Helmingham Festival of Classic & Sports cars.

[Suka]

On Sunday I went to this show. It’s a very distinguished show in these areas, it is held at a large country estate. All the cars line up in the gardens and people come round and admire the cars, later in the day a few of the cars go off down one of the drive ways which isn't very long but some of the fast cars can touch 80mph maybe at a push. Me and my Dad went to it this year and something rather pleasing happened. Before the show we had arranged to meet with the members from the Piston Heads web site, since my Dad is a member, in a supermarket car park (for those British members it was a Tescos), this was so that we could all be parked in the same place in the gardens. When we got there they all had TVRs (Two Chimeras and three Griffiths), and there was also one Triumph TR7. When we were parked up in the gardens the Libra was proudly sitting in the middle off the lot so the PistonHeads.com banner was placed just behind us ! When the show opened, because no one at the show had seen one before (bar two blokes, one knew us and the other had a friend with the convertible version) they all flocked over to look at the Libra and completely ignored those Russian (J/k) sports cars.
Pic 1: The Libra
Pic 2: A Marlin and a Pilgrim Sumo (I think)
Pic 3: A Lomax
Pic 4: A Marcos

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Pic 5: A Ginetta, with me admiring it (I would like one of those)
Pic 6: A Hawk 289
Pic 7: A Fisher Fury (I think)
Pic 8: A Noble M12 GTO

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Pic 9: The interior of a Quantum
Pic 10: I don't actually know but it looks good doesn't it?
Pic 11: A Trident

[VtecMini]

Looks like a great show, a lovely mix of the unusual and the wonderful! But where on earth is Helmingham?

On a side note, I've been trying to locate some sort of a comprehensive list of car shows in and around England, with little to no luck at all, none of the local newsagents stock Classic car weekly (is it still going?) or anything such as that, so I'm stuck with ones in the local newspaper and the big ones that everyone knows about. I really enjoy the shows and would love to get more practise with my camera, but can never find any shows!

[Suka]

Which Kit Car? sometimes has a list of shows in it. Helmingham is just east of Stowmarket, i think there was a Vtec mini there? There will be a good show this year on the 4th and 5th of September at Donnington that i hope to go to, I don't know if i will be there both days because we usually camp but i have a football match on that day.

[ashertk]

hi
man is this very funny to see here
im very happy to see festival


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