England : East Sussex London - Brighton veteran car run, Sunday 1 November 2015

[User10571]

Sounds like it was a fab day out for all.
Miffed to have missed it.
Doubly miffed as the job I had on did not go ahead as The Swiss Do Not Work On Sunday.
Merde!

 

[Tim Hall]

Sounds like it was a fab day out for all.
Miffed to have missed it.
Doubly miffed as the job I had on did not go ahead as The Swiss Do Not Work On Sunday.
Merde!

Your absence was noted. You were missed.

 

[rb58]

An exhaust whistle:

A few more here.

Hardly any cars though.

Nice photos Tim. I think I had Gizzard sausages with my breakfast.

 

[hatler]

Yes, that would make sense.

I've seen it 'pouring' through the gap by Lewes from the top of the Downs, coming from the sea and filling up the Weald. Quite magical.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Bottom of Crawley High Street looking south along the main London-Brighton Road, c1909, when the cars we saw on Sunday were the latest thing, and conspicuous by their absence. Within 20 years increased traffic levels and this level crossing lead to jams that were miles long.


http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/BHC_RTV/1939/03/09/BGU407240568/?v=0

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Of course it might be because they were all parked a little further north outside the George.

 

[topcat1]

What a splendid day, the fog just added to the vintage feel you know. To me it felt like celebration of the car aside from the Veteran cars I saw BSA motorcycles, a Pederson, Corvette, a 32 Ford hotrod, Triumph Herald, various MG's,a bunch of mods on their Mopeds and fell in love with a green Consol Capri.
I made it up Clayton hill with Fab and his peloton, I was at the back, fish n chips on the beach in the sun ahhh!

Still working on the pics

 

[GrumpyGregry]

As several people pointed out along the way, this event is indeed a celebration of the car, but whatever age they are they spend a lot of it in a huge great traffic jam .

I'm happy to join with others to celebrate the birth of motoring, even with its elitist connotations. Especially as so many marques had their roots in cycling and many passionate advocates for the early motors were, or had been, passionate advocates for cycling, and the road improvements that went hand-in-hand.

It's the current middle-age I rail against.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Very true Greg. But it did seem as though anyone who had a vaguely interesting vehicle, no matter how recently produced, and even a lot whose cars were just, well, dull but posh, had turned out to drive aimlessly about and clog the roads up for their veteran heroes.

Yep. There was a lot of that, for sure.

 

[topcat1]

This beast is electric

I had a brief word about the lack of noise and smoke, they seemed to be very happy rolling along at 8mph, i wonder if they made it to Brighton.

pics will be up today

 

[topcat1]

Here we go, put the kettle on 20ish minutes
https://flic.kr/s/aHsknGWCfn

 

[topcat1]

Looks like i'm paying for 5 breakfast then

 

[frank9755]

Funny to see the sun on that picture. I'd forgotten there was any other than in Brighton

 

[slowmotion]

Lovely photos @topcat1. Thank you.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Here we go, put the kettle on 20ish minutes
https://flic.kr/s/aHsknGWCfn

Utterly brilliant set of Photos @topcat1 really gives the flavour of the day. Cheers!