Photo Archives Are Returning

For all of you who enjoyed viewing photographs of past FABAC runs, events, etc., you will be happy to hear that I am gradually adding them to this new site under "Photo Archives" found on the right hand side at the beginning of the green section.

Let me know any of your favourites that I haven't added, and I will get them on first.

Cold Weather Contest #1

Since you can't drive your little British cars in this cruel weather, why not show your stuff with a try at this little contest. A free life-time membership to our club is the prize. ;-) Here it is: Soon we will have a new member in our club having just recently moved to Fredericton from Ontario. He has a rather interesting British automobile, but rather than just coming out and telling you what it is, I am going to provide tantalizing bits of it on this site over the next few days until someone gets it. You can research it or guess at it or grumble about it, but by all means, add a comment. To do so you do not have to register, or give a password, or anything -- just participate. I would be happy even if you post a comment that simply says, "I don't have the London foggiest idea what that car might be!" On your mark! Get set! GO!
First correct answer wins!

Report on January 17th FABAC Meeting

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Wow... the cold weather certainly did not hinder our usual good meeting turn out. We had 24 folks show up for our dinner meeting held at McGinnis Landing Wednesday evening.
Here are the minutes of the meeting portion of our get together:
  • Jim Bleakney briefed us on a proposal from Jim Woodford to have a pot luck St. Patrick's day get together at his place. A lot of enthusiasm was shown in support of this. More details to come, but please start thinking about what to bring. Jim B to coordinate and will provide more detail for next meeting.
  • Just a reminder to make your reservations if you're planning to attend the PEI British car event this July 13-15/07. Most of us have been normally staying at the Saint Nicholas motel in North Rustico. I just made our reservations and was told the rooms are filling up fast, and not with our folks, so if your planning on attending then best make your reservations now: Call the included off season number to do that:
    off-season (902) 963-2897
    telephone (902) 963-2898
    This year's featured car will be the Morgan. Please check out the PEI car club info for more details.
  • We need to get our tour planning group together to begin the process of planning for the summer. The proposal was to tag it to the next meeting but it was thought we needed more time so it was felt we needed to get together for a separate get together. Gary to organize.
    The purpose of this group will be to put together a tour plan for the summer touring season which will then be presented to the group at large. It was generally felt we needed better planning as our previous way of putting together a tour proposal was at best a month advance notice and many times it much less. For many this just does not allow enough time, particularly in the busy summer months, to organize themselves to attend.
    As part of this plan, as well, we are asking folks, beyond those on the planning group, to step forward in leading a tour. To date this has fallen to just a very few and it's unfair to expect them to take this on continually.
    More to come on this later. If you have any tour plans that you would like to see happen now is the time to propose those to your tour committee. These people are:
    Barb Graham
    John Crumley
    David Strang
    Terry Johnson
    Phil Ossinger
    Gary Arsenault
  • There were several folks who asked me for MGB/Triump/Austin Healey supplier numbers for parts. For original parts e.g. SU carbs etc I normally purchase through Chris Hollum in Montreal. His number is 1-514-639-4639. I also do most of my other MGB and Triump purchasing from Peninsula Motors in Oakville Ont. All my Healey purchases are from Auto Farm 519-356-2427.
  • Next meeting (Wed Feb 21)will be back at McGinnis landing. Jim B to coordinate.
Best to everyone in the New Year,
Gary

A FABAC contest - Write and Win!

Hi All,
On David's suggestion I have moved this over from the Forum in order to get more exposure. We have had 70+ click thru to the other location and only one person took the 5 minutes to write anything down so here we go again. Let's hear about your first time.
OK, so we are in the new year and I went and purchased too many of the British Saloon Car Club of Canada 2007 calendars. Could be because I landed a spot in June with a great photo by Bob Earl with the Jaguar when in PEI, WOW. So here is the deal. In an effort to get more of you lookers participating in the forum you must write a little story entitled:
"MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH AN ENGLISH MOTOR CAR"
The best story will take home one of the spectacular calendars. Get those creative juices flowing and I will pick one from what will be hundreds of submissions.

Any Takers??????????????

Ralph

I won! I won! I won! Didn't I?!!!

First 'little' British car on the road in 2007!













Maybe I didn't really qualify, but hey, it's January 7th 2007, 3:30 pm and 3º C in the shade!

Here's another shot of the Morgan:






















...and what's with our honeysuckle?!!

Happy New Year! More like heaven in 2007!

Have a great year, folks. With all this global warming, we might soon be having runs in December and March.
By the way, adding a comment to any posting is simple now and requires no login or signing up, although signing up is not a bad idea. Just click on "comments" and, well, make a comment. How anyone could see Jim Woodford dancing on the lawn without making a comment about it beats me. ;-) Anyway, hope you continue to enjoy the website.