The SD British Car Day was my first British car show -
some stunning cars and tasty food (even for those who
didn't bring a picnic). Thought the TR-3A (Dennis?)
that won the class was an impressive example. Nice
touch by the food vendor (Home Town Buffet) who
volunteered to donate all the food proceeds to
charity!
Hope to visit the Triumphfest in three weeks.
Mike Schoep
'79 Spit - "almost a Daily Driver"
--- John & Pat Donnelly <pdonnel1@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Couldn't agree more. Excellent weather, wonderful
> cars, great people,
> & good hamburgers. Would have like to have seen more
> Heralds (none)
> and TR4(A)
> (only 2). I thought that the canary yellow 250 was
> gaudy, but it won
> it's class. I believe that some of the Triumph
> picnics (beer and
> chips) were better than the Bentley's wine-n-cheese
> ones. Much better
> than the LA meet at Woodley Park last week.
>
> John in San Diego
> '67 TR4A - it's finally at the body shop getting a
> make-over!
> '71 Volvo P1800E - the "Saint's" car
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
> To: Laura Gharazeddine <Laura.G@141.com>
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> <triumphs@autox.team.net>;
> spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:33 AM
> Subject: San Diego British car day -
>
>
> >
> >>Did you go to the San Diego do at Bonsall? My
> friend Martin was
> going-I
> >think he was taking his silver '60 MGA.
> >*************************************************
> >Yep I did, and he may have been there as well. It
> was a beautiful
> day with
> >what must have been close to 300 cars. met several
> listers that I
> haven't
> >before, and some I had. 20 or so Roll's, most
> I've ever seen at any
> show.
> > large contingency of Triumphs, more so than I can
> remember in
> recent
> >memory, almost as many as MG's! One perfect
> example of a Triumph
> 1800
> >sedan (which should have won an award but didn't
> for some funny
> reason) was
> >parked right next to my little GT. Made it look
> tiny:-) - Possibly
> because
> >there wasn't a class for it, although the "other"
> should have
> qualified I
> >think. Unfortunately, that was shoved in with the
> Spitfire class
> >("Spitfire and other", which is also the class I
> was in) Go figure -
> >Also one particularly outrageous bright red, square
> tail Spitfire
> body
> >sitting on top of a custom made frame/suspension,
> with a HUGE engine
> bubble
> >probably 1 foot high and a couple of feet wide
> extending into a point
> all
> >the way to the front of the 8 or so inch extended
> length bonnet,
> sprouting
> >a 460 big block with octopus pipes sticking into
> the engine
> compartment on
> >each side, and terminating into a 2-1/2 to 3 inch
> pipe that exited
> out
> >through a hole in each (extended) lower front sill,
> then along the
> sides
> >"a-la Cobra." Really narrowed 9 inch ford, tubbed,
> etc. Lots and
> lots of
> >money, and well executed for the most part, but a
> little over the top
> for
> >my taste. Would have fit right in at Route 66
> though. Hardly seemed
> >practical for the street but I'm sure it went like
> stink if you could
> keep
> >the darn thing in a straight line (shades of the
> rocket pack strapped
> to
> >the back of a car if you know what I mean. Thank
> god there aren't
> any
> >sheer cliffs around there :-})
> >Also a nice TR6 with the Lucas fuel injection
> installed - a handful
> of
> >Spits (Jeff and Ken C's from the list, Jeff's wife
> doesn't know what
> she
> >missed, bring her and the kids on down to
> Triumphest! - ). The usual
> >TR250's TR4's, TR3's and one TR2, and of course the
> 2000 sedan that
> they
> >are raffling off at Triumphest 2000.
> Unfortunately, No Heralds or
> Vitesses
> >- otherwise a great show - Spent a wonderful time
> with the wife, a
> picnic
> >lunch, her sister and family, plus the rest of the
> people I chatted
> with.
> >As usual, I never had enough time to talk at length
> with everybody I
> wanted
> >to. . .
> >
> >Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
> >
> >72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> >70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> >70 Spitfire (long term project)
> >
> >
>
=====
Mike Schoep
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