The ninth Sleaford Historic Car & Motorcycle Show took place on Saturday 1st September 2001 in glorious weather at its new venue at St George's, Westholme, Sleaford.

The College buildings provided a beautiful setting for the vehicles on display and the facilities provided by the College and the Town Council added to the features we were able to offer our visitors. People came from far and wide to show off their treasured bikes and cars and we had probably the biggest range of vehicles, in terms of ages, makes and histories, that the show has ever seen.

Beloved road vehicles of all decades from 1920 to the youngest vehicle, a 2000 Royal Enfield, were joined this year by at least two of the classic racers - the Ossa motorcycle belonging to, and raced by, Dave Fletcher and the Footwork Arrows Formula One car still in the livery as raced by Gianni Morbidelli in 1996, against the likes of Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher. This particular car is currently prepared and maintained by Weylock Racing of Ruskington and driven in the European BOSS series by its present owner, David Mercer. The car was brought to the show by the European Distributors of Red Line Synthetic Oil, based at Sewstern near Grantham, who joined our list of local sponsors for the various classes, Sleaford Chamber of Commerce, HSBC, John Peat Motors Ltd, Agrifurb, Cawsey Motors, A Hatcher & Sons, Simba and SAMS, whose support was very much appreciated by the organisers.

On site catering was provided by Bill's Burger Bar, Pizza Pit and Sleaford Youth Centre, who also organised an intriguing Treasure Trail around the site and in Town. The Treasure Trail was won by Mrs Spencer, of Giltbrook, Nottingham who received her prize at the presentation at the end of the day.

The Sleaford Navigation Trust Grand Draw also took place at the Show and one of the winners had bought her ticket just moments before the draw, so was still on site to claim her prize. The other winners are being contacted.

The dilemma of choosing the class trophy winners this year was avoided by the organisers who left the choice to the entrants themselves! Each entrant was issued with a voting slip to be completed during the morning and the organisers merely had to count the votes.

More difficult was the choice of Best in Show for the Bikes and Cars which was the Committee's responsibility. The trophies were all made by Ferg Phillips, of Martin Youth Bikers, and incorporated beautifully polished pistons - it became quite a talking point for the engineers amongst the crowd to identify the engines from which the pistons might have come!
A further trophy was donated by Jim Rollins who provided a full commentary for the day, pausing only to allow the Sleaford Concert Band youngsters to entertain the crowd with a selection of well known tunes.