Len -
Great stories!
FYI a great place for Healey / Golden Gate pics is in the Marin
Headlands on the first road that goes up from the bridge on the left
hand side when leaving SF going north.
On that road you can pull off on the shoulder and you will be able to
take a picture of your car with the whole GG bridge behind it, and
nothing in the way to block the view. Best time to do it is on a
sunny weekday mid afternoon when there aren't so many tourists...
Sept/Oct tends to be the best, and light is best in the mid afternoon.
Just be careful... about a year before I moved to HK some guy parked
his brand new $100K Porsche up there but forgot to set the parking
brake and the thing went down the mountainside. It was so steep that
the CHP had to contract a Huey to get it out of the canyon, it was too
steep for a tow truck winch. That meant that not only did he total
his Porsche, he also got a bill for $20K to fish his car out of the
weeds with the Helicopter!
Best,
Alan
On 1/23/07, Len and/or Marge <thehartnetts@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Two incidents in San Francisco. I wanted to get a picture of my Healey
> with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Stopped at the view area at
> the south end of the bridge where they have a cut-away section of the main
> cable. Before I could get my camera out and focused, Japanese tourists had
> surrounded the car and were taking their own pictures.
>
> The other time, I needed to make a phone call so stopped by a public phone
> booth in Golden Gate Park near the DeYoung Museum. Again, while making the
> call, people were standing around the car taking pictures.
>
> The one that gets me is driving on the Interstate. A car passes you. All
> of a sudden, he slows down and falls behind. Then he passes again and the
> passenger has a camera and is taking pictures. Love it.
>
> It is always a warm fuzzy feeling to get a thumbs-up from someone in a
> classic of another marque.
>
> I can only recall one negative comment and that happened years ago while
> driving across the Salt Lake Desert towing my half-Healey trailer. The
> driver of an 18-wheeler came on the CB and said, "That looks like s**t". I
> couldn't resist replying to him, "Can't be. S**t don't roll".
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville, CA
> 1967 3000 MKIII HBJ8L39031
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