{"id":28130,"date":"2012-08-31T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=28130"},"modified":"2015-08-10T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:37:48","slug":"classic-summer-the-hayride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/classic-summer-the-hayride\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Summer: The Hayride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Images: Magneto for Influx<\/em><\/p>\n

Held from the 27-29th July at Bisley Shooting Ground in Surrey, The Hotrod Hayride<\/a> this year was the eighth event staged by Jerry Chatabox & Anna Porter.<\/p>\n

It’s a unique UK gathering bringing together Europe’s best traditional rods, customs & bikes – shot through with a sense of humour and fun that few such events can muster.<\/p>\n

Bisley’s unique collection of turn of the century wooden architecture and the general atmosphere of purist retroprogression can make you think you’re in the most delicious kind of automotive timewarp.<\/p>\n

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A saturday gravel hillclimb is hosted by The Detonators Car Club<\/a> of South London. This proved to be an amazing wheeze, and featured the bare minimum of interference from the contemporary scourge of ‘health & safety’. Unlike most mainstream motorsport events, crowds could get up close and personal, close enough, in fact, to smell the burn of rubber, oil and fear!<\/p>\n

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Cars featuring in the event ranged from ratty early 20s jalopies to slammed, candy-painted works of auto art from the 50s.<\/p>\n

But it’s not all about the steel and the grease. Evenings are spent drinking & kicking back with like minded cats & watching the ladies go by – and there’s always a Freak Circus or a Burlesque show from the lovely Missy Malone to entertain you – if all that automotive loveliness wasn’t enough to keep you satisfied.<\/p>\n

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