On Sunday, June 3, Pembrokeshire Classic Car Club held their popular classic car show in the beautiful surroundings of Scolton Manor, Haverfordwest.

Preceding the show Celtic Classic Charity Tours had organised a road run of approximately 60 miles on the Saturday, with some 50 cars participating raising funds for the Seb Jenkins Little People Appeal. Many of the entrants making it a classic weekend by combining the two events.

On Sunday, the day of the show, a hot sunny day was experienced enabling record crowds and exhibitors to attend which should result in good amounts of money to the club’s chosen charities of Paul Sartori, Wales Air Ambulance, and Diabetes Wales (local branch).

Exhibitors had entered from all over South and Mid Wales, some from England and two entries from Southern Ireland. There were nearly 600 exhibits on display ranging from a 1914 Ivy Motorcycle to American muscle cars, all manner of British Cars including mini’s, MG’s, and the proverbial ‘moggy’s.’ Besides the cars, there were numerous displays of motorcycles, tractors, commercial vehicles and military vehicles including Willys Jeeps and the magnificent ‘ferret’ scout car.

Besides all of the entries, there was a car boot sale, autojumble, craft stalls for peoples enjoyment. Children were kept amused with funfair rides, a face painter and The West Wales Boats model displays where they could drive remote control tanks around an obstacle course. There was also a rally car display courtesy of the Teifi Valley Motor Club, while also in attendance were Blood Bikes Wales and the Haverfordwest fire crew who unfortunatley had to be called on later in the day when a Triumph 2000 caught fire on leaving the show. The fire was out prior to the arrival of the brigade, thanks to the quick response of the club’s marshals.

Ice-cream was the order of the day, together with catering from all the other outlets in attendance.

Pembrokeshire Classic Car Club had been running a pre-drawn raffle throughout the day, with the help of volunteers from Diabetes Wales, with magnificent prizes donated by club members.

Prize-winners of the various categories in the show, as judged by an independent judge and announced by the commentator Johnathon Edwards, were as follows:

The Kevin Videan Memorial Trophy for club cars up to 1970 (presented by Geraldine Videan) - Kevin Crotty for his Austin Healey 3000 Mk3.

The Jeff and Sian Edwards Perpetual Trophy for club cars 1971 onwards (presented by Jeff Edwards) to Jason Crabtree for his Volkswagen Golf GTi.

Chairman Mike Chilton then presented a silver salver to Clive Rosser for his immaculate Triumph Stag as best car in show.

Treasurer Steve Wimpory presented a silver salver to John Mackay for his BSA Rocket 3 for best motorcycle in show.

Peter Badham, club secretary, then presented silver salvers to Paul Harrison for his Daimler ferret scout car for best vehicle other than car/motorcycle and George Hayes and John Byrne jointly for the Wexford Classic Car Club for the best Irish entry.

The show concluded with the Pembrokeshire Classic Car Club very satisfied with the day’s events.

The club would like to thank all programme advertisers, St. Johns Ambulance for essential medical cover, Scolton Manor staff, the police and fire brigade, all club members who helped out on the day and in the preparation for the show. Paul Sartori volunteers who did such a wonderful job manning the public car park, Diabetes Wales volunteers for looking after the pre-drawn raffle, Johnathon Edwards for his expert and informative commentary throughout the day, and finally the exhibitors for bringing along their magnificent vehicles and the general public for attending in such numbers again making it a highly successful show.

Pics. Peter Sharpe