Rollhard 2024 - Bicester Heritage

Photos from Bicester have long been some of the best from any show in the UK, primarily down to the quality and variety of cars on show combined with the beautiful setting. Things I hadn't seen up close before coming here included the 4 (including the Taisan liveried one under restoration in one of the sheds further down the page) E30 touring cars and a Foxbody drag car, but also I had never seen so many E28s and AE86s in one place.

Something about the contrast of crazy can design and banal grey plastic Micra interior works pretty well. I tried this drink recently after months of wondering what magical elixir could be contained within; it's just sweetened coconut juice with milk powder.

I hadn't really realised the k11 Micra was such a popular car to turn into a track style build. I don't know if Juicebox has been a primary influence on this trend, but the rounded, almost featureless, front end and simple styling make really fit the junior club racer sort of image

Crazy to see what are ostensibly the actual cars raced during the late 80's/early 90's pre super touring era BTCC. I'm writing almost a year later so I can't remember what series these are meant to have raced in; it looks like they're stickered up for a historic racing series, or something European so I'm not sure.

Fantastic shade of yellow. This and the red of the Autech one I've seen before make the car look so smooth and perfect.

Perfect car, slightly race inspired in a beautiful shade of red with the perfect gold wheels. There's a reason this is in the foreground.

Not a car I've seen modified, or even seen full stop, for a very long time. You would barely see the normal hatchback one now, but the saloon is way more uncommon. It's really quite tastefully done, I can see what sort of thing they're going for.

The car is cool as hell but the wheels really make it - sort of an Alfa style with a bit more of a drag look? Works whatever it is.

Tiny carbon mirrors are perfect.

If the touring cars at the front weren't enough of a signal, coming into this section made it so obvious that this show attracts cars on a completely different level.

Black is the best colour for any car.

Even the way these engine bays look is so much cooler than a normal car - a big carbn plenum always helps.

Probably an extremely tame build by US standards, but menacing compared to the smoother Euro and JDM stuff we're used to.

This, the Supra font, and the Silvia font are all top tier.

SE bumper superiority.

This thing looks like so much fun. Not sure what the Slalom badge means for the options on the car.

What a crazy thing to find in a shed in England. I guess not if you know about this stuff, but I had no idea.

An insane quality of cars, spread over a massive site that's interesting in it's own right. Think the museum fatigue had set in by the end of the day and taking in any more was impossible.