Crawley Classic Car Show

The event was supposed to kick off on Sunday of the last May bank Holiday, but due to the wonderful British weather the usual grass covered field was more akin to a large pond. I must quickly say sorry to all those Club members that tried to attend on the Sunday but were called off or turned away. There are plans afoot to permanently rectify this problem for next year.

The event, never the less, took place on the Monday as planned although in a slightly different location (the car park of the adjoining theatre). The car park was about a third full of cars when Vicky and I arrived in our Beetles. We were promptly directed to one corner of the car park where we set up our two cars and the club banner. The remaining cars arrived within the next couple of hours to complete the display.

The cars on display covered various examples of the Volkswagen range:

1967 1500cc Beetle owned by Vicky Walters 1971

1302s Beetle owned by Mark Walters 1973

1303s Beetle owned by Clive (Sorry I don't have your surname)

1987 Polo owned by Martin Payne

1989 Golf GTi 8v owned by Ray Hardin

The day was mostly spent talking Volkswagens, walking round looking at the other Classics on display and when we were brave enough walking to the food stands through the mud / pond. Half past three came and we all headed over to the Morris Marina owners club stand for the Trophy handouts. Unfortunately, although we had some excellent examples of cars on the stand, no one walked away with an individual trophy. However we did win best Club Display for our efforts.

A big thank you must go out to all those who attended and were part of the L&TVVWC Display, Vicky, Clive, Martin and Ray because without you we wouldn't have won. To all those members who couldn't or didn't make it, thanks for showing an interest and look forward to seeing you at another club event soon - maybe a local Show & Shine with trophies, let us have some feed back and we will see what we can organise.

Signing off for now. Mark.