“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 41, No 2 March 2018 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 8th of March. We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: A quiet month past, with no events happening, so Dripfeed this month will be full of idle gossip, and miscellaneous motoring trivia, with varying degrees of accuracy. Another apology seems in order, as our illustrious branch began in 1978, not 1976 as mentioned in the February issue. Welcome to two new members. Bill Cowie from Blenheim has a Holden Frangipelli single seater, which he was enthusiastically punting round Ruapuna at the Skope meeting last month. Roger Greaney from Napier has the ex Graeme Baker Lotus 20/22, and also a Buckler. Alasdair Brass, who was a Canterbury member, died recently. He was an enthusiastic supporter of our speed events in his immaculate Austin Cooper S, and raced it at Ruapuna only a week or so before his death. The branch extends its sympathy to his family. Branch member Jeremy Stace features in the latest issue of Classic Driver. So does his lovely E type, so it’s well worth a read. In the February edition of Dripfeed I wrote about a group of Bentleys that dropped into the McIlroy emporium, and particularly, an S2 that had belonged to the Queen Mother. I was wrong at every