Good luck Jeff. Getting your car into the historics is now a really big
deal. There are guys with significant Ferraris that can't get in.
But there's another way...
There are several Lagua Seca dates other than the Historics that are run
by Steve's organization. If all of us Triumph guys with cars on the left
coast, or those willing to travel, made a serious bid for featuring
Triumph as the marque for one of those non-historic events I'll bet we
could get a lot of Triumphs in.
Just a thought. BTW, racing a car at Laguna Seca is one of life's great
pleasures--what a track. I've done a driving school there in Formula
Fords and Formula Mazdas, and I raced bikes there a few times, but I've
never had my trump there. There's nothing like coming off the top of the
corkscrew, the racing equivalent of a leap of faith, or ripping through
turn nine--which I sometimes dream about. Probably my favorite turn on
any track, just because it happened to click with me.
And staying in Monterey ain't bad either. Waking to the noise of sea
lions and gulls at the Plaza, the shrimp and aoli stuffed Artichokes at
Paradiso. Testing the limits of rental car tires on the back roads of
Carmel. And the world's best Italian restaurant, which I can never
remember the name of, on the main drag in Carmel. It's as good as
anything I found on my recent two week motorcycle trip through Italy.
It's 8:00 A.M. and I just made myself hungry for rock lobster and
fettuccini. And I know I'll spend the rest of the morning daydreaming
about stuffing my TR3 into the corkscrew.
Ah, well.
We should work on this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Snook [mailto:jsnook@wcnet.org]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 6:06 AM
To: EISANDIEGO@AOL.COM
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: San Diego Concours deElegance
Cary,
Sorry I didn't get a chance to see you in San Diego! We were in
La Jolla for a few days with three other couples, so the guys
took off Sunday to go to this concours. It was really cool to
see all the old Alfa race cars lined up on the golf course.
Especially nice to see the Blue Alfa coupe that was at the Glen
for the re-enactment last month, although it did not have the
pink numbers painted on the fenders at the concours! Not much
English iron other than some beautiful Rolls Royces with engines
that were works of art themselves. Did see one nice Jag XK120
aluminum bodied OTS that was quite nice.
I am going to try and get my TR3 into the Monterey race some
year. It looks like 1999 is out for me, but I did get a
"tentative" OK from my wife for a trip West in 2000 for the big
week of cars and racing. Now all I have to do is convince Steve
Earle that my car is "worthy enough" for his Laguna Seca event!
That could lead into keeping the TR out West for a while and
returning for the San Diego event in the fall.
Vroom, vroom,
Jeff Snook
EISANDIEGO@aol.com wrote:
>
> This the second year for the Concours at Torrey Pines (although the
concours
> it replaced was 18 years old). Wonderful location on the Torrey Pines
golf
> course. Some of the views are spectacular. Great cars - some very
historic old
> racers (and plenty of room to take pictures). Reasonable fees ($20.00
and kids
> free) including program Best T-Shirts I have seen in a long time
($15. each)
> . And a great poster ($20.). So for the price of $50. admission at
Pebble
> Beach (not considering the free parking and shuttle service), one came
away
> with great memories, great pictures, and great stuff with great
convience. I
> think its an up and coming event.
>
> Next year, it is going to be in scheduled in November to coincide with
Tony
> Earle's race. They are racing on the naval airstrip. It will make a
nice
> weekend. I have not seen my triumphs at Earle's events. Just the
Leman's
> Spitfire and Peyote. I do remember seeing a TR3 some years back that
was
> passing a few italian cars. But none since. Any particular reason why
?
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