2007 EVENTS

ABINGDON FAYRE


Sunday 6th May 2007

The South East Region of the MG Car Club MGF Register

 

Early morning and the MGs start to line up

F Reg logo gets a look in

Abingdon Works Centre flag

Plenty of law enforcement about

Mini steam power by the old control tower

Harry Potter's latest renovation ?

Nice Austin

Sleeping facilities were available

This is a Jaguar....honestly !

No mistaking these red Ferraris

WW2 re enacted

Ready for action

Dakota and other planes ready to display

Range Rover Sport and Chinook courtesy of Bob (and the RAF)

Coned off MGs

Club pace car leads a line up

Nice older MG

WA Tourer

MGA noses ahead of the throng

No MG do is complete without the obligatory picnic

Is this what they mean about putting a "Tiger in your Tank " ?

The old and the new (ish)

Don't think this is an original colour

F Reg and Abingdon Works Centre roundels on Richard Martins F

Doris looked pretty good

One of the last TFs only registered this year

Just in case things got a little warm

Mustang

Spitfire

Bob prepares to serve drinks and light snacks
     
     
     

 

 

 

 

Cannonball Bob must be the highest flying member of the South East Fers as he prepared the drinks trolley to serve light snacks aboard the Chinook. The big helicopter was certainly thrown through its paces in this first display of the season and one of the hits of this years Abingdon Fayre. It is hard to believe just how agile this great machine really is.

Despite a blustery and slightly grey day the Abingdon Works Centre in their anniversary year attracted some 150 MGs to this show. They hold their own paddock with the MGCC stall in a corner of the main show ground and are easily the largest car club represented here with their own entrance at the rear of the air field. There was certainly a wide selection of MGs present from a 2007 registered TF to a good selection of older tourers including MGB designer Don Hayter in his special MGB.

It was a little late notice for most SEFers as we had originally planned to attend a car show at the Fairmile in Cobham which was cancelled so only a handful managed to get to this event.

There were many cars of interest here but the outstanding one for me was was a Jaguar that looked like an Italian Supercar. The car was based on an XJ6 but had a custom built body based on the Lamborghini Espada. This was intended as a short production run of about 100 cars but only three ever got built. The pictures nicely sum up the rest of the show which kept us busy all day and we'll be looking for a more organised visit next year hopefully.