NEC Classic Motor Show - Friday pics
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 19 5:52 pm
Another great up at the NEC yesterday. Took up the offer to save £7 on car parking by parking at the airport and it was no more effort than the usual frustration involved in parking 2 miles away in the NEC car parks, so I expect we'll do the same again next year if available.
We headed straight for the MMA stand and were immediately greeted by Jock... sorry, Steve
, all on his lonesome. Plenty of interest in the cars tho, while we there, mostly as you'd expect for Will's Charger. Nice selection as usual 
Speaking to one of the Mustang guys we know on their stand, opposite the MMA stand, we got chatting about carpets. As you do...
Turns out Andy (Philips? - Roy Slowhand can confirm the surname) is a carpet fitter and supplied and fitted their 100 sq m carpet for £400 (didn't charge for labour and that's the cheapest carpet you can get) the and said he'd happily do the same for us next time if needed. Worth bearing in mind. The stands look so much better with carpet than the patchy dark grey bare floor finish...
Then on to the Classic American stand, hoping to see Gavin's T/A Challenger... which I suspected wouldn't be there as it wasn't included in the advert in the show guide. Wasnt aware why tho till we spoke to Ben at Classic American - i'll let Gavin explain if he comes on here Anyhoo, Chrysler was well represented with Geoff Mitchell's '65 Chrysler 300L and John Miller's '55 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer. We've known Geoff for many years and by the time we'd chatted with Geoff and his wife and Ben from CA, we'd already spent 1/3 of the day at only 3 stands and still had 4 other halls to look round!
Fortunately we weren't in the market for carpet underlay, door seals or obscure tools this year so spent the rest of the time, till closing at 6.30 looking at the other car club and dealer stands. And peering over the picket fence at the cars in the Silverstone Auctions area. Another familiar face we spent some time with was the infamous Mal Bird (Budgie), once of this parish, who had his car dealer hat on - not literally tho.
I've slimmed down the 330 pics i took to a more manageable 250, so bear with me...
We headed straight for the MMA stand and were immediately greeted by Jock... sorry, Steve
, all on his lonesome. Plenty of interest in the cars tho, while we there, mostly as you'd expect for Will's Charger. Nice selection as usual Speaking to one of the Mustang guys we know on their stand, opposite the MMA stand, we got chatting about carpets. As you do...
Turns out Andy (Philips? - Roy Slowhand can confirm the surname) is a carpet fitter and supplied and fitted their 100 sq m carpet for £400 (didn't charge for labour and that's the cheapest carpet you can get) the and said he'd happily do the same for us next time if needed. Worth bearing in mind. The stands look so much better with carpet than the patchy dark grey bare floor finish...
Then on to the Classic American stand, hoping to see Gavin's T/A Challenger... which I suspected wouldn't be there as it wasn't included in the advert in the show guide. Wasnt aware why tho till we spoke to Ben at Classic American - i'll let Gavin explain if he comes on here
Anyhoo, Chrysler was well represented with Geoff Mitchell's '65 Chrysler 300L and John Miller's '55 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer. We've known Geoff for many years and by the time we'd chatted with Geoff and his wife and Ben from CA, we'd already spent 1/3 of the day at only 3 stands and still had 4 other halls to look round!Fortunately we weren't in the market for carpet underlay, door seals or obscure tools this year so spent the rest of the time, till closing at 6.30 looking at the other car club and dealer stands. And peering over the picket fence at the cars in the Silverstone Auctions area. Another familiar face we spent some time with was the infamous Mal Bird (Budgie), once of this parish, who had his car dealer hat on - not literally tho.
I've slimmed down the 330 pics i took to a more manageable 250, so bear with me...
