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Dave Richards
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Well, it was off to the Glen late Friday afternoon to catch the tail end (and the most exciting part) of the Vintage Grand Prix Festival held in the Village of Watkins Glen each year. I'll let Banjo tell you all about the awesome sights and sounds, and he’ll have plenty of pics.
The better part of my story is about finding long stretches of 2 lane asphalt in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York between Syracuse and Watkins Glen.
We set the GPS to "avoid highways" and deliberately took turns onto "lesser traveled roads", the result was spectacular! Sure it took three hours to cover a two hour drive, but the drive was flawless.
Golden afternoon sun lit miles of ripe corn and hay, long, pastoral views at the top of hills, and hot, clean asphalt. My 14 year old son as passenger and my 20 year old son in his cleaned up MG B right behind us, barely another car along 100 miles of this.
We'd pick up a few cars slowing down for the one stop sign towns and then pass them as we left the towns, anxious to get back to a faster pace. To be rewarded by entering Watkins Glen to a display of about hundreds of Triumphs (the featured marquee this year) assembled in the Village Park.
We were there in time to get bar-b-que and settle in to watch the Grand Prix race re-enactment through the town, with dozens of vintage racers tearing up the original five mile+ course.
The better part of my story is about finding long stretches of 2 lane asphalt in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York between Syracuse and Watkins Glen.
We set the GPS to "avoid highways" and deliberately took turns onto "lesser traveled roads", the result was spectacular! Sure it took three hours to cover a two hour drive, but the drive was flawless.
Golden afternoon sun lit miles of ripe corn and hay, long, pastoral views at the top of hills, and hot, clean asphalt. My 14 year old son as passenger and my 20 year old son in his cleaned up MG B right behind us, barely another car along 100 miles of this.
We'd pick up a few cars slowing down for the one stop sign towns and then pass them as we left the towns, anxious to get back to a faster pace. To be rewarded by entering Watkins Glen to a display of about hundreds of Triumphs (the featured marquee this year) assembled in the Village Park.
We were there in time to get bar-b-que and settle in to watch the Grand Prix race re-enactment through the town, with dozens of vintage racers tearing up the original five mile+ course.
