Mark,
It sounds like an awesome day for sure, hope all you dads had the best day
ever.
Jane
'67 GT6
>
>
> I had the best Father's day of my short time as a stepfather (2yrs). I
had
> a lovely breakfast with my wife and stepdaughters. Received a great shirt
> with various fishing flies stencilled on it (another passion of mine). I
> then went out and spent another hour polishing and cleaning my car (2
hours
> the night before).
>
> I then spent a wonderful day at the the Victoria, B.C. All British
Picnic.
> Met Malcolm from the list and saw what I believe to be Rod's TR. Handed
out
> flyers for the local Triumph owners group. Had a wonderful picnic with my
> stepfather (another British sportscar enthusiast). There were tonnes of
> beautiful cars there as Malcolm detailed yesterday.
>
> This was topped with a quiet dinner with my girls, while their mother was
> off at her opera rehearsal. Upon her returning home, I took a sunset
drive
> out the penisula following all of the country roads. Just as it was
geting
> dark I returned home along the highway, openning the throttle right up. I
> believe that I may have broken the speed limit, but with my broken speedo
> cable that was hard to determine ;) On the second last straight away, I
> blew a very smooth looking fellow driving a Miata right out of the water.
> As I crested the rise before the final straight-a-way (sp?) I was about
to
> hammer the pedal to the floor, when I spotted a photo radar van in the
> distance. I put the brakes firmly on bringing my speed down to what I
> believed to be 80km/h and cruised the final way home. The run was spent
> looping Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild on my CD player.
>
> Life doesn't get much better than this.
>
> Happy belated father's day to the rest of the list.
>
> Mark Milotay
> '80 Spit
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