Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home from Mosport ever. claimed by many to be the most beautiful car.   Ken Waller   -----Original Message----- From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Sent: Sep 28, 2021 7:55 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO British car show     > On Sep 28, 2021, at 4:44 PM, wrote: > > Great series of lovely classic cars, Larry.   Thanks, it was a fun day.   > My favourites of the era were: > the E-type, of course   Some years back I rode in a friend’s 3.8 E-type, I loved the torque, thought it would make a great track day car.   Then again there’s the guy that put the jag six into a sprite.   > Triumph TR3's and 4's (didn't like the style of the later ones)   Heh, I actually like the TR6, don’t like the flying doorstops, but I’d take a TR8 convertible like the one in the pictures.   > AH 3000 - any version > > Funnily enough, I always liked the quirky little car marketed in the UK as the Californian (L16454 in your set).   We call it the Nash Metropolitan. Interestingly, it has a B series motor and either the rear end or the transmission from a sprite.   > When I was in the RAF, I regularly hitch-hiked the 180 miles from camp to my home on the south coast. The best trip ever was in a Jaguar XK140 from the camp gates to South London - 110 miles - then a Rolls Royce (who cares which model) driven by the owner, for once, from South London to my front door! Never did as well as that again. By contrast, on another trip one leg was in a Humber Snipe from the 1930's. > > > John in Brisbane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Colen > Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 7:24 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: GESO British car show > > Sunday week we found out about the local british car show this last Sunday. We got the car registered on Wednesday and discovered that it would make it about two miles before over heating. We tried a couple of small repairs, but there is no longer a local radiator shop where we can get it boiled out, so rather than trying something ambitious and risking the car not running at all, we kind of cheated, loaded the car into my trailer, drove to Boulder Creek early in the morning, then drove two miles to a diner we like before meeting folks for the show at 10. As we were about to leave, some folks were having a small reunion and doing some sort of video about it and asked if they could use Nigel, the Singer, in the video. Of course Tori said yes > > We still got to the meeting point on time, I saw a couple of people I knew in the parking lot. One was someone I had not yet met in person, but had seen him driving past in his MGB while I was riding my bike around the block and found him on facebook. The other was Larry, someone who had loaned me his trailer on a couple of weekends something like 30 years ago, when I started racing. Larry was driving a rather pretty Caterham 7. As it turns out Larry was parked next to Larry in a Jaguar Mark 4, a few cars down from where Tori and I were parked. > > It was an impressive show, we got the 49th spot out of 50 a couple days before the show. One person substituted his 356 for a broken Triumph. Years ago, there used to be a big Britcar show in Palo Alto the weekend after Labor day which would get 300-500 cars, drawing people from all over this part of California, so a little over 50 cars including a few that just showed up and parked across the street for a fist try was pretty impressive. > > With about fifty british cars, most over 40 years old in the show, a tow truck did make a rescue on Sunday afternoon. A toyota corolla that broke down while driving through Boulder Creek. > > I tried to get photos of most of the cars, plus some of the other interesting cars that drove or stopped by, so it’s a rather large gallery, 124 photos if flickr cooperates. I just put the K-1 on Av, bracketing nominal and two stops under as a safety. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972794900 > > Also a few silly shots at the Brookdale lodge of the folks using Nigel to shoot the video of their reunion: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972549480 > > I apologize for the size of the galleries, the goal of them is to show off the cars rather than my photographic skills. > > Larry > > > -- > Larry Colen > lrc@red4est.com > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. >   -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com     -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.  

> On Sep 28, 2021, at 5:11 PM, Ken Waller <kwaller@peoplepc.com> wrote: > > Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home from Mosport ever. > > > claimed by many to be the most beautiful car. To look at, not to work on. -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:11:40AM +0000, Ken Waller wrote: > Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home from Mosport ever. A co-worker of mine (originally in the UK, but he eventually also moved out to the US) eventually succumbed to temptation, and bought himself an E-type convertible (early model, before headlight fairings). I did get to drive it once (although not at speed). My most lasting impression is that the (wood-finished) steering wheel was enormous - rather like driving a truck. It didn't handle like a truck, though.

> On Sep 29, 2021, at 9:50 AM, John Francis <johnf@panix.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:11:40AM +0000, Ken Waller wrote: >> Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home from Mosport ever. > > A co-worker of mine (originally in the UK, but he eventually also moved out to the US) eventually succumbed to temptation, and bought himself an E-type convertible (early model, before headlight fairings). I did get to drive it once (although not at speed). My most lasting impression is that the (wood-finished) steering wheel was enormous - rather like driving a truck. It didn't handle like a truck, though. Yeah, they handle almost as well as a minivan. Some years back the folks at Grassroots motorsports noticed that their Honda Odyssey handled pretty well, so they took the Honda and an E-type to their “autocross course”, basically a go kart track, to get some side by side times. They also took a set of better tires for the minivan to see how close they could get to the E-type with a bit of help. It turns out that on stock tires, the Odyssey beat the jag, and with the good tires absolutely smoked it. OK, so after writing the above I decided to exercise my google-fu: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/soccer-moms-revenge/ I forgot about the 356. My apologies to the Maestro, Harry Pellow, but I’m not particularly interested in 3565s. Though they do end the article with this: And sports cars, we find, are about more than generating numbers—hell, any minivan can do that. They are about the fact that when certain parts are put together in certain ways by certain people, they become something greater than their own sum. Sports cars—whether they be our 356 or XKE, or a TR3 or an MR2 or an MX-5—are about making the driver feel like he or she is the coolest person on the planet, even if only for a little while. Sports cars aren’t about getting somewhere to have an experience, they are an experience, every time the key is turned. Go on a trip in the Odyssey, and you’ll remember the destination; go on a trip in a sports car, and you’ll remember the drive. So, I’ll yank things back on to topic and mention that this seems to be the Pentax strategy, focusing on how it feels to use the camera rather than entirely on the technical specifications. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com

I have ridden in the back seat of a E-type 2+2 coupe. Supposedly it was Enzo Ferrari himself who called it "the most beautiful car ever made". On 9/28/2021 20:11:40, Ken Waller wrote: > Had my only experience in an E type coupe in the early 60's coming back from a race at Mosport, outside of Toronto, heading back to Detroit, late on a Sunday night. The car was owned by a co-worker who really knew how to drive it. It was almost surreal - like being in a time machine - so smoothe, quiet and comfortable - at high speeds the acceleration was like nothing I had ever experienced. We cruised at triple digits for quite some time. Fastest trip home from Mosport ever. > > > claimed by many to be the most beautiful car. > > Ken Waller > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Sent: Sep 28, 2021 7:55 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: GESO British car show > > > >> On Sep 28, 2021, at 4:44 PM, wrote: >> >> Great series of lovely classic cars, Larry. > > Thanks, it was a fun day. > >> My favourites of the era were: >> the E-type, of course > > Some years back I rode in a friend’s 3.8 E-type, I loved the torque, thought it would make a great track day car. > > Then again there’s the guy that put the jag six into a sprite. > >> Triumph TR3's and 4's (didn't like the style of the later ones) > > Heh, I actually like the TR6, don’t like the flying doorstops, but I’d take a TR8 convertible like the one in the pictures. > >> AH 3000 - any version >> >> Funnily enough, I always liked the quirky little car marketed in the UK as the Californian (L16454 in your set). > > We call it the Nash Metropolitan. Interestingly, it has a B series motor and either the rear end or the transmission from a sprite. > >> When I was in the RAF, I regularly hitch-hiked the 180 miles from camp to my home on the south coast. The best trip ever was in a Jaguar XK140 from the camp gates to South London - 110 miles - then a Rolls Royce (who cares which model) driven by the owner, for once, from South London to my front door! Never did as well as that again. By contrast, on another trip one leg was in a Humber Snipe from the 1930's. >> >> >> John in Brisbane >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Larry Colen >> Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2021 7:24 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: GESO British car show >> >> Sunday week we found out about the local british car show this last Sunday. We got the car registered on Wednesday and discovered that it would make it about two miles before over heating. We tried a couple of small repairs, but there is no longer a local radiator shop where we can get it boiled out, so rather than trying something ambitious and risking the car not running at all, we kind of cheated, loaded the car into my trailer, drove to Boulder Creek early in the morning, then drove two miles to a diner we like before meeting folks for the show at 10. As we were about to leave, some folks were having a small reunion and doing some sort of video about it and asked if they could use Nigel, the Singer, in the video. Of course Tori said yes >> >> We still got to the meeting point on time, I saw a couple of people I knew in the parking lot. One was someone I had not yet met in person, but had seen him driving past in his MGB while I was riding my bike around the block and found him on facebook. The other was Larry, someone who had loaned me his trailer on a couple of weekends something like 30 years ago, when I started racing. Larry was driving a rather pretty Caterham 7. As it turns out Larry was parked next to Larry in a Jaguar Mark 4, a few cars down from where Tori and I were parked. >> >> It was an impressive show, we got the 49th spot out of 50 a couple days before the show. One person substituted his 356 for a broken Triumph. Years ago, there used to be a big Britcar show in Palo Alto the weekend after Labor day which would get 300-500 cars, drawing people from all over this part of California, so a little over 50 cars including a few that just showed up and parked across the street for a fist try was pretty impressive. >> >> With about fifty british cars, most over 40 years old in the show, a tow truck did make a rescue on Sunday afternoon. A toyota corolla that broke down while driving through Boulder Creek. >> >> I tried to get photos of most of the cars, plus some of the other interesting cars that drove or stopped by, so it’s a rather large gallery, 124 photos if flickr cooperates. I just put the K-1 on Av, bracketing nominal and two stops under as a safety. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972794900 >> >> Also a few silly shots at the Brookdale lodge of the folks using Nigel to shoot the video of their reunion: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719972549480 >> >> I apologize for the size of the galleries, the goal of them is to show off the cars rather than my photographic skills. >> >> Larry >> >> >> -- -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question.