We took Harry to a little car show this afternoon, in the spring wind and rain and got rained on. But Harry made many people smile and we talked to all sorts of interesting people there.

First up is this Japanese import manual Toyota Sera. Look how CUUUUTE.

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Just Harry hanging out with his peers

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This Austin Healey is immaculate. Owner is in the club and a few of them took their cars to drive around Europe for a few months recently. As you do.

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This Honda Prelude is a rare one nowadays

A friend used to have one decades ago and it's then I discovered I am too tall for them and would fall out sideways to get out.

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It was only a little show but an excellent variety of marques, eras and models turned up for it.

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Fellow members of our commercial vehicle club came too.

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Just look at this beautiful Studebaker!

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I love this truck, I see it at the truck show all the time. Restored from a rusty wreck.

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One guy had only just found this Mazda 323 Astina. Used to be a common sight on the roads here.

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The owner of the Mini had had it only 6 months and was loving ownership @miniphernalia

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One Holden Torana showed up

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Harry got lots of interest and stares. And some little kids climbed in for a 'drive' during the day.

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This was a late contender for the voting

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A right hand drive Corvette Stingray? Why I never.

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Late comer was this Toyota Celica

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We followed one Bedford out of the show once it was all over

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So everyone who attended could vote, with several categories, like best paint, best engine bay. And Harry won Most Surprising! Yay!

(Probably as they didn't have Biggest Weirdo😆 )

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@vwdasher that’s awesome. And totally deserved!!
@brett well he was the biggest oddball there 🤣
@vwdasher congrats
@CrackedWindscreen thanks mate! We like to refer to Harry as the Award Winning Harry now 😂
@vwdasher yes, must give him his full title. Superb.
@CrackedWindscreen Years ago we were at a VW show. In a Mk1 Golf category there were two entrants; one mint one and our shaggy racer. Well we got second, wooohoo! So he's also an Award Winner. Yay for default!
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I think they stopped giving out seconds after that, seeing as we were giggling so much about it and Not Taking It Seriously.
@vwdasher yes, a lot of these places/events take it very seriously. And that’s fine, but be self aware if there’s like TWO! 🤣
@CrackedWindscreen oh they do, there's lots of tutting involved. People got upset that I swapped my badges from Golf to Rabbit, stuck vintage skis on him and called him a Ski Bunny for one show. 😆
@vwdasher hahahahaha. Excellent.
@CrackedWindscreen It's my car! If I wanna be silly, what of it? Good god they need a sense of humour.
@vwdasher exactly. They celebrate their car in a very serious way, which is cool. You celebrate yours by having fun with it.
@CrackedWindscreen always! Mine get sillier every time really. This is a club that tuts over the 'wrong' bolt kind of anal retentiveness. So like I'll bring my Passat which is rebadged as a Dasher because that is hilarious that VW North America did that, and they were built by Audi so I have some Audi rims that are period correct for his brother the Audi Fox and they tut and think he's modified. 😀
@vwdasher These things have had a lot of time to grow on me and they just haven't 🫤
@Basmitharts yeah they were a much nicer design in the previous generation. I had a neighbour who had one of these back in the day in blue, was never a pleasant view in the drive.
@vwdasher Fabulous engines tho!
@Basmitharts eh just stick that in something nicer!

@vwdasher The winner of a rally I saw at a college was a guy driving an airport luggage cart that looked somewhat similar. Embarrassed the Vette owner.

Looks like fun to drive.

@steter ahahaha awesome!

Haflingers are hilarious to drive, I highly recommend it.

@vwdasher Harry is so cute!
@brett he really is, and little kids just love him. Must look like a toy come to life to them.
@vwdasher Why the antenna in the front end? Is that really a thing?
@heshsum no idea unfortunately.