Nicely done. Love those E-type engines. Could be cut by half without losing much.
Paul > On Sep 28, 2021, at 5:23 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sunday week we found out about the local british car show this last Sunday. > We got the car registered on Wednesday and discovered that it would make it > about two miles before over heating. We tried a couple of small repairs, but > there is no longer a local radiator shop where we can get it boiled out, so > rather than trying something ambitious and risking the car not running at > all, we kind of cheated, loaded the car into my trailer, drove to Boulder > Creek early in the morning, then drove two miles to a diner we like before > meeting folks for the show at 10. As we were about to leave, some folks > were having a small reunion and doing some sort of video about it and asked > if they could use Nigel, the Singer, in the video. Of course Tori said yes > > We still got to the meeting point on time, I saw a couple of people I knew in > the parking lot. One was someone I had not yet met in person, but had seen > him driving past in his MGB while I was riding my bike around the block and > found him on facebook. The other was Larry, someone who had loaned me his > trailer on a couple of weekends something like 30 years ago, when I started > racing. Larry was driving a rather pretty Caterham 7. As it turns out Larry > was parked next to Larry in a Jaguar Mark 4, a few cars down from where Tori > and I were parked. > > It was an impressive show, we got the 49th spot out of 50 a couple days > before the show. One person substituted his 356 for a broken Triumph. Years > ago, there used to be a big Britcar show in Palo Alto the weekend after Labor > day which would get 300-500 cars, drawing people from all over this part of > California, so a little over 50 cars including a few that just showed up and > parked across the street for a fist try was pretty impressive. > > With about fifty british cars, most over 40 years old in the show, a tow > truck did make a rescue on Sunday afternoon. A toyota corolla that broke > down while driving through Boulder Creek. > > I tried to get photos of most of the cars, plus some of the other interesting > cars that drove or stopped by, so it’s a rather large gallery, 124 photos if > flickr cooperates. I just put the K-1 on Av, bracketing nominal and two stops > under as a safety. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972794900 > > Also a few silly shots at the Brookdale lodge of the folks using Nigel to > shoot the video of their reunion: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972549480 > > I apologize for the size of the galleries, the goal of them is to show off > the cars rather than my photographic skills. > > Larry > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
