Hi Rande.
I'm the guy from Quebec City who immediately went back north, i went back
because my wife was sick ............%$?&*"%?$&*$%"&?*.
Anyway, thanks to the organiser, it was a good time i was in Maine. My
friends from Montreal are crazy.....Yes.......
Regards !
Denis Mercier
Quibec City
B382000926LRXFE
TAC # 861
----- Original Message -----
From: "rande" <rande@thecia.net>
To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 5:05 PM
Subject: [Tigers] the Maine United
> Where to start. If you clicked on Stu Brennan's photos, you got a taste.
>
> I'm working on a medium size list of folks to thank, but here's a very
> brief
> outline of neat stuff, in no particular order. 14 cars were TAC'd, one guy
> drove
> down from Quebec City, had his car inspected, and then immediately went
> back
> north. Four of his Montreal friends(and Tiger owners) came down and
> stayed.
> These guys are crazy. I couldn't decide whether to commit the lot of them,
> or
> to move to MTL myself, sort of like four Peter Thompson's, if you can
> picture
> that. Loads of fun.
>
> Three extremely nice Alpine Series III's. Anthony and Susan DiBattista's
> car
> is now Tiger Tom's son-in-laws ride. You east coasters know the car. It's
> the
> one where someones pen slipped when they were filling out the order sheet,
> and
> the "give me everything" box was inadvertantly checked off. Chrome wire
> wheels,
> white walls, hardtop, GT version, and so bright red that you really should
> wear
> welders goggles if you're going to stare at it for any length of time.
> And,
> Fred Baum's beautiful red SIII was next to it at the concours, if your
> eyes
> were still functional.
>
> Of course, Tigers outnumbered everything else. Because it was only about a
> four
> hour drive from Boston, we got IIRC one Tiger Mk1 and a couple of Mk1A's
> that
> you could consider survivor cars in veritable showroom fettle, from
> families
> that don't usually make it to far away Uniteds(David Twombly and Dana
> Freeman,
> correct me if I'm off base). Bob Webb brought his pristine '69? white
> Rapier,
> Kevin Reid came in a really nice early 60's Rapier, and Nick Kinter showed
> off
> his gray Imp, both in the autocross and the concours.
>
> The site itself for both the autocross and the concours(Owls Head
> Transportation
> Museum) is a antique auto and airplane museum on the fringes of the Knox
> County
> airport, near the coast. Biplanes and corporate jets shared the air space
> during
> both of our events
>
> For now, thanks to everyone. It was a super time.
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