American Car - November 2015

ACM

show

round-up

46

A Little Bit

Country

The AACUK’s Hatton Country World show suffered from a

very British summer.

Words & photography: Dave Smith

Back at the tail-end of flaming June,

at the peak of Britain’s all-too-brief

summertime, the American Auto

Club UK held their Summer Nationals

show at Hatton Country World in

Warwickshire. It’s a weekender, but

the main show day is the Sunday, so I

headed along.

The venue is excellent, with a lovely

show field immediately outside the

venue which offers food and facilities,

plus plenty to do for those less

inclined towards looking at a field full

of cars. It should have been a great

day, but the only thing lacking from

this Summer Nationals was ... summer.

It was a cool, grey day with a wind that

delighted in trying to uproot the little

marquees of the handful of traders.

Clearly many had woken up that

morning, twitched the curtains, taken

one look at the weather and decided

that a lie-in might be called for. A

shame, but I could see their point.

Whilst the show was distinctly

underwhelmed with participants, it

was far from empty and there was

still plenty to see. Aside from the

usual spread of American cars and

trucks of all ages and conditions,

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