HUNDREDS spent the afternoon at Cutteslowe Park today admiring dozens of lovingly-restored classic cars and motorbikes, and taking in the entertainment including music from Heart FM and fairground rides.

It was the 17th annual Oxford Mail Motor Show and attracting around 5,000 people

A fun-packed day included helicopter rides over Oxford, fairground and pony rides and a Renault Formula One car from its Enstone HQ.

Erin Clare, two, is pictured enjoying some fairground thrills while Mark Edwards, inset, shows off the glittering engine of his Sierra Cosworth.

Alan Hudson, of Coniston Avenue, Oxford, took his family on a helicopter ride.

His son Frank, four, said: “We got very close to the hospital and the bypass.

“But I liked the Formula One car much better.”