G r a c e l a n d s, Gracelands I am going to Gracelands! Doc Colin Whyatt has revealed from his trip to Trump country with his wife that he is a devotee of the one and only, love me tender, Elvis who had a great collection( still has) of cars especially the 1960 red Twin Cam MGA. Check it out on the website if you can, Colin in the Elvis outfit would not be a good look. Andrew Bate is getting nostalgic about the TF now that he has it out and coming to meetings, the Mortlock Library might be the next place that we start searching for former owners of his car. We are still on the case Andrew. TF 35594, does that ring a bell? Russell Garth never ceases to amaze with his antics, the 30 year old restoration on the TF is showing, the candle power of his lights is so bad someone needs to walk in front with a torch, Buckley will get you one from China Russ. However he has graced the net in“ Bookface” recently at Blackwood with some precision parking in the TF extracting it from a tight lie between two shopping cars in the centre, I have not seen it but I believe it’ s true! Peter Shipside has had a good experience with an old fashioned engineering firm in Melbourne who did a great job on his Prewar WA Drophead he says, good old fashioned service and completely reliable. B & B Engineering I think he said, breakfast is at 9 am. Brian“ The Gold” Golding got off the Quatar flight at 10.00 pm the previous
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night and got Ronnie Jellet to accompany him on the drive up from Murray Bridge for the meeting. Two things of note, the sheer enthusiasm to tell us all about the festival of speed at Goodwood in the UK and allowing Ronnie to have the side curtains up in the TC, mate you are a legend. Peter Cundy presented to the meeting in the NA with starter motor in hand, strange that but he did send out a directive that suitable“ pushers” should be on hand to get him going after the meeting. I am not sure where the crank handle sits but considered too dangerous. Peter TD Micklem also presented to the meeting in trouble, said“ pushers” were summonsed to stop the traffic on South Road and get him around to Benjamin Street. It did appear that it was not going to start after the meeting, there was spark and petrol but the ex concurs TD was doing a Rolls Royce,“ Failing to advance forward”, guess he made it eventually, not sure where our RAA technical advisers were hiding though. A C Pearson. com has returned from a highly successful business trip to UK with his” bulbs”, than kyou for the Doug Pelton T Series parts Catalogues,
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