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What a great rally with such a diverse group of cars, interesting to see the Peugeot 504 at 47 minutes in had a Queensland club registration where you get cheap rego in exchange for limited public use.
Absolutely great presentation from all the Classic cars you have shown, very impressed indeed. Thank you very much it really is a joy to watch. Best regards from Germany. Lee Norman
Bicester Heritage really is an amazing place and what a fantastic meet - a bit of everything! Some gorgeous pre-war models and just at the end that beautiful Jensen 541 R. Thanks for the comprehensive tour, much appreciated.
Another fantastic video Rick, I agree the original Ford V8 ' woodie ' , EXY 3 is wonderful and would be the one I would like to take home.The Rolls and Bentley shooting brakes were often re-bodies in the 30s or just post-war to make an ageing but durable car prolong its usefulness .What an opportunity at Bicester Heritage for a youngster to take on an apprenticeship to maintain cars such as these - skills for life !.
What a super meeting and thank you Richard for such an interesting video. I am constantly amazed by your encyclopedic knowledge of makes, models and their variants! Nice to see so many interesting vehicles and I'm glad you gloss over the shouty rich boy supercar toys.
Thanks Colin, the moderns are fine and add to the variety of meet-ups like this, but a) I know very little about them and b) bar a few exceptions they do very little for me. I'll stick with cranky, draughty, leaky old relics I think :-)
This is exactly why I enjoy your channel so much, There’s always something I don’t know or haven’t seen. This video is no different . Loving the series 2 E type with the series 1 rear lamps fitted below the bumper and where did the Lotus Estralla come from ? Great vid !!
Great video. Your page has not long shown up on my device,but I love looking at the oldies. Wishing you, your family, friends and colleagues,a very happy Christmas xx
These gatherings must be bewildering to dogs especially in such cold, wet, 'dirty' weather as early January can provide. (At least it wasn't colder and snowing.)
Thanks for the upload ,great to see you enjoyed Bicester scramble which is a regular on my diary .Some of my suppliers are on there and have took the chance from the early days to what it is now .Hopefully ,this concept may come to a venue closer to your place at Hooton Park Trust Airfield by the Vauxhall factory Ellesmere Port ..ciao ciao
Cortina MK2: These were briefly imported to the U.S. I really like the style of them. They didn’t sell very well, here. And I really like the little 3 wheel Morgans. They look like they would be a blast to drive 📻🙂
Many fascinating cars at what appears to be a very well attended event. Pity is it is far away from me up Norf but would be well worth the effort to visit. I owned a Cortina 2000E exactly like that one, same colour , mine had a light blue interior , wonderful car.
How could you pick a car of the showing that lot. What an amazing collection of great cars 😍. My favourite would have to be the Woody Bentley estate. Hope there is a garage video of the story of the MGB going and it's replacement.
Thank you for another great video and for introducing us to Bicester Heritage Centre. As always the cars brought back memories, but none more than the Armstrong Siddeley Whitley and the Humber Super Snipe. My father owned both theses cars - a Whitley in navy blue and Super Snipe in grey. The things I remember most about the Whitley were the Sphinx bonnet mascot and the deeply scalloped front wings with an almost sculptural quality. His Super Snipe was a saloon not an estate car, but I remember the huge red leather front bench seat and how it was so comfortable. And you're right, the Super Snipe made light work of long journeys.
Interesting, not long after I started driving I was tempted by a Super Snipe (four headlamp variety), chauffeur-driven from new and in the ownership of a lady of advancing years. Perhaps for the sake of my wallet it was a good thing that it didn't end up with me.
Wow, that was a blockbuster! What a fabulous selection of cars, such variety! Your feet must have been quite wet & cold at the end of this and you must have got through quite a few batteries for the cameras! Great viewing, thanks for sharing!
It was an MG Midget Mk1! Where the MG and Austin Healey Sprite, became one, but with badge engineering. When the Mk2 Midget arrived with wind up windows and the Austin Healey Sprite was dropped from production.
Richard that old 38 Ford Woody is fantastic. I have a 48 Ford V8 coupe NZ assembled RHD so I know a bit about these US based Fords. Good to see it is a UK built one too, complete with side marker lights and add on semaphores, in Deluxe trim (designated V8 81A). The woodwork would be the most expensive thing to restore. Often it is only the termites holding hands that prevent a door or something falling off.
The Standard looks like a mucked about Standard Avon. As a young man I had a 1930/31 model with a pointed tail body and a low v-shaped windscreen that was described to me at the time as being by Jensen. I googled it the other day, having seen the one on your video, and learned that one or may be both Jensen brothers worked at Avons, before eventualy forming their own company. My car was very much a sheep in wolfs clothing, with its long bonnet only covering the scuttle mounted petrol tank, and a deminuative 9hp Standard engine, the carburettor being mounted straight onto the side of the block, with I suppose an internal inlet manifold? Anyway although it replaced my then same vintage Austin seven special, there was little or no difference in the performance! I think like SS they made one with the six cylinder engine, that probably had a bit more performance! However when parked it looked the part!!
You do the maroon 'Armstrong' Siddeley ,@ 50 mins, a slight injustice ! It is ,if I'm not mistaken ,a rare beast, a Siddeley Special , one of around 250 built in the mid 30's ,They were built to contemporary aeronautical standards and were powered by engines of 5 litres , with block, crankcase,head con rods ,sump, all of cast hiduminium . They were capbable of a genuine 90mph , and amongst owners at the time were such automotive cognoscenti luminaries as Sir Malcolm Campbell .... Worth considerably more than a pedestrian Armstong Siddeley today .......
My mother was born and lived in Stratton Audley 1902 to 1919 and remembered Bicester airfield being built in 1916. The hangers were constructed by chinese workers who after work rode their bicycles down the village street performing all sorts of tricks much to the amusement of the locals!! She would have approved of its present use having worked for Morris Garages in the 20s!
On average you folks are 15F or a bit more warmer than we in the upper Midwest. We remained buttoned up for some months to come. Salt as well as temp being major concern.
Hi Rick,as an oldie I can remember the Met police using Daimler Darts as police vehicles for chasing speeders on the M1 . Photos can be googled . Thanks for a great video, I trust you left your wallet at home.Mike.
Cute fabric bodied Austin at about 1:30. That started me thinking. Are they much quieter than a regular painted finish over steel? I have an old driver-quality Studebaker Avanti, and the fiberglass feels totally different to steel. Sort of muffled...
And you totally missed the Gordon Keeble, whilst you were getting excited about a red MG B GT. the Gordon Keebles were a fabulous shape and American V8 power and hardly any left. You wax lyrical about mundane, but 10 a penny MGs but miss a really important British four seater grand tourer!
But you and your young assistant still run an absolutely channel for us old car enthusiasts. Many thanks. Sorry, I watched the video after a rather long and fretful day, so probably overreacted ref the Gordon Keeble. Apologies and keep the videos coming!!
I agree, it's all automated so as soon as their software detects copyrighted music it sets off all kinds of flags, sirens, rotating red police lights like the one at the beginning of "Police Squad" in the 1970s/80s. I just have to work around it that's all.
Saab 900i in "hearing aid beige" and 4 doors, that must be the "dull as dishwater" model they did 🤣what some folk try pass off as a classic car these days is hilarious. Good turn out.
The thing about "classic cars" is nostalgia, and that can apply to a swish sportscar just as much as to a humdrum car that some people have an affinity towards, memories growing up etc. My A40 is hardly cutting edge or particularly noteworthy, then or now, but quite a few people are enthusiastic about them now. Thanks for watching!
@@oldclassiccarUK Agreed, but the chaff should be separated from the prime at shows, we wont allow any of that "easy to own" stuff parked next to someone who has taken years to restore a car just for a "matey boy" to rock up in an old "modern " classic thinking its the star of the show , seen it for decades.
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With all of those dogs one must watch where one walks.
Glorious, wish I lived in the UK still.
Thoroughly enjoyable, many thanks.
The rolls woody very distinctive with the light green paint and wood trim ,,, the standard and Skoda estate,, very show stopping .. the Jowett also
Excellent, what a meet at Bicester !!
Yep a very pleasant morning indeed!
What a great rally with such a diverse group of cars, interesting to see the Peugeot 504 at 47 minutes in had a Queensland club registration where you get cheap rego in exchange for limited public use.
Absolutely great presentation from all the Classic cars you have shown, very impressed indeed. Thank you very much it really is a joy to watch. Best regards from Germany. Lee Norman
Thanks, there are several videos of Bicester Scrambles now on the channel
Bicester Heritage really is an amazing place and what a fantastic meet - a bit of everything! Some gorgeous pre-war models and just at the end that beautiful Jensen 541 R. Thanks for the comprehensive tour, much appreciated.
Such a huge variety of cars , what a great day out.
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! Wonderful woodworm on the Ford Woodie.
Wait 'til you see the woodie in tomorrow's video!
Starting 2023 with another cracking video Thank you so much and a very happy new year !
Thanks William!
Another fantastic video Rick, I agree the original Ford V8 ' woodie ' , EXY 3 is wonderful and would be the one I would like to take home.The Rolls and Bentley shooting brakes were often re-bodies in the 30s or just post-war to make an ageing but durable car prolong its usefulness .What an opportunity at Bicester Heritage for a youngster to take on an apprenticeship to maintain cars such as these - skills for life !.
The Ford woody wagon was, I believe, a 1938. Wonderful collection, with some rare surprises.
What a super meeting and thank you Richard for such an interesting video. I am constantly amazed by your encyclopedic knowledge of makes, models and their variants! Nice to see so many interesting vehicles and I'm glad you gloss over the shouty rich boy supercar toys.
Thanks Colin, the moderns are fine and add to the variety of meet-ups like this, but a) I know very little about them and b) bar a few exceptions they do very little for me. I'll stick with cranky, draughty, leaky old relics I think :-)
88mph for time travel sir! Grand video.thanksfor sharing
Thanks Gareth!
This is exactly why I enjoy your channel so much, There’s always something I don’t know or haven’t seen. This video is no different . Loving the series 2 E type with the series 1 rear lamps fitted below the bumper and where did the Lotus Estralla come from ? Great vid !!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video. Your page has not long shown up on my device,but I love looking at the oldies. Wishing you, your family, friends and colleagues,a very happy Christmas xx
Thanks!! All the best to you too :)
These gatherings must be bewildering to dogs especially in such cold, wet, 'dirty' weather as early January can provide. (At least it wasn't colder and snowing.)
I suppose for some, although no worse than being in town on market day I suspect with loads of people, traffic etc.
Thanks for the upload ,great to see you enjoyed Bicester scramble which is a regular on my diary .Some of my suppliers are on there and have took the chance from the early days to what it is now .Hopefully ,this concept may come to a venue closer to your place at Hooton Park Trust Airfield by the Vauxhall factory Ellesmere Port ..ciao ciao
I know Hooton Park well, big Dodge was stored in one of the hangars for a while and dad was involved with the HPT
Old or older, some nice vehicles on display... Kudos to all. Owners, passengers and adoring public!
Cortina MK2:
These were briefly imported to the U.S.
I really like the style of them. They didn’t sell very well, here.
And I really like the little 3 wheel Morgans. They look like they would be a blast to drive
📻🙂
Many fascinating cars at what appears to be a very well attended event. Pity is it is far away from me up Norf but would be well worth the effort to visit. I owned a Cortina 2000E exactly like that one, same colour , mine had a light blue interior , wonderful car.
Well the British Motor Museum isn't far away at Gaydon so make a couple of days out of it! Thanks for watching.
Nice free flight field.
Half way through but time for bed, plenty of brrm brrm dreams tonight. 🤣
How could you pick a car of the showing that lot. What an amazing collection of great cars 😍. My favourite would have to be the Woody Bentley estate.
Hope there is a garage video of the story of the MGB going and it's replacement.
Keep watching! :)
Thank you for another great video and for introducing us to Bicester Heritage Centre. As always the cars brought back memories, but none more than the Armstrong Siddeley Whitley and the Humber Super Snipe. My father owned both theses cars - a Whitley in navy blue and Super Snipe in grey. The things I remember most about the Whitley were the Sphinx bonnet mascot and the deeply scalloped front wings with an almost sculptural quality. His Super Snipe was a saloon not an estate car, but I remember the huge red leather front bench seat and how it was so comfortable. And you're right, the Super Snipe made light work of long journeys.
Interesting, not long after I started driving I was tempted by a Super Snipe (four headlamp variety), chauffeur-driven from new and in the ownership of a lady of advancing years. Perhaps for the sake of my wallet it was a good thing that it didn't end up with me.
Wow, that was a blockbuster! What a fabulous selection of cars, such variety! Your feet must have been quite wet & cold at the end of this and you must have got through quite a few batteries for the cameras! Great viewing, thanks for sharing!
Yep it was a good morning out, feet ok but I (we) did get through a few batteries :-)
It was an MG Midget Mk1! Where the MG and Austin Healey Sprite, became one, but with badge engineering. When the Mk2 Midget arrived with wind up windows and the Austin Healey Sprite was dropped from production.
Richard that old 38 Ford Woody is fantastic. I have a 48 Ford V8 coupe NZ assembled RHD so I know a bit about these US based Fords. Good to see it is a UK built one too, complete with side marker lights and add on semaphores, in Deluxe trim (designated V8 81A). The woodwork would be the most expensive thing to restore. Often it is only the termites holding hands that prevent a door or something falling off.
1:37 . A friend had a Pontiac Solstice with an inline five cylinder. It sounded a lot like my Audi Coupe. It would groove...
Our old V70 Volvos made a good sound too with their 5-cylinder warble :)
Favourites: Goodwood 309 GTi, Mini Woody, Fiat 500 Estate, Riley Elf. 😁👍
Great review - I'm surprised it's this nice in January but we are having similar weather here in the Motor City (Detroit) Michigan USA
We were quite lucky really, since then it's been chilly, wet, windy and some snow also!!
That Vanguard estate looks to be original or an old restoration.Nice car.
I learnt to drive in my dads Morris 8 & then in a Morris 10.
Very nice Lemon colored Jaguar XJ 6 2 door car. Very rare model now.
Very true, keep an eye out for tomorrow's new Bicester Heritage video
@@oldclassiccarUK Will do thanks.
The Standard looks like a mucked about Standard Avon. As a young man I had a 1930/31 model with a pointed tail body and a low v-shaped windscreen that was described to me at the time as being by Jensen. I googled it the other day, having seen the one on your video, and learned that one or may be both Jensen brothers worked at Avons, before eventualy forming their own company. My car was very much a sheep in wolfs clothing, with its long bonnet only covering the scuttle mounted petrol tank, and a deminuative 9hp Standard engine, the carburettor being mounted straight onto the side of the block, with I suppose an internal inlet manifold? Anyway although it replaced my then same vintage Austin seven special, there was little or no difference in the performance! I think like SS they made one with the six cylinder engine, that probably had a bit more performance! However when parked it looked the part!!
Morgan plus 4 appeared to be from there's with that air scoop on the right.
Great vid👍 Can’t wait to see the latest arrival following the MGB sale. Did the Thames van also eventually go?
You do the maroon 'Armstrong' Siddeley ,@ 50 mins, a slight injustice ! It is ,if I'm not mistaken ,a rare beast, a Siddeley Special , one of around 250 built in the mid 30's ,They were built to contemporary aeronautical standards and were powered by engines of 5 litres , with block, crankcase,head con rods ,sump, all of cast hiduminium . They were capbable of a genuine 90mph , and amongst owners at the time were such automotive cognoscenti luminaries as Sir Malcolm Campbell ....
Worth considerably more than a pedestrian Armstong Siddeley today .......
I've never seen a black Jowett Javelin taxi running around Barnsley and I live here!
I've got wonder what the story is there?
My mother was born and lived in Stratton Audley 1902 to 1919 and remembered Bicester airfield being built in 1916. The hangers were constructed by chinese workers who after work rode their bicycles down the village street performing all sorts of tricks much to the amusement of the locals!!
She would have approved of its present use having worked for Morris Garages in the 20s!
Very interesting!
On average you folks are 15F or a bit more warmer than we in the upper Midwest. We remained buttoned up for some months to come. Salt as well as temp being major concern.
The Peugeot 504 Safari had Queensland (Australia) number plates.
The old red Alvis and S type Jag with the green rectangular badges on their front wings run on a new synthetic fuel.
So I believe, yes, it'll be interesting to see how these fuels develop over the next few years
A Bentley woody? Who knew? But much too good and precious to load up with surf boards and park on the beach, especially unattended.
1:37:07 that Pontiac should look a little familiar, was sold as a Saturn Skye and as an Opel GT...
I'm not sure they were sold here in the UK, hence my lack of recognition. Thanks for watching!
Hi Rick,as an oldie I can remember the Met police using Daimler Darts as police vehicles for chasing speeders on the M1 . Photos can be googled . Thanks for a great video, I trust you left your wallet at home.Mike.
Cute fabric bodied Austin at about 1:30. That started me thinking. Are they much quieter than a regular painted finish over steel? I have an old driver-quality Studebaker Avanti, and the fiberglass feels totally different to steel. Sort of muffled...
I'm not sure I've been in a fabric-bodied car to be honest
Peugeot never had a very big presence in the U.S., but I always liked them. I like the style of the 504. Why❓ I don’t know. I just do.
📻🙂
I quite like the 504 too
It's a difficult call, but I'd prefer the Rolls Woodie over the Ford and Bentley. That cockpit is fantastic. PJ
Where next please, I intend to start going to events, or best calendar for S.E.
Just keep an eye on the weekly/monthly magazines, facebook groups/events etc etc
You mean that it no no longer Swallow Sidecar any more?
Some classics but mostly just old !! See how many of them were spoiled by those awful wing mirrors! Interesting though. Good video.
Thanks for watching, yes inappropriate wing mirrors can let things down somewhat although I suppose function takes priority
In the states 'rumble seats'.
Morgan's were Maggie's long before Minis or such but not as long as cats.
Moggies
Not many Asian cars at these shows.
And you totally missed the Gordon Keeble, whilst you were getting excited about a red MG B GT. the Gordon Keebles were a fabulous shape and American V8 power and hardly any left. You wax lyrical about mundane, but 10 a penny MGs but miss a really important British four seater grand tourer!
My profuse apologies
But you and your young assistant still run an absolutely channel for us old car enthusiasts. Many thanks. Sorry, I watched the video after a rather long and fretful day, so probably overreacted ref the Gordon Keeble. Apologies and keep the videos coming!!
Never walked past any Porsche and thought WOW, Must be some of the dullest cars to look atever made
I just find modern Porsches too fat, 1970s 911s I like though
You Tube shouldn't be so paranoid about background music, if the creator isn't recording it intentionally. It's purely coincidental and accidental.
I agree, it's all automated so as soon as their software detects copyrighted music it sets off all kinds of flags, sirens, rotating red police lights like the one at the beginning of "Police Squad" in the 1970s/80s. I just have to work around it that's all.
That is an older model than yours.
Which car are you referring to?
@@oldclassiccarUK your Renault
Keep your hands out of it,plus learn to keep the camera steady
Gottit!
So many errors in your descriptions - get someone who knows about cars!
Feel free to post your corrections
Just read the other posts to see how WRONG you are, how would you do better??
Saab 900i in "hearing aid beige" and 4 doors, that must be the "dull as dishwater" model they did 🤣what some folk try pass off as a classic car these days is hilarious. Good turn out.
The thing about "classic cars" is nostalgia, and that can apply to a swish sportscar just as much as to a humdrum car that some people have an affinity towards, memories growing up etc. My A40 is hardly cutting edge or particularly noteworthy, then or now, but quite a few people are enthusiastic about them now. Thanks for watching!
@@oldclassiccarUK Agreed, but the chaff should be separated from the prime at shows, we wont allow any of that "easy to own" stuff parked next to someone who has taken years to restore a car just for a "matey boy" to rock up in an old "modern " classic thinking its the star of the show , seen it for decades.