Re: June Austin Cars & Coffee

Posted by Leeedy On 2014/6/18 14:30:07
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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
JW, thanks for those pictures and especially the Nash-Healey which I've always held a sort of special affection for. Here's some photos of another Nash-Healey I recently ran across in a dusty, old and stagnant collection.

I also went to a Cars & Coffee event this past weekend, at Ramapo College in NJ. Gorgeous venue, on grass. It was promoted as their practice event for a possible future "concours" though I rather doubt they know what that means. Unfortunately, at my event about 80% of the cars were just new or nearly new VWs, Nissans, BMWs, etc. which if I wanted to see, I'd go to a dealership. I find it lamentable that today, more and more "car show" means ANY car and most especially new cars.



Great pics. Thanks.

RE: the Nash-Healey cars in these pics... those are both 2nd-series phase II Nash-Healeys. The first series phase I had a different grille and very different windshield. I have some early 8 x 10s from the designer.

By the way, the 2nd series Nash-Healeys used a reverse gear lights set on the rear that looked very much like those on 1953 Packard Caribbeans!

RE: car shows today... Yesss, Owen, like everything else, it seems that many car shows have begun to degenerate down into looking more like mere parking lots for contemporary vehicles rather than outstanding vintage stuff. Sad.

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