SUNDAY SCRAMBLE! great cars at Bicester Heritage April 2023

"SUNDAY SCRAMBLE!" at Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire is the subject of this Old Classic Car video. Having attended the Scramble back in January, we were confident that there'd be a great turnout of classic cars at this very popular car event, held in April 2023. Less predictable though was the weather forecast yet, somehow, the anticipated rain stayed away and a very enjoyable (dry) day was had.
Bicester Heritage is situated at the former RAF Bicester airfield. Given that this particular Sunday Scramble! was also St. George's Day, and my grandfather of the same name was based here in the late 1930s/early 1940s, it seemed highly appropriate to re-unite his original WW2 RAF dog tags (id tags) with the airfield, if only for a few hours, and record the moment.
Some amazing cars turned up, both in the central display areas in and around the preserved wartime buildings, and also outside in the public forward parking areas, reserved for any interesting old cars that arrived throughout the day. Vintage cars, classic cars, and modern supercars rubbed wheelnuts across the Bicester site, although this being a classic car channel I focus mainly on the older cars in this Bicester Sunday Scramble video.
I'll include a link to the video I uploaded of January's meeting at the end of this one, together they give a broad overview of what you might typically find at a Sunday Scramble in future.
Highlights include a BMW 2002 turbo, Mk2 Ford Zephyrs and a Raymond Mays-tweaked Zodiac, Matra Djet, Standard Vanguard Phase 1, a very unusual Opel Kadett, a variety of pre-war Rileys, vintage H.E. tourer, Aston DB4 in the public car park, the incredible Bedford mobile cinema, Austin 8 Tilly from WW2, several Bristols including a pair of 400s, a super-original Jaguar Mk2 in grey, a home-built Ford 100E pickup conversion, an immaculate Leyland Princess 2200HLS, a six-wheeled Hustler, a signwritten Morris LD van, and a vast, patina-blessed, Mercury station wagon of the 1950s, to pick out just a few.
So all in all, a great day out. Check out the Bicester Heritage site for future Sunday Scramble dates, entry is by advanced ticket only.
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[aslandama]

Many thanks for another wonderful show and upload.

[GJ]

I, m amazed at your knowledge of cars british and foreign, you clearly love classic cars and make a lot of people happy with these videos, Great stuff!

[WDIESEL]

really truly thank you for this video, i enjoyed ever second.

[alanorion]

Hi My favourite has to be the 1/4 scale Aston Martin bing driven away at nearly the end of the video. This would definitely fit my Garage. Seriously Rick another excellent video of just the correct length. .

[WilliamBHickock-kjyy]

How could anyone butcher an E Type like that, especially with an electric motor!!!Never apologize for the length of video, the content is worth every second!! We can always go to pause. Great video, cheers from the USA!!

[Vince_uk]

My 2002Ti was the exact same orange colour, wish I had kept it now. An excellent video a lot of work getting it ready I think. Taking the dog tags is a lovely gesture RJ. And yes I did watch it all.

[lanceleader]

Excellent video. I was with you all the way.

[jeffking]

I like the little Panhard. Pretty rare and definitely unusual cars.
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[bobspeller]

I Think the four headlight version of the Alvis were TE21 and TF21 models. The Bicester Scramble meeting are great fun with lots of great cars, Cheers Bob

[craigsibley]

Nice selection once again 👍👍👍 be good to see the lorries next week...

[leeaw]

My friends Red Mr2, a local car right at the end. Lovely to see the Matra rarity there. A stunning rene Bonnet D'jet!

[whitespider]

I have to agree about the Mk.1 Jaguar, absolutely stunning, my favourite ever car closely followed by the Mk.2. Really enjoy these videos, look forward to many more, especially the ones when you are fettling your old classics.

[davidallum]

Thanks for another ( long) video you covered some great cars. My favourite would have to be the Marina estate I think also the 100e pickup was rather novel.

[davidchandler]

On the subject of the length of video. I really like your long videos. People can always stop the video and start it again later. So please keep on doing them.

[johnhrichak]

Ahhh, a civilized channel at last! Sunday and live races. I made the mistake of correcting an error stated in the chat and received what I think is an insult. It is apparently a parochial British insult and being American it made no sense to me. I am sure if I offered the same information on this channel it would receive a polar response! I thoroughly enjoy your videos sir and you have greatly expanded my feeble knowledge of the British automobile. Thank you sir!

[Roger.Coleman]

Great and varied content as usual Rick, the Rolls towards the end is a 1921 Silver Ghost, so now 102 years old !.The Ghost was in production from 1907 to 1924 so this is quite a late model.The ' baby ' 20h.p model came out in 1922 and was the first to adopt front wheel brakes and the only Rolls ( UK made ) model to use horizontal radiator shutters .This car was registered in Manchester so not far from where it was built in Derby !.

[johndavey]

Terrific meeting . This is when l wished l didn't live in Devon ! Incidently, you were right in that the 1.6 was wearing 1.9 wheels . The 2002 turbo must have been a replica as they were, as far as l know, only built in LHD . Thanks .

[ratty]

Another wonderful video, Having seen one of my old Warwick Wright Chiswick 205 GTI demonstrator’s (J443KOY) in an earlier vid, you then come across F804OLD which was a car I sold when I first joined the dealership. You’re quite right, it’s fitted with the 1.9 spec alloys which was a popular upgrade with owners but not a factory option on the 1.6’s. At that point was a newbie to the dealership which was a large factory owned Peugeot dealer on Chiswick roundabout in West London, I was given a base spec 309 XE, F900 OLD fortunately I sold it pretty quickly a 205 XS which was superb little car, Thanks for another terrific vid.

[colinmuddell]

A super video Richard - what a huge variety of interesting cars! I just wish we could see them on the roads instead of the characterless modern stuff. Any idea what the mean-sounding car with only half a body at 0:49/50 is?