DREAM MACHINE: A youngster admires an old motorbike.

HAMPSHIRE'S shrine to British motoring gained dozens of new exhibits at the weekend.

But the classic cars parked outside Palace House, Beaulieu, were only temporary additions to the vintage vehicles on show at the National Motor Museum.

Beaulieu was the setting for a spring auto jumble that attracted thousands of car-crazy bargain hunters, including a large number of foreign visitors.

Stallholders sold anything and everything to do with the world of motoring.

But it was the lovingly restored col-lection of old cars and vans on display at the event that attracted most of the admiring glances.

Exhibitors included Ray and Pam Kitcher, of Ashley, New Milton, who own a 1934 Morris Minor. It was first registered in Shropshire in 1934 - the last year in which pre-war Morris Minors were produced.

The 8hp car was derelict in 1972 when it was rescued from an orchard in Newbury, where it had lain since 1958. It was restored using a body and engine from a two-seat tourer and was first used by Mr and Mrs Kitcher in 1988.

Pensioner Monty Theobald, of Droxford, displayed a 1937 Riley Monaco.

Fellow enthusiast Barry Burnage exhibited a 1955 Aceca which was dri-ven by Tommy Clarke in the 1956 Monte Carlo Rally, finishing fourth in class. Other vehicles on show at the auto-jumble included a 1953 British Microcar - one of only six electrics to be built between 1952 and 1957.

Visitors were also able to admire the first production model of the Vanden Plas Princess.

A 1979 Ford Transit van on display had only one previous owner - a doctor who used it as a hay store for his horses.

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