Hi there, Rick:
Interesting note, Rick.
<<I remember a time when MG drivers wouldn't wave at Triumph owners.>>
I remember a time before 'Nam when MG, Triumph, Healey, and Sprite drivers
would raise a hand ever so slightly above the cowl, or just beyond the
windscreen, as a subtle signal to absolutely any other sports car driver (and
that included most 'Vettes and pre-'58 T-Birds) and got a similar signal in
return in Southern California, while the drivers of some but not all Jag
roadsters would often stare stolidly straight past the passing little urchin
with the gall to reach so far beyond one's state.
<<People running red lights and cutting in front of you ... has become a
regular occurance [sic].>>
We can assure you, Rick, that such traffic conditions are no different
whatever from that of the daily squeeze forty years ago through the downtown
Interchange of four interconnecting Hollywood, Harbor, Santa Ana, and San
Berdoo Freeways, such buggies as our TF scrambling like all the others to slip
into a distant lane before the connection had escaped us.
Trucks; buses; we all got along just fine.
-------- Rick's Terse Message --------
Subject: The Future of Collector Cars
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:43:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: rfeibusch@loop.com (Rick Feibusch)
To: british-cars@autox.team.net
CC: morris@autox.team.net, riley@autox.team.net,
mg-t@autox.team.net,british-cars-prewar@autox.team.net,
editorgary@aol.com,BritCarMag@aol.com
Dear Listers,
There has been a lot of recent speculation about the future ...blah, blah,
blah...
I remember a time when MG drivers wouldn't wave
at Triumph owners.
have made it my duty to overwhelm the world ...blah, blah, blah....
As for the hobby itself, and I'm also talking....blah, blah, blah...
The closest thing to prewar transport I've ever owned was a 1950 MGTD that I
used regularily on the streets of San Francisco in the very early '90s. Even
then, I started to be quite uncomfortable driving downtown when my nose was 14"
away from 10 sharp and nasty exposed lugnuts on the SF Muni busses and big rigs
that are now forced to use city streets because San Franciscans have freeway
phobia and are tearing them down as fast as they can!!!
People running red lights and cutting in front of you only to jam on their four
wheel disc brakes and scare the shit out of you has become a regular occurance.
I had a guy pass me on the dirt shoulder of Highway 280 in San Bruno as I was
driving 65MPH in the slow lane!!! Soon the TD became a garage queen/weekend
car and we added an MGB to the collection. And speaking of us gray-bearded old
guys, there are less and less of us everyday as well!
I work with a number of local concours and blah, blah, blah...
While this elitisim should be expected to a point...blah, blah, blah...
I understand that a few of the bigger ..blah, blah, blah...
As for getting out and driving your British car ...blah, blah, blah, rah, rah,
rah...
Cheers,
Rick Feibusch
Venice, CA
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