The club's monthly dinner meeting was held in Oromocto at the Diamond House Chinese restaurant on Restigouche road. The parking lot filled quickly as LBC after LBC rolled in. We even had a couple of BDDs (Boring Daily Driver) show up and quickly set about harrassing the drivers who dared NOT drive their LBCs while the weather was still nice. The star of the show was Phil O. who arrived in his shiny and newly rebuilt MGB-now-V8. He'd just completed a very nice installation of a 3.5 litre Rover V8 in the car and proudly displayed his handywork. By this time the club had broken into two groups with the gentlemen in one corner oohing and ahing as we peered into Phil's engine compartment; and the ladies in the other corner. While the skies darkened, a total of 17 cars assembled and we eventually wandered inside.
The smallish restaurant was filled to capacity as we took over and began moving tables around in order to (mostly) sit together. This caused Stephen W to play musical chairs as he was forced several times to move due to yet another incoming table. While on the subject of Stephen, did anyone else notice that both he and Jim Bleakney were wearing (again) the same shirt?
Eventually we stopped fooling around with tables and chairs and got down to business with Gary leading the discussion on upcoming runs and events. There is a flea market and (small) car show in Sussex this weekend while the BalloonFest follows two weeks later on the 12th of Sept. Gagetown will be holding a 'GagetownFest' on the long weekend coming up (fast!). Several folks are planning on attending the Stowe show in Vermont on the 17-18-19th of Sept. Our sorta-traditional Octoberfest run up north has yet to be planned. BATANS will be making a run to Owl's Head in Maine in October and we were encouraged to join them.
Bob Laroche talked about last weekend's (fabulous) run and suggested that the host, Tony Rickett, be given a memento of some sort. After arguing a bit about the location of next month's dinner we all headed out and made our way across the Burton Bridge to wander up the 105 to the giant potato for ice cream. The clouds had passed us by and it remained a warm and dry evening.
- Bob E.
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