FABAC Holiday Party - Wednesday Dec 10 - Fredericton Inn

Our FABAC Holiday party reservation has been made for the Fredericton Inn - Brass Rail restaurant for 5:30 on Wednesday Dec 10.

Our dinner choices will be off the regular menu

We need to get an idea of attending numbers so please sign up on our site as soon as possible. We will use this number to confirm numbers for our reservation.

  Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

    Seasons Greetings to Everyone,

                    Gary

The Secret British LEGEND That Nobody Remembers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4B_N-KpwM

(Passed along by John D.)

Grand Falls Trip

What a great day for 515 km drive along the St. John River! From Hartland to Grand Falls the leaves are about 80% gone but a great view of the river. I would rate the road 8 out 10 for driving on. We had a great day, wonderful meal, and fantastic people to spend a fall day with. I would like to thank Phil, Chris, Mark and Ernst. Also our new members, for their hospitality—Mike Blanchard, owner of the yellow TR6,Trina and Dave Kearney, owner of green MGB. Dave is doing a great job on restoring Terry Pond's MGB. They hope to join us on trips this summer. Yes, we had three MGB, two Mazdas and two Triumphs. 

Cheers,

John 

Click on photo for larger versions.

Owl's Head Museum

Quite a few FABAC members have been to the Owl’s Head Transportation Museum. It’s a wonderful place with numerous exhibits of cars, trucks, aircraft, motorcycles, steam engines and even a Gypsy Wagon.  I came across this on YouTube today.

Phil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZo9uTXYJ4   What Happens to Barn Finds if No One Buys Them - Owls Head Museum | Barn Find Hunter

A planned Saturday trip to Grand Falls

Road trip Saturday October 25. Ernst, Mark and I are planning on a drive from Fredericton to Grand Falls. 

• Meeting at the gas station in Kingclear for 9:00am. 
• Leaving at 9:30am driving on route 105 to Grand Falls. Possibly meeting up with two new members that live between Florenceville and Beechwood. 
• Then driving on to Grand Falls for lunch. We will picking a restaurant upon arrival.
• Then driving back on route 130 Perth Andover onto Woodstock. 
• Driving through Woodstock to connect with route165 and route 102 to Fredericton. 

It is roughly 450 km round-trip. Or six hours total driving.

Cheers,

John

Birthday Boy!!!

 Birthday boy Bruce is having a nostalgic moment this morning as he reaches the 3/4 century mark 😊.

Johanna ❤️

Report on the Four Ferry Run

Another great day for a drive in eight British Sport Cars. The fall colours were incredible—there are still 60% of leaves on the trees. I would like to thank Rose, Henning, Beth, Chris, Rick, Mark, Gordon, Mike, his friend Dave Shipley and Ernst for coming along for the a great drive. We had great food and wonderful people too—it made for a great day. 

Cheers,

John

This is beginning to look like the "good old days" of our club. A GOOD sign!
Be SURE to click on that first image for a larger view of all the photos.

Octobers Meeting Low Attendance

 First of all, thanks to Bob E. for filling in for me while we were away. Let's hope that having no one show up for the October meeting was a "one of " occurrence. Past meetings normally have a good turn-out relative to the number of active members in the club. I think, while this is concerning, that a lot of our regular membership including ourselves, were unable to attend due other commitments. So let's see what happens in the near future. 

Also, I like the idea of doing the November meeting at Minglers again and agree with your assessment of it offering good food at a reasonable price. At that meeting we'll also ensure we ask for committed numbers for the Holiday Party at the Fredericton Inn. 

  Thanks,

    Gary 

Last night's dinner-meeting-show...show?

    The October dinner saw us explore a new venue last night by way of the Fredericton Playhouse. No one showed up at Mingler's (zero, zip, nothing, nada, rien) leaving Dianne and I to dine alone before heading to the Playhouse for the show (Bee Gees tribute band....Wow!) where we met another couple of FABACians, doubling the count.  During the intermission we held an impromptu meeting and decided that:

• Next month's dinner will again be at Mingler's.  The food is excellent with generous portions.  Service was quick and prices were VERY reasonable.  There's also tons of (free) parking right outside.
• The holiday party will be at the Fredericton Inn.  We won't ask for the buffet since we can't count on sufficient numbers. The date will be announced soon~ish.
• The idea of having the holiday part at King's Landing is a no-go because dinners are ONLY on certain dates, you can have any meal you want as long as you ONLY want turkey and the traditional fixings, and the price is a wallet-choking one hundred bucks PER PERSON.  Ya, I laughed at this too.
• The annual Octoberfest run is on the 26th (Sunday) of this month (October).  It will be earlier this year to avoid the afternoon rush. This will give us more time to relax and chat. See the post.

    After the record breakingly quick meeting we all rocked and grooved to the Bee Gees tribute band who were absolutely spectacular. I never really liked the Bee Gees that much but was sucked into the mood and had a blast. My mate (a HUGE fan) regressed back to her younger years as she boogied.  

   Rob E.

Oktoberfest Run

 Oct run to Adolf's Gasthoff Old Bavarian Restaurant Oct. 26th

Note that it's earlier this year to avoid the HUGE rush in the early afternoon.

1130 Knightville Road

Menu https://oldbavarian.ca/menu/
They now accept modern payment methods.

Contact the restaurant (1-506-433-4735) NOW if you plan on attending.

Tell them that you are with FABAC.  The reservation is under my name.

      Gather at Ramada Inn parking lot (north side) on Sunday, Oct 26th at 10:15, rain or ...it's gonna rain of course so there's no contingency plan for sunshine.

The route:

• Depart the parking lot at 12:15 sharp along the scenic 105. A short detour along the boring Trans Canada to avoid the partially demolished bridge. 
• Regain the 105 after Jemseg and turn left onto the 695 heading towards Cambridge Narrows. 
• After Crossing the bridge at Cambridge Narrows we turn left onto the lovely and relaxing 710. 
• The 710 makes a right turn somewhere after someplace named 'Cody's'. 
• Join up with the straight and boring (but thankfully short) highway 10, 
• Just before Sussex, turn left onto Roachville Rd.  I don't remember if there's much of a sign there but if we/you miss it, you/we can pick it up soon after at the interchange. 
• Follow Roachville Rd a while until you see the right hand turn onto Knightville Rd....which is on the right. At some point the restaurant will appear on the right.

     Maps or GPSs are well advised.  I no longer get lost and lead folks astray, but we may become separated. We hope to get there around 12:00. 

We hope that some of our old friends from Moncton join us. 

  Rob E.