NOVEMBER/DECEMBER CELEBRATING OUR 10TH YEAR 2010

the official newsletter of the Cape Cod British Car Club, Ltd

10th Annual British Legends Weekend

October 2010 – harbor, what could be better. We had with the Meet and Greet at the Green CCBCC President, Bill Scott 104 cars on display and from as far Harbor Resort, The road tour on One of the greatest joys of being the away as Florida. We had late model high Saturday planned by Dave MacEachern president of a truly outstanding club, is end cars and some very unique older and Nancy’s chocolate fall leave pops to watch the members go into action British cars as well as all the familiar were a real treat. There were the and set up, hold an event and then clear Little British Cars that we all know and unseen activities, such as gathering the site as if nothing had been there love. It was a successful and wonderful sponsors, door-prize donations, flyers, only hours before. After much pre- day that seemed all too short. The postings on the webpage and all the planning and, well ten years experience, finishing up of the awards presentations field planning that are so important to a crew arrived at a breakfast dinner on marked a short period where it seemed making the event. To para-phrase a well Main Street at 6:00 am. An eye opener most just savored the moment, said known quote; it takes a whole club to of coffee and a hearty breakfast, we set their good bye’s to friends old and new put on an event such as the British out at 7:00 am to begin setting up for and then without notice, it all began to Legends weekend. And not only does it the show. Trailers, pickups and soccer- dismantle. Things just quietly and take a whole club, but a great club like mom’s vans appeared seemingly out of efficiently began going back into boxes the Cape Cod British Car Club. Thank nowhere. Quietly and without much and on to trucks and trailers, and within you to each and every member who verbal direction, people set up tables, an hour and a half, the field looked as worked to make this event happen. I’m chairs, class signs, registration tent, though nothing had happen, not even looking forward to number 11 next Rocker Box racing track, a sound bags of trash were visible. year. system and a whole lot more. By 8:30 Much needs to be appreciated from Till next time, we started moving cars on the field and other parts of the weekend event as Bill Scott the 2010 BLW was a show in progress. well. Berta and Frank did a great job President CCBCC For our 10th year event, the weather was spectacular, and with the site right on the 2010 CAPE COD BRITISH CAR CLASS L - MGB/MGC GT 1st Joe & Joyce Cabral 1974 MG MGB GT CLUB - BRITISH LEGENDS 2nd Roger Canto 1972 MG MGB WEEKEND WINNERS LIST 3rd David V Miller 1974 MG MGB GT

CLASS A - Austin / Morris - CLASS M - Triumph TR2 / 3 / 3a 1st Barbara Newman 1978 Austin Mini 1st Michael Oliver 1959 Triumph TR3A 2nd David Black 1979 MINI 1000 2nd Pete Bachand 1960 Triumph TR3 3rd Greg Mazza 1967 Mini Cooper S 3rd Jane Nixon 1960 Triumph TR-3A CLASS B - Austin Healey 100 - 4 / 6 / 3000 (Big Healey) CLASS N - Triumph TR4 / 4a - TR5 / TR250 / TR6 Chrome 1st Ed & Paula Collins 1957 Austin Healey 100-6 1st Kevin Thompson 1976 Triumph TR6 2nd Bob Britton 1962 Austin Healey 3000 MkII 2nd Jack Nixon 1967 Triumph TR4-A 3rd Frank & Joan Yow 1961 Austin Healey 3000 Mk1 3rd Darcy Hunter 1973 Triumph TR-6 CLASS C - Austin Healey Sprite / MG Midget CLASS O - Triumph TR6 Rubber 1st Paul Jacobson 1961 Austin Healey Sprite 1st Frank Frett 1975 Triumph TR-6 2nd Mike & June Daley 1976 MG Midget 2nd Bill Richardson 1974 Triumph TR6 2nd Fred & Doreen 1960 Austin Healey Spitfire 3rd Dennis & Karen Sokol 1975 Triumph TR6 3rd Ed Gavin 1960 Austin Healey Sprite 3rd John Canto 1974 TriumphTR-6

CLASS D - Bently and Rolls Royce CLASS P - Triumph TR7 / TR8 1st Jack Rosen 1980 Rolls Royce Corniche 1st Paul & Maureen Rego 1980 Triumph TR8 2nd John Avery 1980 Triumph TR8 CLASS E - Jaguar XK120 / 140 / 150 3rd Milt Parker 1980 Triumph TR8 1st Bill Dunn 1955 Jaguar XJ-140 OTS CLASS Q - Triumph GT6 and Spitfire CLASS F - Jaguar Sedans XJ6, XJ12 and XJS 1st Brian Nickerson 1974 Triumph Spitfire 1st Mike Carolan 1990 Jaguar XJS 1st Stephen Harris 1973 Triumph GT6 2nd Christopher Vlachos 1994 Jaguar XJS 2nd Jeffrey Oakes 1976 Triumph Spitfire 3rd Brian McWilliams 1985 Jaguar XJ6 VDP 3rd John Flynn 1978 Triumph Spitfire CLASS G - Jaguar E Type CLASS T - - All 1st Bill Scott 1965 Jaguar XKE 4.2 OTS 1st David Cassady 2001 II 2nd Fred Anselmo 1973 Jaguar E-Type 3rd Ken Ridley 1972 Jaguar XKE CLASS W - Best Marque "Not Listed Elsewhere" 1946 - 1960 CLASS H - MG TC / TD / TF 1st John Friedler 1950 MG Y Tourer 1st Ski Raymond 1951 MG TD 2nd Art Cox 1954 MG TF CLASS X - Best Marque "Not Listed Elsewhere" 1961 - 1970 3rd David Colasurdo 1950 MG MGTD 1st Loraine & Derick Karabec 1965 Wolseley Hornet CLASS I - MGA 2nd Chris Cole 1970 Traveler 3rd Bob Vogel 1965 Lotus Super 7 1st Nate Murray 1962 MGA MKII 3rd "Winslow H Adams, Jr" 1963 Daimler Dart SP250 2nd Jo & JoAnn Sabatino 1960 MG MGA 3rd Keith Hartinger 1970 Morris Minor 1000 3rd Larry Mazoway 1958 MG MGA CLASS Y - Best Marque "Not Listed Elsewhere" CLASS J - MGB/MGC - Chrome Bumper 1971 - 1983 1st Mike Oliva 1966 MG MGB 1st Bruce Turner 1972 2nd Kenny Rollins 1977 TVR 2500 M 2nd Bruce & Leanne Dyson 1973 MG MGB 3rd Dudley Foster 1972 Lotus Europa 3rd Rich & Rachel Sugalski 1972 MG MGB CLASS Z - Best Marque "Not Listed Elsewhere" CLASS K - MGB/MGC - Rubber Bumper 1984 - Present 1st Roger A Bissonnette 1975 MG MGB 1st Sandy Cotterman 2000 Jaguar XKR 2nd Peter Wadsworth 1979 MG MGB 2nd Bruce Jardarian 2005 Lotus Elise 3rd Dave MacEachern 2002 Jaguar XK8 3rd Berta Rousseau 1977 MG MGB BLW 2010 Rocker Box Racing TECH TIP Championship Tech Tips are supplied by The Little British Car Co., LTD

Drilling Holes In LBC Bodies This Issues Tech Tip Is From John Minchin. Drilling holes in pristine bodies for attachment of fittings, press studs, chrome strip buttons, badges etc can be daunting. How to stop the drill slipping and ruining your paintwork? I fashioned a guide from a piece of thin (1/16" or 1.5-2 mm) Aluminium Oct.10, 2010 (Aluminum) sheet about 17mm x WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! 150mm, with a 30 degree bend Fighting for the first door prize of the day ITimothy Yentsch halfway along. Then I drilled a variety and a year's lease on the rocker box race 63 Morgan 4/4 of standard hole sizes or groups of track, this year's field included last years Edward Dougherty holes in 1 flat section. Then I stuck winner, Piper's Alloy Racer and eight 74 Triumph Spitfire on some self adhesive closed cell other cars. The start of the track was foam to the underside of the drilled modified to allow for the longer straight Justin Mercier flat section about 3mm (1/8" ) thick six rocker boxes and also raised six 76 Triumph TR6 with suitable punched holes to align inches for higher speeds. To maintain the 77 Triumph TR7 with the drilled holes. sanity of the track setup crew, the divider Leanne Dyson between lanes was not fully installed and 73 MGB Then all you need to do is select ended about 24 feet from the end of the the drill bit size, and holding the non Mike Meisner track allowing for spectacular collisions. drilled section, position it where 67 Austin Healey 3000 (Causing a wreck does not disqualify a you want the hole press it against car.) Each pairing went two of three, Henry Herrmann the body, and drill the hole. The alternating lanes before advancing to the 49 MG-YT-Tourer foam prevents it from slipping, and next round. Unfortunately Piper's Alloy 57 Austin Mini prevents any damage from the drill Racer suffered a cracked CD wheel Bud Macomber hitting the plate. Easily copes with which had to be repaired with painters curved surfaces. tape. This seemed to slow the car down. Piper is planning on bringing extra wheels in 2011. Ultimately after serious 2010 BLW PHOTOS! challenges from Steve Harris and Yvonne Jacobson, your author won with the We have tons of photos copper clad boat tail special running on hard drive platter wheels. Anyone from the BLW, thanks to interested in getting started in this sport everyone that supplied should attend the A-Team event in the photos! They are available spring where rocker boxes will be to view and download at available. http://gallery.me.com/ -Bob Vogel cbohm/100382. Mark Your Calendar’s! Cape Cod British Car Club Winterfest 2011 is Coming!

The CCBCC Winterfest is scheduled for Saturday, Feb 12th 2011 at the Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor, 180 Water Street, Plymouth, MA 02360 6pm ‘ti! midnight!

go to www,CapeCodBritshCarClub.org for further details.

The Bronte Park British Car Show by Bruce Turner

Back in April, having just sent our monies to The Green entered the quaint college towns of North Adams and Mountain Inn as well as our registration for The British Williamstown where we left the Bay State behind and Invasion XX in Stowe Vt, I received an e-mail requesting us traveled into New York. to attend the Bronte Park British Car Show in Oakville, We cruised through Troy, the birthplace of Samuel Ontario on September 19th.. This being the 40th Wilkins, who UNCLE SAM is named after, over the Hudson anniversary of the Triumph Stag, the Stag Club of USA to Latham NY where we stopped for lunch at the Circle wanted to have 40 of the breed in attendance at this large Diner. Continuing on we rode through Scotia NY, a town show. Having met numerous members of this club back in that in the 1800's produced over 1 million brooms annually. 2007 and having them "bug" me for the past 3 years, Kate Sweeping through we arrived in Amsterdam NY, the and I discussed and decided to make this trek north. I birthplace of Benedict Arnold and Kirk Douglas. My sights contacted the Inn as well as Mike Gaetano and they were set on East Main St and the home of the Professional refunded our checks with our promise to see them both Wrestling Hall of Fame. This peculiar site, housing next year. memorials to my childhood heroes, is located in a storefront Wednesday, September 15 finally came and we headed and is open only on weekends. My desire was to locate a out for our eight day vacation. Our 1972 Stag showed custodian who would 97817 miles on it's odometer as we pulled out of our driveway at 8:45 AM. I had mapped this trip out, over the last month, with the plan to stay off the highways as much as possible. We drove through the small towns of Massachusetts in route to Providence RI then on up through Foster and Gloucester RI into the northeast corner of Connecticut. The large metropolis's of Pomfret and Grosvernerdale, Ct passed by as we entered back onto the south central byways of Massachusetts again, passing through Whately, Conway and Shelburne Falls. We got onto the Mohawk Trail, which is a road all British car owners should do at least twice. Florida, Mass flew by and then we "Simon" the Stag showing off his 1972 sticker here my cries to enter, but alas, all I was able to do was on Wednesday evening. I am always curious what toll takers leave my nose prints on the front glass windows, We did and custom officials think when he pulls up and they see take a few photos of me doing my best King Kong Bundy NO driver. We tell Dale that she should feign passing out impressions in front of the sign. If there had been a and hang out over the left side window as cars pass by. Or turnbuckle to bite I would have attempted my George "The maybe buy an old steering wheel and wave it over her head Animal" Steele. After a slow three count we left my "God's" with a look of horror on her face! behind and took aim toward Utica where we would spend The four of us took the Double Decker train into our first night. Toronto with our first stop the Hockey Hall of Fame. What We had a great meal at Georgio's in New Hartford then a great place. A lot of my beloved Bruins are enshrined as drove over to Killebrews, a Sports Bar where a young man well as a few of those hated Rangers and Flyers of the who played college football with my eldest son, down in 1970's. After wearing Ken Dryden's goalie pads and taking Fairfield CT, bartends two nights a week. After a nice some shots at a "real time goalie" we entered this huge reunion and two Smithwicks we headed back to the hotel safe, as this building was originally a bank. There in front of for the night. us was the Holy Grail, Lord Stanley's Cup. I didn't think we Thursday morning we woke to a cloudy sky so the roof would be able to get anywhere close to this sacred trophy came up for the first time in months. Wanting to get into when to our surprise the young lady in charge or the room Canada as quick as possible we headed onto Rte 90 for the 188 miles to the border. We made it to Syracuse when the skies opened up. The Stag was dry and warm during the two hours of torrential rain. Going through customs at Niagara Falls we were disappointed that our new passports weren't stamped. We wanted to be known as world travelers. After a quick question of "What does TRYUMP mean on your plate"? we were off to Oakville, Ontario. Friday morning we connected with Rand Torman and his lovely wife Dale, for a trip into Toronto. Rand lives 15 miles from us in Dartmouth, Mass, and he drove his right hand drive Stag up Bruce with "bobbie" waiting to be clubbed told us to go on up and take as many pictures as we liked. We following. This is a very uncommon sight. The most Stags I all took advantage of this rare opportunity. had ever seen before in one place was 26 at VTR 2007. We After a nice lunch at the Irish Pub, Fionn MacCools we ended up with thirty six on the show field. 39 had signed up took a walking tour of beautiful Toronto. We had to get back but for those who know the breed we can guess where the to our Hotel's as the Stag Club of USA was hosting a dinner other three might be! back in Burlington at the Queens Head Pub. What a pleasure Having always been in attendance at the British Invasion seeing so many of our friends that we had met back in 2007 during this particular weekend and seeing 600-800 cars at the VTR in Valley Forge, PA. We did a lot of catching up there, you can imagine my enthusiasm to make the rounds over drinks and eats then headed back to the host hotel and take in the 1400 cars on this field. I enjoy seeing the where a large group of Stag owners were staying. Their unusual and peculiar models, some that were never imported hospitality suite was a blast and more laughs and medicinal into the States. Eight rolls of film were shot of many of the compound was consumed. makes I will likely never see again. There were two Marcos Saturday, Kate and I headed toward that "ocean" the being shown. Two English Ford Police cars, a 1962 Consul locals call Lake Ontario. We spent four hours in the with a uniform clad Bobby standing by for pictures, as well as fashionable and upscale area of downtown Oakville. After a 1966 Corsair. Three DeLoreans an Anglia, a GT40 and a spending some Loonies and Toonies ( I can't get use to that quirky 1977 Austin Mini 3 wheeler. monopoly like money) we hooked up again with the Stag club Our Stag didn't take any award in it's class. Our's is a for dinner. More laughs and awards were handed out. Kate driver and we wash it once a year if it needs it or not! The and I won the longest distance traveled (driven) as well as camaraderie, kindliness and laughter that we shared with our the trivia contest. All those years of storing useless Triumph friends will never be forgotten. Four Canadian information in my brain finally paid off as I am now the proud members have already penciled in Stowe Vermont for next owner of Stag antlers to be worn atop my pate. September where Kate and I can repay their friendship and Sunday we were up early and headed the twelve miles to host them in "our hood". Bronte Park where the Toronto Triumph Club was hosting We spent the next three days slowly meandering the the car show. Upon our arrival we found four other Stag's back roads of Ontario and New York with stopes in Niagara- already on site, when a few minutes later, here comes the on-the-Lake for a day and then two days in Cooperstown, HERD. Led by Canadian member Tony Fox, making the NY where we took in our third Hall of Fame on this trip, winding drive into the show field, were 27 more Stags Baseball. Pulling into home on Wednesday evening, the 38 year old odometer showed 99284 for a total of 1467 miles traveled in cozy comfort. I know we all realize how fortunate we are to be British car owners and I guess I'm even luckier to have been the buyer and owner for 19 years, of one of the dependable models of this fun STAG. Well, you all know what has happened since then. Our expected membership of 25-35 was off by a factor of 10. We were just muddling through, not really knowing what we were doing. But we fooled you all and you all must have enjoyed the muddling through as well. Thank you for the great ride.

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