Practical Classics Restoration Show NEC March 2024 - lots of classic cars! 

I've followed this channel since its early days. I've always enjoyed your style and format. Being in America, your videos often cover cars I didn't know about, or knew very little of, which is really fun to learn about. Also, your editing and comfort in front of the camera have gotten so much stronger over time! Well done! Please keep doing what you do!

Thanks for the interview Steph, on my mk1 fiesta van loveing your videos. Martin

Totally agree with the Marina guy

Thanks for sharing this with us Steph, always a pleasure 😊👍

Great video Steph as always, what a fabulous selection of cars. I wish I had gone now! I am in absolute awe of Danny’s Marina but perhaps unsurprisingly Sam’s ‘Roland’ stole the show for me 😍

Straight away; I like your taste.

For me Roland was the star of the show, he must get so much attention out and about and will be absolute peanuts to run and keep on the road, a perfect novel classic.

As a US viewer I enjoyed absence of US Slickness™. Just real people sharing their hobby. And hair undefeated by banks of bright lights.

Good show Steph thanks for sharing been up for the last 3 years but missed this one

Roland 🔛🔝

Hi Steph! Greetings from San Francisco, California, USA. Keep up the great work... absolutely love your presentations.

Thanks for a great look at the show, and so interesting hearing the stories behind the cars. Loved the Marina Coupe, always liked the look of the Marina in all forms. We had a glimpse of a Standard Vanguard one of my favourites, love the look of them.

Thanks for the tour Steph, great video.

Great video again ❤ loved this show xxx

My favpurite is the Marina Coupe.Thanks for showing us around.xx

The classic car shows in England are so totally different to what we have over here in Switzerland. I envy you guys. The NEC is seems so much more entertaining. It also proves, you don't have to show off multi-million museum cars to attact an audience, especially a younger one. Way to go! Loved the presentation.

I really loved this show when I came in 2022. It's not just the social history aspect that I love but it's so heartwarming seeing so many people who want to keep these cars alive and bring others back to life. I love how cars can mean so much to people and the memories they can evoke. It's also really encouraging to see so many young, skilled people involved too (yourself included). I sadly couldn't come this year but the Applejack Austin Metro looked lovely.

I loved the nanosecond glimpse of the Allegro Vanden Plas 😘

Although I'm not a particular fan of Ford products, the Fiesta Mk 1, (made in Spain), is a good car to drive, way better than the later VW Polo! That 2 Litre Van looks like it will be a blast!

Thanks Steph GR8 video we will be there tomorrow Sunday Can’t wait 👍👍👍

Some really great cars and vans there. Everyone has a story and I think that can get forgotten sometimes. Next time you see a classic try and remember that even if you don't like the car! Thanks for sharing this video Steph very interesting. 👍👍

My favourite car has to be the Morris Marina 1.3 deluxe coupé in Limeflower! Fantastic restoration, looks beautiful. 😍 Reminds me of my first car, also a Marina 1.3 coupé.

Thanks for making this video. I've not been for a few years but one thing I love about the Classic Car Show is it never changes!

Best car? The limeflower Marina Coupe, closely followed by that beautiful blue Allegro near the start. Though we got a quick glimpse of a silver Favorit Estate that got my interest piqued. So much interesting stuff! I must make an attempt to visit this show sometime! 😀

Great review and a nice selection of cars. Cheers Bob

Thanks. Great video. I loved the marina coupe.

Good morning Steph. I was at the show yesterday, and like you and others I absolutely loved it going there and seeing some of the loveliest old cars around. I loved the 1969 Triumph 2.5 PI, the 1959 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire 346 that I saw the guys working on, and I even explored the Autojumble, the scale models that were available there read like a mini Motor Show in itself. I saw on one stall counter a selection of some of my old models of classic cars that I had as a child, including a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith that ended up buried in my back garden until it was unearthed 40 years ago! It was model #150 in the Dinky Toys catalogue, having those originals got me into cars in the first place. I even bought one of the editions of Motor magazine, the 1973 Motor Show Number, it only cost me just £2 compared to the rate charged by Amazon for the same edition. I just loved attending, and like you, Steph, just cannot wait for the next one later on this year. Cheers, and Keeeeeeeeeeeep Driving.

Smiled all through this Steph. Great people, great cars, great stories.

Eggcellent !

My good old friend Tim Jordan painted the Cream Egg Car..... The fella is a genius with all body repairs! 👊

thanks steph

Great show Steph. I wish we have classic cars like these in South Korea and here in Singapore.

Roland was definitely the most memorable car there for me, I just love the way it looks. Also the random cowboy at the end of the interview was hilarious 😆

Love the channel and video steph so cool to see so many cars from my youth and beyond my absolute favourite is the mk1 cortina or escorts great to see so many different car's on display ❤

Always wonder what happened to my Marina 'fast back coupé', CJJ 18W. We didn't want and so gave it away to the Owners' Club.

Marinas were sold as Austins here in the U.S. and I rather liked them, but 1975 was the last year for them here.

Back in the 90's i saw a Volvo 244 DL that had been hit by a lorry 😞 . The boot was buckled to the passenger side ........and the bonnet was bent in the same direction !!! . All four doors were 100% straight ................. absolutely incredible 🙂

All l can say Steph you enjoy a good chat with the owners restorers of the cars and that Citroen Lamborghini replica what a car my favourite

A Marina coupe is probably rarer than a Countach these days...

Hi Steph, I really wanted to go to the show but due to circumstances cannot attend. Viewing your video has made amends . I will defo attend next year.

what can I say but I loved all of the car's at the NEC restoration show simply because I love classic car's and I would really love to see you do a review on the Cadbury Cream Egg car that would be wonderful and fun .

It's great to see younger people in classics, I was a young person (21) when I got into Triumphs and I have never been without one since then, and now I am 65!

Quite liked the Dragster's

When you were talking to Danny from Practical Classics, I noticed the Bangers & Cash trailer in the background. Would be great to see a feature on Mathewsons for the channel Steph.

I'm amazed anyone would bother to have a Dodge Dart shipped to Britain, so that was a surprise for me. After we sold our Ford Anglia 100E, Dad bought the Plymouth Valiant which was a sister car to the Dart you featured. Aloha!

I liked the Morris Marinas. They are not as terrible as Jeremy Clarkson wanted you to believe. The guys from Top Gear had no idea what they were thinking when dropping pianos on those poor cars.

Roland!!!! Love it. I had an A35 back in the 70s. Regarding young people getting involved, the problem, as Rick Parkington said in a recent Classic Bike magazine, could be that parents, to a great extent, no longer have any mechanical skills, so youngsters who wish to be involved have to do it all for themselves. Keep up the good work.

1:52 is my favourite 1950s Vauxhall mid resto

I'm sorry, I've never warmed to Marinas, but if they give people pleasure, that's great

Love the variety, cars I've almost never seen being in the middle of Canada. Technically though, IMO, whomever is behind the camera needs to slow the panning about 30%, ones eyes just barely focus on a subject and the pan continues to move.

Again, you've selected some very different project cars, and it's good to see younger people, both men and women, helping to keep these older cars going strong for many more years to come. But that Citroen CX with the Countach body really took me by surprise!

This is brilliant Steph. Some great cars and interviews. My take of the lot is the snapshot of the Vauxhall HA van based on the old Viva HA if I recall correctly towards the end at 31:45. They were everywhere when I was at school back in the day but then seemed to disappear over night in the 80's.

Hi Steph! Great video, keep an eye open for my Ute at the Historic Rally Groups stand, I can’t be there but Ken and the guys and talk all about it :)

I’ve owned three Marinas. Mk1 1.8 auto in 1981. My first automatic. Biggest engined car I’d owned. Owned till 1985. Rated as my best car until the late 90s. Then 1988, a £250 1.8 Mk2 banger. Not good. Too much to go into. Then 2016, auction bought Marina HL automatic, low miles, twin carbs, near immaculate interior, 2nd rate paint job but presented well. Thought I’d love it. Drove me mad. Nothing I did to it or spent on it worked right. Grew to hate it. As a kid I thought the Mk2 Marinas in the brochures looked ace. Now I think that hard plastic cheap creaky dashboard with the radio facing the passenger is a terrible backward step from the padded dash in the Mk1 Marina. On my twin carb one every time I pulled the steering shroud mounted choke knob out I had to hang onto the column shroud with one hand to try to stop the plastic breaking.

Would love to see more of the isseta.

Tell the Marino fan to watch out for pianos

Hii😂

Regarding the "Flag Jumper" car. In the early days of drag racing the racing was started by a flagman dropping a flag. Modern drag racing uses electronic starter lights. A flag jumper would have racer who was over enthusiastic!

Morris marina Austin allegro etc important? I remember those terrible unreliable boring cars when they blighted the roads in the seventies.

Is this the only Marina not being hit by a piano?

It looks like a rotten lanchester 14

A good video. The Volvo was nice, but I would keep the std wheels and paint them black. I'm not keen on alloy wheels. Why do these Volvos get stolen?, I can only think of the minority of villains that steal and banger race them. My view is that only cars less than 20 years old should be allowed to enter a banger race. Anything older should be preserved or if too bad, used for parts.

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