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At Left: Seen on the first drive of the year, a sunny day as it
turned out, Guy and Liz Boye, September's drive hosts,
were debriefed when Operation B-Day reached Bell Buckle
within 2 minutes of their ETA.

"Not much to add, an uneventful 11 car, windshield wiper
operational check, hood leakage check drive, which was
okay. With the rain we drove a little slower especially round
curves, added about 30 minutes, which was also okay.
Everyone got there, no outages, and that was good," Boye
said. When asked how their MGB weathered the journey,
their first in the car in the rain, the Boyes said, almost in
unison, " The top leaks." [As it should be expected. ]
Charlie Crumpton's Bugeye Sprite, intended as the
car in which Heather Bogdal would be a
passenger, went AWOL because of the weather.
She hitched a ride, instead, with Todd Fontechia in for a bit, there were some 'lookers' in town for the
his daily driver TR6. Bell Buckle experience. They made the effort to go
over and take a look at the neat row of jaunty
While the top did not leak on the TR6, its defrost LBCs waiting for their owners to come out and
system left something to be desired. Heather take them back to the sanctuaries of dry garages.
spent the time from Franklin to the end point Bottom Line: NBCC pulled it off. No cars were
wiping off the condensation gathered on the hurt in making this adventure happen; some of
inside of the wind screen, laughing and talking and them were, however, clearly miffed at being left to
enjoying the moment. She clearly has the sit outside while soggy.
necessary tools and attitude to be a navigator in
an LBC. "Some t hings, like t he orbit s of t he planet s, can be
calculat ed far int o t he fut ure. B ut t hat 's at ypical. In
Inside the cafe' the temperatures were cozy and most cont ext s, t here is a limit . Even t he most
fine-grained comput at ion can only forecast B rit ish
there was something for everyone to enjoy from
weat her a few days ahead. There are limit s t o
the menu. Chatter flowed easily back and forth what can ever be learned about t he fut ure,
down the tables and across them, like the tide however powerful comput ers become. " - M art in
coming in and going out. When the rain stopped Rees

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