The SWETTENHAM ARMS car meet - Jaguar XJ8 test

The Swettenham Arms car meet began some years ago as a meet-up for vintage and classic car enthusiasts, and has now grown into a gathering for all car enthusiasts regardless of their car's age.
Not having visited the Swettenham Arms in a few years, we headed over for another visit, this time in the recently-purchased Jaguar XJ8 - as a bit of a test run as much as anything. The pub is located down leafy Cheshire lanes not too far from the famous Jodrell Bank radio telescope.
It was an interesting evening with many fine old cars in attendance, including a pre-war Humber, Standard 10, Daimler V8 250, Vauxhall Cavalier Mk2, Trabant, and a replica of a 1960's Lola.
The trip over in our 2002 Jaguar XJ8 (X308 shape) saw us drive by the garage where I first found it and, amazingly, there's another XJ8 in there now. I wonder what's happening with that one!?
We hope to visit this evening car meet in leafy Cheshire again in future, so keep an eye on this, the Old Classic Car channel, for future instalments.
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[@philipgallagher3234]

That Silvia was gorgeous and, as you say so rare. A bit of an affordable but proper Grand Tourer, comfy, fast and plenty of room. How have they all disappeared!!

[@davidconnell1321]

Hi, I'm the owner of the Standard 10. Thanks for the inclusion in your video, thoroughly enjoyed this and now follow your channel! Cheers

[@jakmoan]

It’s a beauty

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Hi, it was great to see the 10! thanks for watching and subbing

[@kstewart3657]

I bought a 1956 Standard 10 in 1964 for the princely sum of £124. My first car and the same colour as yours. I loved it but sadly wrote it off a year later when I skidded into a concrete fence in a rainstorm. The registration number is from Dundee.

[@ricksampson6780]

Thanks Rick, the gnarly black Shelby Cobra is a most intimidating beast!

[@stephenricketts7764]

That seemed to be a well attended meeting in nice surroundings, liked the church too. It was good to see the two Minis side by side and their evolution. The Standard 10 was a very nice example and a credit to the owner. The Daimler was well preserved too. Good to see the Lola again and of course hear it! I must give a mention to the Humber, lovely car and lovely colour. Thanks for the video Rick, the Jaguar XJ8 seems to be fine and you could buy the other one for a 'His & Her's' to make Mrs OCC happy even if she would prefer the Mercedes! :-) 👍👍

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Ha I think one middle-aged Jag is quite enough ...! Thanks for watching

[@robertsmith9810]

I could imagine Winston Churchill complete with top hat sitting in the back of the 1933HUMBER

[@rickyprice7586]

Great video love the minis

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks 👍

[@louisboshoff9142]

Quite a laugh Rick, after your comment about the the missing steering wheel on the Sylvia. And your Dad using a vice-grip on the steering column to steer a car being towed home. Here in South Africa we have a mini bus taxi industry. Taxis have been stopped at checkpoints, full of passengers with a vice grip on the steering column!

[@NigelStapley-b5x]

My old man claimed that back in the 1930s, he drove a car (either a Ford or a Morris) from Ruthin to Wrexham, steering with a stilson wrench. If you look at a map of the A525 in that area, you'll see that that would have taken him through the Nant Y Garth Pass, which is not somewhere you'd want to have iffy steering to go through (so much so that, just a few years ago, I had a work colleague who would never drive that way even with a steering wheel; he used to say that - no matter his speed or the road conditions - he always felt that the car was sliding out from under him. He felt much safer going along the back country lanes with grass growing up the middle of them!)

[@RobertGott-c3f]

Great video and meet Enjoyed 😊😊😊 thank you😮😊

[@helenlloyd6564]

There aren't many classic car shows or car meets here where I live. Though i am a car nut/petrolhead. I own a 1999 Lexus 300gs, 2000 XJ8 and a 1970 Bentley T1. I love old cars from many manufacturers especially British of all decades. There are a few but very few from different countries. The Mercedes-Benz blue/red roof convertible would be one on my wish list and a Volvo Amazon and various Mustangs. Each and every classic from a basic to the most luxurious have character. It can't be said of todays square boring lifeless tin boxes.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

T1 eh? nice ...!

[@petersmith4455]

hi Rick. love the inspector Morse Jag, great video,

[@Vince_uk]

Looks a nice meet RJ with some interesting cars. The Standard 10 is an absolute gem. Two wonderful Minis and Mercs and the Daimler is to die for. The XJ 8 seems to be going well and looks good. I had a slight knock at the front on my S Class and neither I nor the garage could find it despite a few intensive searches and road tests. It didn't affect the driving and I know it sounds strange but it has now disappeared.I put it down to lack of use. I was in Luebeck in 1989 , 9 kms from what was the East German border, when the wall came down and we were inundated with noisy and heavily polluting Trabants, hundreds of the things and there were disgustingly noisy and turned the air blue with their exhuast fumes. We used to call them "hundehutte", dog kennel. Many were customised is the strangest of ways.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks, yes a popular meet, more on the XJ soon ... I quite like Trabbies but I'm not sure I'd want to be around an influx of them!! :)

[@russellmalone3532]

Some bloody lovely cars ❤. Grown up with old Jags. Saw a Mk8 on the A1 yesterday. Absolutely great

[@colinmuddell9672]

Would love to know more about that super, stately Humber. Very bucolic end to the video with birdsong in the background. I notice your videos are recently becoming more artistic! And the scene of the Jag coming up to the T juction has shades of 'Harry's Garage'!

[@jeffking4176]

Cool little gathering. 21:57 - the Porsche is about the same color as my 2005 Chevy Colorado X-TREME. 📻🙂

[@jeffking4176]

23:28 - white Mercury, yes , Hydraulics, but, there has been a trend, especially on trucks, to drop the rear end and raise the front. A couple of states have banned them , because of [ obvious] sight problems. Cannot see directly in front of the vehicle. More states have bills waiting to become laws. 📻🙂

[@picnz1]

Seat backs on your Jag im referring to

[@peterowen4456]

The Swettenham Arms is in a lovely spot. Pub next to the Church like in all proper English villages. Great video - must get along there one day.

[@tomday7309]

That was a nice little meet with lots of interesting cars. I love the Lola recreation. I don't know what was powering it, but I was behind a McLaren M8E at a Canam race in 1972 when it was started without me knowing it and my ears rang for an hour afterwards. I'm sure the Lola was required to have some kind of muffler these days, but it still sounded great. I worked with a guy from Poland originally that loved those Trabants. He said they were simple to work on so I guess that was a statement on its reliability? Thanks again for posting this.

[@jmtubbs1639]

Had my first drink in a pub there. Easter Monday 1961. That car park was still a farmyard.

[@paulhelman2376]

The turn out for these events is certainly impressive. On of your descriptive words has an entirely different connotation down our way.

[@roberttaylor6295]

Another great meet with some interesting moderns plus the fantastic Humber from time os yore! Thank you!

[@jakejake722]

Love these cars

[@picnz1]

What an amazing presentation glad I'm glad i switched the goggle box on Well done i was suprised to see the blue mini with factory tinted windows lovely. Its a lazy 3.5deg @6.43am Sunday. Finally do the rear seat backs lay forward to provide emergency sleep on long journeys oh well best be polly and get me brekky super top flight show bravo from David in NZ

[@oldclassiccarUK]

I suspect the rear seats don't do that! thanks for watching

[@jimc4731]

The chrome/stainless trim around your Jag windows, that’s all that’s missing IMHO. Good show, keep up the work! JIM ❤

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for checking this one out, the matt black trim is standard on the "sportier" variants and I prefer it to the slightly chintzy chrome/stainless on the other models, but it's really just a personal taste kind of thing :)

[@glynluff2595]

I had a very early 10 hp Standard which had a non opening boot as standard. It was on the original registration document so what the history was I don’t know. The engine had not been changed so there was possibly some odd reason in production to account for it.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Very interesting, thanks for watching

[@jakmoan]

So you didn’t trust the yellow peril for this journey ? 😄. Future plant pot 🌹💐🌸🌺🍀

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Ha just a test drive for XJ, plus we all went to this one so the MX-5 might have been a bit too cosy!

[@McGrory69]

The state of that MG just proves classics shouldn't be exempt from MOTs.

[@allanarmstrong4333]

Nice to see local evening car meets. The x308 looking good. Did you have to put new tyres on. I remember it was not on the road for a while. My x300 , was off the road for thirteen years. The tyres were dated 2007. So new rubber soon.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

The tyres are fine, at the moment my priority is to get all the running side of things A1 without pouring lots of £ into the rest for now

[@johndavey72]

What a lovely place to visit and with some special cars indeed ! Thanks Richard

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Indeed, we'll be back!

[@nigef334]

Sadly it's not what it once was, what used to be a great classic car meet is now full of lowered modded 90s shitboxes. I won't be back.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Wellll there was enough interesting stuff for us to make the drive over worthwhile, I just ignore things that don't float my boat. Thanks for watching.