FWAHC Newsletter

FEBRUARY 2001

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They own a beautiful burgundy 1974 MGB and have won several awards at some prestigious shows in the region. They also DRIVE their LBC everywhere.

Again, welcome to the Club and congratulations on winning that beautiful clock at the Holiday Party.

FACTS OF LIFE

1. Raising teenagers is like nailing JELL-O to a tree.
2. There's always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
3. The best way to keep kids at home is to make a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of their tires.
4. Families are like fudge . . . mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
5. Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
6. Laughing helps. It's like jogging on the inside.
7. Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not for the toy.
8. My mind not only wanders; sometimes it leaves completely.
9. If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.
10. You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

So, What is Your Favorite British Car?

In the last newsletter I asked everyone to write an article about their favorite British Car. As is often the case, while I thought I was asking a direct question, it turns out there is some confusion as to what I wanted. The query was advanced, whether the request meant the favorite of the cars that one owns, the favorite of those one aspires to, or simply one's favorite. Newsletter editors are not proud. We will gratefully accept an article on any of the above.

It was also observed that it might be in order for the editor to describe his favorite British Car (hers will come later). I choose to take the question to mean the favorite of the cars that I own.

I have not come lately to British Sports Cars. Over the years I have owned a '61 TR3, a '63 MGB (of all the cars I've owned and let go, this is the one I miss most - I dreamed about that car at night off and on for at least 15 years after I sold it). There was a '65 B, a '74 B, 2 '74 BGTs, well, one is Martha's, a Sterling, a Jaguar, and brief flirtations with a Camaro and a '67 Porsche, the last two being the non-British variations on the theme.

There are also fellow FWAHC members' cars I admire. Marty Klein's Mini Cooper S, John Ulrich's Bugeye and BGT V-8, Lee Gallitan's E-Type, Joe Mock's TF 1500 or supercharged TB, John Rued's 100 4 and Steve William's Lotus all come readily to mind. But my favorite is my '57 MGA Roadster. It is almost all that I could want in a sports car. It is small, quick, loud, fast, noisy, green, is able to drown the sound of a jet with afterburner lit, it is attention demanding, and able to set off car alarms throughout a parking garage with a single blip of the throttle. It is the perfect car for a fifty something counselor with exhibitionistic tendencies while living a life of extended adolescence.

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