NEW: Food, wine and art also at Grass Valley car show
Sierra FoodWineArt was a sponsor of the downtown car show this weekend, so we showed up to judge the British cars. We chose this ’63 Jaguar, with a cool all-wood interior. Best of all, it still had the original owner, a guy who retired here and used to work for Walt Disney and run the San Francisco Film Festival.We chatted about Herb Caen, who also owned a white Jag, how U.S. automakers ruined some famous foreign brands and the longrunning film festival. Our son liked the drop-down wooden trays in the car’s backseat, used to entertain long before iPods.
The runner-up was a ’67 Morgan, a British roadster with a leather hood strap.
The show was packed, with thousands of attendees wandering the streets that were closed to traffic. Many of the merchant’s registers were ringing. The wine tasting rooms at Sierra Starr, Avanguardia, Lucchesi and the new one at Smith were bustling, as were the restaurants and galleries.
The weather cooperated too, though rain is expected to return in the middle of the week.