30th Monterey Historics - California, USA
Pictorial report of 5 Tigers & the many West Coast Tiger folk met there |
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Met John & Angela Dandy at their motorhome beside the circuit [view through windscreen above]. STOC squad soon swelled by the arrival of No 9 support team - three men dressed in green! Gordon England, son Luke and friend Grahame.Spent the next four days taking in the best US classic car racing and nearby concours shows. Angela managed to put us all up and ran a great kitchen & bar! Nice to see and meet large contingent of STOA & CAT members. And of course there were five competition Tigers to take a close butchers at - one being the Fraser/Unett Modsports 'Monster' racing in anger again after 30 years. Peter Procter took the wheel of Darrell & Sharon Mountjoy's LM Coupe, Dan Walters took on the Monster, Steve Alcala drove Dan Walters Tiger, Tom Sakai drove his Tiger (to the best Tiger result) and Dave McDermott drove his beautifully prepared Targa Florio race car. Combined value of cars on display at circuit and concours shows probably exceeded Luxembourg's GDP but these concours events are peerless. Great hospitality from Tiger community, impressive show by the Tigers, fabulous circuit. GV |
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Right to Left No9 1964 Le Mans coupe Targa Florio 1964 race car Dan Walters comp Tiger The "Monster" Unett Tiger Tom Sakai's comp Tiger |
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The 'Men in Green' The 'Monster' |
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Gordon
E, Sharon Mountjoy, Peter Procter
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Darrell
Mountjoy, Angela Dandy
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| The 'Monster' at full chat - owner Chris Gruys, driver Dan Walters (read Chris's story at C.A.T site). The 'Monster' and team will be joing STOC's 40th Birthday Celebrations for the Sunbeam Tiger in July 2004. Including the 'Le Mans Classic', 'Chasestead Sunbeam Challenge' & 'Shelby Legends'. In between the 'Monster' will visit Gaydon - the UK's premier Heritage Motoring Centre; the STOC "Big 40" National Rally and much more (click here for more info) |  |
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Tom Sakai & B382000903 LRXFE Tom achieved the best finish among the Tigers - results here |
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Dan Walters Tiger carrying our STOC logo - Tks Steve.
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Chairman of STOC getting into 'ncm's' Sierra Nevada chilled beer! |  |
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Julian
Balme - literary racing ace and STOC member gets to run his Ford Falcon;
something looked forward to for several years. Don't miss his piece
in "Classic & Sports Car" - November issue (out 2nd
Oct) Simon Taylor also has half dozen pages on his drive and Carmel
concours shows. |
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'Speed
Vision' US Sports TV crew taking a good look at |
where the horses play in B9470035 FE |
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