Rare Breeds at Sparkford
Where else would you find a BSA 3 wheeler next to a Hamblin Cadet? Note yank tanks in the background and a Peerless GT Motormind, aka Peter Tuthill, talked me into going along to this event and I really enjoyed it. It was held at the Haynes Motor Museum on the Sunday after the Great Dorset Steam Fair and attracted the sorts of cars that are so obscure that no club usually exists for them. There were vintage cars, yank tanks, coachbuilt Ferraris and trialing Bucklers. The weather wasn't brilliant so we strolled around the museum and tried not to let the redness of The Red Room (where every car is red) overwhelm us. The Red Room at the Haynes Museum reminded me of that Two Ronnies where a library classified all its books by colour instead of the subject. Liskeard library actually did this once and it was a great idea because they knew what colour each title was - apparently this sketch is world famous among Cornish librarians. I'm not so sure classifying cars by colou...