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!
Bought for peanuts, driven into the ground, thrown away. By the tens of thousands.
I wouldn't have given many of these cars the time of day when they were common and plentiful, but I find myself quite partial to a nice, preserved, standard example of pretty much anything, however awful or just plain forgettable it was when new.
Haven't heard much about it since (of course, it is the car industries interest to keep it quiet). I'm not completely convinced about the methodology, but it is probably ball park right.
(in a similar vein, railways are very green only once they've been built - the carbon cost of building the lines is huge as it is very cement intensive)
... then scrolled down and saw this photo of the same car...
... and my teeth started to itch. I know it's nerdy, but I'm a stickler for this specific piece of detail on cars older than 2001 (that's the only clue you're getting!)
I'd probably enjoy this and really I should have gone along in my Rascal as I feel it would fit in well.
... then scrolled down and saw this photo of the same car...
... and my teeth started to itch. I know it's nerdy, but I'm a stickler for this specific piece of detail on cars younger than 2001 (that's the only clue you're getting!)
So, sorry Mr 60s Car Man, I was, as always, wrong.
... then scrolled down and saw this photo of the same car...
... and my teeth started to itch. I know it's nerdy, but I'm a stickler for this specific piece of detail on cars younger than 2001 (that's the only clue you're getting!)
yep always sticks out like a sore thumb to me too
... then scrolled down and saw this photo of the same car...
... and my teeth started to itch. I know it's nerdy, but I'm a stickler for this specific piece of detail on cars younger than 2001 (that's the only clue you're getting!)
yep always sticks out like a sore thumb to me too
for anyone that was there, did they see the Mad Max escapees turn up in the National trust car park?
there was a very nice McLaren 720 press car in the car park as well- probably worth the same as the majority of the unexceptionals put together
The red Innocenti was gorgeous
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