“We kick off the awards judged at the show with easily the most difficult category to decide, the Most Interesting Selection of Cars.  There was a spectacular variety of machinery to choose from around the halls, such as Bexhill 100 Motoring Club’s group, which featured a replica of the Serpollet ‘Easter Egg’ steamer – built for the centenary of the town’s famous race – while the Alvis Owner Club presented its range of motors either side of a Scorpion tank. But both were shaded by a remarkable group of rarities that included a Bond Minicar MkA, a Scootacar and a Zündapp Janus – and when was the last time that you saw all of those together? Most Interesting Selection of Cars goes to that fantastic group from the National MicroCar Rally.”

[Simon Taylor is a former chairman of Haymarket Magazines, who launched What Car? and was the youngest editor of Autosport. He was BBC Radio’s F1 correspondent for 20 years and has been the TV commentator for every Goodwood Revival meeting. Simon is Editor at Large of Classic & Sports Car, for which he writes the Full Throttle column.]

This year's stand had eleven microcars on display.

Reading clockwise from the front, in the picture above:

gg   Berkeley T60
gg   Messerschmitt KR200
gg   Peel Trident
gg   Scootacar
gg   Bond Minicar Mark A
gc   Nobel 200
gg   Frisky Family Three
gg   Bond Bug
gg   Zundapp Janus
gc   Goggomobil Coupe
gg   Peel P50