Saw you arrive in the `stang Adam and then disappear into the event. We arrived just after 8 with only a small queue but the confusion with the mashalls had already started. My brother came in behind me and was refused entry into the show ground in his Hemi 300c but i ended parking next to an estate Volvo Great day and an amazing amount of cars most of which ending up in improvised car parks out of the main show ground. I was told that it was only held at Dunsfold as it was their 40th anniversary but i dont know how true that is. Just goes to show though how large a venue is needed for this event
The A272 was a very scenic drive through un spoilt England
We arrived at 11.45 am and drove straight in
We were directed to park amongst everyday cars, so there were a lot of good cars dispersed in a mixed car park. This made viewing the show difficult because it was too large area to walk around.
If this show is held there again, they need to direct everyday cars around the perimeter and keep the show cars in the middle.
Another food van wouldn't go amiss
We did notice a lot left the show at around 3pm, leaving a hard core of better cars to view
Looks like the event has become too popular in a catastrophic way. From the SSR website:
The 40th Wheels Day was not as the Surrey Street Rodders would have wished.
We anticipated an attendance of 6,000 people which would have been an increase of 50% of our best ever Wheels Day.
Dunsfold Park has informed us the actual number on Good Friday was in excess of 18,000.
We are sorry for the problems this unprecedented turnout of vehicles caused.
At one point we did stop charging entry, in order to get as many people as possible on site and try to alleviate the 12 mile traffic jam.
Since the show a tirade of negative forum postings, abusive phone calls, emails and now accusations of inappropriate dealings with Wheels Day money have led to the following decision.
There will be no more Wheels Day in its present form.
The Surrey Street Rodders would like to thank everybody who has supported us in the past 40 years and helped so many charities; you are a credit to our hobby.
Very sad for them to be victims of their own success. It has always been marshalled by SSR volunteers but now has become far too big for this arrangement. It was mind blowing the amount of vehicles that attended.on Friday....they did not stop coming. Not sure of the way forward as it has come along way from when I first started going 30 years ago. Maybe it's just the world has changed from them days as I can't believe how rude and abusive the public can be. I'm sure everyone was doing their best to make it the best ever but the event was just over whelmed. Very sad indeed.
Blimey, three times as many as anticipated ! No wonder it was overwhelmed.
It's a real shame that the good people that organised it got so much grief and the causes they support will loose out. I paid my £15 online in the end direct to the charity, in fact I made it £20. If anyone else didn't pay, clear your conscience now ! Do the decent thing.
I guess we all have opinions on how it went down, and if you had sat in a jam for three hours and then got refused entry then yes you might feel a bit miffed. But verbal abuse, online threats etc shouldn't be tolerated, it's not a public body, it's a not for profit good deed day out. Three times as many people would have knocked most places not expecting that many for a burton.
I'm sure it will be reborn once the dust has settled a bit and a bit of calm has taken hold. Perhaps it's one of those events that needs to be in a specific venue that is used to handling that amount of people.
We arrived just after 8 with only a small queue but the confusion with the mashalls had already started. My brother came in behind me and was refused entry into the show ground in his Hemi 300c but i ended parking next to an estate Volvo 
Great day and an amazing amount of cars most of which ending up in improvised car parks out of the main show ground. I was told that it was only held at Dunsfold as it was their 40th anniversary but i dont know how true that is. Just goes to show though how large a venue is needed for this event
