Once again, Grange’s very own Classic Car Show takes place this year on Sunday 9th August, with an amazing assortment of classics from the 1920’s right up to 2001. With over 80% of entries already subscribed, it looks as though it will be another full show. So if you’ve still to enter, get your skates on, as we expect entries to be full well before August.
This year we’ve new attractions and stallholders, with some very special children’s entertainment, in fact something for everyone.
An amazing 159 cars have entered for Classics over sands since we opened 10 days ago. So with 300 spaces, we are “officially” already over half full. Big thank you to Classic car owners for supporting the show once again.
Classics over Sands is to be held on Sunday 9th August 2026 on our usual venue overlooking Morecambe Bay in beautiful Grange over Sands. We had a record entry of vehicles in 2025, with the field at capacity. Once again, we have capped the age of the youngest vehicles at 25 years old, Last year we were able to make donations totalling over £10,000 to Alzheimers UK, local charity Growing Well alongside the Cumbria Wildlife Trust & our local Scout Group.
None of this would have been possible without yourselves, the entrants, and your great classics – thank you.
Once again we are accepting entries made via our website only.
To Enter, please…
Two e-mails will then be sent to you:
On Arrival at the Show…
If you are unable to use the internet, please ask a friend to fill in your entry for you.
As usual cars and motorcycles will have their own display areas. All cars will be parked-up in order of arrival rather than by class. This simplifies the field layout and reduces the number of marshals needed. If you want to park next to your friends – all drive in together and you will be parked together irrespective of Class.
Classics over Sands is on Sunday 9th August, please put this date in your Diary NOW!
Classics over Sands is run entirely by volunteers on a not-for-profit basis.
from… The Team at Classics over Sands
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Once again the Grange Mens Shed has constructed a teddy bar zip wire for our show, this year run by Grange Scouts, at the top of the field. The Zip wire will run between 12pm and 3pm, if you’ve not brought a Teddy, there will be a few at the top of the field, ready and waiting!
So bring your favourite Teddy and give him/her a thrilling ride on our amazing zip wire!
The 403 is finished in Bristol`s Cambridge grey which is actually mid green and was allocated to Air Marshall Banks as his personal car, he was the Bristol Aircraft Companies chief test pilot, it was later pictured in the racing department possibly downgraded to team transport.
Bought by its current owner, packed in a collection of boxes and largely disassembled, the body skin had been removed from the frame exposing the super leggera construction of tubes forming the shape of the car.
All the boxes were emptied on to the clean garage floor and sorted, it transpired that all the parts were present and mostly accurately labelled. The mountain of bits turned slowly into a car, the restoration actually took 2 years but it was spread over 5 years as other projects intervened. The car is a real testament to its owner and will be part of our “owner and machine” interviews at our show on 11th August.
While we have a number of Morgans entered, both the three and four wheel variety, The F super, owned by one of our committee members, a 1948 model is one of the last 3 wheelers built, before the model was reintroduced in 2010. It has a 10hp Ford engine which provides plenty of performance in such a light body. The engine is linked by a drive shaft to the 3 Speed gearbox, which sits just behind the seats and drives the rear wheel.
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The 20/25 is the ‘small’ Rolls Royce with a 3669cc engine and ‘crash’ gearbox with the gear lever and hand brake on the right hand side. One or both are guaranteed to slide up the trouser leg when attempting to get into the car. Cruising speed is 50-55mph and the fuel consumption 14 mpg on a good day and 10-12 mpg on a bad day. Rolls-Royce did not build bodies and these were supplied by a variety of specialist coachbuilders to the owner’s specification.
The rather unusual close-coupled body is by Thrupp and Maberley. Four cars of this design were built of which only one other is believed to survive. Seven separate actions are required to start the car so the likelihood of it being stolen by the uninformed is small. Total mileage from new is 149000 miles so it is just about run in.
The current owners Grandfather originally owned the car, but it was sold to a new owner the USA. The current owner tracked it down and brought it back to the UK in in 1976. So come to Classics over Sands on Sunday 11th August and see this and other stunning machinery!
Grange’s very own Classic Cars Show which took place on 13th August was our best attended show ever, with nearly 300 cars and motor bikes entered and with over 2000 visitors. Whilst the weather on set up day was awful; we were blessed with decent weather on show day.
All profits will, as usual, be split amongst our charities and local groups. This year we will be donating a total of £5,500 between our main charities, we will also be donating £500 to the local Scouts for their help with running the show.
Make a note in your diary as our show next year is scheduled for Sunday 11th August 2024. A big thank you to all our helpers for their fantastic support we couldn’t put the show “on” without you!
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