fv1609 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Well it was hot, pleasant, spacious & quiet, but very pleasant weekend. It didn't seem to be well advertised & visitors just stumbled across us. I think they have about 12 different types of vehicle shows there throughout the season. The heat perhaps drew visitors to the beaches or maybe to the several other shows in the area. I had to travel 100 miles to find a show I could attend Sussex & Kent people are rather spoilt, not just for that weekend but the week before & the weekend to come. So maybe visitors felt they will be choosey. It seemed a place for all the family with house & paintings (nice "real" paintings of I think 175 types of wildfowl worldwide), wildfowl & ponds, motor museum, walks, arts & crafts etc. I think entry was £7 which compares favourably with many other houses, museums etc. The house Female turkeys I think Motor museum this was the only thing in there that interested me (no PSVs let alone MVs) 1850 Irish horse drawn hearse. But why spoil the display of a super artefact with a ridiculous childs toy. Shame. This is better although I had to carefully try & avoid the plastic sheep plonked in front of it. One of two in-service Police vehicles on show. I had interesting & convivial conversations with 7 officers over the weekend, 4 of whom of whom were off duty. General line up on Saturday. I think were only 2 Jeeps & one of those was a Delahay. Lots of fires service Land Rovers, if you like that sort of thing. More to follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 Minerva under restoration Note NI registration, the contract for this conversion in early 1970s required the nose of vehicle to stick out as much as possible to try to make it look as unlike a MV as possible, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 (edited) The best untill last This was just what was around on Saturday (minus most of the red Land Rovers) there were more MVs on Sunday, but I couldn't be bothered to walk around with a camera, it was far too hot! That's except the Humber which was only there on Sunday, which somehow attracted my attention. Edited August 24, 2009 by fv1609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 nice piccys, especially like the minerva Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 nice piccys, especially like the minerva Mark Especially the clutch mechanism, just a linkage directly to the pedal. Excellent, just like a Humber. I should have taken a picture of the Series 1 "barn find" which was presented as found. I think it had been in the barn for 30 years. New battery, new fuel, bit of carb cleaning, in all 30 mins work & it drove just fine, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotBed Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 nice pics clive, thanks for sharing, i totally forgot about the show and went to the beach instead, and dipped my feet in the cold channel :-D regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 any one going to the show this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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