VBOA National Rally, Billing Aquadrome 2015 photos

[James McGrath]

So who has a bucket load of pics from the weekends festivities then?

[btcctroy]

Not me I had rust for breakfast lunch and dinner. Or breakfast dinner and tea for those of the north lol

[Robsey]

Sorry that was my Cavs rust.
(Hangs head in shame).

[James McGrath]

Here are some of mine from Saturday.

LS ready and rearing to go:


Quick stop for fuel. She only used £30 worth of super there and back (270 miles).


On arrival with the Cavalier and Chevette club:












The old vs new, shootout at high noon:






Good turnout this year for the C and C club:








Lots of MK3 Cavaliers scattered about the place:


















Great turnout for the MK2 Cavalier club too:


Nice pair:










Might adopt this badge for work:


Rare estate SRi 130 replica:


Certainly no shortage of C20XE engines:




The mighty 20SEH:






Cav MK2 flavouring, Mmmm:


Plenty of Chevettes around too:








Lovely MK1 Senator has to be one of my favourites of the day:
















Carlton Diplomat, been eyeing these up recently:






Lovely Cavalier MK1 for sale:




































Opel GTs:


No shortage of Lotus Carltons:






What's this:


Bit of an oddity; Holden commodore Calais:


Monaro and a Carlton:


Corr! what a beast:


Massive Vectra stand this year:


Novas:


Astras:


Few gate-crashers about the place:
Rover 800:


Ford Escort MK3:


Lotus Elan:


Austin Maestro:


Truly excellent parts stands this year. My hands were black by the time I'd finished rummaging through this lot:






All in all, a grand day out. Even the journey home was unusually good. Last year I had torrential rain, year before that was a horrendous traffic jam on the M25. This year though, clean as a whistle! Still saw a couple of things on the way home though:


Opel Manta:

[humbucker]

A nice bunch there, James. The usual suspects, of course, but then some nice new additions to the Billing fold.

It's surprising how many of the cars in your pics that I've written about recently, hehe! That Chevette with the Mazda MX-5 engine is very nice. I managed to squeeze that into Total Vauxhall last year.

Perhaps we should start a new magazine: Your Viceroy. We might have single digit sales figures, but what a publication that would be! Hehehe!

[James McGrath]

An alarmingly low number of cars from the 50s/60s era this year though. I'm sure there were more last year.

[humbucker]

I'll never forget the Bedford lorry display from my very first Billing.

I'm glad to hear that the autojumble was good this year. The last few showings have been very poor, with very little Vauxhall stuff. Lots of cheap T-shirts with totally unrelated motifs printed on them, novelty cigarette lighters etc. Was Vauxhall Green Parts there this year? I didn't see Keith's stand in your photos? I know he was contemplating knocking the shows on the head due to increasingly poor turnout, instead concentrating his efforts on mail order and eBay.

[humbucker]

By the way, your car is a credit to you. A stunning example.

[James McGrath]

By the way, your car is a credit to you. A stunning example.

Thanks! It's come together nicely in the last year or two. The bonnet was holding it back I think.
But it does surprise me sometimes when I look back at what it was like 5 years ago.
In fact I feel a new avatar coming on...

I'll never forget the Bedford lorry display from my very first Billing.

I'm glad to hear that the autojumble was good this year. The last few showings have been very poor, with very little Vauxhall stuff. Lots of cheap T-shirts with totally unrelated motifs printed on them, novelty cigarette lighters etc. Was Vauxhall Green Parts there this year? I didn't see Keith's stand in your photos? I know he was contemplating knocking the shows on the head due to increasingly poor turnout, instead concentrating his efforts on mail order and eBay.

Yeah, I think I only saw 1 Bedford van this year. Not a good sign.
Then again, there seemed to be more MK3 Cavaliers, Carltons and Senators. I suppose it's to be expected as everything gets older.

Vauxhall green parts was there.
There was two rows of stands and they wee in the other one.

[Envoy CDX]

Brilliant photo's there James. Wish I had gotten down, just couldn't unfortunately
Next year however! A different story entirely!

[James McGrath]

Brilliant photo's there James. Wish I had gotten down, just couldn't unfortunately
Next year however! A different story entirely!

Thanks Gary!

Yep, next year will be a big one for the club.

[Robsey]

Simply stunning.
Love those big old barges...

[Envoy CDX]

Brilliant photo's there James. Wish I had gotten down, just couldn't unfortunately
Next year however! A different story entirely!

Thanks Gary!

Yep, next year will be a big one for the club.

You are not wrong!

[Super89]

So annoyed that i never went. Looked like a awesome weekend.

I should be getting some nice new parts from Vauxhallgreensparts this week!

[Lowrider Dave]

Great load of photos there James, good stuff. Mine are on this same thread if you want to have a gander.