Just got back yesterday from the "Route 66 Rendezvous" up in San Bernardino
CA. HUGE 4 day event, with 2400 (yes two thousand four hundred) cars, the
limit for the event. Not a lot of British car's, which was to be expected.
Mostly hotrods and 'murican stuff, but if you love cars as I do, it
doesn't matter. I love seeing all the work that goes into restoring any
car. Wild customs (Big Daddy Ed Roth was there) and enough flames to set
just about anything on fire! Just my GT6, a yellow Jag E type coupe, a
couple of MGB's, an Austin Healey triple carb (which won an award by the
way) and Garys TR2 were the only British vehicles I saw. Got a lot more
attention than I would have expected though, and during the actual cruise
through the downtown course on SAT night, that hundreds of people line up
along to see the cars go by, I defended the honor of Triumph's everywhere
when a young boy of probably around twelve shouted "lets see what the
LITTLE car can do!" I had resisted up to that point, but that was the last
straw. I think it was "little" that did it. I tached it up, dumped the
clutch and let 'er squeal to the cheers and hand claps of the crowd! Hey,
I'm only human ya know (although some would contend that :-}) All in all a
really fun event, with an awful lot of stuff to see, and great fifty's and
sixty's music playing all around. Only problem I had was a dead battery on
the first day of the event, but hey the darn thing was seven years old!
Next year lets see some more British stuff! Ya know it was probably the
TR2 (among other British stuff ) that spawned the birth of the Corvette,
and then the T-bird. The rest is history-
Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
72 V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
70 Spitfire
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