In a word it was GREAT! Lots of great cars, reportedly over
500. It seems the cars are getting nicer every year.
Saturday had great weather for the car display. The Best On
the Field was a 1936 Humber Landulette. The Humber was limo
of sorts. Beautiful car. Lots of MG's, Triumphs, Morgans,
TVR's, Lotuses, Mini's, Sunbeam's, Austin's, and most of all
Jaguars.
I had my MGB GT with a 3 foot tall Gumby in the hatch
drinking Tea. The gimick must have worked since I got 2nd
place People's Choice. All the credit goes to my wife
linda, for the idea and making of Gumby. First place went
to perfect 67 MGB/GT Special, BRG aniversary edition.
Both Greg and I had our SOL flags out but we did not
encounter any other SOLers.
Sunday had the Rallye, Swap Meet, Giant Slalom, Mini
Funkhana, and the Valve Cover races.
I tried rallying for the first time, what a hoot, I'm
hooked. The rallye featured a Le Mans start, at 8:00am they
handed checkpoint clues and a map. We stupidly thought that
we had to do the checkpoints in order. After the 3rd
checkpoint (after 60 miles) the forth checkpoint took us
very close (within a mile to the first checkpoint). It was
more of a treasure hunt where we had to get information
mostly from historical markers. Anyway the proper way to do
this kind of rallye (I suppose) is first locate all the
checkpoints on a map, find the best path to all the
checkpoint and GO. We ended up missing 7 checkpoints out of
24. Still had a great time.
The Valve Cover races were interesting. These guys are
serious. One spent over $200 to build one out of two Jaguar
valve covers. Our Valve cover was given to me by the guys
at Faspec, its off an Austin Marina. I spent $3.00 on a can
of paint and used some old decals. We came away with the
Chairmans Choice award for best looking and 2nd fastest
overall.
My wife fell in love with a car for sale a 1966 Austin
Princess Vanden Plas R. It has a Rolls Royce 6 Cylinder.
Anybody know anything about these? This one is in excellent
shape and is original.
Well enough of my dribble,
Nelson.
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