[Nobbc] Drive

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Dawson,
We noticed that Lionel and his friend got to drive the Lotus on the windy bits and the Rolls on the nice cruise back. Looks like they scored big time!
When I was 16 I borrowed my brother's Fiat 124 for a drive around the block and got so distracted I didn't return for two hours. Oops.
Greg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dawson Church <dawson at authorspublishing.com>

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:28:54 
To: North Bay British Car Club<nobbc at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Nobbc] Whew! Saturday's Drive...


One point of clarification. The main problem was that my son Lionel,  
driving my yellow Lotus, was engrossed in conversation with his friend  
Matt and completely missed the second turn. I drove behind him honking  
the horn in my Rolls and flashing my lights for five minutes before he  
noticed! By then we'd lost the group, also the only map we had was a  
blurry photo Lionel took of Greg's map using his iPhone.

So we were the culprits, I'm afraid.

Dawson

On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Paige, Dean wrote:

> Wasn't criticizing you Greg. You did as good a job as possible.
>
> Deano
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:nobbc-bounces at autox.team.net 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Greg Tatarian
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:56 PM
> To: North Bay British Car Club
> Subject: Re: [Nobbc] Whew! Saturday's Drive...
>
> Dean,
> Yeah, I was upset about it too, since the whole point is to stay
> together as a group, and no one wants to get left behind. It wasn't
> intentional, and it wasn't for lack of effort on my part. I was told  
> by
> Andy that we were waiting on Norm, and then after another 20 minutes
> passed, as I was putting my camera away in our car, I was told that we
> were all ready and that I should start to gather everyone up and move
> out. In hindsight I should have not have listened to those  
> instructions,
> instead conducting my own survey. It was being made clear to me by
> several people that they wanted to get moving, and I let that put
> pressure on me to move out.
> I did wait on the side street, and it appeared to me that everyone had
> gotten in line before I got moving again. I did give my cell phone
> number out, both before the drive by email and on the day of the drive
> to those who asked, and I did post the route days before, and I did  
> show
> the route to everyone, but yeah, next time I'll take more complete
> charge and not let myself get confused by the mixed signals. The other
> method of the last car using headlights sometimes works, but with this
> long of a line that isn't a perfect solution. Cell phones and/or  
> radios
> are a good idea. Sorry you were chagrined.
> Greg
>
>> 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
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