13-05-2018, 07:35 AM
(12-05-2018, 03:52 PM)Jason Wrote: Could Austin 7 friends create a South of England (Just out side the M25 south of J9) Show
Easy to get to and kind to traders ?
Could "we" regenerate and look forward to the future as has the forum done.......
If it was possible - how interested would everyone be?
Just asking
I can only speak for myself Jason, but I only make it to one or two rallies each year, and those tend to be the long established ones where there's likely to be a good-sized autojumble. I'm not a big fan of parking in rows. The absurdity of holding a 'National' A7 rally on the South Coast has been self evident as long as I've been involved in A7's, but the idea of moving it has been floated and dumped on many times before. The clubs are nothing if not conservative. Then there's the fact that we pay the admission fee to Beaulieu year after year despite having seen the museum as many times as we could possibly want to. The best (most enjoyable) rallies I've been to over the years have been small, informal affairs accessed by small country roads and held in modest fields where we could camp (in tents, not RV's) & enjoy a barbeque and a band perhaps & a bit of 'car boot' autojumble - in other words staged for enthusiasts by enthusiasts, away from the interests of commercial concerns. This however only happens on a small and relatively local level. As for the M25, I avoid it like the plague...