if it was in a

field. From what I could tell every marque

was represented, GT, Genie and Invader, alt-

hough oddly for a car manufacturer, other

than the GT that was badged on the front,

none had the marques had names on the

rear!!!!!

I was there for well over two hours and was

made to feel more than welcome, chatting to

people about their cars, the club and even

ended up buying a Gilbern air filter cover, I

don’t even own a Gilbern!!!!! If you ever see

one of these cars at a show, give it some time

as you won’t be disappointed, they may had

some underpinnings from other cars but the

finish was more than up there contemporary

sports car manufacturers of the day as well

as looking a little more modern in a time of

Spitfires and MGB’s.

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With this event being so close, as well as me

getting some work done there in the past on my

Scirocco, I had virtually no excuse for not pop-

ping over to this at Awesome's work shop. In

fact for those don't know Awesome specialise in

modifying and customising anything from the

VAG family album, and this was its annual open

day.

I’ve been to this a few times (2012, 2010) and

the quality of cars on the main car park were

just staggering and stance and air was the

common thread throughout. The cars from

DubFiction highlighted were the VAG scene is

at the moment, just like they did back at this

year’s Alltypes. The quality and detailed on

most, if not all of these cars, was breath taking

from the air installs, interiors (the A3 with Bent-

ley seats and wheels), subtle tweaks here and

there and paint.

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With it being an open day means you got to

walk round the Awesome facility with its four

wheel dyno set up. The sound of the Seat Le-

on racer running up to speed was mesmeris-

ing and that was from outside in the overflow

car park!!!!!!

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It was also great catching up with Matt the man

behind the re-launch of Trimsport and the

Trimsport Audi TT parked up inside.

The invited cars and clubs in the main car parks

out front are only part of this open house, the car

park opposite is transformed into a rolling car

show as forums, clubs and individuals drop in to

show off their cars and take a look around and

catch up. Unfortunately this part, which usually

provides a vast array of cars and scenes seemed

to be lacking this year. The turn ourt of aircooled

and retro metal seemed to be missing, a quick

internet search and it turns out this open day was

on the same day as Modified Live at the local

Oulton Park and the mecca of the dub scene

BugJam at Santa Pod. Fingers crossed it will fall

on another weekend next year.

There were two cars that just stood out for me

and both were in the car park, the VW Passat to

the right and the Seat Toledo below it, I do have

a soft spot for these but the stance and work

done on this for me was perfect-

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Capesthorne Capesthorne

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Just like I did a few months ago I headed over to

Capesthorne Hall in Macclesfield the difference

this time was had my Scirocco on the Retrobeu-

tes club stand. This was a one day show that

although not massive had an awesome mix of

cars, from a Renault Fuergo, Aston Martin DB5,

XR4I, Fiat 500 Abrath, Ford Falcon, Mini’s etc

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Although the turnout of cars and clubs was fan-

tastic and a credit to all those who made the

drive, the public though seemed to be seemed

to be staying away. Probably due to the forecast

rain that held back with sunshine until about

3pm when the torrential rain arrived. The picture

below illustrates this, that’s me by the way going

to the show arena!!!! The rain though didn’t stop

the show.

Another great relaxed show from the Andrew

Greenwood team despite the end weather in a

fantastic venue. The green in front of the house

really adds to the whole atmosphere with peo-

ple milling around chatting and taking in the va-

riety of cars.

Car of the show, hands down it was the Low

Rider Ford Consul Capri, which was a work in

progress and I can’t wait to see it finished.

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It’s the first weekend in August which in the

northwest of England means its Volkswagen

Northwest and the early start to a Sunday morn-

ing. I was there for the day as I had arranged the

Scirocco Register’s club stand so had plenty of

time to take it all in. Well if the rain that was fore-

cast held off.

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Like previous years (2012, 2011, etc) there

were club areas, concours area, auto jumble,

for sale area and general sales for anything

from tools and parts to plants and cupcakes.

All the usual suspects were in attendance.

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A few of the hundreds of car did catch my eye;

you don’t see many Jetta Mk1’s let alone one

with only 12000 miles on the clock!!!!! This was

its debut outing and it looked like it had just left

the factory.

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When was the last time you saw an Audi

Coupe?? To be honest this was the first in the

flesh and was a proper treat.

And this odd looking Beetle, pit smiles on lots of

peoples faces.

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The car of the show hands down was this chopped and lowered custom Speedster, it was just some-

thing to behold due to the audacity of it but also the fantastic finish.

The rain held off until 3pm thankfully allowing the large numbers of public milling around plenty of

time to take in this huge show, seriously you need a good 3-4hours to do it justice. Another great

event which is down to the professional management and all the clubs that turned up meaning there

was sea of German metal across the huge show field.

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Scirocco Scirocco

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This day followed the same format as the 4 pre-

vious ones I’ve been too. That means an early

start to meet up for the 100 mile convoy down

from Manchester via Lymm Services and Staf-

ford Services picking up cars on the way before

the main rally point at Telford Services. After

meeting up with 30 or so other Scirocco enthu-

siasts it was time to make the last 5 mile run to

RAF Cosford the location of the meet.

It was a great day meeting up with new faces

and catching up with old friends as well as see-

ing what everyone’s been up to with their Siroc-

co’s. The variety of styles was as always per-

fect from perfectly maintained stock cars to full

modified monsters.

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The biggest surprise though, unlike last year

when only a single Mk1 turned up and only for a

few hours, was the attendance of 13 Mk1’s

which was just awesome to see so many in the

same place. It was jokingly mentioned that they

seemed a little too common!!!!

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Well the car show season is well into swing of

things and this weekend was the turn of the

Classic and Performance Show at Tatton Park.

This show is huge with loads of clubs and

stalls and autojumble where you could just

about buy anything. Like lastyear I was here

for the day with my Scirocco on the Retrobeu-

tes stand. Unfortunately due to the forecast

weather punters were thin on the ground for

the whole day, which did mean I got to have a

really good look round at the cars attending the

first day of the weekend show.

And there were some fantastic cars in attend-

ance over the various club stands with a really

good mix of cars from vintage through classic

to retro.

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With some newer metal now starting to show up which indicates where the classic movement

may be heading now the 1990’s are getting close to 25 years old.

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Some cars though just stood out from the

crowd, the Aston Martin Lagonda was such

a fantastic surprise.

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Although there had been indoor classic car

shows staged at Eventcity in Manchester,

Passion and Power was earlier this year, this

was the first outing for the “Manchester Clas-

sic Car Show”. Looking at the adverts for it in

the local press and on the web it looked like it

was going to be a good inaugural event. Ran

over the weekend I dropped in on the Satur-

day morning and I knew I was in for a treat

when in a fenced off area six or so classic ral-

ly cars came driving past the entrance, in-

cluding a shot wheel based Audi Quattro!!!!

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First impressions weren’t the best on getting

in as it looked like it was only two halls of cars

and for £15 that wasn’t looking the best val-

ue. Thankfully walking round I found a third

hall, that will teach me to look at the map that

was handed to me with the tickets.

Everything you’d expect to be there was,

great club turnout with some I’d not seen pre-

viously such as the Rochdale Owners Club,

and Lamborghini Club who had an amazing

stand, individual entrants, autojumble and

even a restoration stage giving demonstra-

tions all in an awesome quality venue.

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The variety of cars from vintage to the odd

modern was fantastic with a few rarities that

made the trip worth it, the T16 Peugeot 205,

the Lamborghini Jalpa, the Hustler, Ferrari

Daytona and the TVR concept, all of which

will be getting a full write up on here over the

next few months with lots of additional pic-

tures and video.

I spent 3 hours taking it all in, getting pictures

and chatting to people and thoroughly en-

joyed my morning. The stand out car of the

show has to that TVR concept above, I just

wasn’t expecting to see something like that

and its condition was simply stunning follow-

ing a full restoration. I’ll be popping along to

this next year just to what else comes out of

the woodwork.

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Thanks to Lancaster Insurance I headed down

to what is probably the largest indoor car show

in Europe, the first time I’ve attended since 2008

and how it’s grown. Over those years it’s gone

from filling three of the NEC’s massive halls to

now spanning five. The quality and abundance

of metal now on show has also improved from

“just a classic car show that’s in doors” to show-

casing the best of the best as well as club pro-

jects, rare gems and concept cars. Enough to

make walking round this colossal show take six

hours, and some of that was at some pace!!!!

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Where to start, where in deed with 1500 cars to

look at (and no doubt I missed some) there was

quiet literally something for everyone from clas-

sic Fords, MG’s, Vauxhalls, Rovers, Citroens,

Renault, Peugeot and Volkswagens. To Bitter,

Rochdale, Morgan, Riley, Jensen, Bristol, Ginet-

ta, countless micro cars, American Muscle and

customs and everything in between.

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Mixed in with this mass of vintage and classic metal here and there were some truly spectacular

cars that just got me excited to see some really rare machines. Firstly on the Panther Club stand

there was the Solo, looking epic in its recent yellow paint job, a car that reportedly only one of

three that was sold to the public. The owner of this one also has another!!!!

Next from a few rows over I just caught site of the rear of this one off “Special” the Ogle “Sotherby

Special” Aston Martin, with that bank of rear lights.

With thanks to the Bugatti Owners Club for letting me on the stand, next on the list of super rare

cars was this Super Sport Veyron that I was allowed to photograph up close. Keep an eye out for

a full write up soon on the website.

The Lamborghini stand also impressed with its cars, there may not have been many on it but a

Countach, LM002 and Murcielago SV certainly made up for it.

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The stand of the show though has to be that of Ferrari, how often do you get to see an F40, F50

and Enzo all parked next to each other, just astounding.

Although the De Tomaso stand was also fantastic and the Pantera’s were stunning the Ferrari’s

just piped it.

Other rarities included Jaguars ill-fated XJR 15 production/race car, with both the original as well

as a reproduction on show. And talk about ill-fated production cars there was also the recently

cancelled C-X75 supercar, although to be honest when I first saw it from the side I was wondering

why there was a Lamborghini on the Jaguar stand!!!!!

The cars are only about three quarters of the event, the rest is full of traders who will sell you eve-

rything from driving gloves, tools, books, replacement panels, memorabilia, pictures etc if you

needed something chances are either you’d find it or a company that could supply it.

If you had the time there was even the Drive for Charity where you could choose on of about 50

or so classic and performance cars to be taken out in for donation. Also the Silverstone Auction

had, from all reports, a good first outing with some exceptional cars going under the hammer.

What a day exploring all these cars, and thanks have to be given to the clubs and people who

give up their time to show and highlight all the marques that were in attendance, it was well ap-

preciated.

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Highlight of the show, hmmm now that is

tough I’ve already mentioned the F40, XJR-

15 and the Ogle but one that stood out, way

beyond all the others and also had my Dad

who attended with me saying “have you not

got enough pictures of that one yet” was the

superb Lamborghini Miura S. This example

on the Meguiars stand was flawless and re-

splendent in its green paint and awesome to

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