[Nobbc] Whew! Saturday's Drive...

[Paige, Dean]

For the record my turn around on Trinity Road was planned. Just had too
much else on the docket to do more than an hour or two. Pia and I tooled
back down to Glen Ellen and the Glen Ellen in where we fed ourselves on
a dozen oysters and fish taco's Yum. Home to the mundane of necessary
chores after.  Happy to see that everyone managed to get together in the
end.

We really need to do more to keep ourselves together from the start. I
was chagrined to find us moving out while a few folks were not yet in
there vehicles. The rules (yea I know we're not supposed to need any
steeeenking rules) got to be that the lead doesn't move until everyone
has engines running. If nothing else a cell phone in the hands of the
last in line and the first in line would really help out in this regard.

Deano

-----Original Message-----
From: nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of andy preston
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 6:18 PM
To: 'North Bay British Car Club'
Subject: Re: [Nobbc] Whew! Saturday's Drive...

Greg, thanks so much to you and Trish for organizing a great drive on
Saturday, the deli was great.  I'm sorry that we messed up you schedule
a bit but wanted to give the Norm all possible time because he came up
from SF, but he got lost.  But as they say, "All's well that ends well"
and we all caught up and had a great time.  It was kind of fun being the
sleuth with Dawson's son Lionel and his friend Matthew.  Thank god
Matthew took a picture of your map which was kind of fuzzy but it
worked.  Marla and I really enjoyed hosting the start and I think we
should do more of that in the future.  I also for Dawson leading the
February tour.  He was behind me going up Trinity in his Roller and it
took the bends very well, with only a bit of tire squeal on the tight
ones.  Great job.

Take care

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Greg Tatarian
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:39 PM
To: North Bay British Car Club
Subject: [Nobbc] Whew! Saturday's Drive...

Wow!

Thanks so much to all who showed up for the drive. Trish and I weren't
prepared for so many cars - let me tell you it is really difficult to
keep that big of a group together! Of course, it didn't help that there
was a miscommunication at the start when we were told prematurely to
crank it up and start leading the group out of there. Turns out one
member hadn't shown up yet, so Andy and Marla turned back to give him
another few minutes, and yup, we lost Dawson and Sons at the first
light. Trish has told me she won't serve as lead car navigator again
until I put a side view mirror on the passenger door for her.

Deano - looks like you split off there about halfway - was that planned,
or was the TR6 having troubles?

Fortunately, the secondary group pretty much created a similar route to
end up at Genova's on Trancas in Napa where the first group was waiting
in hopes of getting our full team back together. The next hiccup was the
l o n g  wait at the deli, so I know we all spent more time on this
drive standing around than we normally do, but hopefully it was worth
it. I know the in-town stuff isn't our typical scene, but we picked up a
lot of admirers in the parking lot, which is usually a good thing.

Thanks go to Marla and Andy for hosting the surprisingly large group of
folks at their house; nice work on the MGA, Andy. It's going to be too
nice to drive on its own wheels! Also, thanks to Andy, Marla, Dawson,
Lionel and (didn't get Dawson's other son's name) for persevering and
meeting up with us in Napa.

Ron - we were all thinking of you, and hopefully you will be fit as a
fiddle for the next one. I took some pictures, and several other folks
did as well, so you can get some vicarious fun.

The collection of cars (anyone tell me if I missed someone) on the
drive;

Sheryl and Dennis MGB x 2
Charlie and Patty TR8
John Lotus Elan S2
Dan (Jag XJ)
Sarto Elan S3 Coupe
Andy and Marla MGB roadster
Gerry Mercedes roadster
Wendell Morgan
Dawson Rolls Royce
Lionel and brother Lotus Eclat
Bill Birkin Lotus 7 type
Dean and Maria TR6
Greg and Trish  Lotus Elan S4

Cheers!

Greg and Trish Tatarian
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