Myself and a few co-workers ventured forth to the
Monterey area Saturday to watch the 13th (?) annual
Historic Races @ Laguna Seca, and among other things,
this is what we saw:
Since Jag was the featured marque, there were
countless e-types, XK-120, 140, 150s, MKIIs, a few
MKXs, XJs', and the following drool material; Steve
McQueen's XKSS, Bob Tullius' full race XJS, Group
44 GTP (?) car, the prototype XJ13 (too bad it didn't
run as well as it looked), XJR15 (prototype endurance
race car), AND... an XJ-220. Yup, in the flesh, looking
as slinky as a pair of black silk nylons, was a dark
blue (almost black) XJ-220. Strangely quiet, it tore
off a few exhibition laps between the third & fourth
races. Absolutely gorgeous.
As if any other cars mentioned matter now, there
was also a beautiful Ginetta G-12 from Osaka that got
punted into the tires @ turn 11, a bevy of Cobras, old
Vettes, Loti, Coopers, old F1 cars, original
Testatrossas, California Spyders, 550 Spyders, etc.
Almost too much to see in just one day.
And back to reality (awwww!), Sunday I yanked the Weber
off the Sprite, grabbed a gallon of Brakekleen, the
Weber book and a cup of coffee, ands spent the day
cleaning, cataloging, and comparing what I'm running to
what the various books I have indicate I should be
running, in an attempt to figure out how a 1275 cc
car can get 16mpg. I'll keep you posted of the
progress-
cheers-
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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