Helmingham Festival of Classic & Sports Cars

31 years of Bristol Cars were represented at the Helmingham Festival of Classic & Sports Cars today. From a 1948 type 400 to a 1979 603 Series 2, 8 cars showed off 7 of Filton’s different models.

This year’s show attracted the largest ever entry of car clubs, and this was the first year that the Bristol Owners’ Club had entered. 7 of the cars were from the East Anglian section, with one car travelling 120 miles from Rugby in Warwickshire.

The show took place in the grounds of Lord Tollemache’s magnificent moated Helmingham Hall in Suffolk with its ancient deer park and grade 1 listed gardens. As in previous years the event raised money for EACH – East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice (last year’s donation paid for the drugs and oxygen at the Ipswich Hospice for over a year).

The full line-up was as follows:

• ·       1948 400
• ·       1951 401
• ·       1951 401
• ·       1955 405
• ·       1967 409
• ·       1967 410
• ·       1970 411 Series 1
• ·       1979 603 Series 2