Excellent write-ups! Well, I can only say what began as the biggest let down since the Hindenburg disaster quickly turned into a right barrel of laughs. Thanks God I was borne along the pavement by the rest of the group as I was seriously contemplating paying the £7.50 charge to get in and then do swapsies with my comrades - I would've been pretty sick if I did because the floodgates were opened to us evidently deemed hoi polloi shortly afterwards.
You pay to park, you pay to get in, you pay to piss and the only wonder is they don't try and charge you to get out, which I'm certain they would, if they could. There is also no such thing as a free lunch, but this one was worth paying for. I did question Gilbert Codwhacker's choice of sausage and chips given that it was a North Yorkshire Chippy (fish being the default option), but that gravy I sampled was top notch.
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Once we got in they couldn't get us out, nor indeed the cars or any of the crammed in junk. I made a beeline for these Moggies but a family of wasps had already got there.
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That auction game was a great surprise and really good, so we had a real good time in the end. And, as you have seen, it didn't stop there, as we gallivanted off through the countryside in a roundabout way home.
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I am amazed that stuff like this keeps turning up, honestly, but more am I amazed at the prices some dunces will pay at auction for some old crap.
Junkman indeed sums up our way home. After a few miles we encountered a steam rally, held slap bang in the middle of a village, and progressing on into the evening, admirably. It consisted mostly of those absurd coal fired contraptions (what purpose did they ever serve?), mainly those strange road trains, but also including couple of coal fired flatbed trucks (Sentinels and the like, bloody weird things), as well as some miniature steam engines - one wearing an acrylic numberplate made me laugh, purely for how out of place it was, however being completely correct. It looked fantastically ridiculous. I noted that a lot of these steam engines and tractors had multiple empty beer glasses resting on them - not belonging to any of the drivers, I hope - though I imagine it'd be hard to cause any damage that wasn't premeditated with a traction engine.
A few commercial vehicles of interest were dotted about, for example a Unimog, a silver-diamond brandishing tractor as detailed above, a couple of mk2 Transits (the blue one I think was bought at Mathewsons recently), a Scammell truck, and such like. The pink Ferguson was some idiot's attempt at trying to be different, and 'not just another grey Fergie', as some laminated paper on the seat back read - I gave up reading it as soon as I saw that.
I got scared out of my skin by steam whistles a couple of times, and I had to be careful where I walked and stood, lest I be downwind of a funnel, which was unbearably acrid. I'm just glad I wasn't one of the couple of people caught walking on the pavement behind an engine at one edge of the meet when it let off a load of steam from somewhere backward - a woman in evening dress was clearly quite unimpressed at the unwelcome surprise and was doing her best not to mouth off.
It was alright, an interesting thing to look around, but not really my bag for the most part.
Further along, on the A61 after a stop in a Wetherspoons in Thirsk, we spotted the Buick at the roadside, apparently for sale. We had a good nose around it and discussed our respective plans for it, before an uneventful waft through the countryside back home.
1. Baby Boom Bomber - Any 1960 - 1980 saloon, hatchback, or estate
2. Rainy Day Remorse - Anything with a folding top
3. Fix it again, Toni - Anything Italian
4. Toff Tat - Anything suitable for toffs. Must have a posh badge
5. Midlife Crisis Compensator - Any two seater
6. Biggus Dickus' choice - Anything up to 1300 cc
7. Pettycoat Puller - Anything made in USA
8. Warmonger Wagon - Any military vehicle
9. Fred the Farmer's Fantasy - Any agricultural implement
10. Vintage Vee Hickle - Anything Prewar
Note: This is a classic car thingy, not Cannock!
The winner is consequently the one who invested the MOST moolah on rusty hedgefonds.
Ghosty
1. Lot 205 - Citroen D Super 5 - 8,815
2. Lot 218 - Sunbeam Tiger - DNS
3. Lot 184 - Ferrari Mondial - 23,600
4. Lot 43 - Range Rover - 10,212
5. Lot 195 - Renault Sport Spider - 26,750
6. Lot 28 - 1962 Mini Cooper S - DNS
7. Lot 179 - 1960 Chevy Impala HT - 27,800
8. Lot 217 - Green Goddess - DNS
9. Lot 232 - 1952 Fargo Stepside PU - 7,525
10. Lot 10 - 1936 Austin Big Sixteen - DNS
Total 94,490
Gilbert T Codwhacker
1. Lot 141 - 1975 Triumph Toledo - 7,525
2. Lot 212 - 1992 Peugeot 205 CJ Junior - DNS
3. Lot 181 - 1994 Fiat Panda Selecta CVT - 1,725
4. I can't read it
5. Lot 21 - 1957 MGA Coupe - 19,028
6. I can't read it
7. Lot 14 - 1946 Chevrolet Panel Van - 19,350
8. Lot 134 - Green Goddess - DNS
9. McCormick Tractor - DNS
10. Lot 45 - 1926 Armstrong Siddeley 14hp - DNS
Total 47,628
Conrad D. Conelrad
1. Lot 127 - 1969 Ford Cortina Estate - 6,235
2. Lot 144 - 1966 Triumph TR4A - 25,175
3. Lot 184 - Ferrari Mondial - 23,600
4. Lot 43 - Range Rover - 10,212
5. Lot 21 - 1957 MGA Coupe - 19,028
6. Lot 28 - 1962 Mini Cooper S - DNS
7. Lot 179 - 1960 Chevy Impala HT - 27,800
8. Lot 217 - Green Goddess - DNS
9. Red Massey Ferguson - DNS
10. Lot 38 - 1951 Alvis TA14 - clearly a postwar car
Total 112,050
Fried Onions
1. Lot 121 - 1987 Ford Capri 280 Brooklands - 20,425
2. Lot 184 - Ferrari Mondial - 23,600
3. Lot 49 - 1997 Fiat 126 - DNS
4. Lot 45 - 1926 Armstrong Siddeley 14hp - DNS
5. Lot 34 - 1977 Triumph TR7 V8 Historic Rally Car - 37,250
6. Lot 28 - 1962 Mini Cooper S - DNS
7. Lot 146 - 1966 Ford Mustang - DNS
8. Lot 217 - Green Goddess - DNS
9. Massey Ferguson 35 - DNS
10. Lot 10 - 1936 Austin Big Sixteen - DNS
Total 81,275
Junkman (that's me, ye buggaz)
1. Lot 127 - 1969 Ford Cortina Estate - 6,235
2. Lot 218 - Sunbeam Tiger - DNS
3. Lot 184 - Ferrari Mondial - 23,600
4. Lot 138 - 1967 Bristol 409 - DNS
5. Lot 195 - Renault Sport Spider - 26,750
6. Lot 28 - 1962 Mini Cooper S - DNS
7. Lot 179 - 1960 Chevy Impala HT - 27,800
8. Lot 217 - Green Goddess - DNS
9. Lot 232 - 1952 Fargo Stepside PU - 7,525
10. Lot 10 - 1936 Austin Big Sixteen - DNS
Total 91,910
Consequently, if you need to blow a shitload of dosh on some terrible misery, Conrad D. Conelrad is your best advisor by not a narrow margin.
Supply Chain Disruption
1957 DKW 3=6 Sonderklasse
1967 Renault 16 GL
1983 Renault 4 TL
2001 Mercedes E240
2002 Datsun Dice
