The NEC Restoration Show 2023 | Barn-finds, projects & classic cars being repaired!

While visiting the vast 2023 "Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show with Discovery+" show at the NEC, I took a whopping 880+ photographs, of fully restored classic cars, old cars being worked on over the 3-day show, and un-touched "barn find" projects hoping for a brighter future. In this video I've compiled a selection of these images, I did wonder about doing the usual walkaround-type video but with background noise, ie music, PA systems and general hubbub as the crowds flocked in, I decided to do this type of upload instead (a walkaround video is wayy quicker to put together though!!).
The NEC restoration show isn't quite up to the scale of the main November classic car show (3 halls versus 5, and easier on the feet!), but more than enough to occupy the day and there were some great cars to be seen, shiny and shabby. Of the two events this is my preferred show, although there's no getting away from the even greater variety of cars that the end-of-season event fields.
Highlights for this year's Practical Classics restoration show included a dusty Facel Vega HK500 restoration project, a much-weathered Austin A70 Hereford saloon, a pair of Jensen C-V8s that both needed restoring, a two-stroke SAAB bullnose, a rare Austin A40 tourer all the way from Australia (also a Leyland P76 from the same land), a cutaway Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, an early Mini car with a fibreglass boot extension, a very rakish NSU Sport Prinz, an early 1980s Talbot (nee Simca) pickup, a Renault 17 coupe in green, an odd and fairly rusty Austin 3 Litre hearse, an imported Honda 1300 Coupe, and an International fire truck from the late 1940s, to name just a few.
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