“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 44, No 1february 2021. 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 February. • We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Welcome to 2021, and another year of motoring and more slanderous editions of Dripfeed. Our motoring year has been very busy already, with three of our main events happening in the first five weeks, and with our usual calendar to follow. But this year is Rallye Monte Carlo year, and already enquiries are flooding in from as far away as Dunedin, as the Boyd Wilkinson, Paul Coghill, David Hunter team seek to improve on their previous humiliating failure. Boyd is attending remedial reading classes, so that he can actually read the instructions this time, and in a rare perceptive moment, has realised that even if his team does read the instructions, chances of success in a British car are limited, so he’s taking his Peugeot 205 GTi this time. But alas for French hopes, there is a new organising committee this year, lead by Giles Gill, lifelong Morgan tragic, Don Gerrard, MGB owner, and Brian Smith, Morris 8 owner, so for the first time, British car owners and their stiff upper lips dominate the committee, thus giving Mini Coopers with dodgy headlamp bulbs a chance of victory. I’m sure this will inspire Bruce McIlroy and Ramon Farmer to get out their tweed jackets and re commission their Rollers, and even some MGB owners might form the Abingdon Alsorans in a quest for victory. For Monte Carlo virgins, it will be held at Canterbury Show Weekend, which is the 12th, 13th 14th of November, finishing at Akaroa. Now that Michael Pidgeon has retired from Auto Restorations, he has decided to have a career change and has become a very specialised Social Worker. He’s become a car rescuer. Sort of like a horse whisperer really. This little known job involves feeling sorry for a car that’s in a nearly terminal state, and also the owner, who invariably is too after they hear what the repairs will cost. So that’s how Michael came to be the proud owner of a1968 Mercedes 280 saloon, which he cunningly put in