Oyster fest' carnival, & Classics on the slopes

The second Saturday of Whitstable Oyster Fest' is always Carnival day.

This year's was better than ever, and with spare change gathered over the year in pots for friends to drop into a myriad of collecting buckets, everyone joined in the fun.

Being with friends always helps festivities

Some of the actors involved with Whitstable's local theatre, originally called 'The Play House,'

Kent School of Performing Arts. Perhaps future 'Lindley Players;' the Playhouse's resident actors.

 

This 'Baltan' designed to look a bit like a Rolls, was made from spare parts and bits, by local mechanics.

 

As for the real 'classic cars' on Sunday, that was a real joy. With some thing like six hundred entrants, there literally was everything from the basic Austin A35 from the nineteen fifties to cars you could simply die for.

Funnily enough I got one of these going for a friend years ago, who managed to flog it for just a few hundred.
Strange how things change?

You could either park a Smart car in the boot or land a helicopter on the boot lid.
I think I need CPR

If it came in a brighter colour, maybe, but, nahhh...

Drool

Not sure of how many of these we've ever had

My first car, though mine was a different colour

It surprised me and demanded a second glance to realise this is in deed an estate

The last car I ever owned; a 1300 Maestro.
Mine did 0-60 eventually, 40MPG, and I loved it.

Oh yes, almost forgot this bit. We also saw what we think was a Gloster Meteor flying low towards Herne Bay, where on 15th August 1945 a Meteor broke the Air Speed Record, hitting over 600mph.