Grampian Transport Museum - How Many Left

This extremely popular event has been a favourite on the Grampian Transport Museum calendar for many years and this year, the event was held at the Museum in Alford on May 7th. The basic format of the event, which is unique in Scotland and probably throughout the rest of the UK, is to celebrate mass-produced cars which are now considered 'endangered species' with less than 500 examples remaining on the road.

"Once everywhere now rare!"

Most car shows celebrate vehicles which were always destined to be classics. Limited editions such as Ferrari's and Aston Martins are seldom scrapped, usually only following an accident or catastrophic engine failure. Instead, this unique event in Scotland commemorates the cars that now survive in numbers under 500 in the UK but that were often built in the millions.
 

The museum uses a ‘rarity index’ to calculate the degree to which the car was once a popular sight on the road network. When it reviews the relative rarity, comparing the number of examples currently licensed for use against the original production run, some of the results have been truly staggering. Everyday vehicles, such as the Mini or Renault 21, can be considered rarer than some of its exotic contemporaries and the index highlights this interesting statistic.

To commemorate the Centenary of MG Cars, this year the entry criteria (less than 500 remaining) was waived and the event was open to MGs of all ages, shapes and sizes.

A very healthy 23 MGs were therefore entered by the Club and on the day, despite the weather, a number of additional MGs owned by non Club members filled the very impressive MG display.   

Sadly the day dawned grey, miserable and drizzly - not quite the weather the forecast had promised, but nonetheless the end of the infield was full with a vast number of very rare cars. The weather obviously put a lot of people of spectating and numbers were well down, but everyone who had entered had a good time catching up with the other owners.

New club member Andrew Martin did his usual sterling job of commentating on the event, speaking to many of the owner / drivers as they drove sedately round the circuit on the parade laps.

Personal (non MG) favourites?  The little Mini Marcos and the Aston Martin Cygnet!   

Special thanks to GTM for supplying the 'official' pictures - they are much better than mine - and as they are all so good I have included them all (344 of them!!) below as I couldn't decide which ones to leave out!

Thanks to all the members who braved the elements to attend and support this charitable event.