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August 26 – 27 Get all the info and dowload the registration flier here The Altoona, PA “British Car Festival & BASH” is a multi day event with local cruises and adventures along with an engine building exercise. Plan for one, two or three days. Lots to see and do on your journey to and (more…)
Sponsored by the British Car Club – Midlands Center Pictures below Sunbeams of the South: Invasion 2023 Having fourteen years of prior experience planning and organizing the Carolina Classic in Columbia, the British Car Club of Midlands Center has got their collective act together. Registrations, breakfast treats and coffee, boxed lunches, awards, music, and organization (more…)
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September 11-14 (that’s Monday thru Thursday before the United) Experience more of Kentucky with Joe Parlanti as he leads visits to other Kentucky attractions before the United. Here’s an overview of the plans. Fees and costs for the Tour: Tour tickets must be purchased months in advance, so Joe requests a prepayment of $50/person to (more…)
Just caught a glimpse of a commercial for CW’s Nancy Drew TV show and Dave said, “That’s a Sunbeam!” He rewound (DVR is great!) and indeed it is a blue Sunbeam Alpine. https://thenewswheel.com/nancy-drew-classic-car/ I loved Nancy Drew books when I was a kid…now I’ll have to catch up on the TV show. Lori Noyes’ Good Karma (more…)
Add your suggestions in the comments below Prince Borghese’s Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge by Genevieve Obert He says it’s a great Rootes (Hillman) story. (First posted in the TEAE Forum by Robert Jaarsma, Jan 18, 2006) The Rootes (more…)
Frank Mooney found an early 1960’s movie “BACHELOR FLAT” with Terry Thomas (English comedy actor) and Tuesday Weld playing a young lovely. It opens with Thomas driving a white, red interior, Series I, wire wheel, Alpine, top down over various streets and byways. A real dumb movie…were we ever really that dumb? Remember the first (more…)