Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home from Mosport ever.
claimed by many to be the most beautiful car. Ken Waller -----Original Message----- From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Sent: Sep 28, 2021 7:55 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO British car show > On Sep 28, 2021, at 4:44 PM, wrote: > > Great series of lovely classic cars, Larry. Thanks, it was a fun day. > My favourites of the era were: > the E-type, of course Some years back I rode in a friend’s 3.8 E-type, I loved the torque, thought it would make a great track day car. Then again there’s the guy that put the jag six into a sprite. > Triumph TR3's and 4's (didn't like the style of the later ones) Heh, I actually like the TR6, don’t like the flying doorstops, but I’d take a TR8 convertible like the one in the pictures. > AH 3000 - any version > > Funnily enough, I always liked the quirky little car marketed in the UK as > the Californian (L16454 in your set). We call it the Nash Metropolitan. Interestingly, it has a B series motor and either the rear end or the transmission from a sprite. > 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 > Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 7:24 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > 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. > -- 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.
