Originally Posted by SeismicGuy

Just got back from the show and it was quite fun, although hotter and dustier than it needed to be.

I met George (TireFriar), Tom, and of course Ted as well as many other interesting characters. The saddest was one guy with a pristine maroon XK-E coupe (he does very high end auto upholstery). He was polishing up his car and said it was for sale. He had spent 12 years restoring it but he had some pressing financial needs and he hated the thought of parting with the car but sometimes other things in life take precedence.

I felt great when a middle aged couple came up to admire my car and the guy was asking if I wanted to sell it. He has started doing research about these cars and I advised him to browse around the forum here. He truly appreciated my car so that was pleasing.

However, the nicest story regarding my car happened just before leaving. I had been parked next to a British guy who apparently was somehow involved in the original launching our our generation XK8/R and he had driven up with a loaded to the gills new F8-R. He seemed to love my car and kept telling passersby how those were the best generation, yada, yada, yada.

Anyway right before I left I was lurking in the background eating my hamburger and notice some guy walking up looking at my car, looking at the F, looking at my car again and then spending a bunch more time looking at my car. So I walk up and ask which car he likes better. Without hesitation he said my car (he actually thought I owned both). So that made my day.

Here are some pictures (hope I am doing this right).

Doug

Originally Posted by Jon89

Thanks for the photos. I also enjoyed the pics of those lovely Sunbeams. Who brought Jay Leno's McClaren to the show? Somehow I can't quite imagine Leno sitting around in a folding lawn chair with a cooler next to his car all day talking to folks wandering by. But now that he's "retired", perhaps he did....

Originally Posted by albeee

Posted some pics here:

https://www.facebook.com/alistair.ba...9727394&type=1

I saw some XKs, but did not get to meet anyone. Hopefully I meet some of the local members soon.

Originally Posted by SeismicGuy

Hey--you put us all to shame. A great collection of photos. Did you have a car there as well?

Doug

Originally Posted by tberg

I couldn't open the facebook page, the whole page was not available. I would love to see the pictures.

Originally Posted by albeee

Posted some pics here:

https://www.facebook.com/alistair.ba...9727394&type=1

I saw some XKs, but did not get to meet anyone. Hopefully I meet some of the local members soon.

Originally Posted by albeee

I took pictures of any car I found somewhat interesting and just did a massive upload. I've found that parking lots for car events contain some serious machines, sometimes as much as the events themselves, haha.