“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 41, No 1 FEBRUARY 2018 Editor: Michael Williams 10 Selwyn Parade Lyttelton Ph 328 8043, email mimiandmichael@yahoo.co.nz
Chairman: Secretary:
Club Officers: Craig Keenan 322 4984 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 8th of February. We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: Welcome to the first Dripfeed of the year, with another year of motoring stretching before us. This year is of course Monte Carlo year, the first time we have held it in four years, so a good deal of committee time and energy will go into organising what we hope will be a well patronised event. It will be at Show Weekend, which is the 16th-18th of November, so start booking accommodation at Akaroa soon. Even if you don’t intend to enter, any offers of organisational help will be gratefully received. Most of you will be aware of the death of Bob Scott in December, and will have read an excellent obituary written by John Coomber in the latest Beaded Wheels. Bob was our first chairman, when the Banks Peninsula branch was founded in 1976, and he was instrumental in guiding it through its early years, not always an easy task. Cars and yachting were the two great hobbies of Bob’s life, and John covered these aspects very well. But the other aspects of Bob that everyone at the funeral spoke about were his kindness, his good nature, and his generosity. Like many others, when I first joined the branch, Bob made a point of welcoming me, showed a very informed interest in my car, and at every subsequent event, went out of his way to make time to talk to me. Many other members had the same experience. The story I like the best about Bob concerned a very young George Calder, about 52 years ago, on his first VCC run, on an early Harley Davidson. The