(16 Jul 2018, 6:56 am)Andreos1 wrote I'm sure the whole Whitley Bay rally thing has been discussed in the past. Specifically about the merits of advertising it as vintage, but filling it full of modern stock.

Whatever the intentions of the organisers, if I saw a vintage rally advertised, I would expect to see vintage vehicles. 
Just as if I saw a Chinese restaurant advertised, I would expect Chinese food. Maybe apart from the odd exception to cater for other tastes, like omelette.
But that wouldn't be of interest to me. I can get omelette anywhere.

If the organisers were to take out the word vintage from their advertising, I reckon it is a quick fix to an annual problem.

But what's the problem at the North East Bus & Coach Show (Spillers Wharf, formally Metrocentre) where the same moans exist? No references to 'vintage', 'classic', 'preserved' etc, yet the same folks still complain about too many buses of the modern variety.

As I made reference to before, the preserved vehicles in the North East are getting younger and younger in age. This in my view isn't a bad thing - we're managing to preserve more modern parts of history which is equally as important as the older parts of history, and in 20 years time I think enthusiasts will be glad that these have been saved - but we've got a few Volvo B10BLEs in preservation now, we've got Lee's MPD that's bound to make an appearance at rallies soon, an SPD, various S-reg Olympians... But some of these aren't really 'vintage' nor 'classic' - are we going to refuse entry to (or moan and twist about) these buses? The answer should be 'of course not'.