End of Season Get Together 2010 Event Report

Our third and final event of the year started on a beautiful morning and although the sun disappeared the rain held off and so we were grateful for small mercies.

The "stars" of this event were all pre 1980 and pre 1980 style vehicles. We hoped to attract a good assortment of different vehicles and we did. We saw the return of cars from our previous shows including Dave Hunt's 1963 Thunderbird and Bob Howe's 1930's style, home built Sherpley to name but two. Newbies included a rare 4 door ex police Cortina Lotus, a couple of Morris Marinas and a beautiful classic two-tone green 1938 MG TA midget. We had a great mix of traditional classic cars, Hot Rods, Americans and so much more. You can find professional pictures of the morning arrivals on www.clevercaptures.com/Cars/Clapham-Classic-Events/ plus our gallery has some super photos by Russ Filer and a few of our own.

Oakley Motorcycle Club did us proud with a great turnout from their club of both classic and modern bikes. They were joined by other motorbikes and scooters making a fantastic display of around 80 bikes in all.

As always the museums both surprised and pleased our visitors with the vast array of memorabilia, photos and documents from the war operation and the "Home Front". This time there was the added bonus of the wartime clothing display which the Sylvester-King family kindly held over from the Glenn Miller Festival for our guests to enjoy. Most people found time to visit at least one of the seven museums housed in the airfield buildings but with so much to see there's plenty left for future exploration.

The afternoon's relaxation was temporarily disturbed by a "mini cackle fest". Santa Pod racers, Oogie Barrett, Kim Bishop, Debra Laugher and Paul Brown in their P100, 41 Willis, 76 Camaro and dragster respectively, simultaneously fired up their engines and were well received by the crowd. They were joined by 9 year old Louis Davies on his junior drag bike. Louis is in the middle of his first season racing at Shakespeare County Raceway. His best competition time so far is 13.01 seconds at 47mph over the eighth mile!

The day was rounded up nicely with smiles from the winners of the colouring competition, the family quiz, the raffle prizes which were kindly donated by our sponsors and the biggest smile of all came from the man who won the free prize draw for pre 1980 vehicles and went home £300 richer than when he arrived!

We had some great feedback from lots of people including:-
"What a brilliant venue! I only live 20 miles away but didn't even know this was there. Didn't go in my Anglia Coz the Twinks blew a piston (' ') so I had to 'plod' there in a Lotus Cortina, (' ') . . . it wouldn't have mattered if I'd gone on a uni-cycle tho', well it might because I would have fell off, but there's so much to see, . . a must if you like your history & it will definitely be on my list for another visit. Cheers, Ozzy."

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our family and friends who volunteered to help us at all three events as well as everyone who attended for giving us support and encouragement and making all the hard work worthwhile. After a short break, we'll be arranging next year's events and posting them on our web site. Watch this space!

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