Report onTop of New England and British Invasion Tour

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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.