BRITISH SPORTS CARS IN AMERICA BEFORE AND AFTER THE BEATLES
A course our Larry Griswold and Dick Lunney are teaching at the Asheville Lifelong Learning program, got off to a great start yesteday thanks to Mitch Andrus, Ed Foster and John Rachow driving their classic MG's to the campus for display right next to our classroom. The program staff took photos and posted them on Facebook.
Facebook post: Spring term at OLLI is going at full throttle! Today, in conjunction with their course "British Sportscars in America Before and After the Beatles," instructors Larry Griswold and Dick Lunney are hosting some classic cars for course participants to enjoy. Our week 1 visitors, from left to right: 1974 MGB, 1953 MG-TD and 1958 MGA. Many thanks to John Rachow, Ed Foster and Mitch Andrus for bringing these colorful beauties to the Reuter Center on a gray day!
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For today's "British Sportcars in America Before and After the Beatles" class, we hosted three gorgeous cars to match the beautiful weather! Many thanks to Marvin Floren (1954 Jaguar XK 120 SE), Denny Sommerville (1970 TR6) and Alvan Judson (1965 Jaguar) for sharing these classic cars with OLLI members. Happy motoring!
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For the third Tuesday in a row Dick Lunney and I taught a class about BRITISH SPORTS CARS IN AMERICA BEFORE AND AFTER THE BEATLES, and for the third Tuesday in a row we've enjoyed great weather with three great examples parked right outside our room. Today's marques included Austin-Healey, Morgan and Aston-Martin, and class members enjoyed, l. to r, Tom Young's 1955 Austin-Healey 100-4, my 1967 A-H Mark III, and Derek Cook's 1959 Bugeye Sprite.
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For our last week of "British Sportscars in America Before and After the Beatles," we were thrilled to welcome three tiny but mighty cars: a 1966 Mini Cooper (Mike Deegan), a 1981 Austin Mini (John Rachow) and a 1966 Sunbeam Tiger MK I (Terry Ramsey). Many thanks to instructors Larry Griswold and Dick Lunney for organizing this fun course and for arranging a fleet of beauties for us to admire this spring!
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