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Report by : Bozi Mohacek
SVVS
Lunchtime Meeting, The Star - Lingfield -
September 2024
The Star is now a popular eatery which is providing some excellent and
interesting food. They have added to their eating facilities additional undercover space by using yurty tenty
spaces in the
adjacent bits of the garden. This now means lots of sitting spaces if
needed. Parking remains quite tight and limited, so good to get there early.
This, being a Sunday event, has frequently clashed with our Reigate Tunnel
Display on the Saturday which tended to deplete the attendance numbers
here. This should not have been the in this particular case, but the weather
was. I noted that last year it did exactly the same thing to us. After many weeks of near drought
conditions in the latter part of
the summer
'heat wave' in the upper 30s
C range, the weather chose
our two hours on the Sunday lunchtime to deposit significant bits
of the Atlantic over Lingfield. The weather forecasters had warned of a turn
in the weather with an enormous
middle-of-the-night thunderstorm with the probability of lightning strikes
on our church next door passing the annual lightning conductor test, - not so our
levitating airborne dog!
The Star in Lingfield
signals that the 'summer season' is drawing to a close, which is a bit of a
shame. The turnout
of cars at the Star was predictably low, only some 13 cars, but up two on last
year; - with only three being vintage. The nature of the vehicles in
the Society is changing. There is a gradual morphing from 'vintage
vehicles' to 'classic vehicles'. Perhaps the Membership is changing too.
Older Members tended to have 'vintage cars' because these were the "old" cars
in 'their time', as 'veteran cars' had been for their fathers.
Members have aged and passed away, their cars have gone into museums and
collections, and into the upper price bracket and are now not within easy
financial reach of the current generation. For them
it is 'classic cars' that are the 'old' cars of their time and
generally still priced relatively reasonably.
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