Well, that's our 1st major show completed since the pandemic, and what a show it was. Fantastic weather with 29 Deg C on Saturday and up to a nice 31 on Sunday. We had huge crowds on both day, with Sunday always being the busiest. Our show vehicles were down slightly this year which we are putting down to Covid and the excessive price of fuel although we had 50 plus cars booked to be on stand for both days, we eventually had 29 which was a bit of a shame as we had a large stand space booked.

Sunday was a rather special day though. We had a visit on stand from Sarah Crabtree from Bangers and Cash, and of course Wendy and I both missed her as were too busy sorting out some other minor issues.

I suppose I better mention the minor issue. One of the cars on show on the Sunday was that stunning Esprit Turbo belonging to Stephen Which which many of you will probably know is a one owner 11,000 plus mile immaculate, all original, untouched car. Well didn't this little beauty just go and win Best in Class un restored original car. Not bad going from a show which had 1,745 exhibits many of which are original and un restored. What a tribute to a stunning car.

Congrats Stephen, especially considering it was the 1st time shown at this most prestigious in Scotland.

Downside being by the time the trophy presentation were complete, we were late in getting everything packed away, load the little canter with one of our cars, the trailer with the barn find we had on show and left for home. Special thanks to those guys who stayed behind to help down rig our show stand, load up etc and get mobile.

We also had a little bonus for a Cancer charity stand. I forgot to take the name of the charity. The lady came over to us and said, we have been gifted with a box of Lotus notepads, any idea what we can do with them. Simple I said, leave them with me. 20 minutes later after going round the guy's and simply saying, hey, your owe me three quid and handing them a note pad, said money was handed over to the charity stand and she was delighted as it was £40 for something they thought they may make £10. Good deed for the day done.

A second surprise was one of our members had been given a box of memorabilia from the late wife of a chap called John Farquarson (probably spelt wrong) who had been one of the original organisers of the show and a personal friend of Jim Clark. John had passed away recently is buried locally. He must have been a special friend of the flying Scotsman. John was a local farmer and had engraved on his headstone at one side a sheep and on the other and engraving of his friend Jim Clark in one of his race cars. Now is that special or what. I will of course dig deeper into the link and history when I get chance, but for the meantime the box and it's contents are now in safe keeping rather than where they were destined to go, which was the local skip.

A full set of pictures will be posted later.

Wendy and I were/are both knackered, but, man what a weekend.

 

Awesome stuff John. Wish I could have made it but I was working and having a few teething issues with my car I'm sorting out. Next year hopefully!