John, (and others),
You really didn't want to go last year. There was an absolute deluge, the
field was axle deep in mud, and the event got canceled. Some of the cars that
got onto the field had to be towed out. It was a sad ending.
Bud
MGMagnette@aol.com wrote:
> The last ride of the season was always from Manchester NH to Westminster
> Vermont. Route 101 between those two towns hasn't been ruined like 101
> between Manchester and Hampton Beach... The road rises and falls with the
> mountains. Tight two lane tree covered roads open up into vistas of the New
> Hampshire Mountains. The ride was always in October... The air at 7am was
> crisp and wet as we buzzed through Peterborough and Dublin NH past the giant
> stone arch bridge, or the multicolored autumn mountains. Our destination was
> always the same: The Westminster MG Museum Fall Fraternity Tour Car Show.
> On the damp lawns of the Museum, freshly mowed, hundreds of Ts A's B's TR's
> and AH's. The local Rotary Club is selling coffee, apple pie with cheddar (a
> Vermont thing, don't ask!) and grilling hamburgers by 10am. The Jazz band
> strikes up and plays as we go into that barn...
> Above in the rafters, an MGB Billboard of a green convertible superimposed
> over a sepia toned MG TC driver. Before you, more of every make and model of
> MG probably ever gathered outside the UK. Massive MG touring cars, with
> swiveling vents in the bonnet sides, like the SA. Rare Custom MGs, like an
> Arnolt Coupe,and a Lester MG. MG M-type and J-type midgets... hillclimb
> specials... a PB Airline Coupe. Vintage Sales signs. Dozens of MGs, the
> rarest of the rare, squeezed into this little barn, and just dusted off for
> this day.
> I wish I had gone last year.
> -John
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Bud Krueger
http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
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