These days there are classic car gatherings pretty much anywhere that you can think of. Most of the major event venues – such as Goodwood, Shelsley, Brooklands and Coventry Transport Museum – have breakfast clubs, for example.
But, as Darren Sullivan Vince, pointed out: “There wasn’t one in central London. There’s Park it in The Market in Greenwich, of course, and the Ace Cafe, but nothing in the middle of town. So, out of frustration, I set up Waterloo Classics.”
The first meeting, on 18 April on Lower Marsh Market, attracted a fine array of machinery including a Bugatti Brescia, a Shelby Mustang and a Sunbeam-Talbot drophead coupé.
“We must have had 35 to 40 cars over the course of the afternoon – we’re here from midday to 5pm – and there was a great mixture of cars,” said Sullivan Vince. “The Waterloo Quarter people suggested the Saturday and they’ve been really helpful, arranging the parking for the classics in among the stalls. They were delighted because the footfall was twice what it would normally have been.”
