[Mgs] Birthday

Eric eric at erickson.on.net
Mon Apr 13 08:40:12 MDT 2020


Hi guys… long time no… anything.

Richard, well I have a new ‘B in the shed - a ’79 with a rather fast, race prepared 230KW Rover V8.  But I have had little time to get it in the track.  I have moved from Adelaide to Victoria (about an hour and a half out of Melbourne) so I have been tied up settling in the the new place and the new job (yes, still telco).

BUT the good news is that I have a killer hillclimb (Bryant Park Hillclimb) track 30 minutes away, Phillip Island race track an hour away… and also an hour away, Sandown Motorsport Park (you can google those if you wish).  This new car was built for Phillip Island.

I hope you are now able to spend lots of time working on your collection.

Fortunately, I wasn’t working at TH GP this year - because nothing much happened.  They got a bit of practice in and a couple of support races before it was shut down.

And Hans, Coffs Harbour is about a 15 hour drive away so with a bit of effort you can do it in a day with a lunch break :) 

But I have a spare room here in regional Victoria so you are welcome to stay.

Now, I am going to try to attach a picture that Richard will understand.  Pardon the sweat stains - it is still one of my favourite caps (with a genuine story behind it).  Hopefully I have reduced the size of the image enough.

Keep in touch, y’all

Eric




> On 13 Apr 2020, at 11:34 pm, Hans Duinhoven <h.duinhoven at planet.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
>  
> If there is a chance that I go to Australia, I hope to be able to see you.
> Australia is a very big country, so a meeting has to be planned.
> There are many nice things to do I believe and why not meeting a lister (or more), like I did 4 times now.
> When I go, I’ll be at Coffs Harbour, where my neighbor boy from the fifties – early sixties lives.
> He also is a car fanatic (drives a Peugeot SCZ noways), so lots mutual interests.
>  
> Cheers,
> Hans
> ’71 BGT recovering of a leaky cooling system (hose torn). Luckily no damage to head gasket.
>  
> Van: Richard Lindsay [mailto:richardolindsay at gmail.com] 
> Verzonden: maandag 13 april 2020 10:58
> Aan: Eric; Hans Duinhoven
> CC: MG list
> Onderwerp: Re: [Mgs] Birthday
>  
> Speaking of friends, met and not met in person...
>  
> Hello Eric! Wonderful to hear from you. I think of you each year as the Australian Formula 1 race weekend approaches. Did you work the support races this year? Since the F1 race was canceled, we didn't hear about the V8s, Sport UTEs, or any of the other weekend's events.
>  
> Still racing your MGB? I'm guessing that Australia is as locked-down as we are here in the States? How are things down in Tasmania? Has the virus made it to your corner of the world? If so, I hope you and yours are well.
>  
> Rick
> PS: Yes Hans, Eric and I finally met face-to-face a few years ago while both marshaling the F1 Grand Prix in Melbourne.
>  
> 
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 11:36 PM Eric via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>> G’day, Rick
>> 
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> > On 13 Apr 2020, at 4:56 am, Richard Lindsay via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hans wrote,
>> > 
>> > > Rick Lindsay. Although I never have met Rick in person,
>> > > we daily exchange very nice emails.
>> > 
>> > True, and this statement re-defines the word 'met'. I'll add in that Hans is a 'friend'. The internet had defined some things in a good way too!
>> > 
>> > Rick
> 
> 
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