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The
Standard Motor Club visits the Stamford Car Show
Our Club line up … oldest on the
left, youngest on the right.
Sunday 30th August 2009
The sixth Stamford Car Show,
organised by Stamford and District Round Table, took place on Sunday
30th August and for the first time the Standard Motor Club
was excellently represented with eight fine examples of our cars from
across the decades.
The Show is held on The Meadows, an
attractive field in the centre of this historic and picturesque town.
Stamford is partly famous for being the backdrop in the BBC’s drama
"Middlemarch" based on the novel by George Eliot about
provincial life in the 1830s, but more for the splendid Burghley House
and grounds where the annual Land Rover Horse Trials are held.
On the day we had
8 Standards as follows:
- 1926 Charlecote Paul
Newsome
- 1937 Flying12 DHC Phil
& Lynda Homer
- 1938 Flying 9 Bev Thompson
- 1951 Vanguard Ph1 Estate
Tom Dolby
- 1952 Vanguard Ph1A Roy
Gillman
- 1957 Family 10 Conan Lewis
- 1958 Pennant Alison Flack
- 1959 Vanguard Vignale Pete
Foster
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thumbprints to see an enlargement: |
General
view of Stamford Meadows |
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Tom Dolby's
Phase 1 Vanguard Estate |
The late entries of Paul and
Phil’s cars were very welcome to boost our numbers and to
add some of the earlier cars to complement the 50’s ones.
Paul made the trip over from Rugby and back in one day,
proving that our cars are more than usable to cover
significant distances in one day. In fact, over the course of
the previous week, Phil and Lynda had recently completed the
Cotswolds Run and a day at Stoneleigh, before making a cross
country trip to Stamford to complete a great weekend out in
their car.
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| The Stamford Car
Show is open to all cars whatever their age, so there is
something for everyone, young or old. The youngsters of course
head straight for the exotic Aston Martins, Ferraris and Lamborghinis,
the sporting enthusiasts for the TVRs, RS Owners Club or Mazda
MX5 Club. The more curious among us spent a long time admiring
the concourse standard Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, not to
mention all the other Standard Triumph family and assorted
Austin, MG, Morris, Riley, Rover etc. Something for everyone
and all to a very high standard. |
Peter
Foster with Nick Black |
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Josh Lewis,
wondering what life in the dickie seat of Paul Newsome’s
1926 Charlecote would be like if his Dad got one of these
magnificent machines – Pete, Ivor, Alison, Anne and Lynda
and look on. |
Our Club stand,
complete with our new flag banner, attracted attention with
many passers-by stopping to take a nostalgic look at a car
they once owned, rode in or had some ‘experience’ in. It
obvious talking to people who lived through the 30s – 60s
that Standards have been a memorable part of their lives in
one way or another.
Towards the end of the day we
were visited by Nick Black, son of Sir John Black, who lives
in Stamford and was our guest of honour at this year’s
National Rally at Cirencester. We had a chance to catch up
with him and it was sad to learn a couple of days later that
the publishing date of his book about his father’s life and
work at Standard has been slipped now to early 2010 due to
economic pressures at his publisher. On a positive note this
is giving Nick more time to polish the writing and research
and update some inaccuracies. This will be a must for all
Standard enthusiasts and I encouraged Nick to get a launch
date close to the AGM and to come along and sell us all a
signed copy !! |
We hope that one day we’ll hold our
National Rally centred on this town and to enjoy the great driving
roads around it. In the meantime we would love to see even more
Standard’s next year and I’ll ensure a top spot on the field, so
put a date in your diary for the Sunday of August Bank Holiday 2010.
Why not make a weekend of it and come and stay here? If a few of us do
this I would be more than happy to organise a local roadrun for the
Saturday and/or Monday.
See you next year …
Report and Photos by
Conan Lewis
If you would like to
know more about Stamford Show next year, get in touch with Conan
Lewis. Thank you for organising this year's event.
So, with rainclouds
threatening and the evening drawing in, we started up the Flying 12
and headed south to St. Albans. It is pretty much impossible to join
the two places together without going on the A1(M), so we decided that
is the course we would take! I have to tell you that pressing on at
45-50 mph with loads of traffic behind you all trying to get to London
at motorway speeds after a weekend away is no holiday for a 72 year
old car with no indicators. Suprisingly, the only pleasant part was
the 8 - lane section ( 4 each way) where we were left relatively
safely to ourselves in the inside lane! We arrived home without
incident, shortly after dark.
Phil Homer
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