On Saturday 14th July 2018, over 2000 enthusiasts gathered at the imposing surrounds of Stowe House in Buckinghamshire to take the ultimate motoring nostalgia trip.
They were attending Hagerty’s Festival of the Unexceptional Concours de l’Ordinaire, a celebration of the cars that used to be on everyone’s driveways but are now so rare.
The Festival’s unique proposition is that the cars that once drove us to school, to work and on holiday, are now so rare that they should be celebrated; indeed, most of those attending the show have a direct emotional link to the cars there, unlike most top-end concours events.
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Fifty unexceptional models were selected for the main concours, including a wonderfully original 1979 Citroen GS X3, one of only two road-worthy survivors in the UK, a 1975 Volvo 66 GL saloon – the oldest known example of this ex-DAF model – plus an as-new and very scarce 1971 Fiat 125, an early 1982-built Ford Sierra 1.6L and a very beige (Harvest Gold in BL parlance) 1975 Austin Allegro 1100 with its Quartic steering wheel and hot and sticky PVC brown interior trim.
