It’s a rare occasion for me to attend a car show without my car, all be it an unintentional car show. I had arranged a little family day out at Lowestoft and was looking forward to the day. We arrived after a half an hours drive and managed to find somewhere to park near the sea front, the best part was that it was free to park. We got our stuff from the back of my daily driver and walked towards the sea front, looking for the arcade game Daytona 500. It’s an old game now, but there history and years of friendly rivalry to see who will win on this game. We found a nice arcade and started on the 2p coin pusher game to try and win something for the little guy, nothing doing there, it more about the fun of trying to win. It’s not like it was when I was a younger (here we go rant), where you could be on these games for hours with just a couple of quid to “feed the machine”, which was the saying we had at the time. You used to be able to ‘win’ a plastic car or key ring as a bonus, now you are lucky to win a couple of coins after feeding the machine a good few quid. To be fair it’s brilliant fun and cheap to keep the little ones occupied, with a sense of achievement when the tinkle of pennies hit the collection tray. We eventually found the Sega Daytona 500 which is the same as this picture, sometimes they are four in a row.

The mission was best out of three, and let’s just say the dirty tactics by ‘J’ running me of the track worked for him today (as it did in the past) and he took the first win with ease. Rematch, I got a disastrous start and it took me a couple of laps to catch up with him, rather than playing fair I decided to run him of the track too, revenge is best served cold. With that suspect manoeuvre I romped home with a mirror image win to ‘J’s. The decider was going to be tough, dirty tactics were going to come into play I just knew it as the tension rose as the music and voice over counted us in. Again he got the better of me, only just this time on the start, I slipped in behind him and dived up the inside and sat there. The other cars on the outside were in ‘J’s way and I managed to box him in to slow him down while I made sharp exit of the turn and disappeared. The taunts to my left seemed to spur him on, I made a mistake on the last lap due to my gloating and just kissed the wall knocking a considerable amount of speed off. I managed to get going and could see ‘J’ closing me down fast with a stunning couple of laps from him to get back in with a shout. I kept the racing and tried to mash the gas peddle through the bottom of the floor. The drag race with ‘J’ carrying corner exit speed and me trying to draft the cars in front. Victory was mine as I scrapped over the line by a car length or so, half a lap more ‘J’ would have won. The taunts started again after the win as you would expect. It will be short lived win as I suspect the next rematch will be be more dodgy driving again, from both sides!

After feeding more of the machines and the pockets of the arcade owners we decided to go for something to eat. We walked for a few minutes and found a nice Weatherspoons and ordered our food and drink via the app. We enjoyed the food and walked a little further up the sea front towards a fun fair. We spend some time there with some great photos and memories made. We had a great day and decided to call it a day and walked back towards the car. We walked back near to the beach itself where we wandered into a car show with around twenty or so cars on display. It did feel strange to look around cars without mine being there somewhere. We wandered around spoke to a couple of people. The Fords were out in force, a few first gen Mustangs.

There was this fourth gen SN95 Mustang which had been rat rodded with a gun welded to the hood! The funny thing was there was a side exhaust in front of the fake up pipes Mad Max style. I don’t understand why he did it that way.

A Ford Cougar caught my eye. I do love the fact these had the hidden headlights behind the matching grill.

My favourite of this little car show was this beautiful ’57 Thunderbird. I would love one of these, sadly I can’t get in them.

I had a look around online to find out about this show, I didn’t find anything. If anybody knows about it please let me know. So that was it, just a little splattering of classic cars on the sea front as the Sun was starting to set for the afternoon. It was good to see some cars at a show that I hadn’t seen before. We all walked back to the car and had a relaxed drive home, trying to keep the little one awake was a mission on its own.

A fantastic day out with the family and classic cars, what more could I ask for? I’m looking forward to the next outing, although the weather is turning to Winter rather quickly. I had a great night’s sleep due to the intake of the sea air, or is it just me that sleeps well after being by the sea?