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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I was at the Classic car show at Bridge of Allan yesterday.Smashing show good turnout but I counted 33 cars for sale. Is it getting to the stage where people cant afford the classic scene anymore with fuel costs rising and the cost of living so high nowadays.Is it the same all over. Honestly 33 for sale...couldnt believe it. Shocked

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Ray the rocker · Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 187 Location: south wales

The price of progress i`ve been told---progression to poverty for agreat number of our population.Petrol up to £1..41 per litre--insurance up by 40%---and still losing my suspension in deep unrepaired pot holes.Back to the push bike soon methinks!!!

Cheers--Ray the Rocker....

BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I'd noticed that at a couple of shows recently, but a few vendors I spoke to had bought a new toy without selling the old one (or consulting the SWMBO!), and where better than at a classic show?

PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I guess it has never really been a cheap hobby, but it can really cost you what you want to make it cost. If you must have a concours winning vehicle complete with all the fancy show rigmarole then it will be expensive, on the other hand you can have lots of fun on not much more than a shoe string. Fuel only costs when you use it so why not go to some of the smaller more local shows and galas and swell the numbers there.
After all golf or other lesser pastimes (bet that rankles someone!!) are not cheap! Confused

Paul

Peter_L · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:58 pm Post subject:

BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I think the sales upsurge might be coincidence, I, like some of my friends tend to be a car flirts, I get bored, sell the car, buy another, bring it up to good order, get bored... about every 3yrs I change. This time I have a 3.5 V8 but have a summer of mainly local shows, (Agricultural shows mainly) this is not me pulling my horns in, it has just happened that way. Last week I drove 260 miles round trip to a club event at Beamish, I do not have another longish run out until Dalmain House in Cumbria in August. It is cheaper to enter shows with a car than go as a visitor, all the agric shows have cost me a letter including a sae. Entry is usually £6-£8 per head as a visitor. It can still be a cheap hobby, it's what you make it.