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Chairman’s Run
Chairman’s Run Sunday, 21 March by Dennis Whimp What a great way to spend Sunday. Having lunch with 45 happy car enthusiasts with their 20 club vehicles surrounded by gleaming radiators on the Rolls Royce cars in Chairman Dave’s large Ngongotaha shed. Each year it is the Chairman’s privilege to organise a run for club eligible vehicles, the winner of which receives a trophy at the June awards dinner. There is no problem taking a modern vehicle if you don’t have a club vehicle, but you can’t win the trophy. This year Dave set a simple run, leaving from his Ngongotaha shed, out around the mountain on Paradise Valley road, onto Pukehangi and Springfield Roads, and back to the shed. A request for navigators before we started was a great idea and meant that each car had at least two in it. The directions were plain and simple, but the many questions had a few scratching their heads and resulted in a wonderful slow drive as letterboxes and signs were scanned for the answers. The shops at the Springfield/ Otonga Road intersection must have wondered what was going on as all the carparks were full of club cars with people out reading all the fine print to find out what the 5 letter word was that went in front of “Beautiful”. What complicated it was that there was the Beauty Therapy Skin Clinic there with lots of written advertising on the window plus a large power box sign written about Jean Batten, the beautiful aviator. The answer was on the veranda signwriting above the parked vehicles. CRAZYBEAUTIFUL. (a hairdressing salon). Although I pass by these shops regularly, the run showed me how you miss the detail. Just to make sure he had a winner, Dave had 3 questions at the end of the run that he asked of each driver. These were based on the March magazine covers and only two cars got all 3 correct. We then had a tasty finger food lunch very kindly prepared and provided by Dave and Fleur. Later Dave said it was cheaper to put on lunch rather than go on a run as last month they spent more than that on fuel for the two V8s that he and Fleur drove. Many thanks Dave and Fleur, a really enjoyable day.
