Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival (1)

Last year (2015), the Tewkesbury Classic Vehicle Festival was washed out. This year it was not, which is a good thing because I attended the event this morning and it was stunning. If you are a car buff then you would have loved it. I am not a car buff, but there are certain vehicles that I like and others that interest me from a retro perspective. And of course there are bound to be Mini’s and we all know how much I love those.

These posts are more of photo essays than anything else because I do not know much about cars, and a show like this is really about lines of stationary cars. I took 450 images, and the weather kept on changing cloudwise. Fortunately it did not rain, or it would have ruined some extremely clean vehicles, (btw, each image opens in a new tab)

The dominant player in the classic car festival were the many and varied British marques. There were heaps of Morris, Austin, Morgan, and Mini’s on display, and I was amazed at how all of those names have all but disappeared from a world dominated by the Japanese, German, Korean and French manufacturers. The Mini gallery has it’s very own page

Sunbeam Talbot Ten (1947)	Morris Oxford VI (1968)
Dellow HWP 941 (1950)	Austin A40 Sports
Aero 8 Morgan (2009)	Daimler
White GA (1911)	Armstrong Siddeley Whitley (1952)
Triumph Roadster 2000 (1949)	Morris 1300 (1968)
Rolls Royce Silver Ghost (1921)	Rover Special Sports Tourer (1957)
Triumph Mayflower (1953)	Stoneleigh
Austin Healey	Riley
Rolls Royce	Morgan
Morris Oxford	Austin
Rover	“E” Type Jaguar
Rolls Royce	Austin A10
Bentley	MG
Wolseley	Austin Allegro
Austin	Rover 100
Bullnose Morris (1923)	Standard Super 10
Triumph	Austin

The one vehicle that I really like are the 3 wheelers, mostly made by Morgan, but I did see some that were not Morgans. Sadly I did not see any Robin Reliants or Rialtos so cannot include them here.