>Of course it was mostly Minis, and new ones rather than the old classic
>ones. But, then again, the Mini Club put the event on. Nicest cars
>(sacrilege) I thought, were probably the 280SL and '65 356C located at the
>back of the field. Many of the old British cars very were nice, but those
>two German cars looked like they were showroom fresh, really done to a
>high level of quality. I think there may have been only about 4 German
>cars at the event. Someone had the audacity to park a CRX at the
>driveway. A '40 Ford woody drove in and parked near the event around noon.
>There was a concours freshly restored Nash Healey that was perfect. It
>was some limited production version too. Someone must have dumped 200k
>into it. But, I don't think I'd dump my life savings into one of those
>cars. They aren't that beautiful and they aren't that high perfornance
>either. I liked Eugene Ladd's MGB roadster- very nicely done. I liked
>the Morgan +4, and the two Lotus Elans. The TR4A impressed me- nicely
>redone, but not overdone either.
>An oddity was the XKE with the Pontiac SOHC 6. Owner said a company in
>Texas actually did these conversions professionally years ago when XKEs
>were not that valuable. I doubt if anyone thought that they would be
>reducing the future value of the cars by about $20,000! In the current
>issue of Octane Magazine, there is an article on a company in the UK that
>redoes E-types to a very high standard . . . cost of one of these cars-
>#250,000. Yikes.
http://www.eaglegb.com/pages/17-jaguar-xke-for-sale.html
>The event was at the Fred Stokes property. He's a hot rod builder and he
>has a few level acres and lets car folks put on events there. He has
>these cool old buildings where he has hot rods in progress and a small
>building where he has his huge vintage oil can display. The buildings are
>like a time capsule of hot rodding from 1955. Interesting place.
Don Scott
Calistoga
2001 Miata SE BRG
1962 MGA Mk II
1973 MGB GT (for sale)
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