Last weekend saw the annual gathering of members of the Light Car and Edwardian Section of The VSCC when they congregate in Wales for a tour of the beautiful countryside on Saturday and attempt to drive up steep muddy hills on Sunday. Such is its popularity, the event was oversubscribed 48 hours after entries opened.The weather was cold, wet and windy but everybody wrapped up warm and drove their cars around the empty roads and soaked up the view of the glorious surrounding countryside. The fields (and some roads) were filled with sheep and lambing was well under way.
According to my Mother, the first word I could say was cake, so I always linger at the coffee stop to enjoy the home-made produce being sold to raise money for the local air ambulance. Seymour Price has been a key organiser of the event as long as I can remember and it’s his ever-increasing family and their friends who man the stall, the strongest ones holding on to the tent in gale force winds! All of them laughing despite the cold and rain.
Today’s photograph shows Matilda in her father’s Austin 7 Chummy. They attempted the adjacent hill test but the muddy ground got the better of them (video) and Matilda had to get out and help the marshals push the little Austin off the course. ( But it was going better than last year!) There were 38 different makes amongst the 144 cars entered, of which 49 were Austin 7s. Matilda’s smile demonstrates just how much fun can be had with these cars.
(Text/pictures Robin Batchelor)