Festival of Slowth - 2024 - Wales

[@Kordziel]

The whole world needs a festival of slowth

[@Biokemist-o3k]

I absolutely agree. I am going to try and arrange an event like this in the Northeast...I know it would probably do better in Florida but I am not moving back any time soon...

[@patrickbodine1300]

Absolutely no plastic in sight. No electronics needed/wanted. BRILLIANT!!!

[@stejer211]

That's because those weren't invented yet.

[@Tocsin-Bang]

@stejer211 actually several plastics were available when these vehicles were built, including Parkesine & celluloid (1820s), cellulose nitrate (1880s), Bakelite (1907).

[@stejer211]

@@Tocsin-Bang So what you wanted to say is that the OP is wrong?

[@stephen300o6]

They wouldn't go far without a spark.

[@TheGrimStoic]

its never been more critically important to be silly, to be non-conforming - i salute all pursuers of silliness as defenders of our defiance and all such pursuits as humanity's last huzzahs

[@brutusriverchip]

let me know when you learn to wipe your ass

[@stejer211]

What's silly or non-conforming about these antique cars?

[@TheGrimStoic]

@stejer211 nothing... if you're blind

[@stejer211]

@@TheGrimStoic Tsk tsk, you have no sense of history ;)

[@TheGrimStoic]

@stejer211 what do you think i was imploring folk to do in my post... Tsk tsk, you have no sense of the ironic figurative =3

[@mrcomenttoe2009]

I hope these vehicles run forever Thank you folks for taking care of these wonderful machines 👍 greetings all the way from California

[@nigelcarren]

This is ridiculous, I love it! 🏆 Best wishes from a now homesick Englishman making armour in a French forest. ⚒️🇬🇧⚒️

[@bobmcl2406]

What a delightful collection of what must rightly be called "contraptions". Thank you for posting this. Cheers from Canada.

[@johnbastille5483]

Their owners/operators are a delightful collection of "slightly bent" eccentrics...wonderful!

[@bobmcl2406]

@@johnbastille5483 I have heard it said that in North America, we lock up our eccentrics; in Britain, they revere them!

[@oldwobble916]

This is a lot better than the Festival of Speed at Goodwood. No shouting commentators, suppressing the sound of the engines. It's amazing, how many of these contraptions still exists. The lawn mower race was hilarious.

[@Alex462047]

You know, I reckon each has it's good points. Going fast can be just as enjoyable as going slow, as long as you know how to do both without excess. Schumacher had it right - fast on the track, drove like a Grandad on public roads. It's a pity he had that accident, but no life well lived is without it's risks, and I think he got the best out of everything.

[@Karebear9001]

Absolutely adorable! Cheers to all participants and observers! Keep the fun in life. ❤

[@NarrowPathFarm707]

I must be an "old soul", I love this stuff!

[@KlaasKamminga]

Lovely! i wish I was there... Thanks for sharing!

[@knifeswitch5973]

I really had an off day. Came home to this on my feed and it put me right with the world. Thankyou

[@austinswallow]

That looked like a LOT of FUN, some lovely machines there, thanks for sharing.

[@jameswhite6589]

Absolutely brilliant lots of fun need more of this all over ..........

[@derMenix]

Phantastisch 🤩 So viel Freude und Spaß 👍👍👍

[@fontana6394]

What a fabulous selection of contraptions!!!!! I love them 😀😀

[@keithbarker-e4q]

Switched over from Goodwood bike racing, not disappointed. Lovely stuff. Thank you. keith

[@normg2242]

Now THIS is original and wonderfully quirky!!! 👍👍👍

[@portnuefflyer]

Best with the volume cranked up, wonderful! The lawn mower race, with the winner crouching down for less aero drag (at 4 mph) was great.

[@charlie70605]

This may be the best reason to move to Wales. What an adorable pack of Phools.

[@RuthGerber-rw5rz]

Thank you soo much for giving us the chance to watch after an accident I'm in a wheelchair watching from Switzerland remembering students time in Wales

[@jesseamaya4413]

This sure looks like an absolute hoot! We need more like this.

[@MarkMcCluney]

That looks like great fun. Thanks for sharing.

[@goldcountryruss7035]

In the late 1950's or so, I used to drive my grandfather's 1908 Maxwell around his neighborhood. Nobody cared that I didn't yet have a driver's license, and the car certainly wasn't insured. Great memories.

[@vekvek4319]

Wonderful, beautifully eccentric. We need more please.

[@russellharding3371]

What a brilliant idea 😂 Well done to all ! Greetings from South Australia 👋 😊

[@paulaspinall919]

Fabulous. I would rarely travel much distance to see a car show, but this is so much fun. I would love to see these wonderful vehicles and their owners.

[@RobertBohnen]

WOW! Those people really know how to PARTY!! Looks like a whole lot of FUN! And I LOVE the lawnmower race. Very creative! Thank you!

[@stefanhennig]

It even had kind of a photo finish, so close... ❤

[@adienowed6366]

Bet most of them are more fun to drive than todays souless offerings and not a load of electronic tomfoolery in sight.

[@lanmastersassistant659]

thankyou so much for the footage once again nick, I love seeing this event every year

[@Trickynickymarts]

Great fun and what a selection!

[@jimwhittemore1610]

Fantastic, thanks so much!

[@onazram1]

This is just hilarious, I love it!!

[@steby123]

Looks like great good fun !!!!!!!

[@emma.j.nation]

That was joyous!

[@woots2621]

Worthy of a parade lap at Goodwood!

[@nirgunapa56]

Just love this...

[@okgo8315]

Absolutely brilliant and love it. These machines look early 1900s, when it was revolutionary to move like that. Applause to you all... thanks✌️🇬🇧

[@simonbertioli4696]

Wow, what a fun day... True British traditions... Lovely machines... Lovely people who care... Great video. Thanks to all those smiles.

[@kaykiekid]

❤️😃💕 Absolutely lovely! I'm from NJ, USA 🇺🇸 and I wish I was there! Thanks for the fun! 🇬🇧

[@stephenedwards1751]

Brilliant, looks like great fun, reminds me of my first car, every journey was an adventure, never sure if I would get to my destination.

[@user-IveVandewalle]

Brilliant footage! Well done Nick! Thx! ;-)

[@ianoliver3879]

Lovely stuff. Thank you.

[@k8zhd]

Beautiful and wonderful and silly! I would SO like to attend such an event. I don't think there's anything like this in the US, though we do have a few microcar get-togethers. They are fun and silly too, but not at the level of these ancient cyclecars. And power lawnmowers!

[@stephencrowther524]

What’s silly about it ?

[@SPCLPONY]

​@@stephencrowther524 Silly, meaning fun, happy, and carefree. It wasn't meant as derogatory.

[@brutusriverchip]

@@stephencrowther524 i think he meant to say "willy" cuz mine is hard and long!

[@marksommers6764]

@@brutusriverchip👈NOT silly , simply childish

[@cook5381]

Lovely. We live in the same world Nick! Long may it continue.....

[@nathangoshawk]

Thank you for this wonderful video. So good to see some of these ephemeral vehicles still going strong(ish).

[@davidholmgren659]

Wonderful machines and what lovely people! Great video.

[@davidwelch6796]

Each year when I see a video of the annual 'Festival of Slowth' it reaffirms my joy of living in this sceptred isle.

[@didcotman]

You speak for us all

[@givemespace2742]

What a collection of ingenious minimalism 😊

[@johnneedy3164]

Yall have a neat car club 😊

[@Biokemist-o3k]

Such an incredible event!!!...Living here in the States I definitely want to organize one of these Festivalss. Thank you for making the video and sharing it with us....I love the engineering of all the prewar cycle cars!!!

[@cook5381]

Marvellous as always!

[@allanegleston4931]

some of these machines sound like me when i wake up!!!! lovely autos .

[@topefisher1]

I am pleased to see Mark Walker made it there. I was chatting to him at Mallory Park as he was setting off to drive to the Slowth. He thought it might be a 6 plus hour journey. No trailers or transporters for him 😮😅😂😅😂

[@roberthirons4873]

Gosh, makes a GN look powerful👍

[@steveclark5357]

I love this😆

[@jonaldo697]

Esse é o privilégio de quem consegue ter uma velhice digna e tranquila .Aqui no Brasil estão nos tirando tudo de nós e uma velhice com dignidade tá sendo um sonho inalcançável para a grande maioria de nós.

[@marksommers6764]

Sad to hEAR this but make it your own !

[@doubidoubane]

Superbe!!!!

[@redsorgum]

Greetings from Southern California. This is so cool. ✌️

[@blacksquirrel4008]

I believe the tricycle that needed two people to walk alongside it probably won.

[@theclocker7406]

These are my favourite types of cars of all time, just love it. I'd so love to have a go at driving one of these or owning one even, sadly Canada has nothing like this :( The lawnmower racing is so much fun too! Gloriously wonderful in both spirit and endeavour.

[@philthycat1408]

How things could be, “sigh”.

[@colvinator1611]

Fantastic ! It's very encouraging to see so many younger people there. Thanks a lot. I'm off to figure out ways to slow my Morris minor and Austin Cambridge down.

[@andrewcarr3650]

Bloody marvellous!

[@enterBJ40]

Oh man...what a lovely activity! Would love to join them .

[@romemancer7905]

Love the old chug chug engines...A window into a much slower and friendlier past !

[@udojahn8538]

Lost technical permission for my 25 year old Rusty and would be glad to have one of these.

[@ianpaterson5000]

A Le Mans start for lawn mowers and a great collection of odd cars. English eccentricity at its best.

[@roymills9695]

No it's in WALES, ENGLISH INDEED. You FOOL.🤬🤬🤬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍💩

[@Freight_Train]

The guy on the mower trying to get aerodynamically low. Perfect.

[@Jims2517]

This makes me even prouder to be part Welsh!

[@CORYJOHNM]

I didn't know I had a people. These are definitely my preferred folks.

[@MatJ0seph]

And now for something completely different‼️

[@micbrenoel5459]

So wonderful. Thank you

[@brutusriverchip]

please be patient as i force my member into u

[@adambeck8180]

Looks really fun!

[@jameswoolcock6302]

Absolutely wonderful. My first car as a teenager was a Morgan F4, far too powerful for this party! But I have understood the place these machines fulfilled. Tom Rolt had a GN for some years. As Sam Clutton said, or something like it in his book, whetever it was called, Morgan is here to represent the multiude of cycle cars, of whih it was premintly the best! Great fun.

[@cal_n_hob]

Great stuff, hope you keep showing these old machines.

[@andrewwilson6085]

Excellent! Good fun, and wonderful old vehicles. Hope the greenies and safety nuts don't spoil it

[@JeffW77]

This is LOONY. And WONDERFUL!!!

[@brutusriverchip]

want to see it?

[@ericeinar]

Love the antiques!

[@garyroth2764]

And not 1 electric in the bunch. How refreshing! Compared to modern auto combat on the oval or road, this has to be a whole lot more fun and certainly easier on the checkbook as well. The Welsh Festival of Slowth needs to be cloned anywhere there are roads and wheels. That's all we need. Love it!!!

[@adrianlane4256]

You need to be careful how you judge things, electric cars were a front runner in the early days with Royce of Rolls Royce predicting they were the future. So its feasible veteran EV’s would be very much at home here.

[@Gloucesteroldspot]

@@adrianlane4256 Wasn't the first land speed record set with an electric car?

[@davidwilliams1383]

​@@Gloucesteroldspot1903 in a French Jeantaud.

[@someonelse5847]

What I found most adorable is the vareity of girls/ladys/women that, when it isn't dead serious, finds joy in old machines. Let's just tinker and have fun, and help each other

[@ВиталийОрлов-о3м]

Каких то решений инженерной мысли автомобилестроения не увидишь это хорошо показывают миру какие были автомобили прошлого

[@jackpijjin4088]

Oh goodness. I love this so much- it wouldn't be possible, or feasible at least, for me to join, but at the moment I'm rebuilding a 1926 Model T. So excited hear it putter along when I'm done.

[@misscrabstick]

Utterly brilliant.

[@Lakeside1943]

Ohh....so English (or Welsh)....combining the love of old machinery with lots of fun! Heartwarming !

[@albatros44444]

Sooo funny! I love these people who have fun together. Together, not against each other! And a wonderful landscape with old little villages!

[@porscha901]

Well done to all

[@Bayan1905]

I was born in 1976 here in the US and the old cars, engines, etc. fascinate me, always have. I love going to see what few old working mills we have here. One that makes wooden rakes to this day, has a Model T Ford engine power the saws and the dowel making machine is an old Hit N Miss engine, both original to the place. If you were to give me a choice between an all original Model T Ford and a new Ferrari, I'm taking the Ford because to me, there's more of a story to tell with that and I would love to say I had and drove one.

[@littlemark01]

Wonderful!!!

[@gafrers]

So cool and interesting

[@dominiquefritsch9718]

tout simplement magnifique belle course de tondeuse bravo a tous les pilotes

[@paulturton6481]

So great to see these wonderful machines in action. Shame as an Automobile subscriber there was only minimal coverage this year 😢

[@robinwells8879]

We just don’t see enough pith helmets…or slowth these days. Gawd bless you all. ❤

[@Fildefer17]

It must have smelled of castor oil. I also see a lot of ‘white hairs’, just a little less old than these vehicles. The lawnmower race is worth its weight in peanuts! Thank you for these images of a bygone era !!

[@mikethespike7579]

This looks like a lot of fun. I've thought of building a cyclecar using the engine, drive and back wheel of a Honda 125cc scooter. All I'd need to do is design and build two front wheels, steering and somewhere to sit.

[@las10plagas]

funny how old cars are built without even considering the idea one could crash a car. most cars look like you would fall out your seat, if you hit a bump. but I love these cars :)

[@mucioluizmartinsjr.2334]

At 0:49 a special moment between the grandfather and his grandson.

[@kristianturner-zq2fm]

British eccentricity at it's finest

[@Alex462047]

What a marvellous rally! Great stuff! I reckon I might like to have a go at building something like that. 👍

[@ToolsAreToys]

It is a great dream of mine to one day participate in this event! Please keep the dream alive, I will be there some day!

[@caroludo4161]

small is beautyfull