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This page is for everything else! The problem is that there were so many great vehicles on show that I kept on finding more favourites. This is where some of them have ended up. Where I can ID a vehicle I will. Everything else is pot luck.

Austin 7 Chummy	1904 Mors 24/32 HP
1923 Amilcar C4	“Herbie” branded VW Beetle
Fiat 500	Singer Gazelle
VW 1600	Bristol 2 litre
Citroen 2CV6 Special	1929 Ford Model A
	1976 William Fourgonette
Lomax 3 wheeler	Ford
Dune buggy	Auto Union DKW
Willys Jeep	1942 Willys Jeep
1932 Lagonda 2 litre	Morgan 3 Wheeler
1934 British Salmson	1957 Rover Sports Tourer
Morris Van	1963 Heinkel Trojan
Bugatti	Bugatti

There was also a display of motor cycles, but not too many of them were classics.

Wow, some of these may have been seen in South Africa, especially the pickups (bakkies). I will continue with more from the Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival, on the next page (page not completed yet)

© DRW 2017-2018. Created 22/08/2017. All vehicles were on public display. Special thanks to their owners for keeping them on the road for everybody to admire. 

Continuing with the Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival.

Of course the event was dominated by British cars of all shapes and colours, and many of them were seen in South Africa long before the emergence of the German and Japanese manufacturers. There was also a smattering of French and Italian cars, but they were definitely in the minority. That is also true in the case of the festival.  

As usual my identification skills are bad, but will do my best, In answer to the question: “why are they all facing in the same direction?” I tried to photograph with the sun behind my back so most of the images ended up facing in the same direction. 

MG TF1500	Austin Seven
Anglia	Ford Corsair
Morris “Woody”	Ford Escort 1600
Triumph	Austin A40
Jaguar	Ford XR3i
1956 Ford Anglia Deluxe	Lotus Esprit 2.2 Turbo
“E” Type Jaguar	1952 Alvis TB21 D/H Coupe
Austin Cambridge	Ford Zephyr
1958 Simca Aronde	Ford Capri
Austin Apache	Rolls Royce

As you can see the dominant player seemed to be Ford, and of course heaps of Austins. However, it may only be true of this particular show and not indicative of the state of motoring in the United Kingdom. A number of models that I had seen last year were not here this year, and of course there were so many cars I probably missed seeing quite a few.

The next batch are really odds and ends that caught my fancy and which were found in the UK in years gone by. Once again identification is not my strong point. 

VW Camper (Kombi)	Bedford HA Van
Morris “Police” car	1985 Ford Granada MKII
1927 Morgan Aero	VW Kombi (Fleetline/)
Vauxhall Cresta	Austin A35
Ford Escort 1300	Riley One Point Five
Rover 3500	Austin Healey
MG	Dellow MK2A
Alvis	Austin 7

© DRW 2017-2018. Created 20/08/2017. All vehicles were on public display. Special thanks to their owners for keeping them on the road for everybody to admire. 

This morning I headed down to attend the Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival, and I came back with 590 images. Regular readers will know that I also attended the event in 2016 and came back with an equally large amount of images. The problem is that many of the images are interchangeable between this year and last, and the self imposed limitations of the blog are that I can only really have roughly 40 images to a page. Its also important that I try show other aspects of the event, not just heaps of pics of Mini’s and nothing else (naturally we will need a whole page dedicated to the Mini).

Let us make one thing straight, I am not a car buff. I don’t know much about them, do not worship them and really see them as a means of transport and nothing else. However, I am a fan of nostalgia and many of these vehicles were around when I was young, and while the models may be differently named they are almost interchangeable between what was available in South Africa with what was available in the United Kingdom. 

At this juncture I would like to extend my thanks to the organisers and the many people who were there with their cars, they were really wonderful to see. Thank you!

Where to start? 

I think just for a change I will start with what I know as “Yank Tanks”. The large American cars that we very rarely saw in South Africa. I am not a boffin so can’t really Identify many of them, although I tried to get a pic of a makers badge or name wherever possible. The one car that I was quite surprised see was an Edsel, the only one I have ever seen (as far as I can remember).

The strange metal rods protruding from the front bumper in the first image was supposedly to warn when you were riding up the pavement! They were not connected to any sensors or warning lights so they are really quite useless if you think about it. 

The next vehicle is really a car from my past. My paternal grandfather had a Studebaker, but I do not know if this was the model that he had. Personally I really think they had the body the wrong way around.  This model is a Studebaker Commander.

And then there was this long monster of a car… It is a 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and only has two doors (although they are larger than my last car was) and is 5,72 m long

That is a big car!  Go check out the webpage of the people who run her, they have some seriously large cars on it. 

And a Hudson Commodore

Other interesting oddities I saw were:

An Oldsmobile

A Packard.

Chevrolet	Chevrolet
Ford Falcon	Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Cadillac	1956 Plymouth Belvedere
Chevrolet Caprice Classic	Corvette Stingray
Buick Eight	Chevy Bel Air
Ford Mustang	Ford Mustang
Ford F100	A long and low limo…
Ford Galaxie XL	Chevrolet C10
Chevrolet 3100	GMC Apache 10

Wow, some of these may have been seen in South Africa, especially the pickups (bakkies). I will continue with more from the Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival, on the next page

© DRW 2017-2018. Created 20/08/2017. All vehicles were on public display. Special thanks to their owners for keeping them on the road for everybody to admire.