So many cars, so few bays in the garage...
A good multi marque show, with even distribution and just enough cars
(191 if memory serves) to see them all enough, in spite of the threatening
thunderclouds which took mercy and never opened up.
Saw no other SOLer's (impossible I could have been the only only one there),
but I got there late...noonish. I saw more familiar faces the week before
at Day of Triumph. Bob Lang...did I miss you?
A dozen or so each of: AH 3000, TVR, Lotus, XK1??, MGT?, MGB, XKE.
A poupon of Bentleys and Rolls. Some vintage Jag coupes with rear trays
unfolded. A few bugeyes. An innocenti of Minis (including a Mini-Mania
car) ...why did I ever sell mine? And a MOKE! A few, but not many, of
TR3, TR4, TR250, TR6, Midget. A sprinkling of exotica.
Dream machines: Aston DB4 coupe, A yellow Morgan, AC Bristol (best of show),
A Daimler (how dare British Car poll it Ugliest LBC?). A half dozen vintage
racers, mostly Jaguars.
A really nice father-and-son MGB Rover V8 conversion, with an engine
compartment I would cheerfully have eaten off of.
Slimiest trick I've ever seen at a car show: A plastic fake spilled
ice-cream cup which took turns pretending to embarass the paint of a vintage
Jag racer and one of the Rolls. Had me going...I was ready to run out
insearch of Meguiers.
Talked with some of the post 68 go-fast-but-street oriented attendees about
the impending '95 smog law revisions...it doesn't seem to have sunk in.
"You mean I might have to put a smog pump on my car next year?" I can't
understand how someone can sink $$$ into TRS for a street car without being
aware of this. Me, I'm thinking switchable propane conversion. ("But Mr.
Smog Policeman, it's a Scientific Vehicle! That's why it puts out 110 BHP
instead of 55! I inject Flubber directly into the appropriate orifaces...")
For me, the hit of the show was the Land Rover Defender 110. An dealer/car
nut brought one with every possible option. What can I say...
I'm madly in love. I want to call FTD (wire florist if acronym unknown
in your domain) and send a wheelbarrow of mud to each of its four wheels...
What's curious is that my wife imprinted just as hard on the Discovery
when she saw the June British Car Ruta Maya article. She wants the one
on the cover _with_ all the 4x4 stuff and decals. No Pfaffs for this house
...I don't get off that easy. She's going to get her dream first...the
Kidmobile just rolled 100K, and a Discovery will be landing in the driveway
within the year. And as for my dream...
timd@world.std.com (Tim Dziechowski - WinSurfer Software - Atkinson, NH)
"ask about my ten year plan to take the driveway all British..."
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