Soaking Up The Atmosphere At RollHard x Bicester Heritage 2.0
Sunday Car Life

If there’s one good thing to come out of lockdown, it’s my renewed energy to attend car shows. Perhaps I didn’t appreciate it until it was gone, but a lack of events over the last year or two has really hit home to me just how much I love looking at other people’s projects and talking to owners about what makes them tick.

With that in mind, I scrambled to find some ear plugs and headed to the latest RollHard event.

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Ear plugs are a desirable commodity in an AE86 with questionable rear differential backlash. But sadly, none were to be found in the house. Instead I picked up my good friend Matt Dear and attempted to talk in between outbursts from the rear axle banshee.

Matt has felt the same about shows recently. It’s a funny one, I didn’t realise it at the time but perhaps we had gotten a little complacent. Maybe we thought there would always be an abundance of car shows to go to. Sure, we’ve been able to check in on friends’ projects, meet for coffee and go for drives, but opportunities to really dig around in cars we have never seen before have been pretty scarce.

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I’d not been to a RollHard event since 2018, so I was pretty sure there would be some fresh meat to get stuck into. The guys at RollHard had managed to secure Bicester Heritage again as a venue for 2021, which is an excellent backdrop to showcase modified cars.

There was all kinds of metal on display, from very new stance cars to older, more motorsport creations. The juxtaposition of the stance cars against the historic race cars that were dotted around the Bicester Heritage site was brilliant. It almost had a ‘movie set backlot’ feel about it.

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We got pretty much every type of weather in the four or five hours spent at the event, which adds a challenge. It did however mean that each section of the show had a totally unique feel to it. Sometimes you’d catch reflections from the floor and sometimes the sunshine would illuminate the bright colours of the cars.

I’ll refrain from describing every car in this story and the gallery below, but if you’d like any more details about the cars in the pictures or would like to know who the owners are, drop a request in the comments and I will get back to you with everything I know. Let’s make this an interactive post.

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My own Toyota Corolla was parked up on the far side of the show in the ‘Technical Area’. This part of Bicester Heritage is where the resident businesses are located, and peering in though the windows of the units revealed all sorts of interesting period race cars. There was even a Singer or two. I’ll have to make it back to a Sunday Scramble where these businesses open their doors to the public and I can take a closer look.

One of the coolest structures on site was the water tower below, which looked great behind the R32 Skyline GT-R.

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For me, this is what car culture is all about. Good cars, great people and a fantastic venue. Soaking up the atmosphere on a Sunday and getting a little inspiration, car life is the best life. I hope you enjoy the gallery below as much as I enjoyed wandering around the event.

Ryan Stewart
Instagram: 7.nth 
ryan@speedhunters.com

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1

Green Porsche Carrera... what!! Old BBS, ITBs with velocity stacks, clean K20 engine, mostly normally cambered wheels; I love it!!!!!

2

Ryan,

Damn there were some nice cars at this show! Especially love the old Porsches. That Outlaw is NNNNNIIIICCCCEEEEEEE! And the Bimmers. Wow! Love 'em. Thanks for the great pics!

Author3

I'm glad you enjoyed David!

4

Cool photos and clean cars sounds like heaven

5

Can that Gloria and its engraved wheels get any cooler?!

6

That's a Toyota Mark II Grande (known as a Cressida in some markets)

Author7

You're absolutely bang on the money here, this is a Mark II Grande, I called it a Cressida at first but you might be able to make out the badging on the rear 1/4 panel.

This is the owner's IG: https://www.instagram.com/kamikazi_mk2/

8

more pics on the car in picture no 63? and what Saab it is?

Author9

The Saab is a Saab 900 Turbo Carlsson. But it's not the tuning company Carlsson, it's a special edition made to honour rally driver Erik Carlsson. It's a really rare car!

Counting down to 63, I think you're referring to the heavily modified Saab 96 - it's been stretched and pulled in every direction and made into a really crazy wide body creation sitting on Air Lift Performance suspension - it's nuts!

10

I would love to see more of the 96.

Author11

oops, apologies Muaz, I read your question wrong - I thought you were asking about the Saab 900 AND the 96, not just the 96.

12

no worries. and wow that Saab 96 sounds crazy. do you have more pics of it or are you planning on makin a feature for it?

13

So much variety, so many cool cars.
Loved the green 356 (?) and the silver RPS13.
Thanks for sharing!

Author14

You can check out a little more on the S13 here: https://www.instagram.com/thom180sx/

It's a really lovely build!

15

That S13 is absolutely perfect.

16

So Glad I went, myself and a friend had the exact same conversation about making more of an effort to go to car show. I'm a JDM fanboy through and through but to see the mix of cars was incredible and also to see pictures of the cars we missed. The fact is we were always going to miss some as there was such a plethora. Please check out my Instagram as I have uploaded some from the show (@usuallybrokencars).

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