Flatwater get together at our house in Bellevue. As with the party we held last year, we're again billing it as a St. Patrick's Day Recovery Party since it will be on March 20, the Saturday following St. Pat's Day. We promise lots fun, surprises, great food and beverages, but it will also serve a much more important function. We intend to plan our club calendar and hold club officer elections for the last year of the millennium. We have lots of ideas for events, but we want your inputs to do the things that will bring all of you out to share and enjoy the wonderful cars that we all own. We intentionally keep our monthly breakfast club meetings as informal as possible, and the business segment during the upcoming party will follow that same guidance. However, this is your club and our calendar and elections are most important since their outcome determines club activities for the coming year. Here are the details:

• What? ­ Flatwater Austin-Healey Club St. Patrick's Day Recovery Party
• When? ­ Saturday, March 20, 1999, 7 PM to whenever (overnight accommodations are available if distance, late hour or conditions require it)
• Where? - Jerry & Nancy Needham's home, 3728 Schuemann Dr., Bellevue, NE 68123 (291-7122)

• Provisions? ­ This will be a heavy hors d'oeuvres event, so bring your appetites, a dish to share and any special beverage needs (we'll provide plenty of beer, wine, pop and coffee).
• Directions?
  ­ From the north, west or south, take I-80 to Hwy 370 (exit 439). Go east for 10 miles (6 traffic lights) to 36th St. Look for a MacDonald's and an Albertson's on the left and a church on the right. Turn right (south) and go 1 mile and turn right into Falcon Forest on Leawood Dr (this is the first street after the stop sign at Capehart Rd). Turn left at the stop sign at the top of the hill onto 38th St. Go five blocks and turn left onto Schuemann Dr. Our house is 3728, the sixth one on the left.
  ­ From the east and north, take Hwy 75, the Kennedy Freeway, south to Hwy 370. Exit right and go two miles to 36th St (3rd light, MacDonald's on far right). Turn left and follow above directions from 1 _ miles point onward.

Please call the above number if you have any questions. Do come out and join us for an evening of fun and camaraderie

and help jump start our minds to get us all going in the right direction for what promises to be a great British sports car year.

As some of you know, I joined the ranks of the MG owner for the specific purpose of building a Rover V8 powered MGB-GT. Buy "building" I mean assembling parts, doing the easy stuff, and watching in helpless awe as Bud at Road and Track does everything I can't do.

I wasn't sure what I wanted for a while. I knew it had to have a fixed top, be a three season driver, have A/C, and be able to get out of it's own way. Jags, Stags, Rover 3500s, and Sterlings all had their virtues, but in the end the desire to own an MG to go with my Healey and Triumph was a significant factor in my choice. After seeing a few V8 conversions at Heartland and All-British, I was hooked.