A Good Old Fashion Tractor Rally (With some cars of course)

On Saturday we didn't have any plans and we ended up at an advertised "Vintage Rally" in the old Maghera High School field. Seeing how I'm not from around these parts I really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. The MIL thought it would probably be all tractors, but I was sure there had to be some cars there as well. What made us head that way in the first place was walking past our neighbors house and the wee girl bragging about how she was going to the rally to play on the bouncy castle and we thought that would be fun for O.

What it turned out to be was like any truck/car show you would see at the local Legion parking lot. Except a lot more tractors. There was a wee petting area, 3 food stalls, some really sketchy yard sale areas and lots of tractors and old cars. The cars were great! Triumphs, MG, old Model A's (that's a guess), original Minis and even a 1955 Austin-Healey (If you don't know me, I like cars). The local fire and rescue did a demonstration on what they do with a car wreck and ended up taking the whole top of the car off to get a woman out. They even made a boy pretend he was dead and took him out in a body bag. It was graphic, but drove the home across about drinking/texting and driving. We then walked around, took pictures and ordered a chip to share. The ironic part is that we ended up not letting O on the bouncy castle cause it cost even more money after we already paid to get in and she didn't seem fussed going on it.  There was also a Bonny Baby competition and we entered O in, but she didn't win, even though I thought she was the cutest.

It was a fun day, even though we took O home screaming cause we missed a nap and she tossed her dummy(pacifier) to the wind. It was really interesting to see what I would call Irish "rednecks" act exactly the same way as some Downeast potato farmer or lobsterman. Maybe that would be a good anthropological study: Rednecks Across Continents.
Here's some pics of the day.

The start of the Fire and Rescue demonstration

What the car looked at the end

I would just love one of those.

A Lotus Elise

A 1955 Austin-Healey. Beautiful car.

The tractors. There were loads more behind the shot.



1960's Morris Minor. This car was so cute.



Waiting to be judged in the Bonny Baby competition.

oíche mhaith