It was a great weekend for a great car show. There were 4 Alpines,
including mine, and 6 or 7 Tigers (Tigers all start looking the same after
a while, I can't remember the exact count). One Alpine had a little Datsun
engine in it. And Dave Sotero was there with his Alpine. Hat's off to
Dave and getting his car running. I think the car has out lasted at least
two girlfriends - and probably cost him more and gave him more frustration
than the girlfriends! I guess there were probably 100 or so cars total
(the usual MGs, TRs, Jaguars, Morgans, Minis, Austins, Austin Healeys,
Jensen Healeys, Land Rovers [when did they start showing up at British car
shows? Seems they are at all of them now], Maserati [some people just
can't read I guess], Rolls Royces, Bentleys and TVRs.
One scarey admission here. Back when the rubber bumper MGB first came out,
I thought it was hideous and marked the end of beautiful fine chrome
bumpered cars. Now, some 20+ years later, I actually think they did a real
nice job, especially after looking at 20 years of butt ugly rubber baby
bumper cars. They managed to flow both the look of the MG together with
the rubber bumper. Don't worry. I'm not about to buy an MG. And if I
were, it would certainly be full chrome, and more likely in the MG TC era
(though my heart for swooping fenders belongs to one of Dick's past -
SS100). Just thought I'd share a thought.
Jay
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