Atomic Festival

[Monstermachines]

Just nicely got home from this year's Atomic Festival, held at Sywell Aerodrome in Northants.
We went with Carol and Jon and took the Tin shed with the caddy.
I have to say it was the best event I've ever been to, everything was just right;
Awesome Art Deco aerodrome setting including a really atmospheric hangar for the dances
Amazing bands all weekend
Great cars
Great vintage caravans and motorhomes
A drive in movie on Saturday night
Brilliant air displays ( Look up Pitts Special G-EWIZ, the pilot is a hooligan!)
Gassers, VHRA flag start drag racing, vintage stock car racing

Food vendors selling nice grub from vintage vehicles

The list goes on.

All I can say is, if you are sick of car shows always being the same and you like a bit of nostalgia, book it for next year!

Here are a few pics

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[Monstermachines]

Few more pics.
The orange Continental rag top is properly mental.

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Caravan pics

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Stranded at the drive in...

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Oh dear, Smirnoff, Pink Lemonade and Sherbet, in flamingo glasses.
And this was drunk by... me and Jon!

A pic of the chores being done.

And the interior of the Green Onions '55 Chevy gasser. Sitting in there is like having an acid trip!

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Finally a couple of shots of the magnificent aerodrome hotel at night.
A Stunning building and beautifully restored.

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[Flufelix]

Looks amazing glad you all had a good time and the weather ended on a high :-)

[tbolt64]

Have to agree with everything Simon said - Fantastic place, a brilliant event. The aerodrome setting was magnificent, couldn't fault a thing - so here's mine & Carol's photo's from the weekend. Got some of those new fangled moving one's as well when I can work out how to upload them......

A very BIG thank you to Julie and Simon for letting us into their caravan for the weekend, and not-very-big-thank-you-at-all to Simon for the Pink
Flamingo cocktails. I swear the big pink duck had a hammer hidden somewhere.................





















































































Interesting use of an oil drum..................














































































The guy that flew this aerobatic Pits Special was stark raving mad - utterley bonker's. Flew sideways above the grass runway so low that the smoke 
trail was hitting the grass !!! 















Don't even ask about this one !






Carol having a bit of a crack..............



Tin Can Alley with us right at the end, next to the runway - great views















The view from our accomodation door






Car of the weekend for me - totally impractical - but the grin factor would be immense





















Longest alternator bracket I've ever seen !!

[Mark]

Plenty of really nice cars there...