Well, you didn’t think that Jalopy would actually go somewhere on holiday did you. Of course not, attending shows and historic vehicle events is the primary objective.

This one was a great event with a  high standard of vehicles on show in the grounds of the Casino Rhodos. The event stretching into the evening, with music and food, people making the most of the warm climate until late.

Where to start, well with this. Walking into the show I came across a really well preserved Mk2 Opel Ascona. OK it’s a Vauxhall Cavalier to us, but a really nice standard example which makes you realise what a tidy car they were. Simple and uncluttered, something to be aspired to these days perhaps. Next to it was a cracking FIAT Uno, another simple and lightweight car which could handle four adults.

Next up an immaculate Opel Kadett. These cars were driven to the show and they still maintained an aura of concourse about them. Incredible condition of just the first three I came across, what else would I find?

Britain represented with a Jaguar XJ40, again in stunning condition. Not so many of these to choose from back home, this one appearing to be a refugee as it was right hand drive and wearing British plate putting it’s manufacture around 1993.

There was a German contingent there too, with a second generation Scirocco parked next to a couple of 911 variants. But what was that at the other end…

It looked to be a Mercedes W114/5. This one I think was the W114 6 cylinder variant, but I didn’t poke around too hard. Just look at the standard of condition of every thing on display, I daren’t get too close to anything. It did make me think just how much better it was than my W115…. and how long I’d need to get it even half as good, not to mention how much I’d have to spend.

A couple more from the German corner were these two Mercedes 190SL roadsters. I rather liked the grey one, not a colour I’d seen on this model before and I think it rather suited it.

More Mercedes, the closest was a rather nice W111 convertible in a sort of orangey brown metallic. It was probably a late example from 1970/71, but even with the paint fading on the bonnet this was likely to be a £50K plus, and that’s for the base 6 cylinder car. If there was a V8 under the bonnet you could easily start adding another 50%… Very nice and the sort of Mercedes jalopy should drive, if there was a 0 knocked off the value.

I haven’t seen one of these for a while, an Auto Union 1000. Stunning example too, this was one incredible looking car and attracted a lot of attention. There aren’t too many to be found these days, but they are beautiful things. Essentially it’s a DKW 3=6, before being facelifted into the the Auto union.

This is the forerunner of the modern Audi we now know, the original Audi plant in Zwickau, East Germany, was closed during the war and the parent company dismantled and the Automobilwerk Zwickau was formed. They carried on in the traditions of the vacating Audi and produced hand built cars, yes you guessed it, the Trabant.

Audi moving to Ingolstadt and eventually being the only remaining of the four marques, reappearing the same year the Auto Union 1000 ended production in 1965. There’s a fascinating history behind what became of Audi, to think it’s roots were in the East before the Russians got their hands on it… I think they need an article all to themselves.

Walking further in I came across something that I didn’t think I was going to see another one of. It’s just too suitable to not have been a regular sight here, so why wasn’t I seeing more of them. This one was built anywhere from 1974 to 1987 with its square headlights giving some clue as to its age.

The Moto Guzzi below stopped me dead in my tracks. Wow, a 1938 GTV500, I think…. I haven’t done too much motorcycle stuff here on Jalopy, but I think there’s space for it. This one is quite a rare and beautiful two wheeler

Now we’re talking, A Zundapp KS50, a 2-stroke 49cc moped which looks rather like a nice full sized bike. I’ve never come across one of these, Zundapp were more famous for their heavier bikes from the first of 1921 through to 1945, those being pretty similar to the BMWs. Post war it was all small bikes like this, until the company went bust in 1984. The Xunda Motor Co. in China bought them in the end, assembly line and all intellectual property. They’re still going, making small Honda 4-stroke powered bikes and electric mopeds. I’d quite like a German 2-stroke oddity, but that accolade probably has to go to a communist era MZ…

I couldn’t resist a picture of the modified Honda Super Cub. This looks hilarious to ride, check out the size of the front disc, and that caliper! I bet it wants to revolve around the front wheel when you pull the brake lever.

BMW 628 to 3.0 CSi, the shark nose profile unmistakably BMW, they kept the rakish profile all the way through the production of the coupe,  the 6 series replacing the CS, E9 to E24, but kept the character of the earlier car. Both extremely handsome shapes in their own right.

Last up from this great event, is these two behemoths, a rather imposing pair…

The Mercedes 250S isn’t a small car, just appears so when next to the 1937 Buick Sedan. It really was enormous…

There’s more show pictures to see in the Facebook gallery.

Simon