NEC Classic Car Show photos...

[BananaFama]

Great pics so far ,thanks all for posting .
Big fan of Gordon Keebles here too , Giugiaro's 2nd finest design after my car .

[Shezbo]

Some of the prices the Classic Car dealers were asking was TBH taking the p*ss, I guess some mugs get taken in by the 'hype'?

Great show as always tho...

[clive_candy]

Was keeping an eye on today's auction. Stuff generally seemed not to make the lower end of its estimate.

[P5BNij]

Shezbo said:

Some of the prices the Classic Car dealers were asking was TBH taking the p*ss, I guess some mugs get taken in by the 'hype'?

Great show as always tho...

They do vary quite a bit though, walking round for the last time this afternoon I noticed a few of the Jags had sold, including a green Mk2 3.4 for £25k and a pale yellow XJC for £32k, assuming of course the asking prices were what was actually paid. I bought another Jag book (oops) and had a ride in the Sporting Bears Mk2 Jag 3.4 which the owner had beathed on slightly, it certainly didn't hang about when we were following the E-Type and cornered with barely a hint of roll...

[Pitre]

CCCUK

[hilly10]

The Merc 190 SL was tasty

[Rob 131 Sport]

BananaFama said:

Any delightful FIATs Nij ?

The NEC is a great show and one that my mates and I wouldn’t miss. As a previous poster mentioned there did appear to be less Italian cars than in previous years.

I’ve also uploaded a further image of the Avocado Green Rover SD1, which to me was the car of the show. For an SD1 of this era it got me thinking as to whether this Green or Tumeric Yellow is the best colour.

[P5BNij]

[Pflanzgarten]

Car of the show for me, completely rebuilt at home, even resprayed in the back garden!





Put this on standard wheels and I’d happily live with it



Colour scheme, finish, just a lovely, lovely bundle of fun.



So many terrific Landies at the show it was difficult to pick a favourite, this just beat one of the lovely 3 door Discos.

Edited by Pflanzgarten on Sunday 12th November 17:08

[P5BNij]

That Frogeye is definitely cute





Unique Daimler version of the Jag XJ-S...



My mate looked at this and said ''that's pure Jimmy Tarbuck''...













I really fancied this 3.4 Mk2 Jag...

Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 12th November 15:15

[Pflanzgarten]

I've been threatening a Frogeye for years now, it would just have to be that colour though-lovely! Those Fly Dinos were lovely too.

Oh and the bloody 6R4 stand!!! There was a bearded chap who talked us through some history-this guy needs to write the 6R4 book! I think he's friends with the Autoplas car owner and what a great guy.

I really wish we'd made a weekend of it now, so much more to see than we did in seven hours.

[AMTony]

aeropilot said:

FarmerJim said:

Mangusta behind the Pantera

That Mangusta was the car that Kylie made the video in.
Lovely thing.

[P5BNij]

I did three days and still missed bits of it!

Next batch of photos...

[BananaFama]

Great pics thanks .

What's the yellow pickup next to the light blue 126 ?

Edit....looking closer it appears to be another 126 with an odd add on back piece ,any pics?

Thought it might be a Reliant Fox but no .

Edited by BananaFama on Sunday 12th November 21:00

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

I did three days and still missed bits of it!

My best mate who has now lined in California for past 20 years, went to SEMA in Vegas last weekend, and did 3 days there, walked about 25 mikes in 3 days walking around it, and reckoned he didn't even see half of it, its so big.

[Richard-G]

My three Faves were.

This triumph prototype


This marcos


And the refreshed beast!


Such a great show, great people and great cars!

[hilly10]

The Green Alfa Spider was a beauty

Here’s a pic of the interior

[Pflanzgarten]

Bugger I missed the Triumph prototype, The Beast was a weird one to see in a different colour wasn't it?

[GTRene]

P5BNij said:

would love a G10 some day, sadly rare so expensive, but.... Ginetta is making some nwe Ginetta G10's, but... expensive as well, although great they make a few more.

[williamp]

Thanks everyone for posging. Ive not managed to go since covid, so its great to see.