Classic News
August 7-9 are the new dates for your diary…
As COVID-19 dominates the news, what else is happening in the wider classic world?
After being taken out of the NEC calendar due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the Practical
Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show, with Discovery, has been postponed to August 7-9 at NEC Birmingham. Tickets already purchased will still be valid for the rescheduled dates.
All exhibitor and trader stand bookings will be automatically transferred to the new date in the identical hall configuration. All car club stand bookings will be automatically transferred to the new dates, too. The
Restorer of the Year final will also take place on the new dates.
Over the weekend of March 27-29, when the show was originally to have taken place, Practical Classics put on its very own virtual classic car event, The Lockdown Resto Show, with many of the clubs that would have been attending that weekend showing their wares online at the PC website. The MG Owners Club showed a 1957 MGA Coupé that had languished for years as a stalled project in California. It was returned to the UK in August 2019 and is owned and being restored by club Technical Support Roger Parker. The Armstrong Siddeley
Owners Club demonstrated the work it would have done on both Pre-war and Post War cars including a 1936 17hp Sports Foursome which hasn’t seen the light of day since the Seventies. On the TR Drivers Club Stand, a red and white Triumph TR7 known as ‘Hutch’ was to get rebuilt carbs, front and rear discs/drums, fluid change and some
electrical work – this all ended up online at practicalclassics. co.uk.
The Fiat Motor Club had gathered eight examples of the
Panda to celebrate 40 years since production began, the UK Probe Owners Club presented the coupé that appeared in the original advertising and the MGCC Club
Young Members
showed a range of modified classics. Thousands of hours of planning went into the event, from hundreds of classic car clubs, we hope our online show proved a fun diversion. necrestorationshow. com