ANYONE MAKE IT TO TRIM YESTERDAY ?

bookerboy

Anyone go to Trim show yesterday?A bit wet for me and diden't fancy the muddy field.

manta mad

dident get to trim ,, bloody rain & wind here in the wicklow hills turned me off going

8~)

I went; I was on a promise so didn't want to break that.
It was wet, very wet. The turnout was not as high as in previous shows. There was a fair selection of cars there but very few pre-50s or high value (monetary or rare) cars. That's understandable though; who'd want to leave a vintage car out in the driving rain.

Also very little agri-machinery present. Again, understandable considering most of it would be trailered there. The stalls were sodden so I doubt much trading was done and I reckon the ice cream van sold about 3 cones on the day.

That said there was a good turnout of American muscle and plenty of 70s-90s run of the mill family machinery, which I like.

Choice of attire was interesting. It was wet but humid. Some people opted for minimalist shorts and T-shirt. Less to get wet I suppose. Others went with boots and waterproofs. I think the majority of people present were exhibitors with few paying public attending. The atmosphere was generally good though; people just accepted the weather.

Glad to say my own car made it there and back without a hitch. It was its first longish run in over 10 years. It coped fine with the torrential rain and flooded roads on the way home! Just one door seal letting in water into the driver side footwell (...which helps explain why I needed to weld it).

Fair play to the organizers too. I had visions of a quagmire, with cars getting stuck all over the place. But they were well organized with good access in and out.

SilverBell

yeah, it was the weather that put the damper on it. There was an hour or two mid afternoon when the rain stopped and I got a bit of a look around. But there were no big crowds.
I was talking to one UK trader that hardly shifted anything all day. His mate said the same, it was very poor.
I took a few pics, mostly of our club cars, and will try to put them up later.


Escort collecting its prize....twas bucketin....

corktina

:DI made it from Cork....what rain? bit soft maybe...

very little mud in fairness, I think we had about a doz cars on our stand which is about average but it was very quiet ....

left for home at 4.15, indoors at 7.30 having detoured into urlingford for petrol and into mallow Station to pick up daughter....got to love the M8....

SilverBell

A few more

jerryg

Thanks for putting up the pictures of Trim Silverbell I couldnt make it I was Marshalling at the cycle race in Robinstown.

SilverBell

jerryg wrote: »

Thanks for putting up the pictures of Trim Silverbell I couldnt make it I was Marshalling at the cycle race in Robinstown.

I hope you had a coat??:D
No bother. I didnt get so many taken at all. Mostly Mercs this time I'm afraid. It probably is a great show every other year (that was my first time there) but the weather really drowned it.:)

SilverBell

corktina wrote: »

:DI made it from Cork....what rain? bit soft maybe...

very little mud in fairness, I think we had about a doz cars on our stand which is about average but it was very quiet ....

left for home at 4.15, indoors at 7.30 having detoured into urlingford for petrol and into mallow Station to pick up daughter....got to love the M8....

was that your cortina...the yella wan?

corktina

nah....that was near me OK...Ford Taunus had an outing for a change.

Blue850

I was there for a few hours too, broken modem for past 2 weeks means I only get to post pics now

Blue850

Blue850

kc66

Posted a few pics here

kasper

thats a link to posts from here three years ago