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	Victory Wheelers' Rod & Custom Car Show 2001 Thorney Island, Portsmouth, England 15 July 2001
	We turned up on the Sunday morning of the weekend show, taking almost 45 minutes to find the place (it's a Ministry of Defense 'island' and we had to pass through a checkpoint before we even found the first sign that we were in the right place). And once we'd located the show area we realised that 9:00am is a bit too early for most custom car owners, especially since they were still sleeping off the hangover from the previous night! So with most of the campers still in bed there were only a few other cars parked up in the show area. But by 12pm the old military airfield was packed with hot rods, custom cars, modified classics and all sorts of interesting old cars. First to catch my eye was this blown Rover V8 powered Minor that has been treated to a coupe roof chop and a full tubular chassis. I had a quick chat with the owner who would like me to point out that it is for sale for the minor (sic) sum of £5500. Next up is this kustom 'lead-sled' Minor, the roof has been chopped by a subtle 2 inches or so, fitted with rear wheel arch spats and smoothed and blended in headlight eyebrows. Going by the standard front tyres my guess is that this is probably running either a standard engine and box or maybe a 1275cc.