The NEC Restoration Show 2023 | Barn-finds, projects & classic cars being repaired!
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2023
- While visiting the vast 2023 "Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show with Discovery+" show at the NEC, I took a whopping 880+ photographs, of fully restored classic cars, old cars being worked on over the 3-day show, and un-touched "barn find" projects hoping for a brighter future. In this video I've compiled a selection of these images, I did wonder about doing the usual walkaround-type video but with background noise, ie music, PA systems and general hubbub as the crowds flocked in, I decided to do this type of upload instead (a walkaround video is wayy quicker to put together though!!).
The NEC restoration show isn't quite up to the scale of the main November classic car show (3 halls versus 5, and easier on the feet!), but more than enough to occupy the day and there were some great cars to be seen, shiny and shabby. Of the two events this is my preferred show, although there's no getting away from the even greater variety of cars that the end-of-season event fields.
Highlights for this year's Practical Classics restoration show included a dusty Facel Vega HK500 restoration project, a much-weathered Austin A70 Hereford saloon, a pair of Jensen C-V8s that both needed restoring, a two-stroke SAAB bullnose, a rare Austin A40 tourer all the way from Australia (also a Leyland P76 from the same land), a cutaway Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, an early Mini car with a fibreglass boot extension, a very rakish NSU Sport Prinz, an early 1980s Talbot (nee Simca) pickup, a Renault 17 coupe in green, an odd and fairly rusty Austin 3 Litre hearse, an imported Honda 1300 Coupe, and an International fire truck from the late 1940s, to name just a few.
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Having already watched several show reports from this years NEC, I have to say that your format is by far the best. Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback scooterboy, I haven't looked at other NEC vids out there as yet but I will check them out when I get a mo. I never stop learning!!! :)
Yes indeed much better telling us all about
the cars easier to watch
I think this is the best coverage of this type of show, early bird catches the worm ! Thank you
Thanks, I guess everyone will have their own way of doing things and with it being such a large show, different cars will appear in different videos so between them all, everything will get covered!
Thankyou-really enjoyed that-we dont have many classic car events being in Aust-and yes-buy a Rover 90 P4 !
I have a 1968 MGB GT but I would love that red Mini S749 TWA. You can probably tell my age 🙂.
Excellent coverage as always . The Porsche 365 belongs to Dominic Chinea from "The Repair Shop" .....brave .....very brave ! And the 3litre Hearse was an Ambulance ! 🤣🤣
Indeed, ah yes of course ambulance (hence the illuminated box on the roof!!)
Well Rick, you did it again - that was the BEST review of the show, by a country mile ! Your decision to do it via photographs was perfectly correct. You covered so many more vehicles here by doing it thus. Out of all of the cars shown, the green Austin A90 Atlantic made me swoon - what a stunner, but the Turquoise one - hideous colour. The Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire came a close second for me - my favourite era of British Cars. Thank you for compiling this for us - I'm sure you could do a part 2 with all the photographs you took ! Thank you again Rick. Take care 🙂
Thanks for the feedback Michael, I know this type of vid isn't for everyone but it's good to know that it works for some!!
Great video!👍
Thanks Jonathan
Video was super as usual.. At the swap meet , found a few Cushman's ,, city electric car plus another 3 wheeled car wannabe ,, 2 Subaru 360 trucks.. all chrome bumpered ..
It's said I got a reply,,,, this must be it..
Good photos review, I was there on Saturday, Shame I didn't see you. Thanks Bob
I would have just been a blur :-)
Brum-brums at Brum! 😁👍 Favourites: #1 56:59 Minivan, #2 13:16 Hillman Avenger and #3 12:38 Toyota Celica GT. Happy memories of bouncing around in the back of my Dad's Minivan in the early 70s... on a blanket! 😲
First class content Rick - add driving a Hillman Imp to your bucket list by the way, they beat the mini hands down in every way.
Marvellous love this format, loads of info , clear shots
Great to hear!
Another super video, thanks to your hard work Richard. The effort put into restoring these classics into such gleaming examples is staggering. The beautiful, gunmetal grey Triumph Renown gets my vote. You asked about driving a Hillman Imp vs a Mini; I owned several of both. The Imp wins on driving, although I recall the gearchange was less than smooth. The Singer Chamois version was quite a refined, luxurious car. Accesibility for repair and servicing was equally difficult on the Imp and Mini. Adjusting the Imp's tappets using shims was tricky and care was needed with tightening bolts on the aluminium alloy engine, which in turn needed the right antifreeze solution to avoid corrosion and overheating.
Thanks Colin, yes that Renown was very smart indeed
Great photos. That Morris 8 series 1 looks good.
Hi the green TR7 close to the end is a car that is lent out for 12 months, to a young boy or girl to encourage them into classic cars.
Ah I see yes I've heard of that scheme
I'm sure a Jensen cv8 appeared in an episode of minder with Jimmy nail playing a gypsy would you believe .
Good vid and thankyou for your time and effort, my take home would have to be the Volvo 544 at 54 min
Thanks Mark, yes the 544 is a great car and drives like a later Amazon (albeit somewhat narrower)
@@oldclassiccarUK Over 40 years ago I ''walked away from'' a stonking deal on 544 Duett van - with all the bells and whistles (inc OD and LS diff!) - and have regretted it many times since.
You made the right decision, cutting out the background noise and any possible camera hosing. I saw most of your picks, but missed a few. There was a lot to see.
thats a very rare right hand drive model h van
I sat down with a large lunchtime tipple to enjoy your video Richard.
So many I like, and cars I grew up with and drove. I would love the rough patina Austin A70 Hampshire in full working order but keeping that rough look. Love Corsairs, 1500GT I paid £15 for from an airline pilot, owned it a year then it caught 🔥, A 2000E and then a one owner 1500 saloon, (haunted) don't laugh, you get haunted houses etc, why not a car. I got to the point I had enough of it and traded it in for a new Fiat.
The mini van brings memories flooding back, as a kid in the 60s, a girl ran out of a fish and chip shop and straight into the side of dad's pale green mini van, 929YPA, over the bonnet she went. She was OK as such.
The van had cord openers for the door, push button floor start and a pop up metal air vent in the roof.
Looking forward to the next video Richard cheers 🍻
A lunchtime tipple eh?! I must improve my own mid-day consumptions over the usual buttie and a brew!
HI! The RD ROver P6B, as you call it, is/was an NADA (North American Dollar Area) 3500S... see the Ice-Alert on front, the number plate mount, the turn signals under the frot bumper. These came only Automatic here and 10.5:1CR as well! Dad was Service Mgr & Product Development Engineer for Rover Motor Co or NA Ltd
Some very interesting photos here RJ, I thoroughly enjoyed the collection. It never ceases to amaze me how much effort people out into restoring these ld cars and the love they show them.
Agreed, and the stands too were pretty impressive, it's a huge commitment to exhibit at an event like this so hats off to everyone that did.
That flat rad was often termed the"Snob Mog".
Ah didn't know that, thanks!
Ok😮
The Ford Corsair's are in Lagoon Blue. I had a 1967 Ford Cortina Mk1 in the same colour.
that standard vignarlie was my dads in the early 70s ive got a photo ive me as a kid driving it on pendine sands ,wish id have gone now just 2 see it
Wow, I'm sure if you contact the Standard Motor Club they'd put you in touch
@@oldclassiccarUK not a bad idea tbh
My 63 4/4 could be considered an impractable classic? It is tractable though.
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If you like a bullnose Morris, have a look at the film, the homemade car. I think it's on CZcams. Cheers from Mr Biddle.😊 1963 version by the way.😊
40:03, the leyland P76 was a very much maligned car.I have a 4.4 liter P76 V8 in my VW type III (!)
That sounds like a handfull! Thanks for watching.
I wonder if anyone counted how many cars there were of each type, and which had the most representation? I felt perhaps the Rover P6 had the most cars, on a number of stands and in the barn find section, but there also seemed to be a lot of Ford Corsairs dotted about... Be nice to know! I was three on Friday, a great show!
As you say there were plenty of P6s dotted about, thanks for watching
Mini or Imp? - The very first car I ever bought was an Austin Cooper S, registration number was FUN 55D, and that's about the only good thing I can remember about it. If I had my time again I'd go for an Imp. I never owned an Imp but I have driven them a few times, not sure they were any better than a Mini so it's probably down to personal preference and personally I think the Mini is one of the most grossly over estimated cars ever.
The 1949 Mercury would be my choice car. Thanks 😊
Great show and the right format to show it too...Nice to see the Leyland P76 Targa Florio in there and if you would like to know more about the Leyland P76 Force 7 cars here is a link to Shannons Design To Driveway series about Australian cars and designers with Episode 5 being about Leyland in Australia that you might like...
David Hardy - Leyland Australia Designer | SHANNONS DESIGN TO DRIVEWAY | Ep 5
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Can't watch today,,, swap meet tomorrow,, go home then watch..
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You must have been very patient, not one person in view just good photos of the cars. Hard to do.
Thanks, I was able to get in before it got too busy so was able to take some of them easily. Thanks for looking in.
The Avocado Rover SD1 is 1980, not '79 (built late April 1980, registered July of the same year).
Ok thanks, I was only a few months out then as V ran from Aug 79 to July 80. Thanks for watching.
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