The review continues as I wander around this great show.
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| This lovely 1970 baby blue and white early bay belongs to friends of mine, Andy and Annelise. Their gorgeous bay is a U.S. import and it's really straight and solid. The full length roof rack came of Andy's old split screen panel van. |
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| This really is a nice looking bus that Annelise uses as a daily driver. Andy keeps the bus on the road by doing all the maintenance himself. |
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| This stunning 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 looked amazing with it's super straight body and it's perfectly applied Raven Black paint. The chrome trim and bumpers were just like new and looked great against the black paint. |
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| This old '64 500 had the 390 cubic inch, 6.4 litre V8 with the 4 barrel carb and the 3 speed manual gearbox with overdrive. |
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| This car is quite rare in the fact that it's a 4 door sedan, finished in the black and black option (black paint and black interior) as only 295 cars with the specification were ever made, and this is the only one with this spec in the U.K. |
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| This old Ford Cortina 1600 GXL looked a bit sorry for itself in it's un-restored condition. I had one of these Ford many years ago and I loved it, and could easily have another one, except that the price for these old 'Tina's' are selling for, even in this condition is sky high. |
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| These really are nice looking cars that bring back many happy memories for me. Although this car looked a it rough around the edges it is still a very desirable car. |
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| This lovely solid looking 1971 white bug caught my eye as it was so clean. This old bug looked great with it's chrome towel rail bumper and chrome head light peaks. |
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| You can see just how clean this old bug really is from this photo. I did like the white mud flaps that give a period feel to this lovely car. I did notice that it had a 'Wolfsburg Weed Huggers' ( a local VW club) sticker in the back window |
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| This Citroen DS23 Pallas IE caught my eye as this was my dream car as a young kid. This 1973 model looked stunning. The DS was revolutionary with it's 'new' hydraulic system that operated the steering, suspension, brakes and gearbox. The DS was the first mass produced front wheel drive car. |
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| The body design was ground breaking and when it was first unveiled at the 1955 Paris motor show, Citroen took over 12000 orders for the car on the first day! The DS had a 2347cc 4 cylinder engine with a 5 speed manual gearbox. |
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| Another car of my youth was the Ford Capri, and this 1970 baby blue 1600 XL is another very sought after British classic car. The Capri was produced from 1968 - 1973 at the Dagenham and Halewood plants. |
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| The 2 door fastback coupe was originally called the 'Colt' during it's development stage, but Ford were unable to use the name as it was already trademarked by Mitsubishi. |
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| You can see the design was loosely based on the Ford Mustang. Over 1.9 million Capri's were sold in it's production lifetime. |
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| This very distinctive T4 belongs to a mate of mine, and a fellow Outcast VW club member Mike. Mike's satin black bus has hot rod style red scallops down the side (which Mike still has to outline in white!) red painted steel wheels with white wall tyres and a red and black chequered bonnet bra. |
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| This really is a cool looking bus, that stands out wherever it goes. I do like the clear rear light lenses and the black and silver number plate. |
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| The interior of Mike's T4 is super cool, and looks fantastic and I believe it recently won a 'best interior' award at a show, a well deserved award I say. |
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| This camouflaged 182 Kurierwagon looked great in the sunshine. The 182 (or 181 for U.K. models) was produced by Volkswagen for use by the German military during WW2. |
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| The 2 wheel drive, 4 door vehicle clearly has a military influence. The 182 (also known as the Trekker) had the floorpan from a Karmann Ghia as it's wider than a beetle, and many mechanical components from the beetle. |
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| This black over bright red 1972 bay looked good in the summer sunshine. The bright red paint was in stark contrast to the black roof and the two tone combination worked so well. |
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| This really was a nice clean and straight bus, I did like the painted bumpers that matched the Empi 5 spoke wheels perfectly. |
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| This super clean 1987 T25 Caravelle looked amazing. It was so straight and clean, and the paint was spotless. I do like these T25's and could easily have one myself. |
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| This 1973 late bay looked really nice in it's white over light olive (sort of!) colour. This deluxe bus was really was lovely and clean and straight. I did like the sun visor which gives the bus a very distinctive look. |
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| It's a shame the camping chair is in the photo but you can still see just how straight and clean this bus from this photo. |
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| This cool satin black beetle belongs to a local guy called Matt. This lowered bug has a hot rod feel with the satin black paint and the red rimmed painted steel wheels. |
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| This '67 bug looks so cool and the all red rear light lenses just add to the overall look. It looks as though this old bug may have a narrowed front beam judging by how far under the front wings the wheels are..? |
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| This lovely old step side pick up truck looked cool with it's bare metal bodywork. To be honest I'm not sure what this is.. was, as it's had so many body modifications and sheet metal work it's hard to tell. One thing I do know is that I liked it.! |
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| The truck had been seriously lowered and those front fenders look as though they have been widened. |
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| The rear end had also has been reworked with some serious metalwork modifications. I did like the custom tail lights |
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| This gorgeous 1970 early bay looked great in it's pastel blue paint. This really was a lovely clean and straight bus. |
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| I think this gorgeous bus may be an import. I did like those polished Radar wheels which suited this old bay perfectly. So that was the 3rd instalment of 4 about the Chiltern Hills Vintage Rally. The fourth and final instalment will be next week where you can see more bugs and buses including a lovely split screen panel van, a gorgeous Modal A hot rod, amongst a few others and so much more so be sure to come back next Saturday. |
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