a field of dreams

Annual celebration draws more than 400 classic vehicles to rural Cambridgeshire

A car show in a remote Fenland village shouldn’t be like this – some 400 classics headed to Parson Drove in Cambridgeshire for this spectacular event.

The two-day event, now in its eleventh year, included a beer festival and live music on the Saturday, with more focus given to classics on the Sunday.

The turnout included a concours Jaguar E-type and a Standard Vanguard ambulance. Other cars on show couldn’t help but make you smile due to the imagination of their owners, including Keith and Chris Rowbottom, who arrived with clothes and picnic equipment carefully colour co-ordinated with their 1963 Triumph Herald saloon!

Other classics at the show included a fantastic selection of Minis from the Kings Lynn-based club catering for the cars, and American classics galore.

Show spokesman, Roger Reader, says: ‘It’s been an absolutely fantastic event, and we have definitely broken records.’

Even better, this year’s event raised thousands of pounds for the East Anglian Air Ambulance, together with various local charities.

’It’s been a fantastic event – we’ve definitely broken records’

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