Bit of a Canada special over the next few blogs to try and cover everything during a 2 week holiday culimating in the amazing Canadian GP.
We ended up in Ottawa for a family wedding and were surprised and delighted to discover that the Byward Market area of town was holding its annual Auto Classic – an informal classic car show – that Sunday. As I’ve mentioned before the usual car park-type events are not really my thing, but I found this event to be quite delightful. The cars are displayed in six separate batches around the town, with the main area being along a street crowded with bars. A stage was set up with a rockabilly band playing. It was refreshing to bring this kind of activity to the people and hold it in the centre of town. It seems so often in the UK that the classic car scene is a slightly marginalised, dare one say, geeky, one. Here, everyone was getting involved, from old folk to (what looked like) gangsters, crusty punks to middle class mums. It was fun and a nice antidote to the usual fodder, though it was comforting to see a Triumph TR6; just like home!
I’m afraid my knowledge of American muscle cars is somewhat limited so won’t offer captions but there was all sorts of exciting stuff on display.
