Bromley Pageant 2012

[Ossie747]

Just wondered if anyone was going to this years Bromley Pageant on June 10th?

[Lucky]

I hope so

[Lucky]

Well, that attracted overwhelming lethargy then hahaha. Weather looks like the worst of it'll miss the M25 and what lies within so I thought we'd go out for a family day to this. Been promising the li'l un I'd take him to a car show for years

Shall I take a load of photos for the rest of you then?

[ian65]

bit too far away for me...... I've heard that if I go down past Luton, I'll drop off the end of the earth...
look forward to seeing your photos though..... are you getting to the rr gathering Nik?

[Lucky]

I dunno yet, hope so.

I've been off work (chicken pox believe it or not ) so I'm totally lost regards the roster. I need to get my diary up to date and then see if I can get a weekend pass from She Who Must Be Obeyed for the show formerly known as Rotorstock on Saturday and then the Gathering on the Sunday. It might be a bit much, but if I have to choose between the two I'll probably go for the RR Gathering to be honest.

I'm imposing on her better nature, y'know, already been to the Street Nationals, then Bromley tomoz, Goodwood week after, Mopar Nationals a few weeks after that, Sunny Sunday Hotrod show the same weekend, then Brighton Speed Trials...she may actually have me buried in four separate counties if I carry on like this

[Lucky]

Well, that went reasonably well. Got a load of pics to sort through, I'll post 'em up when I've done. Even a couple of FBs there And sooooooooooooooo many Fords

[BO0557]

i was planning to go as it wasnt to far from me but couldnt find a part and ended up a feeding farm with the kid

[Lucky]

Well, I went along to this on Sunday just gone, and even though there were only two rotaries that I saw, I thought there's plenty of old-skool that you guys may be interested in seeing? If not, don't get bent out of shape about me profaning a rotary site with pistons, yeah, just move on and don't bother looking, yeah?

Right, that's the usual disclaimer out the way, here are my humble offerings. In no especial order of importance or taste or anything much, really. Just pictures of things that caught my eye for good reasons or bad....

Let's start with something delightfully off-the-wall shall we? How a bout a splendid old Vauxhall Velox? Never sure if that was a misspelling or typo or what


Wonderful art deco lights lol




This is me and the li'l un in a Velox hubcap. His first proper car show, and he loved it. Reckon that's him firmly on the road to petrolhead nirvana then ;D


We all like a nice fastback 'Stang don't we? Even if it's not in Highland Green lol


He did cop out and convert the back-ups as well, but I guess we'll let that one go since the rest is so nice


I have to say, the show was almost a Ford thing with a few others turning up to make up the numbers. Not that I'm complaining, but sorting through my pics afterwards I was like "God, I took a lot of pics of Fords". Here's a nice fat Escort for a start


Random Wolsey/Elf/Hornet/Mini-with-a-boot detail pic


Lovely TWR-kitted XJS. Complete with "that" spoiler lol. Y'know, the one where someone coming back off their tea-break at the TWR lock-up suddenly spat out his tea and cried "Bloody hell, we've made the spoiler blade too wide!". "Never mind", the gaffer reassured him, "we'll drill a nice hole in one end so the electric aerial can rise up through the spoiler and no-one will ever know."

No-one except those who open the boot with the ignition and radio on and then spend a while on the phone to the local Jag parts desk buying a new aerial assembly at £86 plus VAT a go ::)




bonkers TVR Vixen with Mk I Cortina pie-plates. Hmmm. Styling's a tiny bit awkward, it's fair to say


Harris had a line-up of seemingly hundreds of awesome Fords (as you'd expect I suppose). Here's a nice shiny set of trumpets from a Capri to be getting on with


A few cars came with mock-Tudor front ends complete with statuery


Various TR-7s and 8s made for the best club stand display of formation parking that I saw


...although this li'l '4 seems to be striking out on its own. Possibly my personal favourite of the Triumph roadsters


Some lovely examples of tigers on the Sunbeam stand


Arbitrary arty shots lol. Sorry, I can't help myself, there'll probably be a lot more of that




The utterly beserk and completely ludicrous, yet strangely awesome '50s Studebaker business coupe (as made famous recently on that Desert Car Kings programme). It's bonkers enough from the back, with that humongous boot and fighter-cockpit-on-backwards glasshouse...


...but damn if it ain't even more bonkers round t'front


and frankly, if bonkers looks this fantastic (in every sense of the word) why the hell not?


Love this thing, what a mad, mad car

[Lucky]

I normally try to not take pics of cars straight side-on cos it rarely flatters them, but in the case of old Stingrays it's the law. Is there a more perfect coke-bottle profile than this?


Big ol' Chevy Step-side. With visor, gotta love that!


Hmmm, faux wire wheels. Fashion disaster or forgiveable styling excercise? Discuss lol


Considering the reputation Stags have for reliability issues there were certainly a lot of them made the trip to Bromley


Speedster looking immaculate in Essex Stilletto White


Very clean!


Plenty of vulgar modern plastic Datsuns. Lol, kidding. I like a nice Skybus as much as the next man, but I'm going to Japshow this weekend and didn't want to O.D. on them


That lineup of Harris 'scorts. Harrii? Harrises? Errr, dunno


Tidy!


More arty shiny hubcap stuff


See? Just endless Fords, everywhere you looked. Mind, nothing wrong with a supercharged Pop, is there


Rather unusual take on the Scimitar, a sorta coupe version rather than the normal liftback. My knowledge of Reliant marque history is a bit hazy, sorry.


The obvious place for a radiator gauge is on the radiator. Modern cars are so needlessly complicated!


Can never see an RS2000 without getting nostalgic for a miss-spent youth watching the Professionals on telly


World's scariest delivery truck

[Lucky]

Pretty tidy RX-7 FB Series 2. See? Told you there were some rotaries! Whose is this, anyone we know? Dave? Speak




Renault Spider thing


...and a lovely old Renault 8 (I think) preparing for a parade lap of the show arena


I forgotten these things even existed, a Sunbeam Rapier. My old man's boss had one of these when I was about six and I thought it was properly cool. Now.... not so much :-[


The legendary "Royal Male" Moggy van. Probably the ultimate sleeper of all time


bet this has surprised a few people in the traffic light grand prix


Those of us "of an age" will remember the trepidation this sight used to bring out in you...


If you're gonna have a shocking pink Cobra 427 I think you need to be either a) very comfortable with your sexuality or b) a girl


...and it is very pink ;D




Giant Yank pickup. No idea what, but it was very well finished. Some sort of Ford (again) is it? Someone'll let us know, no doubt




NSUs. Soooo cute. Shame they're not righteous rotary ones though


Love the Blue Peter rear light treatment too


See? Nothing but Fords wherever you look


Oooh, a Mini just for a change. Properly original, very nice


A whole passel of Jensen Interceptors had defied the stories of terrible rotting to turn up, and very spiff they looked too




...and this lovely 541R coupe shared stand space with them


Hmmm. Wonder if those eyebrow fenders are a homage to the Merc SL. Or just a blatant ripoff, lol