After visiting the air museum (see the post prior to this one) we took a jaunt to the 2008 All British Field Meet. We arrived as things were winding down a bit, a few cars were leaving…still plenty to see!
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Paul Allen, of Microsoft fame, has opened a museum–The Flying Heritage Collection–featuring a collection of World War II fighter aircraft in Everett, Washington, not very far at all from Rusty Heaps HQ. It’s tremendous. And the best part? They are all in flying condition, and are flown!
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I enjoy how-to videos like this, even if I don’t have the skills to actually “how-to,” in this case. (The subject seems appropriate, though.)

To me, videos like this are a bit like the old joke about how to carve a horse from a solid block of marble: Just remove everything that doesn’t look like a horse.

Some photos taken at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington July 5, 2008. I didn’t take any notes and I’m not a compulsive photo snapper…so the selections are pretty random, and without captions, for the most part!
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Here’s a slide show (click “more” to see it) of machines spotted at the Vancouver All British Field Meet on May 17, 2008. It was a beautiful day but I stupidly forgot sunscreen and got severely burned as a result. It was a nice show in a great setting. I got rid of all of my Canadian money, too, before coming back, a real achievement for me.

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Of all the Jaguar sedans I wouldn’t mind owning, this, the Mark V, is at the top of the heap. It’s a supremely elegant car. I had an opportunity to buy one a few years back but just couldn’t pull the deal together in time. Maybe at some future date I’ll have the chance again. This machine was seen at the 2007 Vancouver BC All British show.

This is the important ERA (English Racing Automobile), “Romulus,” as seen at the Bellevue All British Field Meet in 2007. The car is owned by Greg Whitten–who I occasionally saw around campus when I was contracting at Microsoft back in the early 90′s–that’s as close as I get to fame and fortune, which is good enough for me. He was very gracious at the show, going so far as to let my friend Jeff pose in the car (as seen above, I think the photo was even taken by Mr. Whitten).
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A public service announcement:

I think the car is an Austin Sixteen from just after the war…and Harry Enfield is very funny stuff.

Not much going on. Reg the MGB and the bikes are away for the winter, and not much else is new with any of my other derelict machines. But, hey: This Mike Hawthorn tribute site is actually nicely done. Mike drove a Mk. I. I shared video of him at Le Mans a few months back. So. Enjoy!

I’ve thrown together E-Type and XK calendars to help raise a bit of money for xkedata and xkdata.com. I think they turned out well and the XK one is particularly fetching.