“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 42, No 1 FEBRUARY 2019 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 14th of February. We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Welcome to 2019 and another year of motoring. This is the 41st year of the Banks Peninsula branch, and we forgot to acknowledge the 40th in suitable fashion, so some sort of celebration is in order. The highly trained group of zealous professionals, otherwise known as the committee will think of something suitable and let you know. I was given the club records recently. These highly sensitive documents came in a well used old school case, rather like the sort that some of us of a certain age might have taken to school, plus an equally old and battered expanding file thing, held together with elastic. The contents were equally old and battered, consisting mainly of back copies of Dripfeed, and some wonderfully indignant letters to the editor. Highly entertaining, as were the cartoons of Dapper Dave Richardson, some of which will appear again. Best of all was the discovery of a wonderful article by the late Derek Margetts, “Some Motoring Meanderings of Margetts.” Derek was an early member of the VCC, and in 1949, while still at Boys’ High with Warner Mauger, became a member of the Bugatti Owners’ Club. (No, he didn’t own a Bugatti). A man of great style and erudition. The other consistent feature of the old Dripfeeds were the regular reports of the snail like progress that Craig Keenan was making on the Talbot. Twenty eight years later the Talbot is going, with some degree of reliability, and is about to take part in an extended Talbot rally in the North Island.