Are these the UK’s most ‘unexceptional’, ordinary cars?

Welcome to the most ‘unexceptional’ cars in the United Kingdom. Last weekend saw Hagerty’s annual ‘Festival of the Unexceptional’ which, as the well-trodden axiom goes, pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Which means it is a festival of… actually very ordinary tin. Regular, humdrum tin. The kind of tin you grew up with, or around, that once populated UK roads and now populates nothing more than your rose-tinted memory.

So, all hail regular cars! Top Gear’s correspondent was on hand to savour a field of unimaginable reasonableness and came away thrilled; not because they were exciting, but because he hadn’t seen such tin in years. And despite being relatively ‘cheap’ cars, their owners lavished as much care over them as they would on something worth much, much more.

Indeed, the owners and their stories were just as interesting as the cars. Because an old car only becomes a classic when it’s carrying a few stories under its bonnet.

Have a flick through these pics which offer but a flavour of a day celebrating the truly unremarkable.

Photography: Andy Franklin