Shame about what happened to the that Volvo. Everyone flocked to it like a pack of seagulls, Ignoring the show and the track climbing. The car looked standard except the alloys. Looked like an everyday driver for a family. Then all of a sudden the rain came down thick and fast. Not sure of engine or electrical fire. But started at the engine bay and all of a sudden it lit up

I dont even think the car was on display, wont like to be in the drivers shoes not having anyway to get home.

 

Ive no idea what your talking about but it sounds like a car in the car park on fire was more interesting than the show. It must have been s pretty dull show!

 

What happened then Mark?
Who did you go with.

Paul

 

 

What's retro rides? Is it a show on today?

 

I went with my neighbour. He was on stand with the MK2 Astra GTE club. I say Wiltshire classic Ford stand. They had about 5 cars there.

I've never heard of the show until recently. It seems to be the place high performance cars see how good they are at hillclimbing.


http://retroridesgathering.com/

I saw lots of Fords and plenty of RS car were there too.

 

1st one i went to at presscott was ok 2nd was total crap full of rusty chav turds so never bothered again. Yes there was a few from wcfc.

 

 

There was a lot of bloody good cars there, Lots of chavy looking cars but most were old tidy examples. I'd say each stand has at least 1 car that would look at home in a scrapyard.

I took 30 pictures of different cars, But 4 pics of an awesome looking Audi Quattro.

 

Let's see them then......

 

Link to vid!

 

Shame that the old T5 is a good good car.

 

fair play to the guy in the range rover for pulling it away from the rest of the cars.

 

nice to see there was plenty of on site emergency fire cover........

 

whatever the minimum requirements are to be granted an event licence im sure that's what they will have had.

 

Me and Fraser were there in the Saphs, saw the carnage that was left,......shame.
We also went up the hill climb 3 times in the morning before it proceeded to bucket it down.

 

It was
Retro Rides Shelsley Walsh hill climb show.

 

That rain though, If the owner had arrived shortly before the rain and had his bonnet up it, makes you wonder if it would have happened. It absolutely hammered it down. God knows how people managed to get their cars off the fields.

The roads surrounding the event flooded in several areas and water was rushing down from uphill.

 

Shame about that. Never nice too see someones pride and joy go up in smoke. Its a show I'd like to go to myself sometime, will have to make the effort.

 

I do love a mk2 Astra gte. Any pics?

 

Shame to see that