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February Car In The Room I
that the club was not the logo; we were about vehicles, motoring and people. Other branches members were split roughly 50/50 for and against and their branch vote was narrowly won. In the end I voted for the change, but it was lost 17 for 18 against.
We were also advised that if a member asks for all their information to be supressed, we should not mention their name, phone number or their vehicles in the branch magazines. The new members form has separate spaces for name and/or vehicle information to be suppressed.
The clubroom carpet has come to the end of its life in that it is delaminating. We are getting quotes for replacement with carpet tiles.
February Car In The Room - I by Ronald Mayes
Terry Fitzpatrick’s 1973 BMW 2002 Tii
Terry and Sandra regularly appear on club runs in this bright red car and in February Terry brought it into the clubrooms. He commenced his presentation by giving us a potted history of Bayerische Motoren Werke A.G. then told us all about the car.
824,899 2-Series cars were produced from 1970 to 1976, with engines ranging from 1500cc to 1600, 1800 and 2000cc plus a turbocharged version. Terry’s car, a 2002 Tii, has a 2 litre overhead camshaft, fuel-injected 128bhp engine, one of 2446 right hand drive examples, of which only 10 came to New Zealand.
A Remuera doctor was the first owner and two others followed before Terry obtained it 41 years ago. He said that, with all that power in a car weighing only 1010kgs, it could accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 8.8 seconds and had a top speed of 190 km/h, so is a very lively performer indeed. But he was quick to explain that, in deference to its rarity, he does not push it to those extremes.
