[Nobbc] TODAYS CAR SHOW

[don]

>Of course it was mostly Minis, and new ones rather than the old classic
>ones.  But, then again, the Mini Club put the event on.  Nicest cars
>(sacrilege) I thought, were probably the 280SL and '65 356C located at the
>back of the field.  Many of the old British cars very were nice, but those
>two German cars looked like they were showroom fresh, really done to a
>high level of quality.  I think there may have been only about 4 German
>cars at the event.  Someone had the audacity to park a CRX at the
>driveway.  A '40 Ford woody drove in and parked near the event around noon.

>There was a concours freshly restored Nash Healey that was perfect.  It
>was some limited production version too.  Someone must have dumped 200k
>into it.  But, I don't think I'd dump my life savings into one of those
>cars.  They aren't that beautiful and they aren't that high perfornance
>either.  I liked Eugene Ladd's MGB roadster- very nicely done.  I liked
>the Morgan +4, and the two Lotus Elans.  The TR4A impressed me- nicely
>redone, but not overdone either.

>An oddity was the XKE with the Pontiac SOHC 6.  Owner said a company in
>Texas actually did these conversions professionally years ago when XKEs
>were not that valuable.  I doubt if anyone thought that they would be
>reducing the future value of the cars by about $20,000!  In the current
>issue of Octane Magazine, there is an article on a company in the UK that
>redoes E-types to a very high standard . . . cost of one of these cars-
>#250,000.  Yikes.

http://www.eaglegb.com/pages/17-jaguar-xke-for-sale.html

>The event was at the Fred Stokes property.  He's a hot rod builder and he
>has a few level acres and lets car folks put on events there.  He has
>these cool old buildings where he has hot rods in progress and a small
>building where he has his huge vintage oil can display.  The buildings are
>like a time capsule of hot rodding from 1955.  Interesting place.


Don Scott
Calistoga
2001 Miata SE BRG
1962 MGA Mk II
1973 MGB GT (for sale)