DeTomaso Mailing List: October 97, Message #183
     



From: 	pantera@shiseis.com (Shane F. Ingate)

Subject: San Diego British Car Day

Date: 	Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:51:21 +0000



OK, so its not Pantera related, but there is a link, somewhere.....



        Held last Sunday at Fallbrook, in the wine-growing district

of Temecula, 60 miles north of San Diego, Fairbrook Farms saw 275

British cars and hordes of enthusiasts during a perfect Autumn day.

Fairbrook Farms allowed us to park our cars on 5 beautiful acres of 

what is normally an equestrian show-jumping course.  The organization

by the San Diego British Car Council with help from local clubs

was flawless.



        Looking at the Triumphs (1800, TRs, GT6s, Stag), MGs (As, Bs,

Midgets), Healeys (Big and little), Jaguars (Series 1-2 E-Types, saloons),

Land Rovers (once you peered 'neath the mud), Minis, AC Cobras, Sunbeams

(Alpines and Tigers), Moggies, Loti (Elite, Elan, 7, 23, Esprits, Europa) 

and I'm am sure there were others, I was staggered at the intellectual- 

and artful-inspired automotive output of an island nation the size of 

the state of Oregon with a population approximately the same size as 

California.  So many gorgeous sports cars produced mostly in the 1960s 

decade, with nearly  equal numbers in the 1950s and 1970s.  I am sure 

no other country has ever matched that level of inspired sports-car 

productivity since WWII.



        Pam and I had a pleasant drive in "Rags", arriving a little late 

(as usual) and found our spot at the end of a long line-up of Triumphs.

Rags generated a lot of curiosity, because it was perhaps the most

"hotrodded" of what was otherwise mostly stock-appearing Triumphs.  Hotrod

in looks alone, I hate to say, as Rags still sports its powerful 104hp

excuse for an asthma attack.  Sigh.  If SB42 passes, I can but ponder its

performance upgrades until 2004.



	Our very own Brock Tella took Best of Show with his immaculate

Sunbeam Tiger.  His Tiger is a example to us all.  Brock rallies

his car regularly, and drives it every year to the Sunbeam get together

usually held in Oregon or NorCal.  A class car.  The Tiger may

always show my Triumph its tail, but thats because I'm laughing so

hard at the solid axle tramp when he puts the pedal to the metal! ;)



	Shane Ingate in San Diego