[Nobbc] British car show - Woodland.2011

[Don]

Anne and I went to the British car show in Woodland today.  The cars 
ranged from the sad run-down cars needing love to the very expensive 
exotics that were worth as much as a house.  There were four TFs in a 
row, some very nice old Healeys, beautiful Morgans, many MGs and 
Morrises and TRs, and a few oddities.  Only one Sunbeam Tiger and one 
TR8 that I saw.  The '48 Allard with a flathead V8 was really 
cool.  My friend Tim and his Riley 2.6 were there; he said it is one 
of two such cars in the US.  I photographed a couple of cars with 
transplanted Japanese engines.  I liked the white Bugeye that was 
factory correct, except with updated 1275 engine.  The white Jaguar 
3.8 sedan was spectacular.  There was not one early B roadster there.

The weather was ideal.  Mildest I've experienced ever at that car 
show and I have attended it for several years now.

I took some photos and put them on a webpage.  I photographed some 
odd stuff like the cars in the parking lot and the swap meet and some 
of the stranger cars like the Prius with a Morris body.  I did 
photograph the food vender that was selling Freedom Fries, but I 
didn't buy any.  There were some very nice cars in the parking lot 
which I cannot understand their owners not paying the fee to show 
inside the fairgrounds.  My Miata was not welcome inside the grounds, 
and suffered in exile in the parking lot.  A rather ungainly Healey 
kit car and a 356 Speedster replica were also in the parking lot, but 
some of the other cars in the lot were British and every bit as nice 
as the ones inside the grounds at the show.

I almost bought a piece of sales literature for the 1957 Ford Zodiac, 
but the seller wanted $20 for it.  He said it had special value 
because it was stamped "Wee Wee Motors of San Francisco."  Apparently 
that adds a big premium to its value, but not for me.  I owned a '57 
Zodiac when I was in high school.


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