Sorry Bud, we wandered around most of the time looking at cars. Our
Bugeye was the Ivory one straight across the aisle. There must have been
40 big Healeys and about 600,000 MGBs and Triumphs. Never made it to the
American cars. (Did you see the Corvette Nomad wagon?) The announcer
said there were 1700 registered display vehicles if you count all
classes and marques. I believe it to be true. Burt Levy was a lot of fun
while signing autographs. The show had all the vehicles from the books.
The C-type Jag was stunning as was the Jowett Jupiter. The Allards and
TDs along with all the others made for a full day of looking. Don't
forget the #409 Speedwell Sprite coupe that ran in the race too. I think
the Mini would have been a real threat to the XK coupe had it kept
running. There was one mishap at the turn near the conservatory, a red
Elva Courier got out of shape and spun to the inside of the sweeping
right hander. He went sideways onto the curb and took down a light pole.
The big kind of city light pole 30 feet high witht he curved arm at the
top. The pole did a slow motion fall right across the cowling, narrowly
missing the cockpit. He was OK (probably had to send the driving suit
straight to the cleaners), tok an hour and a half for the city crews to
show up and clear the track. Could not have asked for better weather.
CHUCK, you need to bring the sports racer!!!
Those that missed this event, shame on you for six weeks.
Dave & Bobbie
Bud Osbourne wrote:
>I finally got one of my fondest wishes, at PVGP: We actually had a B/E
>Sprite racing. Not only that, the B/E won his class (production under 1
>liter) very convincingly. I'm hoping this will open the "flood gate" for
>Sprite entries. Sprites are so beautifully suited to the course, at
>Schenley Park (PVGP is run on public roads, through a wooded, hilly, 150
>year old park, right in Pittsburgh's Oakland section). The car looked
>TERRIFIC on the track!
>Also, we had way north of 400 cars on the golf course, overlooking the race
>course, for British Car Day, on Saturday. We had something like 18 B/Es
>pre-registered, which is the most we've every had. We had about 9 pre-'75
>Midgets, but no Mk-II-IV Sprites :(
>Dave Carpenter, I'm sorry I missed you....I was busy parking cars all
>morning and drinking beer/swapping war stories w/my Triumph Club and MG Club
>buddies all afternoon.
>Hey, any Spridgeteers going to The Roadster Factory Summer Party?
>
>Bud Osbourne
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