Lily Lake Car Show

Click on this photo to see more from Jim & Ellie.

   What a great day it turned out to be!  With 5 cars from Fredericton and another 4 cars from Saint John plus a visitor car we had a superb turn out that  matched the beautiful day and surroundings of the venue at the scenic Fisher Lakes area at Rockwood Park in Saint John.

  Ralph H made the initial recommendation to attend this and did the ground work which found us a top shelf parking location in a green area near a small lake — idyllic in every way. So much so that in combination with Ralph's superb MGA, gave him a top show award. Please see attached photos. Congratulations Ralph for the win and many thanks for the recommendation and the help..

  The show itself had a great turnout with many various vehicles including classics, hot rods, era muscle cars, trucks of all types, a very interesting Jeep collection and many more different categories. Something to fill every interest. There was also a display of the new Sling Shot tricycle vehicle made by Polaris, a unique vehicle in every regard. This demo seemed to be a major draw for our FABAC members.

   On site there was fast foods, a barbeque burgers/dogs and for those who wanted to walk the scenic 20 minute walk, the well known Lily restaurant.

 For the show's first year, judging from the attending crowds, the participation, the beautiful venue and the weather all made for a wonderful event that I would highly recommend it for a future event to attend. Well done and many thanks to the organizers.

  It too was so good to see our Saint John members Ralph H, Terry and Kim W, David B and Barry G at the event. We met several other new folks from the area who we hope will join our group.

 The organizers there were very happy to see us attend their inaugural event.

 I'm sure there will be other pix for viewing as they become available.

   Thanks,
     Gary

Rockwood Park Classic Car Show Update

The tour to the above event is still on. Ralph Holyoke, our intel person on the ground there, tells me that the distance from the show to the restaurant is more then a short walk as previously mentioned. So there are some options for lunch:

• Walk the distance — approximately 20 minutes through nice trails from the venue to the restaurant.
• Bring a picnic lunch, which is what I'm going to do.
• There will be fast food vendors at the venue.

 Ralph is also saying that the event is getting a lot of local promotion and is expecting it to be well attended.
We will be leaving from the Tim Hortons on Hanwell Road at 9:00am Saturday morning. 
Ralph will meet us at the site with a parking area for our group.

  Hope to see many there.
  Gary

Report onTop of New England and British Invasion Tour

Click on the John's beautiful MGB for more photos.

Fourteen hundred and eighty-two miles in 10 days through Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Perfect top down weather for most of the way. Great company. And thirty-two miles per Imperial gallon consumed by the MGB with not one bad moment to spoil the trip.

That sums up our recent experience of the Top of New England tour organized by a team of BATANS members. We joined the tour in Saint John after FABAC’s tour to Kingston, lunch at The Carter House and the visit to Tony Rickett’s Dunham Run vineyard. From Saint John, the tour crossed the border in St. Stephen before heading for Bangor and points south and west. Tour highlights included the Galen Cole Family Transportation Museum, a lakeside lunch party, the Mt. Washington Auto Road, (summit 6288 feet above sea level), the spectacular Mt. Washington Hotel, the Cannon Aerial Tramway and the 600 plus British cars on display at the British Invasion show in Stowe, Vermont. While In Stowe, we enjoyed the company of dinner one evening with Joe H and friend Mark Bond (of Mr. Bean fame at the Windsor show).

We were on our own on the way back as the BATANS folk took the ferry from Portland to Yarmouth, We overnighted in Bangor and arrived back in Fredericton, pretty happy at the experience and the MG performance. By the way, the pictures include the Best of Show winning red Daimler SP250 and Best Rolls-Royce.

John B.

Larry & Sandi make a sterling offer to let off some steam.

Hello Folks,
Following the feedback we received during our last meeting, we have decided to host our model Steam/Stirling/Turbine engine get together on Saturday, October 31st.  Please reserve this date, details to follow later. 
Cheers,
Larry & Sandi 

FABAC Christmas Party - Dec 16 McGinnis Landing

I have made our Christmas party reservations at McGinnis Landing for Wednesday Dec 16. We will have the Library section.
Details to be worked out at our next regular meeting.
   Gary

Rockwood Park Classic Car Show - Saturday Sept 26

 I'll be leading the group that will be attending this car show on Saturday Sept 26. We will be leaving from Tim Hortons (top of Hanwell Rd) at 9am. This will be weather dependent.

  Our route will be via TCH#7 to Saint John. Arriving in Saint John we will take Exit 121 off the Harbor Bridge onto Hilyard St and proceed along Paradise Row, Burpee St,  Mt Pleasant and into the Lily Lake Park arriving there around 11am.

  There is a $10.00 fee to attend the show which all goes to support 3 separate charities; S.P.C.A. , T.A.D.D. NB and Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids.

   I'm told the show event is a short walking distance to the Pavilion Restaurant, Lily's, which we have visited in the past and have found to be a great restaurant.......their fish and chips dinner is rated very good.

   Our Saint John contact Ralph Holyoke will also be attending and will organize a space for us at the show.

   Please let me know if you are able to attend so I can make the appropriate restaurant reservations.

   Gary

British Invasion 2015 - Stowe - Joe's photo essay

Click on a Jag for more great photos.

Click on this photo for a larger version.

FABAC September Meeting report from Bob E.

  With the summer doldrums hanging heavy in the air, a boisterous group of FABACians played catch up with each other over the events of the past month. Gary eventually quieted everyone down (barely) and conducted what passes for business with FABAC.

• He first introduced Mark Bond, a BATANian who was visiting from Nova Scotia on his way through to the British field meet in Stowe Vermont in the company of Joe.
• Trisha and Barry, visitors from the island, where introduced by the Crumley's.
• Pat Peterson introduced his newly restored MGB to the gathering and promised to contribute to the trail of oil which follows us wherever we go.
• Gary (again) thanked Rita & Robert for their cottage visit. 
• Regrets where expressed over the cancellation of the AMP visit due to weather.
• The Carter House run of last weekend was a huge success with eleven cars taking part. 
• Robert took the floor and thanked Joe for the F1 race day at his garage.  After lambasting Joe for the bare spot on his wall, he presented Joe with a large print of a technical drawing of a 2CV engine.
• Larry offered to host another garage visit to his place where we might play with his collection of miniature engines.  The date has yet to be determined.
• There will be a car show at Rockwood Park in St Johns on the 26th/27th of Sept. Exact timings will be published here.
• Jim B will be scheduling an Octoberfest visit to Adolph's Restaurant near Sussex for the last weekend in October.  We will take the opportunity to request the company of the Moncton Foreign Car Club again so that we might perform the annual ceremonial exchange of the MGB mud flaps.
• It was proposed that we schedule a trip to Owl's Head, Maine to visit the museum for next year.
• The next meeting will be in Nackawic on the 14th of Oct with a backup of McGinnis's Landing the following week.
• The Christmas party will take place at McGinnis's Landing on the 16th of December. The date has yet to be confirmed.

   We wished Mark and Joe a succesful and uneventful trip to Stowe as they drove off into the setting sun.  For once, we didn't go for ice cream.
- Bob E.

UK Motor gathering

There may be some interest in this video, about 17 minutes, but they all drive on the wrong side of the road!  J
 Phil

Saltburn by the Sea Historic Motor Gathering 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=874&v=fPdtXPgeFJk

FABAC September Meeting this Wednesday!

September 16th. To be held at Sam Snead's at the Kingsway Golf Club on the Hanwell Road somewhere around 5:30 or 6:00.

Carter House Run 2015

Click on John for several more photos from Bob E.

(If clicking doesn't take you to a slideshow, click here to see the pictures in an album format.)

1. Gary and Barb made it home fine. 
2. Hi Corey, and sorry for not featuring a picture of your Midget.  New cars in the gang always merit having their cars showcased but I was busy swooning over the Jags.  It won't happen again. 
3. No Jag parts were left on the cable at the ferry terminal...this year.

       A full eleven cars turned out today for another run to the Carter house on the Kingston peninsula for a turkey dinner.  The roads were in generally good repair, the weather cooperated, and the cars ran well... at least for the first part.
       A cheery red 1965 MG Midget (a first in a long time for our group) was piloted by Corey, and Gail and Dave E. brought along their late model Jag XK.   We did our best to make them feel welcome and hope that they'll become regulars.  As Corey lives just around the corner from me, I imagine it won't take long for him to discover my extensive stash of tools, the free advice, and the secret FABAC brewery.
       Dinner was much too filling, as it always is, and was enjoyed by all.   However, ominous clouds hung over one of the cars as we wandered back to the lot after eating.  A small puddle of anti-freeze was seeping out from under Gary's TR6 forcing him to tighten all his hose clamps while we stood around and made helpful and consoling noises.  He decided to head straight home, becoming the first and only sorta-casualty.
      The rest of us continued on a few Ks up the road to Durham's run where we sampled some of Tony Rickett's finest.  While there, I may have also stumbled onto a secret but will keep my mouth shut...for now.
      With a few more cars heading straight back, the remainder, still a healthy six cars, continued along the shore to the Westfield ferry where we stopped for ice cream before wandering back along the 102.
      Thanks to John for another great event and we hope you all have a terrific time in Stowe.
     Bob E.

Some of the most beautiful photographs of some of the most fascinating automobiles

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/gallery/13158/Panhard-10hp-Cab.html

Goodwood Live Steaming this weekend

Here's a really good way to get a taste of the Goodwood Revival weekend with some great cars in racing mode.
For a timetable click here.
For Live streaming click here.
(Thanks to Joe H. for the heads up on this event.)

RESERVATIONS NEEDED FOR KINGSTON TOUR NEXT SUNDAY.

Urgent. Please email me at jmbowles@nb.sympatico.ca with your reservations for next Sunday’s tour to Kingston and the turkey lunch at The Carter House. Based on previous years, I have committed the club to lunch for 30 FABACians.

John B.

Could this be the ultimate barn find?

Dan N. found this fascinating story.

How Tesla cars are made—a fascinating documentary

http://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=0
Thanks to Herb W. for passing this along.

THE CARTER HOUSE IN KINGSTON TOUR, SEPT 13.

The fabulously popular tour to the Kingston Peninsula featuring a home-cooked turkey lunch with all the trimmings at the village’s historic 1810 Carter House is on again this year!

The rain-or-shine tour starts at the Ramada Inn, Fredericton, at 10:45 a.m, Sunday, Sept. 13, or from Saint John. Prepared by the volunteers at The Carter House, the lunch cost is $20—not $30 per person (in cash only please). Numbers are limited to the first 30 reservations made by emailing me at jmbowles@nb.sympatico.ca by the deadline, noon Tuesday Sept 8. Reservations made are a commitment to attend or pay in lieu. After lunch, tour participants will have a chance to visit the local museum and church before moving onto the Dunhams Run vineyard run by owner and British sports car enthusiast Tony Ricketts. Later, the Grand Bay-Westfield ferry will take us homeward bound.

The 1810 Carter House Team Room and Gift Shop (to give it its full name today) operates during July and August to serve tea and lunch from Tuesday and Saturday. The turkey lunch for FABAC members is a one-off by special arrangement. The Carter House is one of five heritage properties within the Kingston Historic District. The others are the Trinity Anglican Church dated 1789, its rectory dated 1788, the Union House also of 1788, and the Macdonald Consolidated School built in 1910.

John B.