Oily Rag Run 2012 - Automobile Magazine
Discussion
The theme of this event is original/unrestored cars. There were some remarkable examples of originality. I guess close to 100 cars gathered at the stunning P&A Woods showroom & spotless workshop in Great Easton, Essex.
I rode shotgun in my fathers 1929 Sunbeam 3 litre Twin Cam Saloon.
The cars went onto a pub and then somewhere else... (not a clue where as we overstayed our welcome in the pub)
Not one of the oily rag cars... Bugatti Royale - something you don't see everyday but P&A Woods had this one:
The extreme end of the Oily Rag run, Model T Ford:
WWI M.O.D. vehicle complete with machine gun and tax disc...
Automobile Magazine on the rear shelf of a Bristol...
And the car on the cover of the magazine...
P&A Woods also had this big Healey with Le Mans history:
Sunbeam Twin Cam - very original but not very oily...
I rode shotgun in my fathers 1929 Sunbeam 3 litre Twin Cam Saloon.
The cars went onto a pub and then somewhere else... (not a clue where as we overstayed our welcome in the pub)
Not one of the oily rag cars... Bugatti Royale - something you don't see everyday but P&A Woods had this one:
The extreme end of the Oily Rag run, Model T Ford:
WWI M.O.D. vehicle complete with machine gun and tax disc...
Automobile Magazine on the rear shelf of a Bristol...
And the car on the cover of the magazine...
P&A Woods also had this big Healey with Le Mans history:
Sunbeam Twin Cam - very original but not very oily...
Andy 308GTB said:
The theme of this event is original/unrestored cars. There were some remarkable examples of originality. I guess close to 100 cars gathered at the stunning P&A Woods showroom & spotless workshop in Great Easton, Essex ....
I recognise the Jowett as the owner lives only a few miles from me. He doesn't plan to restore his Jupiter but instead will keep it in time-warp condition.
I really enjoy seeing cars in this original unrestored state
Such a contrast to the tarty glossy-lipstick, chrome-bedazzled, spotlessly-clean and over-restored cars you often see at concours events. These trailer-queens bear no relation to how the cars may have looked after a few years of use (especially competition cars) and perhaps not even how they may have looked when first supplied by the factory. I can vividly remember seeing a competitor feverishly cleaning up the inside of an exhaust pipe with a toothbrush before a concours event a few years ago as an example 
Seeing events such as these makes me think of the best way to complete my own project ( Jaguar XJ13 - Building the Legend). It seems the original car was looking pretty tired by the end of its active development in 1967. In contrast with the shiny bare aluminium interior of the rebuilt "original" (and every other replica I have seen), the interior cockpit surfaces of the 1966 car were all painted with a matt black paint which had become pretty scratched and scuffed by mid-1967. The body was also rather knocked-about with some last-minute bodywork modifications made by means of a big hammer. I don't know if I could bring myself to attack the finished body with a hammer (even though it will be nothing more than a replica) but am certainly considering an "aged" cellulose finish that will quickly "sink" to show positions of countersunk rivets etc.
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