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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