CAR enthusiasts from Chippenham showed off their renovated Hot Rods at an annual car show in Bedfordshire last month.

An array of Hot Rods from across Europe, which are typically old, classic American cars with modified large engines, were gathered at the UK’s National Street Rod Association 27th Hot Rod Super Nationals in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire on Sunday, August 13.

The Super Nationals car show sees rodding enthusiasts showing off and admiring pre-1972 Hot Rods, Street Rods and Customs.

Tim Pratt, 64, of Orchard Road, Chippenham, and Jeremy Britton 57, of King Henry Drive, Chippenham, showed off their wonderful Ford Pop and Ford Coupe to other Hot Rod fanatics.

Both men visited Gary Gunn, of Loaded Gunn Racing, Dauntsey, who helped get the cars back on the road.

Mr Pratt has put a lot of money into his 1957 Ford Pop since he bought it as a project three years ago to make it road legal.

“It was too dangerous to drive” he explained.

“I bought it about three years ago but it wasn’t very road worthy. It was in that bad of a state when I bought it I had to get a guy from Corsham to collect it as it wasn’t road worthy.”

He had been after this specific car for a while, but he kept missing out on them, so when he saw one was for sale in Trowbridge, he took the plunge and bought it.

Thanks to Mr Gunn, the Ford Pop is now road worthy, and Mr Pratt will be shortly driving it around Chippenham.

He said: “It’s an old car on the road and hopefully I am going to have some fun with it.”

Mr Gunn said: “The Pop was in a very poor state. Tim had bought it for not a large amount of money, but it was in a dire state. Almost everything had to be changed. The only things we used were the main bit of the body, the chassis, the gear box and the engine. Everything else has to be replaced so it was a major build.”

Mr Britton, a sales executive for Eyedot Europe Ltd in Devises, bought his 1932 Ford Coupe two years ago, inspired by a yellow car of the same make that appeared in the 1973 film American Graffiti.

He began building it by scratch, and enlisted the help of Mr Gunn to finish it off.

At the Super Nationals car show, Mr Britton was presented with a Clarke tool chest by Illinois based Hot Rod builder and special guest, Voodoo Larry.

To find out more about the UK’s National Street Rod Association, please visit: http://www.nsra.org.uk/