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2000 All-British Car Meet
By Jon Rosner

The peak of the British Car Season in Northern California starts with the mid-August extravaganza in Monterey that includes Concorso Italiano, The Monterey Historic Races, Pebble Beach and the well-attended auctions, and concludes with British Car Day in Palo Alto.  this year it fell on Sunday September 10th.
As you drove in and were handed you badge and told where to park you were given a bag of goodies, that included a copy of British Marque, Moss Motors catalog and a nice plaque commemorating the event.
Three large fields, with enough room to hold a good sized college football stadium, filled to capacity
with cars that, for the most part are weekend if not daily drivers. On one end a dozen Rolls and Bentleys,
on the side four very rare Bristols, in the middle, every imaginable MG and Triumph variant, on the far end
dozens of vintage and recent Jaguars, Minis, Sunbeam Tigers and more Rovers than the English Military have !
Unusual cars, and there were  many, included Ed Adam's 1,700 lb, triple webber equipped, re-bodied, re-suspended TR-6 sporting a shapely hand shaped aluminum body done by the former owner Jimmy Kilroy who is a body designer/builder for internationally famous hot-rod builder Moal. 
And for those familiar with the Lotus Marque there was Mike Ostrov's Maroon 1960 Elite. From the factory the car was powered by a light and delicate 1216 CC aluminum engine, four speed manual and all up weight of around 1,500 lbs. Mike does beautiful restorations, but does not believe in trailer queens, and he drives his cars quite a bit. This particular car had taken a bad hit on New Years Day several years ago and was now back. 
Mike had taken an Elan Chassis, a 1725 CC Lotus Twin Cam engine and mated it to a Ford C4 three speed automatic. While the car a gained a fair 

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