Festival of the Unexceptional | PH Gallery

Done with immaculate hypercars on perfectly preened lawns? Try the Festival of the Unexceptional!

There can't have been many car shows in recent times where a 1977 Morris Marina 1.3 Estate has won the top prize; still, as those who have attended the past five will attest, the Festival of the Unexceptional is not your usual car show...

Held at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire over the weekend, FOTU celebrates all those fantastically ordinary cars that have largely been forgotten thanks to changing tastes, fashions and, well, scrappage schemes. Thousands attended the "hurrah for the humdrum", with prizes awarded for particularly notable cars. As well as the Marina, they included a People's Choice award for Simon Gaisford's Peugeot 305 SR Estate - one of just seven left in the UK - the Citroen BX 19 DTR of Dan Goff that won the Junior Judges Choice, and an Anniversary Class triumph for David Loasby's Astra GL.

Here we have a gallery featuring a few of our favourites, including a Rover 820E, a Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0i CD, a Ford Cortina 2.0L and even a Nissan Sunny. Check out the Yugo cabriolet, too... Plenty to feast the eyes on this Monday morning then, and hopefully next year will be even bigger and better still. If any PHers attended and have pictures to share, we'd love to see them!