[Nobbc] British car show - Woodland.2011

[Liam O'Flaherty]

Great Photos on,
I was also there and had a great time.  You caught me in the photo with the
austin 7.  I always like the parking lot  cars better than the show cars.
Liam
On May 22, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Don wrote:

> 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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