[Nobbc] British car show - Woodland.2011

[wendell bain]

Hi Don,

Thanks for posting whatever you posted. The Picasa sight states they  
are not
for public viewing. It was a nice show. Didn't bring the Morgan as I  
was offing
some... Or trying to off some TR-4 parts. Did you see the Lagonda?  
Nice car.

Cheers,

Wendell

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.
>
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/104973305347633073496/Woodland2011? 
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