“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 45, No 7 AUGUST 2022. Editor: Michael Williams 10 Selwyn Parade Lyttelton Ph 328 8043, email mimiandmichael@yahoo.co.nz
Chairman: Secretary:
Club Officers: Craig Keenan 322 1006 Ron Hasell 942 1105
Branch Address: 27 Showgate Ave, ChCh 8042 E-mail: bankspeninsula@vcc.org.nz Noggin & Natter: 2nd Thursday of the Month • Noggin 7.30 pm at the Papanui RSA. Upham Room – enter either from 55 Bellvue Ave or the first entrance on the left on Harewood Road (Papanui / Main North Road) • Thursday 11th of August. • We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Yet another slim volume in terms of quality content, as I’ve been in San Francisco for the last three weeks, trying to re discover my inner hippie, and attending the wedding of my eldest nephew. Without wishing to turn Dripfeed into a what I did in my holidays publication, I can report that Haight Ashbury is a shadow of its former self, although shops selling wonderfully tasteless tie died T shirts are everywhere. In car terms, Teslas are also everywhere, as are hybrids of all makes. At the other end of the scale, those gigantic Dodge Ram type trucks that we don’t really see here, were more common in the Napa Valley, amongst the four hundred vineyards, some of which we felt obliged to investigate.
A growth area of Dripfeed is the Editorial Blunders Dept, as Gavin Bain has gleefully pointed out to me. Blunder number one in the July issue was the incorrect spelling of Ted Loversidge in the last issue, and Blunder number two concerned the Donald Wright Bentley, which I described as a 3 litre model. That mistake didn’t concern Donald, who is a fairly relaxed sort of chap, but it did concern Gavin. The Bentley in question is a 4 and a half litre model, chassis number UK 3285, and was delivered new William Hudson of Cadbury Fry Hudson of Dunedin in 1929. Grovelling apologies.