It may not yet rival Classics on the Common for scale, but the Sidlesham classic car meet is yet another classic car success story in the making.
It started last year as a friendly get together of a handful of classic cars owners on the third Sunday of each month held on the football ground car park in the village of Sidlesham – midway between Chichester and Selsey.
At the last event – on 15 January – more than 60 classic cars turned up, for the whole day or just for a drop-in visit.
Among the owners was Terry Bartley (main image). Bartley, from Bognor Regis, was showing his 1966 MG Midget Mk2 of which he is the fifth owner. When he took it for its first MoT after it had been off the road for three years and was given three pages of faults which took him six months to sort out.
Robert Bailey from Chichester has owned his 1960 MGA 1600 for only four months. It was restored by a previous owner, but has only travelled a total of 56,000 miles to date.
Tessa Brown from Havant was showing off her 1965 Austin-Healey Sprite. She became its third owner four years ago, after the car had been garaged for the previous 20 years and was in need of some considerable restoration carried out by her husband and a friend.
