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AACI Late Summer Open Nationals

9/3/2016

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On Sunday 21st August, I made my way to Billing Aquadrome for another car show – the American Automobile Club Late Summer Open Nationals.

Back in June, I went to the plain “summer” version of this event (in fact I wrote about that outing too).

At the point of that post I didn’t expect that I’d make it to the August bash. But I was wrong and this trip to Billing was a welcome bonus. 

The 21st coincided with the start of the Baldwin family summer holiday (which involved a car journey to Dover). The stopover was however authorised by Mrs B. because it also enabled us to see her dad and wish him a happy birthday.

Result!

And cheers Walt!  

With regards to the show, it followed exactly the same format as in June: trader concessions (a lot of the same ones too) circled the main show field and US automobiles of all decades formed a car park in the middle.

So a challenge for me then in terms of providing new insights, angles, observations etc.

To be honest, on this occasion, I am not even going to try too hard - I’ll be frank with you, this post amounts to little more than car porn!

The event arrangements were identical and so were some of the vehicles on display for that matter…

…but there were a significant number of different ones (for example, this time out, some low-riders were on show) for me to be able to take a load of new photos (268 this time).

A smaller collection of shots is shared below for your enjoyment. The black Mercury featured can also be seen on the front page of this month’s “Classic American” car magazine.

Time constraints meant that I had less than half the time available for me to mooch around (compared to June), but the hour and a half I got was great fun and I am glad I had the opportunity.

The downside of leaving by lunchtime is that vehicles were still turning up as I had to go. But hey, there’s always next year.

And on that note, if you have enjoyed the photos, keep an eye out on Billing Aquadrome’s event calendar – why not go along to an AACI event in 2017 and then you can perv over the real models instead of their photos.

Click on any of the thumbnails to enlarge the image


Related posts
http://www.adrianbaldwin.net/blog/24424-the-aaci-summer-nationals-and-fathers-day
http://www.adrianbaldwin.net/blog/car-sunday-2-nsra-fun-run-top-gear

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