Great report! I hope our other California friends can post
similar reports as they progress up the coastline. Keep 'em coming.
Randy Zimmermann
St. Paul, MN
B382002349
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> Date sent: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:28:29 -0700
> To: Allan Connell <alcon@earthlink.net>,
> William Goebner <wgoebner@pacbell.net>
> From: Frank Marrone <marrone@wco.com>
> Subject: Re: Eureka, Where can I meet the caravan
> Copies to: Sunbeam Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Send reply to: Frank Marrone <marrone@wco.com>
> I stopped by the Sant Rosa Hilton on the way to work and checked out the
> caravan before they left on their final leg of the trip to Eureka. I
> counted approximately 12 driven cars plus a few more on trailers. Norm was
> driving the one LeMans coupe that was present. I saw David D. with the
> ralley car, Bill V. with his Harrington Tiger and others. I got to talk
> briefly with Ian Hall and saw Rosmary Smith. There were lots of folks
> there who i knew by name only and it was kind of neat to be able to put
> some faces to those names.
>
> In typical British car fasion two of the caravan participants (the Lemans
> coupe and the ralley car) were being worked upon so they could continue the
> trip. The Lemans car had a problem with the starting motor system and in
> the end had to be push started. Rosemary Smith helped push start the coupe
> and I wondered how many times she had done that in her long association
> with Sunbeam competition vehicles.
>
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>
> At 11:26 PM 6/17/97 +0000, Allan Connell wrote:
> >At 08:56 AM 6/16/97 -0700, William Goebner wrote:
> >>Norm Miller wrote:
> >>Tuesday's journey continues up 101 for a full day of motoring. Groupies
> >>are expected and welcome to slide into the ranks along the way.
> >>To help make that possible, more descriptive route timetables will be
> >>developed and made available shortly.
> >>
> >>Norm or Caravan members,
> >>Where can I "slide into the ranks" when you go through the San Jose &
> >>San Francisco Bay area?
> >>
> >>I'd like to slide in.
> >>
> >>Bill Goebner - B9470807 - Woodside, California
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Gawd!!! I am jealous!! I have to work and go to attend a medical meeting
> >on Asthma in Chicago and you folks are out having a ball. My poor Tiger
> >along with my poor wife are sitting at home forelorn. Please keep me
> >posted as to the progress on the net.....Hey, did Dick Barker make it with
> >his special Tigger??
> >
> >Please, Please keep me and the balance of us poor slugs with under utilized
> >special cars informed!!
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Allan
> >B9472373
> >
> >
> Frank Marrone MK I Tiger B9471116
> marrone@wco.com 1966 LTD
> Series I Alpine "fix me"
> Yamaha Seca 900
>
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