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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Lavelle Vineyards European Sports Car Show: Set 2

1967 MGB-GT. Very nicely restored, correct silver enamel finish on wire wheels as opposed to the chrome plating seen all too often.

1966 Sunbeam Alpine. Probably the most authentic restoration of an Alpine I've ever seen, although the roll bar is not period-correct.
1958 Austin-Healey 100-6 two-seat roadster. The color scheme is original, but the chrome wire wheels are not correct.

Sunbeam "Alger" (Alpine converted to Tiger specification), the owner tried too hard here to make it similar to a Shelby Cobra.

Jaguar XK140 engine compartment. Notice that the spark-plug wiring is not correct, the caps on the carburetors are too highly polished and should be brass rather than chrome, the radiator-hose neck is also too highly polished, the coil wires are all wrong, and the air cleaners (one barely visible to the left of lower center) are incorrect. I pointed all of that out, and am very lucky that the owner was not around.

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