Classic Motor Show, NEC Birmingham

[Jagmanv12]

Just heard that the show planned for Nov 11-13 has been cancelled due to Covid.

[neutral 3]

What a frigging nightmare situation......

[Mr Tidy]

Yes, I got an E-mail from Classic & Sportscar earlier.

But I can understand why - distancing would be pretty much impossible based upon the numbers attending when I have been in the past.

Still a shame though.

[MitchT]

I'm baffled that they dragged it out as long as they did. Having been many times I couldn't for the life of me understand how they expected to pull this off with the kind of restrictions what would have been needed. You queue to get in, you queue for a coffee, you queue for food, you push and shove around cars that everyone wants to look at. The show is a mass of humanity. It was never going to work!

[john2443]

MitchT said:

I'm baffled that they dragged it out as long as they did. Having been many times I couldn't for the life of me understand how they expected to pull this off with the kind of restrictions what would have been needed. You queue to get in, you queue for a coffee, you queue for food, you push and shove around cars that everyone wants to look at. The show is a mass of humanity. It was never going to work!

It does seem odd seeing that it's been obvious for months that there was no hope, maybe they've been optimistic but this is the deadline for cancelling NEC without paying, or they can now claim on insurance as i'ts cancelled due to virus but if they cancelled earlier that would count as their decision?

Meanwhile, the NECs income must have been hit very hard.

[stichill99]

My mates and I have been for the last 4 years but we didn't even book the travel lodge it was that obvious this was never going to happen!