First of the big regional British Car Fests is upon us folks.

Mark your calendars and wax your wheels for this year's "Britain on the Green" event. It's located at Gunston Hall in Lorton, VA and being held on Sunday, 28 APR. Last year there around 300 cars & motorcycles ranging from the usual Jags, MGs, etc. up to Bentleys and Aston Martins.

Facebook page: Info & Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/britain...on-57238760674
Or just show-up and look around.

See you all There!

 

I will be there, with my Elise and my Seven. Looking forward to it!

--Bob Collum

 

Cool. I’ll either have my Convertible GT6 Resto-Mod or my XKR (depending on the weather)

 

We had a great time. The weather turned out to be great! Some really interesting cars there!

--Bob Collum

 

Glad you enjoyed it. It really was quite a good day, and a decent turn out too. That Jag XKE coupe was awfully pretty. How come you didn’t take a pic of that gorgeous GT6 Convertible? (mine of course - lol). Nuts - That Jenson must have showed up after I left early. Love them. Terrible car, but I always liked their looks.

 

Sorry about no pic of your car - as often happens, we had a very large Lotus group, and I was catching up with everyone, after a long winter. I got almost no pictures of the other cars, since I was cruising through, voting.

My experience with Jensen Healey was that my original Lotus dealer (in St. Louis) sold both Lotus and Jensen Healeys. I had a Jensen Healey as a loaner, almost every time I took my Lotus Europa in for service. Decent performance, but I didn't care for the look of the front-end of the car. When I first bought the Europa, I was given a Jensen Healey GT (the 'shooting brake' model) to use for a month, while the Europa was being prepped for me. I LOVED that car! That was in 1980. My girlfriend, at the time, inquired about buying the car, but they wanted (gasp!) $10,000. We both agreed that was an astronomical price, and forgot about it. I've oand the nly ever seen one other Jensen Healey GT since then. I'm a sucker for all sorts of shooting brakes - MGB GT, Lamborghini Espada, and the Panamera Sport Turismo.

--Bob Collum