New Year - Brooklands Meet

 We trotted along to the New Year's Day meet at Brooklands as we had a little membership left. It was cold (but about to get colder) & having nothing else taxed, we went in the Cactus. as we arrived there were signs to a car park the other side of the main road, but I spurned them for the main "The Heights" parking, which nearly went wrong - we were one of the last cars in!

Having parked up & got in, we were faced with a whole bunch of Triumphs, but the volunteers were starting to struggle to get cars parked up, there was a queue all down the show car approach road & next to no space. This is a good thing as it means there are many many cars out there in garages & people enjoying them.

Not long after we ran into my Brother & Nephew attending their second car event of 2026, as they'd called in at "The Phoenix" at Hartley Witney on their way. they had come with a guy of my nephew's acquaintance who was driving a Lagonda, so when arriving at the gate they said "We're with the Lagonda" & found themselves parked in the prestigious area in the square in front of the club house - many |rolls, Bentleys, Lagondas, Delaheys with a stripped out Ford Model A & a '90s kit pick-up based on a Sierra.

As usual the truck got a lot of positive attention - not necessarily good as my brother was trying to find his phone & interested passers by were something of a distraction - he did find it in the end.

Nice Buick Riviera parked round the back of the trade stands.

A couple of Sevens

Not a Willys, It's a VW with a body kit, but very very well done, hats off to the creator.

Interesting Saaaab, the exhaust exit is just ahead of the front wheel.

Three Fulvias

Really liked this - I wouldn't want to have to park it though

This was interesting too, it's a Puma GT, production made in South Africa on a beetle floor pan.

Lotus Seven S2 from 1960, which makes it even older than me!

Austin Woody. I'm not going to speculate on which county it's named after.

The writing said it had been restored