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Car Show

 Today myself, Alex and Rupert went to a local classic and custom car show at the Centennial College, Ashtonbee Campus. It was such a great experience to go to, we were invited by one of our teachers. It was great to be invited and get to experience a car show over here. As we got to speak to people representing companies over here and just the local enthusiasts, the two were very different people but everyone there shared one interest which was a love for all things cars. From JDM imports that were standard to ones that were fully custom and had a full air kit, to loud American v8 mustang’s, purpose-built race cars, ex public transport busses with massive engines to race trucks. It was all things cars with raffles for car photo shoots and tool kits. All donated because everyone there just wanted to help each other out and share their common interests in cars and engines. My personal favourite was an original Carroll Shelby 480 horsepower, super charged V8. Which alone is worth millions as they started production just before he died. Carrol Shelby built race cars with ford to win races like the 24 hours of le man and together they produced cars like the mustang GT40 and the ford GT which has the same shell and chassis as the car that they built that won le man for 6 years in a row to de-thrown Ferrari who had the race in the bag for so many years. But that was just one of the many cars that I loved to see, we don’t see these cars in the United Kingdom very often as they were never offered to the British market or most of the European market. - Connor Gibb






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