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Re[3]: Palo Alto British Car Meet Report

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Subject: Re[3]: Palo Alto British Car Meet Report
From: jim.sudduth@autodesk.com
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 96 14:01:27 PST
Oops. Meant to send this out to a wider audience!


     
     I agree. I'm a member of Triumph Travelers. The TR6 mentioned by 
     Captain Page was a trailer queen (I saw the owner trailer it in and 
     drive it across the street to the meet) and we don't do trailer queens 
     in the Triumph Travelers!
     
     The thing I like best about the Palo Alto meet is the incredible 
     variety of interesting machinery that shows up. There was a 1933 
     Triumph Super 9 - you don't see one of those everyday! -, plus scads 
     of Lotii, a big showing for the Jaguar group (but not many older XKs), 
     a bunch of beautiful Aston Martins, lots of Rollers (including one 
     that wanted to hang out with the Triumphs - TR envy? :-)), too many 
     MGs to even look at including a very beautiful J2, Morris Minors out 
     the wazoo, a Reliant, the aforementioned Ferret which was driven on 
     city streets to the meet (a Ferret is a sort of tank made by Daimler, 
     with tires not tracks, and a machine gun mounted in its turret - the 
     ultimate urban commute machine), a decent showing of Austin-Healeys, 
     lots of Morgans of all ages, a Spitfire with a Corvette drive train 
     that probably requires a pilot's license to drive, a magenta Austin 
     van with a Ford 302 ditto the above, plus all that has already been 
     mentioned. And all this with little publicity - everybody just shows 
     up and has a nice time because this show seems to draw interesting 
     cars rather than just concours quality cars. There are always many 
     "works-in-progress" on display and daily drivers modified and 
     personalized in ways that I find much more interesting than a parade 
     of meticulously maintained but uniform show cars. Just personal 
     opinion here - not flaming anybody!
     
     
     :-)
     Jim
     
     
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Subject: Re: Palo Alto British Car Meet Report
Author:  twakeman@scruznet.com (TeriAnn Wakeman) at SMTPCC3 
Date:    9/9/96 6:42 AM
     
     
At 12:12 AM 9/9/96 -0400, Captain Page wrote: 
>Here's  a quick report on what I saw today: 
>
>The following car catagories were present: Rolls Royce, MG, Lotus, 
>Triumph, Austin Mini, Morgan, Jaguar, Sunbeam, Land Rover, Austin Healey.
     
There were a lot more marques present than that. I followed a Astin Martin 
DB2 and a Morris into the meet, pased an unpainted 289 AC Cobra going into 
the lot.  Just over the fence was a group of Singers.  There was a Daimler 
Ferrit hidden among the Land Rovers.  I think there were small numbers of 
several more marques.
     
I do agree that most of the local to Palo Alto Triumphs are drivers and not 
concourse. The local Triumph club, Triumph Travelers, focus on driving 
events and using the cars for their design purposes.  There is no real 
place for trailered static Triumph statues.
     
TeriAnn
     
twakeman@scruznet.com
     
     
     


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