| Despite weather that was more typical of April than August there was a good turn out of both cars and visitors to this year’s Retro Warwick Classic Car Show organised by Warwick’s Court Leet team.
This is the fourth year that carsceneinternational.com has attended this event and as before we have concentrated on taking photos of unusual, rare and exeptionally well prepared cars. By that criteria we were spoiled for choice this year. The one thing that always impresses us about this event, in addition to the cars of course, is the friendliness and politeness of everyone encountered. It’s a real pleasure to enjoy and participate in English culture at its best in one of this country’s most historic towns. By the way, Warwick was the home of the Donald Healey Motor Company, this is celebrated by the Warwickshire Country Record Office (WCRO) owning that company’s archive. The contents of the archive have been catalogued and this can be viewed ‘on line’ (seel link below). The documents, photographs, drawings etc. can be examined at the Record Office. So, here are the cars that took our eye this year – Austin Seven’s (never tire of photographing examples of this car)  Austin Seven Speedy
 c.1931 Austin Seven Saloon
MG  1938 MG VA Tourer
 MG TA
 1949 MG TC
 Another TC Most impressive? Always a matter of opinion but I was very impressed by everything about this Triumph Vitesse soft top – the standard of finish – very unusual induction system – imaginative engineering executed to a high standard.  Highly modified Triumph Vitesse convertible
American and Hot Rod  1950s Cadillac Coupe de Ville
 Ford Gran Torino
 Ford U.K. Popular Hot Rod
Sports Cars  Stunning AC Aceca
 Sunbeam Alpine
 Harrington Sunbeam Alpine Coupe
 Reliant Scimitar GTE
 TVR V8 S
 Austin Healey 3000 MkIII
 Triumph TR3A
Others  1936 Triumph Gloria Vitesse  Standard Flying 12
 Wartburg 353 East German Police Car
 VW Kurierwagen (Type 181) – very rare
 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow
Two Golden Oldies  I don’t normally photograph the ubiquitous Morris Minor 1000 but this was an outstanding example. I particularly liked the colour and the wide wheels/tyres.
 1948 – 53 Ford Anglia E494A
Nick
Link – https://apps.warwickshire.gov.uk/api/documents/WCCC-863-672
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