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Central Coast (California) British Car Club meet
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:03 pm
by mrsnak
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:13 pm
by ani
What an amazing display - fortunately not so much of a rust problem over there
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:17 pm
by mrsnak
ani wrote:What an amazing display - fortunately not so much of a rust problem over there
Many of these are original California cars, too.
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:20 pm
by ani
I want to go to California
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:31 pm
by Squiggle
ani wrote:I want to go to California
Can I come?
Many years since I was in Ventura Ca. Had a wonderful 6 months there and nearby.
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:32 pm
by Squiggle
Location for the National next year?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:34 pm
by mrsnak
Squiggle wrote:Location for the National next year?
Don't know. Planning on joining this club, though. Nice group and very friendly.
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:36 pm
by mrsnak
Squiggle wrote:ani wrote:I want to go to California
Can I come?
Many years since I was in Ventura Ca. Had a wonderful 6 months there and nearby.
Wow, what are the odds of meeting someone on this forum in GB who's been here?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:43 pm
by Squiggle
mrsnak wrote:Squiggle wrote:ani wrote:I want to go to California
Can I come?
Many years since I was in Ventura Ca. Had a wonderful 6 months there and nearby.
Wow, what are the odds of meeting someone on this forum in GB who's been here?
The friendship and quality of life was superb. Had to come back due to family stuff in UK.
I confess we had a Model T and later a T-Bird. No Moggies in those days.
Send us some sunshine please and we'll let you have some of our rain
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:21 pm
by Ondergard
Were all the Brit cars in that show invariably left hand drive?
Were any of them unreconstructed imports, ie right hand drive?
Is it illegal to drive a RHD car in California or something?
And about the number plates - there was at least one with appeared to be a British plate - JOG 613E - is that road legal in California? Ad does it imply that it at least was originally a Briish car, not a Brit export?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:27 pm
by mrsnak
Ondergard wrote:Were all the Brit cars in that show invariably left hand drive?
Were any of them unreconstructed imports, ie right hand drive?
Is it illegal to drive a RHD car in California or something?
And about the number plates - there was at least one with appeared to be a British plate - JOG 613E - is that road legal in California? Ad does it imply that it at least was originally a Briish car, not a Brit export?
Most of the more common cars were LHD imports from Britain (like my truck). Virtually all the newer MGs, Triumphs, Austin Healys, Lotus, Jensen, etc were LHD.
More than a few older cars were unreconstructed RHD, though. The old Rolls, and the older MGs were RHD. Couple newer Rolls were LHD.
Not illegal to drive a RHD car here.
It is illegal to not have California plates on front and rear in our state.
Brit plates are not legal in the US.
Many who do, do it in defiance of the law (because their cars are barely driven) or switch plates for the show. Our area is so car friendly (many police are car collectors), that one would most likely never get cited for driven a pristine 50 year-old-car like this.
Most likely, the plates were after-market or came off a UK car. Strictly for show. There are online places that sell them.
When I visited France a few years ago, I had a plate made with my California numbers (still not legal) for show, for the front of my vintage Renault.
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:29 pm
by mrsnak
Squiggle wrote:mrsnak wrote:Squiggle wrote:
Can I come?
Many years since I was in Ventura Ca. Had a wonderful 6 months there and nearby.
Wow, what are the odds of meeting someone on this forum in GB who's been here?
The friendship and quality of life was superb. Had to come back due to family stuff in UK.
I confess we had a Model T and later a T-Bird. No Moggies in those days.
Send us some sunshine please and we'll let you have some of our rain
We could use the rain! Temps are nice, though - about 75F today.
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:03 am
by moggydriver62
Southern California is allmost rustfree,exept the beach area's.
The east coast a lot of the states use salt on the roads in winter.
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:48 pm
by dp
Is there a certain time of year that's best to go to California for the car shows - ? similarly is there a particular area that has more of a car scene than others? I need to start planning and saving for a trip to California to see all those places that inspired me from Custom Car, Street Machine back in the '80s and even the Beach Boys lyrics.
A Model T and T-Bird eh Squiggle
cool
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:04 pm
by Squiggle
dp wrote:
A Model T and T-Bird eh Squiggle
cool
Well the T-Bird had serious wheel wobble at certain speeds!
Wasn't in a really 'cool' condition.
Great days for second hand heaps [Sorry Jono] just 'Go see Cal'.
And was pink of course.
Had such an amazing time out there. Applied for all sorts of jobs. One interviewer explained I'd have to be measured up for a uniform [for a 'receptionist' job].
Fine.
But it was a Bunny Girl outfit and it was one of those 'houses'!
I left!
Didn't have the figure for it anyhow
Got turned down for a job at Burger King as I was 'overqualified'. Think that could be taken as a compliment??
Bluffed my way into a printing works. Thought I could work out how to use a Heidleberg machine. Can't be that difficult........
Young and foolish.
Fed paper in, switched on and the machine spewed paper everywhere. Woody Allen would have been proud of me [re Sleeper].
I got the sack, oddly
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:38 pm
by mrsnak
dp wrote:Is there a certain time of year that's best to go to California for the car shows - ? similarly is there a particular area that has more of a car scene than others? I need to start planning and saving for a trip to California to see all those places that inspired me from Custom Car, Street Machine back in the '80s and even the Beach Boys lyrics.
A Model T and T-Bird eh Squiggle
cool
For Southern California, it's all year round. Safe to say that Summer has the most shows. Do a Google search for California Car shows. There are more than a few good online calendars.
My area always has something going on- from Hotrods to Ratrods to Muscle cars. Harder to find the import shows, but they're around. One local town up the road, Santa Paula, closes down the entire downtown the first Friday night of every month for a big cruise night. Hundreds of cars.
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:54 pm
by Squiggle
Forgive me for asking but, are you Mrs Nak or Mr Snack?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:24 pm
by Sidney'61
Squiggle wrote:Forgive me for asking but, are you Mrs Nak or Mr Snack?
Glad I'm not the only one wondering
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:22 am
by MikeNash
Ah, thank you Squiggle! I didn't have the nerve to ask - but I think we should be told!
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:03 am
by LouiseM
Well previous postings have been signed 'Kurt' and mentioned a wife so I'm guessing that it's a Mr rather than Mrs
