I have ridden in the back seat of a E-type 2+2 coupe.
Supposedly it was Enzo Ferrari himself who called it "the most beautiful car
ever made".
On 9/28/2021 20:11:40, Ken Waller wrote:
Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a
race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday
night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was
almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and
comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever
experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home
from Mosport ever.
claimed by many to be the most beautiful car.
Ken Waller
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On Sep 28, 2021, at 4:44 PM, wrote:
Great series of lovely classic cars, Larry.
Thanks, it was a fun day.
My favourites of the era were:
the E-type, of course
Some years back I rode in a friend’s 3.8 E-type, I loved the torque, thought it would make a great track day car.
Then again there’s the guy that put the jag six into a sprite.
Triumph TR3's and 4's (didn't like the style of the later ones)
Heh, I actually like the TR6, don’t like the flying doorstops, but I’d take a TR8 convertible like the one in the pictures.
AH 3000 - any version
Funnily enough, I always liked the quirky little car marketed in the UK as the
Californian (L16454 in your set).
We call it the Nash Metropolitan. Interestingly, it has a B series motor and either the rear end or the transmission from a sprite.
When I was in the RAF, I regularly hitch-hiked the 180 miles from camp to my
home on the south coast. The best trip ever was in a Jaguar XK140 from the camp
gates to South London - 110 miles - then a Rolls Royce (who cares which model)
driven by the owner, for once, from South London to my front door! Never did as
well as that again. By contrast, on another trip one leg was in a Humber Snipe
from the 1930's.
John in Brisbane
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From: Larry Colen
Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 7:24 PM
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Subject: GESO British car show
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
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