Classics on the Common

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Wed 30 Jul 2008 14:52
Classics on the Common - nick1975
Anyone going to this tonight in Harpenden? Is it any good?
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Wed 30 Jul 2008 14:59
Classics on the Common - Roger Jones
www.classicsonthecommon.com/

It's great, weather permitting. Some years there are more than 2000 cars on display, plus some commercials, tractors, motorbikes, etc.

Head for the station car-parks. Better still, park at Luton Airport Parkway station or St Albans station and take the train, followed by a short downhill stroll to the display area, which is within easy reach of dozens of pubs and restaurants, plus an excellent chippie.

Above all, avoid the A1081, which will be a crawling car-park from mid-afternoon onwards.

All proceeds to local charities.

Edited by Roger Jones on 30/07/2008 at 14:59

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Wed 30 Jul 2008 15:14
Classics on the Common - nick1975
What time does it go on until. I can't get there until 7.30

Edited by nick1975 on 30/07/2008 at 15:14

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Wed 30 Jul 2008 15:38
Classics on the Common - Roger Jones
It usually rolls on until 9.00 or later.
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Wed 30 Jul 2008 15:41
Classics on the Common - SlidingPillar
If the weather is good (which it is) quite late.

Best of course to take a classic (or in my case, vintage) car. I've just oiled and greased, and am taking my green Morgan threewheeler in just over an hour.
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Wed 30 Jul 2008 23:12
Classics on the Common - spikeyhead {p}
I was there, well worth the trip down on the train from Luton.

Plenty of very interesting cars on display.

I've now added a 1920s Vauxhall to my list of cars I'd really like to won at some stage.
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Wed 30 Jul 2008 23:54
Classics on the Common - bathtub tom
Did you see the big old Bentley (not a blower, but an MG was) with the front plastered in dead flies? I expect the driver was picking 'em out of his teeth.

And was that a Jag C type?

I've never seen so many P type Vauxhalls in one place before (and a few E types), I thought they'd all rusted away years ago.
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Thu 31 Jul 2008 10:52
Classics on the Common - Roger Jones
Were the DeLoreans there this year? A year or two ago I saw a dozen arrive in convoy with their gullwing doors raised.
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Thu 31 Jul 2008 11:32
Classics on the Common - bathtub tom
I did see one DeLorean, but I couldn't stay too long. I had SWMBO with me who was muttering 'should have brought a book with me, then I could have sat in the shade under a tree'.
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Thu 31 Jul 2008 18:54
Classics on the Common - boxsterboy
Glad I'm not the only to suffer from this syndrome!
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Thu 31 Jul 2008 19:38
Classics on the Common - Alby Back
I suppose you have to have a bit of sympathy. Imagine if your wife took you to a field full of vintage Hoovers or washing machines or ironing boards and things !

(Posts quickly to avoid detection).............

;-)
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Thu 31 Jul 2008 19:42
Classics on the Common - Pugugly
Be careful Hump - A washing machine will easily fit in the boot of the Signum.
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Thu 31 Jul 2008 20:10
Classics on the Common - Roger Jones
I defy anyone other than a tree hugger to do Classics on the Common and not enjoy it. There's no counting of rivets or boring competitive rivalry, and ordinary folks & kids far outnumber the petrolheads. It is packed with nostalgia and infinite variety -- grandpa's car, dad's car, those cars I drooled over as a teenager, etc. There are plenty of SWMBOs there like the woman of mature years who swooned over my 1984 Capri at a filling station once, because it brought back all those back-seat memories.

I gather from a friend who exhibited his 1944 Jeep that there was a bumper crop of exhibits yesterday and the visitors were overflowing the exhibit area. A great event on a balmy summer's evening, and all those pubs and restaurants too. The founder and organizer, Peter Madden, has now retired, and we only hope that his successors will enable the event to go from strength to strength.
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