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April Night Run
1929 Austin 7 - Bill Skelton 1938 Buick Special - Ralph Bennett 1938 Morris 8 - Joe Hossack 1951 Armstrong Siddeley Whitley - John Newson 1949 Riley RMB - Alan Barnes 1959 Austin-Healy Sprite - Ross Munro 1957 Vauxhall Velox - Neil Handley 1958 Studebaker Golden Hawk - Neville Harper 1973 Rover P6 - Tom Fyfe 1967 Jaguar E Type - Alan Judd 1968 Triumph Vitesse - Bob Mackay 1975 Triumph Stag - Roger Nelson 1972 MG Midget - Jason Munro 1973 Citroen DS - Ken Thomas 1964 Riley - Terry Wadsworth 1970 Triumph 2000 - Ronald Mayes 1981 Mercedes Benz 280CE - Shona Wickham 1990 Ford Capri - Kevin Scott Modern - Michael Thorne
April Night Run by Fleur Tomlinson Kate and I arrived at the clubrooms to help Ronald, Gloria, Carol, Neville and Ralph set up. Tables were quickly put up and set all ready for dinner. Carol and Neville had already been in and done the spuds so we set about getting things ready for the rest of the night. Wasn’t long before other club members started arriving. Michael with his newly purchased Alfa GTV6 which soon had its bonnet up and the male folk inspecting it inside and out. It was a great turn out of cars and members from old to modern. We were soon sitting down to warm dinner of Peas, Pie and Spuds. Thanks to Couplands for the yummy pies and Ronald for going and getting them. Ralph for being the spud masher which has become his job. Carol, your kitchen skills were par excellence and not a thing was out of place all night. Ronald and Gloria were soon dishing out plate after plate of warm food.
After full bellies were had by us all we were soon given instructions by Ronald about the Night Run and given the instruction sheets. Some cryptic questions which threw you off and made you think but its all part of the course. We soon had our torches at the ready, engines revving and we were off. The run took us around town finding clues which were mostly mottos to do with schools, businesses and a few other places filling in the gaps on the pages. With trying not to hold up too much traffic and not getting tooted at we managed to make our way around the course without any accidents, injury or breakdown. One car lost their headlights and had to go back home and change cars mid course, but we all got there in the end. The tie breaker questions were very interesting to say the least and taught us all something about our city and the streams that run underneath it (who knew there 3 of them we do now). Dessert time thanks to Carol’s amazing baking skills we had the most yummy Chocolate Brownie (still waiting for the recipe Carol) with ice cream, berry coulis and whipped cream. I guess we find out who will be putting on the run next year at the Prize Giving when the results will announced. Thank you to everyone to who helped make the night a fun night for us all. Especially Ronald and Gloria.
Night Run Entrants Neville and Carol Harper - 1958 Studebaker Neil and Sharon Handley - 1957 Vauxhall Tom and Olive Fyfe - 1973 Rover Geoff and Christine Nitz - Modern Fleur and Kate Tomlinson - 1977 Mercedes-Benz Dave and Alex Tomlinson - 1979 Rolls-Royce Alan and George Judd - 1963 Jaguar Pat Burr & Shona Wickham - 1981 Mercedes-Benz Dennis Brown & Jenny Cole - Modern Michael Thorne - 1985 Alfa Romeo John and Gay Newson - 1951 Armstrong-Siddeley (continued on next page...)
