Minis in the Bay 2011

Quoted from LazyBones

some obnoxious native who admitted they lived just around the corner accused us of trailering our car up there.

Possibly because of the sheer number of trailer queens that turn up. I've never seen as many anywhere else.

And the amount of mirrors on the floor... if someone's really that interested in looking at sills that have never seen drizzle let alone been plastered with rainy road grime, they'll get on the floor and look underneath...

IMHO if all you do is polish it and drive it in and out of a covered trailer, you might as well just get one from Corgi...

(you may have guessed I'm not a fan of OCD Concours )

Quoted from siddarz

Possibly because of the sheer number of trailer queens that turn up. I've never seen as many anywhere else.

And the amount of mirrors on the floor... if someone's really that interested in looking at sills that have never seen drizzle let alone been plastered with rainy road grime, they'll get on the floor and look underneath...

IMHO if all you do is polish it and drive it in and out of a covered trailer, you might as well just get one from Corgi...

(you may have guessed I'm not a fan of OCD Concours )

Thats why I have a lot of respect for people like Rita and Andrew who drive their cars but still win awards in concourse and part of the reason I set up my one facebook groups!

But no matter how much they trailer them around, they're Mini's so there'll still be a bit of rust on them somewhere

Quoted from siddarz

Heh heh! sounds like a plan Simon

First one's just been sent  

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Love it  

Quoted from siddarz

Possibly because of the sheer number of trailer queens that turn up. I've never seen as many anywhere else.

And the amount of mirrors on the floor... if someone's really that interested in looking at sills that have never seen drizzle let alone been plastered with rainy road grime, they'll get on the floor and look underneath...

IMHO if all you do is polish it and drive it in and out of a covered trailer, you might as well just get one from Corgi...

(you may have guessed I'm not a fan of OCD Concours )

We've never had the urge to put mirrors under the car or to jack it up to clean underneath or inside the wheels either at home or at a show. We see quite few people drag a trolley jack out of the boot at a show so that they can whisk the wheels off for a quick clean, or even better to put on nice new ones that have travelled to the show in cling film. Maybe we're show'n'shiners rather than concours buffs?

The worst case of "trailer queening" I've seen was at MITP when it was at Cornbury and two brothers turned up with a car which rumour had it wasn't even taxed. They had a petrol-powered lawn mower in the back of the tow car and mowed their pitch first. Then they put down a checkerboard base to put the car on, and just to make sure it didn't get dirty they asked the judge to take his shoes off before stepping aboard. At least is saved them lying in sheep droppings like the rest of us when cleaning the car. The most common comment we heard from show-goers when they saw the car sounded very much like "sad baskets".