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| Mathew's lovely 1969 Westfalia Campmobile SO67 with his newly acquired swamp cooler, which he tells me works very well... I'm not jealous at all.! |
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| Although Matt's bus is in a reasonable condition considering the old girls age, he has booked the bus in to have a full respray over the winter. I'm looking forward to seeing his newly painted bus which will still be blue and white but a different shade of blue which should suit the bus well. |
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| Our buses parked up together at the Blackthorn show. Both Matthew and I like parking our buses together as they have sequential number plates. This is because they were imported from the West Coast of America in the same container, and all the import paperwork was given to the DVLA at the same time, so they gave the buses age related sequential registration numbers. |
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| I have to admit that it does humour Matthew and I to park the buses together and then stand back and watch the public walk by and see their reactions as they suddenly spot the sequential number plates..!! |
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| A couple of nice rear ends... Our bays parked up together. They are both 1969 buses but look so different. |
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| This gorgeous 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air station wagon looked fantastic in it's nostalgic white over turquoise paint which was straight from the 1950's. These 'Nomads' as they more commonly known were also available in a 2 door model. |
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| The standard engine for these Nomad's was the 235 cubic inch, in line 6 cylinder that pumped out 140HP, or you could have the 265 & 283 cubic inch motors that gave 162HP / 185HP respectively. |
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| This 1960 Mercedes Benz 190SL was amazing, not only is it quite rare, but it was in such a beautiful condition. This car looked to 100% original. Mercedes only produced the 190SL from 1955 - 1963 and only just under 26,000 were built. |
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| This gorgeous car would have cost 16,500DM ($4000) from new back in the fifties, but today this has to be worth £100,000+ ($138,000) |
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| It may well be out of most of our price ranges but just look at the style, comfort and detail you could get if you did have that sort of money. |
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| This lovely 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray really was immaculate. This style Corvette is known as the C2, the second generation of the Sting Ray. The easiest was to tell that this is a pre 1964 car is the fact that it has the air intakes on the hood, cars produced after '64 didn't have them. |
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| The body shape is almost perfection, it looks like the space ship from Flash Gordon. The engine in this was probably the 327 cubic inch motor although several variants were available. |
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| This 1953 Bently 4.5 litre Peterson Bently blower was amazing. The car is an authentic recreation of the famous 'blowers' that Sir Henry Birkin raced in the 1920's. |
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| The blown 4.5 litre Bently engine produces around 235 BHP and with construction being of an alloy body over an ash frame the acceleration and speed are both breathtaking. |
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| The dashboard is machined aluminium with large air craft style instruments. This must be scary driving this with so much power under the hood. |
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| Another American car at the show was this lovely light blue 1967 Ford Mustang. The Mustang was available with various engine's, all V8's and this one had the 289 cubic inch 4.7 litre V8. |
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| The unmistakable shape of the Ford Mustang. Even people with out any car knowledge should be able to recognise this rear end. |
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| In 1967 Ford redesigned some area's of the Mustang, changes included the wood trim dash and discontinuing the embossed running horse motif across the back seats... |
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| ... and looking at the reupholstered interior in that gorgeous white leather the rear seats do not the motif, as they look just about perfect without it. |
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| The Jaguar XK150 is probably the one of the best known British classics. This lovely deep red model, circa late 1950's was immaculate and had obviously undergone a restoration. The XK150 was produced from 1957 - 1961. |
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| The standard of this car was amazing, it looked like brand new. The bodywork was super straight and finished in that gorgeous deep red paint that was flawless. I do like those chrome spoke wheels that must take ages to clean. |
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| The Blackthorn show had numerous military vehicles attend and this Willys jeep stood out for me. The Willys jeep or Willys MB as it is less commonly known has always been a real favourite of mine. |
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| The Willys jeep was not only produced by Willys, but also later on by Ford due to the production demand for this utility vehicle. |
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| The interior of the Willys is as you would expect for a utility vehicle used during WW2 sparse to say the least, but then it wasn't built for comfort it was designed as a reconnaissance vehicle. |
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| American and British classics side by side at the Blackthorn classic car show. Here a huge 1959 Cadillac Coupe De Ville dwarfs a MK2 (I think) Jaguar. There is always so much diversity at classic car shows, it's great. |
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| This lovely stock looking 1963 beetle caught my eye as it was clean and original looking. It was nice to see that everything was as Volkswagen had intended. The roof rack was a nice addition that suited this stock car. |
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| Perfect paint over perfectly straight body panels, helped this old bug stand out. This really was a lovely clean car. |
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| The original look continued on the interior, with those lovely door cards and original steering wheel and dash trim. The only thing that I don't think was standard was the seat covers, but that doesn't matter. |
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| In the engine bay, again everything looked to be pretty much stock which was nice to see. |
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| Another Corvette at the show was this gorgeous 1956 model in the classic red and white paint with white wall tyres. The '56 Vette had the 265 cubic inch V8 engine and a 3 speed manual box, although the power glide automatic gearbox was an optional extra. |
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| I love the shape of the rear end on this model of Vette. I love how those tail lights are set into the rear wings. I'm not sure if this one had the power assist for the convertible hood as this was an optional extra. |
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| The Citroen SM was a very futuristic design when it was launched back in 1970. In fact the car came third in the European Car of the year in 1971. This gold coloured example looked great parked up. The SM had self levelling head lights that swivelled with the steering. |
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| Another cool innovation the SM had was the hydro-pneumatic suspension that was also self levelling. I think this was the only car around at the time to have the rear wheels covered by the bodywork giving an unusual look. |
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| The Isetta was produced under licence by several countries and this one was made by BMW. It's a 1960 model in burgundy and white. |
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| BMW put their own engine into the Isetta's they produced,this one has the one cylinder 250cc 4 stoke motorcycle engine. BMW did later put a 300cc engine in to comply with new traffic regulations. |
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| This lovely old GMC truck, circa 1950 looked great with it's patina paint. I have seen this truck several times at local shows and it still looks as good as it did the first time I saw it. |
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| I just love the patina paint and the old skool Wolfrace style alloy wheels. |
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| Another true British classic car is the Jenson Interceptor. This gorgeous example is a 1973 SP 2 door saloon. This model is very rare as only 232 of this model were ever produced. The SP had the Chrysler 7.2litre v8 engine with a Holly six pack carburetter producing 385 BHP. The top speed of this car is about 143MPH. |
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| Another cool American classic at the show was this 1962 Cadillac series 62. The 62 series of Caddy's underwent various body styles during it's production from 1940 - 1964. |
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| This huge angular design was typical of the 60's car styling in the U.S. and I think it looks great. This model had either the 390 cubic inch or 429 cubic inch motor V8 engine which would have been more than enough to pull the huge body around with ease. |
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| This wacky creation was produced by some old school friends of mine, it's a based on a Daewoo and made to look like the 'Little Tikes' children's play car |
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| This really goes attract attention everywhere John and Adrian take this car and it's easy to see why. This car is fully road legal and looks great driving down the road. |
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| The MK3 Ford Cortina is a car I'm very fond of, as I used to have one back in the day. This immaculate 1972 GXL model had the 2.0 litre engine with a rare automatic gearbox. |
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| I had a brief chat to the owner who told me all about the work he has carried out, suffice to say it took a lot of work to get this old 'Tina' looking this good. |
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| This wonderful trio of pick up trucks arrived at the show together, so I just had to go and have a look. |
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| The first truck was this 1960 Chevrolet short bed pick up truck finished is a superb coat of jet black gloss paint with traditional hot rod style red painted steel wheels with white wall tyres, which looked awesome. |
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| You can see just how straight this old work horse really is from this photo. The body panels are perfectly straight and the paintwork was flawless. |
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| The next pick up was this lovely patina'd 1953 Chevrolet 3100 1/2 ton (I think) pick up. Again this also had the old hot rod style red painted steel wheels with white wall tyres and chrome hub caps. |
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| The patina'd turquoise paint looked great as did the tail gate. The '53 was the last year to have the 216 cubic inch motor, after this they all had the bigger 235 cubic inch motor. |
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| The third and final pick up truck in this trio is this 1952 Chevrolet pick up truck finished in what looks like rust. This truck had been hit with the lowering stick and virtually sat on the ground. The aftermarket alloy wheels suited the look of this old truck as did the visor. |
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| I did like the bed of this truck with it's wooden slats and the wooden crates in the back. These pick up trucks are popular over here in the U.K. and you them at most hot rod / classic car shows across the country, and that's just fine with me. So that was part one of a two part review on the Blackthorn classic car show 2016. Overall a huge success with a lot more entrants than last year, which can only be good news. Part two of this review will be next Saturday where you'll be able to see some cool beetles, more American cars and of course plenty of British classics so don't forget to come back next week. |
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