This year saw us allocated a smaller stand than we are used to, (3 cars). We provisionally agreed a theme of first & last but until we had contacted the owners we could not confirm, thankfully Alan Earl MB01 and Graeme Conway MB 78 were both delighted to bring their cars to the NEC and for them to be on display for the three days. I must say that both cars were stunning, I do love the Sapphire Pearl Green Colour and Graeme's car well, what to say it's a stunning example of the marque.

Centre stage was Bruce's wonderful Porsche marine blue car and with that stunning interior, Bruce kindly left the door open and we lost count of how many people looked in and took photos. Bruce also produced a special large banner to mark our stand theme (see pics) and also individual car plaques mounted on individual mounts and adjacent to each car. (these were very well received and many people read the data on the plaques over the three days).

Some special pictures include:

• Alan Earl MB01 with Dennis Nursey and Kohji Nakauchi
• The 11.00 remembrance 2 minutes silence with Bruce's car covered and everyone wearing poppies.
• All three owners with their cars, Alan Earl, Bruce Beauchamp and Graeme Conway. (Thank you all).

The pictures tell the story of a very busy three days.

Now that we have all started to recover from sore feet & back ache, I would like to thank the following people. Bruce who is not only responsible for organising the event, he also designs and creates the stand (incredibly the whole stand fitted easily into his MB with NO trailer. Next is Alan Earl and Greame Conway for bringing their lovely cars and helping on the stand over the weekend, Will and Mairi who drove down and back to Moray and stayed on the stand over the three days. Finally, George and Alan Cavendish Tribe who both helped on the stand over the three days.

We would all like to thank the MB owners both existing, future and marque enthusiasts for visiting us on the stand for a good chin-wag and to catch up generally. You all made it yet another incredibly successful event in spite of the fact that we didn't have any cars to sell!!