Hey Nigel, here's a coincidence for ya.
Drove my Spyder to a Starbucks in Hermosa Beach CA yesterday, and later as I was leaving and stepping into my car I heard this guy sittin' in his car parked next to mine say with a british accent, "Awfully nice car, there. What exactly is it?"
And so I started telling him about my replica Beck 550 and eventually got around to tellin' him that it's the kind of car James Dean was killed in back in '55 when he drove head-on into a big ol' Ford sedan while on the way to race his Spyder in central California, and that my new "goal in life" is now to NOT end up like The Rebel did in his, and to acknowledge that I picked up on his accent, I said to him, "Knock on wood...or as you brits say...Touch wood." I then asked him what part of Blighty he was from, and he said Cornwall, and that he and his family were on holiday here in California. And so I told him about the beautiful pictures of Cornwall that you've posted here to which he replied, "Yes. It certainly is a lovely place."
Turns out he has a '68 Porsche 912 in great shape which he said he drives around Cornwall mostly during the summer months.
(small world, huh?!)
