Another Car Show In The Wall

 I'm no Pink Floyd fan (bit before my time) but the drummer, Nick Mason, is famous for his great car collection and, every year, he opens his house and displays his collection. I've wanted to go for years so today was the day...

I had to get up at stupid o'clock (5.30am) for the 100 mile run to meet up with a few members of the PPCC and BoxaNet forum who were going. Admittedly, it was a lovely bright day and at that time on a Sunday, the roads were empty - satnav said 2.5 hours and I did it in 2.

We met at a surprisingly posh truckers cafe just outside Chippenham for breakfast and then the 15 minute hop to Middlewick House for the event. We were pleasantly surprised to find we were directed to the supercar car park and not the main public car park, with a glorious Ferrari 512 to follow in:

I guess I'm getting old and cranky but I couldn't be bothered with standing round talking to people - I wanted to see the cars, so after 30 minutes of waffle, I slinked off and didn't see anyone else again for the rest of the day 😀

Some wonderful cars just in the car park - an AC Frua (yeah, never heard of or seen one before), with a 7L V8:

A very cute Mini:

When is a GT40 not cool?

Possibly one of the ugliest cars ever but very rare - Alfa Romeo Zagato:

Once in the main event, very busy and nicely laid out, with stupidly expensive cars dotted among the trees; one of 19 Aston DB4s:

The famous 250GTO, worth around £30million:

The 1970s Ferrari 512 raced at LeMans, won at Sebring and used in the Le Mans film with Steve McQueen - what a history:

...and the man himself signing £100 books:

The day was a little tarnished by an accident on a local road which meant it took 45 minutes to get out but I had a pretty good run back as well, although I should have used suncream as I'm a bit lobster-like.

A fun day although I probably won't go again - it's a fairly small show and not worth a 5 hour round trip to get to.