Great series of lovely classic cars, Larry. My favourites of the era were: the E-type, of course Triumph TR3's and 4's (didn't like the style of the later ones) AH 3000 - any version
Funnily enough, I always liked the quirky little car marketed in the UK as the Californian (L16454 in your set). When I was in the RAF, I regularly hitch-hiked the 180 miles from camp to my home on the south coast. The best trip ever was in a Jaguar XK140 from the camp gates to South London - 110 miles - then a Rolls Royce (who cares which model) driven by the owner, for once, from South London to my front door! Never did as well as that again. By contrast, on another trip one leg was in a Humber Snipe from the 1930's. John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 7:24 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: GESO British car show Sunday week we found out about the local british car show this last Sunday. We got the car registered on Wednesday and discovered that it would make it about two miles before over heating. We tried a couple of small repairs, but there is no longer a local radiator shop where we can get it boiled out, so rather than trying something ambitious and risking the car not running at all, we kind of cheated, loaded the car into my trailer, drove to Boulder Creek early in the morning, then drove two miles to a diner we like before meeting folks for the show at 10. As we were about to leave, some folks were having a small reunion and doing some sort of video about it and asked if they could use Nigel, the Singer, in the video. Of course Tori said yes We still got to the meeting point on time, I saw a couple of people I knew in the parking lot. One was someone I had not yet met in person, but had seen him driving past in his MGB while I was riding my bike around the block and found him on facebook. The other was Larry, someone who had loaned me his trailer on a couple of weekends something like 30 years ago, when I started racing. Larry was driving a rather pretty Caterham 7. As it turns out Larry was parked next to Larry in a Jaguar Mark 4, a few cars down from where Tori and I were parked. It was an impressive show, we got the 49th spot out of 50 a couple days before the show. One person substituted his 356 for a broken Triumph. Years ago, there used to be a big Britcar show in Palo Alto the weekend after Labor day which would get 300-500 cars, drawing people from all over this part of California, so a little over 50 cars including a few that just showed up and parked across the street for a fist try was pretty impressive. With about fifty british cars, most over 40 years old in the show, a tow truck did make a rescue on Sunday afternoon. A toyota corolla that broke down while driving through Boulder Creek. I tried to get photos of most of the cars, plus some of the other interesting cars that drove or stopped by, so it’s a rather large gallery, 124 photos if flickr cooperates. I just put the K-1 on Av, bracketing nominal and two stops under as a safety. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972794900 Also a few silly shots at the Brookdale lodge of the folks using Nigel to shoot the video of their reunion: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972549480 I apologize for the size of the galleries, the goal of them is to show off the cars rather than my photographic skills. Larry -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
