This turnout at the Owl’s Head Museum’s annual Foreign Car Festival was one of the best ever. Gloomy weather notwithstanding, on Saturday cars seemed to fill almost the entire apron outside the hangars. We weren’t the sole club represented, of course, but there were many familiar faces. One sight particularly grabbed my attention, and I share it with you below.
These are MMSCC cars united by common purpose and separated by a mere 86 years: Sarah Rheault’s 1935 Riley Imp alongside Gage Whittier’s 2021 Honda Civic Type R. The Imp took five of the top 10 spots (including first) in its class in the 1,000-mile RSAC Scottish rally in 1934; and the Type R holds the lap record for front-wheel-drive cars at the Nurburgring. I am pleased that there is room in the MMSCC tent for two such diverse-but-similar thoroughbreds and their owners.
