Invacar and Kenari go to Cardigan Classic Car Show! It was superb! Inc barn find Capri!

A Festival of the exceptional.

Thanks for the tour Ian and Miss Hubnut. I wish they have classic cars like these in South Korea and here in Singapore.

Looks like it was a nice day out.
Lots of lovely looking cars including a rather lovely looking perodua.
Thankyou to you both for taking us with you.

That Renault 18 Estate has to be one of the rarest things - I don't EVER remember seeing an 18 Estate EVER - literally didn't think they existed!

HubNut not going to the Festival of the unexceptional this year?

There's an older chap brings his Capri 1.6 Ghia in - it has an 'orange' (was probably Red at some point) part-leather interior much like the rusty one these - he says was in it when he bought it about 18 years ago so it's likely original...

I should add he bought it from a scrapyard where it was sitting on the office roof without an engine - it now has a Rover V8 and it's lived outside for his entire ownership so it's need a LOT of rust repairs including rear wings and roof at least twice - it's literally Triggers Capri at this point.

That blue haired girl on the white Nissan 350Z is Hatsune Miku! She's a singer who did Vocaloid songs!

I noticed a couple of knocks on Desmond but doesn't look like he has much rust

A fantastic video great selection of vehicles on show well done 👍👍👍

New sunglasses? What happened to the super cool flip ups?
How great to see a Mk1 Punto Sporting!!
The Skoda Estelle - amazing!
I love the Renault 18 Estate and the wonderful blue Beetle.
Looks like a great day out!

Thanks, team HubNut, for a very enjoyable report. 👍

A great look around the Show Ian and Carly, I think the colour on the K11 is standard from what I recall when I used to be into my K11 Micras when I first started driving.

Another top notch video of some great cars. My pick of the lot would be the brown Mini Clubman. Many decades ago my best mate and I went on a camping holiday in one to the south coast from the midlands. My mate only finished changing the rear subframe a few days prior and the rear brake lines the previous evening. A mad camping trip with various 'fixes' to the car along the way. The car did us proud. Thanks for sharing.

Following comment about the E-plate thing... I have a childhood memory from around 1978-79 (S-T-?) - we always used to go on family hols around Aug1 each year and we'd play "spot who just got a new car". Was on the M1 up towards Bham somewhere when my parents gleefully pointed an Allegro (I think) in the most green of pea-greens...probably just hours from the dealership. It flew past us (my dad wasn't known for his use of all the 70 mph you were permitted to use) and somewhere north up the M6 there was a huge tailback stop-start traffic. When we finally got past the hold up there was a multi-car "prang" and right in the middle, crushed front and rear, was, yep, the brand new Allegro. Heartbreaking. I always loved the year-letter on plates. Such a weird concept to Americans (along with the idea the plate stayed with the car its whole life which doesn't happen here). Lovely show. Makes me feel ruddy old to see 1990s cars now being labeled "modern classics". Ughhhh :) Be well.

The frilly Capri is originally from Allens Ford in Romford who are still open.

A great video of the show today, nice to see my little c5 got a mention, thanks again

You're so mean, Ian and Carly... teasing me with the mention of this mysterious Renault 5 Camper, and it wasn't on its way to the show!

Great video Ian as always loved the Gilbern

Nice to finally have some warm sunny weather.
Meirion Motors were also in Aberystwyth next to the station. They sold British Leyland when I was there in the mid 1970's.

I used to own that Turner GT ETB333B back in 1978 ! good to see it again it was white when I owned it.

Good to see you tackling your aversion to bikes! 🙂

Fantastic tour of an awesome show. I was there with my Vanden Plas 1500 in Russet Brown (only 70 registered in the UK) which you captured which is also a Cardigan car starting its life off at Meirion Motors Ltd. The Skoda 130 estelle is a truly awesome car, had a long chat with the owner, what a fascinating history it has, the only one registered. A very rare car.......A great video 👍

Great show! Thanks for the pictures. My favourites this time: the barnfind Capri with its window sticker in German and the Porsche 911 with its psycho seats. Wonderful stuff...

I was at a show in Ripon today with my TWC T-shirt on, didn't see an Invacar tho ☹. The most random thing I've ever heard said at a car show.....or anywhere in fact, has to be "I sniff shoe shops!" 😂

Nothing unexceptional about plenty of those beauties!

Great show report with some very interesting cars there.The silvery blue mk ll Golf GTi looked nice!

C5 indicators for £100 is quite a good price!

I am starting to love Desmond

why do people insist on putting luggage racks on backwards?.... the lip isn't to stop your luggage falling off the back under acceleration it is to stop it hitting the back of your head under deceleration/crash (you can always decelerate faster than you can accelerate (especially with the help of a wall!))... hence put the lip at the front (like flat-bed lorries do).

❌ Dash cam
✅ Mullet cam

So glad to see the Mercury! Was behind it on the A40 past St. Clears & couldn't work out what it was, beautiful (& well driven). Loved the report, actually think I'd prefer this meet to FOTU nowadays, more in the spirit of things.

Thank you, amazing turnout, super to see the variety of vehicles, much appreciated you took us along for the day. A cool HubNut, Summer event report. New 'I heart Desmond' t-shirt incoming? Or rmaybe 'you have a Monaro, I have a Kenari'. Better call it quits now before I get too creative. Thank you!

Aww, I wanted to see more of the Plums & Custard 2CV, but someone kept staring at the cars either side... :P

Gr8t show I was waiting for miss hub nut to drive tuc in the field on private land . Maybe soon.😂😂

Awesome show guys, thanks for sharing 😊👍

Great video! My left hand drive mk2 made it in, thank you

Ian, you should have let carly drive twc, and u the kenari, that would have been bumper content! lol

Thanks for the tour. The camera seems to distort proportions quite dramatically. Cars don't look right at all to me. Anyone else have a similar take?

oooh the moggy traveller has a devon reg! I love it when i see reg marks local to me!

Ian, I do hope that you checked your feet and ankles for Ticks, that grass was long enough in places to harbour them. The numbers have exploded over recent years and Lyme Disease is not pleasant and incurable, only manageable. Wear appropriate footwear, boots with tops above the ankle and jeans or trousers with long socks, always check yourselves and dogs after being in the countryside. Being a bit warm may not be comfortable but safer.

A good car show including some very rare cars always the unexpected cars and the best was TWC and that Sinclair C5 PARKED next to each other

BMW had to get a license from Douglas for years, to build flat twins...

Excellent show report! I was hoping for a closer look at the Minor boot with the inset spare tyre after it passed you on the road. I did manage to hit pause on Miss HubNut’s sprint past the back of it, though. Interesting modification - must make the lid a bit heavy, though. Great selection of cars. I liked the Renault 18 estate. Saw a pair of them for sale here in Canada a couple of years ago as projects. Sadly too far away for me, though. 👍🏻

What a great show. The Mercury is a 77 or 78 Cougar XR-7 in Light Chamois with a Dark Cordovan interior. It has the Deluxe Interior Group with the optimal bucket seats with console, Deluxe Exterior Group with the wide side mouldings and rubber inserts with wide wheel well mouldings. It also had the Deluxe Bumper Group which gives the rub strips and guards. Yes, the driver's wiper arm is a pantograph movement. A beautiful car indeed. The engine options were the 302 as standard, 351M, 351W, and 400 cid optional. All V8 with 2 bbl carburetors. A lovely car to drive. With mods it can achieve 40 mpg on the motorway. Been there, done that.
The Volvo 240 Estate is a Turbo, by the look of the trim. That one will go like stink. Even the GLT, same car, no turbo, would cruise from morning until night at speeds that would cost your license. Those wheels, Virgo in Volvo speak, are a 15x6. Being an an estate, the factory tyre was a 185/65R15. It goes much better on the latest Michelin Defender in a 205/65R15 94H. Fantastic car to drive. Incredible cargo space, too. Up to 76.6 cubic feet with the back seat down.

This looked like another excellent event. As good as FOTU.
Like some of the cars representing others at this show we had to bring a representing car for the one we were meant to bring at the Festival Of The Unexceptional. We had a Alfa Romeo 147 twin spark five door. Luckily it was in the correct time frame and we found that at the show there was only one other version which was a black three door one. Plus it got noticed by Furious Driving on his report.

Dongfeng means East wind in case you are interested.

There were some real fine cars there. I loved the Skoda 130L gorgeous. Thanks for the walkabout 👍

Lovely classic Maserati 3200GT with boomerang lights? No. Ford Escort mk5 ? Yes! So very HubNut. Great show report Ian and Carly.