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| Our VW buses parked up at the Chearsley Car Show. Matthew's white over blue SO42 '69 bay, my 1969 microbus and CJ's white over red '76 late bay. Matthew brought the inflatable palm trees and I brought the body boards and hammock while CJ brought his cool old skool BMX cycle. |
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| Everyone helped to create our display which we hoped the public would appreciate. We have already said that next years display will be a much bigger and better display. |
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| CJ brought along his old skool BMX bike, that Matthew was just dying to ride to see if he still had his boyhood skills. All of us urged Matthew to give us a demonstration on his bike skills, but it never happened, probably just as well, for safety reasons. |
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| Matthew's '69 Westy all ready for the paying public to view. This really is a nice bus which is a U.S. import, the same as my microbus. In fact both Matthew's bus and mine shared the same container on the way over from the states. |
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| My 1969 VW microbus. I had attached my hammock from my bus onto CJ's bus, which actually worked out well. I think we all had some time relaxing in the hammock at sometime during the day. I had also brought along a selection of hand painted saw's that I hoped might sell. |
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| Would you buy a bus from these guy's? No nor would I.! We had all purchased Hawaiian style shirts, with the main colour to suit our buses. Matthew got a blue one, I got a green one and CJ of course got a red one. These shirts were loud, but good fun and certainly got us noticed.! |
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| Our VW display, as you'll see later in the blog, most of the entrant's had just parked up their classic car and walked off and while the classic car is interesting, we thought our display needed something more visual to stimulate the public. |
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| A couple of more buses that are quite local also joined us later in the day. Tonya and Eddie came over a little later in the day in their buses and parked up with us. |
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| Tonya came along in her 1970 Dormobile, which is a rolling restoration. This bay rides at stock height and it is a nice solid bus. |
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| This is Eddie's 1985 all white high top T25. This lovely bus has a full camping interior with all the whistles and bells. These high top T25's really are nice buses and have so much more room than tin top early bays. |
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| This immaculate Volvo 122S was cleaner than it was when it left the factory. Volvo produced this car from 1956 - 1970 as the 120 series, or more commonly known as the 'Amazon' here in the U.K. but when it was introduced into the U.S. market it was called the 122S. This was an original spec U.S. 122S model. |
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| The main difference between the standard 120 series and the higher spec 122S was the engine. The 122S had a twin carburetor 85 BPH motor compared to the lesser single carb, 66 BHP as fitted to the 120 series (Amazon) |
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| You can see just how clean this gorgeous old Volvo really is from this photo. This must have had a nut and bolt restoration to look this nice. |
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| This yellow 1971 Ford Escort MK1 was totally immaculate. These MK1's were big when I was a mere lad of 17 / 18 and were practically my dream car back then, although I never managed to ever own one. |
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| The MK1's were produced from 1967 - 1975 and this 1600GT Mexico was a road version of the world rally winning car that was driven by Hannu Mikkola and Gunner Palm. These road versions had the 1598cc Ford crossflow engine. |
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| While most of my mates had the MK1 Escort, I had one of these. It's a MK3 Ford Cortina. These lovely old Fords were produced from 1970 - 1976. This lovely brown MK3 had been lovingly restored and was a 2000cc GXL model, which meant it had a higher trim spec. |
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| Another 1971 MK1 Ford Escort, but this one has the 'works' bodywork with the huge flared arches and the quad spotlights. Notice how the bottom left spotlight is pointing towards the curb, this is how the Ford rally team mounted theirs as it lit up the edge of the road while the other three lit up the road ahead. |
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| This immaculate Escort had the larger 1701cc Cosworth engine as fitted to the factory rally cars. This car is very similar spec to Roger Clark's 1972 RAC rally winning Escort.. |
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| This Herbie replica looked like a very detailed copy of the famous Beetle. This lovely 1970 bug looked to be lovely and clean and super straight. |
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| You can see just how straight the old bug was from this photo. You can also see how authentic looking this Herbie actually was. |
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| I did like the ride height of this Herbie and also how those big chunky tyres on those deep dish banded steel rear wheels filled the arches. |
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| The all red rear tail lights with the beige Paris sun roof along with the chrome towel rail bumpers added to this car authentic look. |
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| This gorgeous 1967 type 34 is a regular at this great show, and for the past few years I have always taken a photo of it. This gorgeous car has been restored in the past and as part of the restoration a metal sunroof from a Karmann Ghia was added. |
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| These type 34's or 'Razor Edge' as they are more commonly known really do have such a lovely shape body, that has a timeless beauty. |
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| The interior looks to be pretty much stock, and just looks so nice. I do like the wood dash board and wood rimmed steering wheel (which I'm sure isn't standard) |
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| This beautiful 1964 Porsche 356C finished in what looks like the original colour of Sky Blue was immaculate. The Porsche 356 was produced from 1948-1965. |
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| New revisions for the 1964 model featured disc brakes all round as well as the option for the most powerful push rod engine Porsche had ever produced, the 95HP (71KW) 'SC'. In 1964 only about 14,000 356's were produced so this is quite rare. |
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| Although it was still quite early in the day, the show field was starting to fill up. The 'Morris' owners club was at this show in force with some amazing cars from all years. |
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| One of the vehicles in the 'Morris' display was this totally immaculate 1950's pick up. Although this is technically a 'Cowley MCV' pick up the name 'Cowley never appeared on commercial vehicles. These variations of the Morris Cowley car were produced from 1950 - 1956 and came in a pick up, van and chassis cab body styles. |
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| The Cowley 10CWT pick up was a replacement for the Model Y-series van and had a capacity of 120 cubic feet. This immaculate example had been restored to an incredible standard. |
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| Not a very good photo due to the reflection of the glass but you can just make out how original the cab interior was. The attention to detail was amazing. So that was the first instalment on the Chearsley Classic Car show. Next week will be the second instalment where you can see, more VW buses and plenty of cool Hot Rods, and so much more so be sure to come back next Saturday. |
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