SD1s on parade...
AS they say, the show must go on - and in the best sense of the word, it's doing so, now summer's coming.
Ian Nicholls reports from a Rover show at Bressingham in Norfolk, and explains that all the best dressed cars wear V8 badges.
Roving the classic scene...
SD1s on parade...
INCE I joined
the Norfolk Mini Owners Club (NMOC) way back in 2001, my summers have been occupied
by classic car shows. I am always on the look out for an interesting event.
Such an occasion occurred on Sunday May 29, 2005, when the Norfolk and Norwich
Rover Owners Club (NROC) held its annual show. The venue was Bloom's garden
centre at Bressingham, the creation of horticulturist Alan Bloom, who recently
died at the age of 98.
As well as a garden centre, there is a small railway museum and a narrow gauge railway for the public to travel on. And if that wasn't enough, there is a museum dedicated to the BBCTV sitcom 'Dad's Army', which was shot in the locality. The attraction even includes Jack Jones' butcher's van!
Due to building work, the show cars were restricted to a smaller area than usual, and so space was cramped for latecomers (including yours truly and his father in a 1984 Rover SD1 Vitesse automatic). The cars were allocated space by type, and there was space put aside for non-Rovers.
| Event gallery |  |
A Rover 75 with P5s in the background
Two pre-production P6s from 1963...
This Cyclops Rover won the 'Car of the show' award.
P4s on parade...
...and the 'Best SD1 of the Show' award went to this car.