Neil Hopcroft

…at the Great Abington Vintage Car Show

I took Nils to the Gransden Airshow, he loved the planes, especially those with really bassy engines from the second world war era. He was considerably less impressed with turbine whir of the Vampire. Of the cars, I think he was most taken by the Bond Bugs, reaching over to try to climb in one.

Nils wanted to take a picture but couldn’t work out why the touchscreen on my camera wasn’t working (mostly because it is not a touchscreen)…so I did the actual pushing of the button, but this is how the show looked to him.

Maserati have come a long way since they couldn’t fit the whole engine under the bonnet.

The sign for the Italian car club said “Alphfa Romeo”.

I think the Alvis was my sons favorite car of the show – he kept coming back to it trying to work out how it worked. There was something out-of-place about the child seat in the Rover, we are so used to seeing children put in the backs of cars because of the warnings about […]

I’ve always had a soft spot for Mustangs, although they lost their way for a bit they’ve found themselves again now – while I was drooling over the Roushcharged convertible, Nils was rather taken by the yellow machine in the next bay.

As always, I was drawn the the muscle cars, the Ranchero in particular is a nice balance between practical and powerful.

There were more custom cars at the show than I had expected. Me: “What engine have you got in there that needs wheels like that?” Obviously missing the fact I was wearing a Santa Pod t-shirt: “A very big one” On pressing a bit more turns out it was a Chevy small-block stroker.