Swish
07-12-2009, 01:14 PM
The 15th annual 'British Invasion', sponsored by the MG Club of Lancaster, was held in Gettysburg today, so my wife and I hopped in my freshly washed Triumph TR8 and headed west on the Turnpike, then down the G-Burg Pike (Rt. 15) to the Outlet Shoppes where the event is held. This is an 'all British' car show, so on the way I popped XTC's English Settlement to get in the spirit of all things British.
My 8 is pretty sweet. I'm the 2nd owner of this rare 1980 ragtop wedge with only 35,400 on the odometer, and it's all original, save the tires and cd player. It's also the last model made by British Leyland before they bit the dust in 1981. They only made about 2200 of them, so I'm going to keep it for a long, long time. They're not terribly valuable now, but they're great cars and their time is coming.
There were so many awesome cars, maybe 200 or so, dominated by Austin Healeys as far as I could tell, although there were a ton of MGBs. My favorites were a fairly rare TR250, a really sweet Austin 3000 ( I think it was a 1960), a Lotus Esprit from 1981, a genuine Shelby Cobra (the bodies were made in England I believe) with a very rare 460 engine and signed by Carrol Shelby on the glove box (this thing is worth more than half a million I am sure. Most you see are reproductions, but Shelby won't sign the glove box on those!), a Triumph TR4A that has about the nicest shape of any Triumph, a Bug Eye Sprite that sported a new, deep red paint job...I could go on and on. TRVs, Morgans, E Type Jags, a nice Jensen Healey.
What a fun day with bright sunshine and great tunes. That's what I did most of today.
Swish
My 8 is pretty sweet. I'm the 2nd owner of this rare 1980 ragtop wedge with only 35,400 on the odometer, and it's all original, save the tires and cd player. It's also the last model made by British Leyland before they bit the dust in 1981. They only made about 2200 of them, so I'm going to keep it for a long, long time. They're not terribly valuable now, but they're great cars and their time is coming.
There were so many awesome cars, maybe 200 or so, dominated by Austin Healeys as far as I could tell, although there were a ton of MGBs. My favorites were a fairly rare TR250, a really sweet Austin 3000 ( I think it was a 1960), a Lotus Esprit from 1981, a genuine Shelby Cobra (the bodies were made in England I believe) with a very rare 460 engine and signed by Carrol Shelby on the glove box (this thing is worth more than half a million I am sure. Most you see are reproductions, but Shelby won't sign the glove box on those!), a Triumph TR4A that has about the nicest shape of any Triumph, a Bug Eye Sprite that sported a new, deep red paint job...I could go on and on. TRVs, Morgans, E Type Jags, a nice Jensen Healey.
What a fun day with bright sunshine and great tunes. That's what I did most of today.
Swish