Chairman’s Report
- December 2020 by David Tomlinson
December’s club night saw me bring in my 1977 Mercedes-Benz roadster at short notice as the car in the room, and we finished our year’s activities off on the following Sunday with the High Tea run which meandered around the western side of Rotorua and finished with a fairly substantial repast at Terry Wadsworth’s home. Thank you to Lois, Dorothy, Terry and Shelley, and all the other helpers that made this a wonderful day out. We can thankfully now say “goodbye” to 2020, probably one of the worst years in modern history, maybe since the end of WW2 in 1945. Although here in New Zealand we have not had to suffer to the extremes felt in other countries, our lives were disrupted, many lost jobs or part of their income, and even our branch had to cancel some key events as well as club nights and monthly runs. We did our best to put the Swap Meet on at a later date, but the “second outbreak” in Auckland meant it was too difficult to proceed with certainty. The Sulphur City Rally did not happen either in 2020. We are now in a new year, and our branch’s activities started off well with the Lakefront Car Show. Despite a very good weather forecast right up until the day, we started off in misty drizzle which did not clear until mid-morning. I understand that parts of the Waikato and Bay Of Plenty had quite heavy rain all morning, which impacted the number of cars on display. It was very noticeable that open top cars were far and few between. We did get over 400 cars on the lawn, so while slightly down on last year, it was still more than any other previous year. 2
Side Curtains February 2021
