In article <41407600E48AD211893F0040053FEA770117F9(at)MAIL>,
Jarrid Gross <JGross(at)econolite.com> wrote:
> Anyone back from SUNI yet?
>
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> Whats the poop(how did it go)?
It seemed to go quite well. In a reply to another post (145 waiting for
me on return this afternoon through the only top-up day in 2 weeks) I
mentioned that there will be, to the best of my abilities and what I can
squeeze out of everyone, a round-up added to the website. I saw 50X more
Sunbeams (live!, mostly) in a week than I've ever seen in 37 years. I
met more people in that week than I have in years, I think. I got
pictures of most of them. Other people got pictures of the events. I
winced more than once that the Tomato is still down. But, the Mrs and
the Fiat and I took some amazing top-down spins through the mountains
and the plains, and I got to know six other very very fine people along
the way that took out the remaining sting and made the whole affair much
bigger than a car show in the mountains. And that was pretty big in
itself.
My vote for "drool-induction machine" was the silver '55 marque Alpine
drophead that showed up half-way through, driven by a Mr and Mrs ______,
from Spokane, I believe. I'm going to have one of those, one day.
Cutest Alpine had to go to the Sprout, Susan (+ Dave) Green's SI Alpine.
There were many tasty machines there. My wife liked the Tiger prototype,
mostly because of its dark-red metallic paint job. The SV (?) with the
Mazda rotary had my eye as best technical "Neato!", and there were a
couple in good old Carnival Red that affirmed it as my favourite colour.
Though I'm not as big a Tiger fan (there were lots to choose from) I'd
have to go with John Crawley's restored-from-smashed Mk1A because of its
story and John himself, and the Yellow one because there was only one.
Very humbling... There are a lot of owners out there with a lot of time
and/or money and/or skill out there, and it was a blast to be among them.
--- J e r o m e Y u z y k | jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca - - BRIDGE Scientific Services | www.tgx.com/bridge - - Sunbeam Alpine Series II #9118636 | www.tgx.com/bridge/sunbeam - - I'm going to SUNI III... Are You? | www.newsource.net/suni3 -
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