So then, now for the story from my angle. First interesting thing we saw was a pedal rickshaw thing parked outside an Idiian resturant opposite the show halls. Naturally we had to go back that night & sample the wares inside said resurant, Mike & Bob were ordering like pros but I couldn't even work out what half the stuff was having led a very sheltered life as regards my eating habits....
Once inside the show itself, I made the mistake of stopping a moment to sort my bag out and that was the last I saw of Mike (who had rushed off to the jumble stands in hall 4) and Bob (who had rushed off to find something to do with Inters, in fact ANYTHING at all to do with Inters) and that was the last I saw of them for a few hours! I strolled over to the motorcycle disply, obseved a rather nice Bond Autobyke and then I happoned to glance upwards, to be greeted by a vehicle I've spent twenty years waiting to see "in the metal", a 1920's Scott Scoiciable of all things!!!
I wandered slowly around the display, looking at the scott from every angle, the I found myself tripping over another vehicle I've spent years hunting. A 1926 Monotrace!!!!
These both in the first few minnites.....
After a while I managed to bump into Bob again, and it was he who pointed out the Mathis 333 to me, a car which I had always thought no longer existed. Bob's got some pictuers of this up already, so it was now on to the autojumble and the great brousher hunt commenced....
Alas, there was no Mini-Comtesse items to be seen anywhere at all. One stallholder asked if I was looking for anything specific & in my best fractured non-existance French, I finally got the point across for "Anything Mini-Comtesse?" The stallholder finally twigged, said that he haden't in his best fractured non-existant English, then asked if I was Scottish by dint of my accent!!!!!!
I wouldn't mind, but I've never even been near the place! (Memo to self; next time I'm talking to Grant Kearney, ask him if he's ever been asked by a Frenchman if he comes from Oxford.....
) Naturally Bob & Mike found it all highly amusing for the next two days.....
Anyway, back to the serius business of blowing money.... I spent half my money on just one stand with umpteen Sans Permis items, so I now have plenty to bore everyone with at a later date. On another stall I had to stand meekly by and watch as Mike beat me to a rather nice Mk 1 Flipper brousher (SWINE!!) Mind you. I beat him to the KVS Brake leaflet later on.... A picture of my haul follows...
After the show came the whistlestop tour of the sights of Paris as Bob mentions, and here's the evidence of what Mike & Bob were aiming for.....
Judging by all the pictures in all the those shops with those nice red lights outside, the girls of France can't afford much in the way of clouths. Of all the other items in the windows I'm far too innocent to know what they were for. The only thing I could think of was mayby they were for getting stones out of horses hooves. Mind you, I didn't see any cars in the pictures, so it must have been a very boring place inside......
As Bob said, a very good weekend, with a big thanks to Mike who sorted out all the tickets and did all the driving.
