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Index                               We welcome a new year, filled with things yet unknown, some of them sure
                                                          Edit orial: St art ing t he New Year Right
                                                         by Cherie A. Beatty

                                                  to be unexpected.  Thanks to Walmart, Kroger, Costco, and all the rest, we

                                                  are able to skip right  over the  usually bleak  month of  January and pretend
                                                  that it's almost Valentine's Day-- forget that  the chocolates in the red satin
          President 's Corner, p. 4               hearts will be stale before it's  the real time to consume  them.

                                                  Even the seed companies have gotten in the act. of moving us along.  I can
          Dickens of a Part y, p. 6
                                                  scarcely  feel  my  feet  when  outdoors,  but  Breck's  ,  the  bulb  people  from
    Triumph Owner? Save t he dat e                Holland  ,  are  filling  my  email  box  with  great  deals  for  bulbs  and  other
                                                  perennials  to make my  spring and summer beauteous.  While I'm resisting
              in February  p. 10
                                                  the impulse to place my order, NOW, and enjoy HUGE savings, I am taking a
                                                  leaf from the catalog playbook and have focused this issue on driving. If you
          Bond- In- Mot ion, p.18
                                                  can't actually do it, at present, you should be able to enjoy reading about  it
     Burns Night  Supper. Is t hat  a             with  our  series  of  international  road  trips,  thanks  to  members  David
                                                  Swanger  and  Stuart  Naylor,   plus   a  trip,  closer  to  home,   to  pick  up   an
                Haggis? , p. 20                   impulse buy MGTD  from a garage in North Carolina, courtesy of  Hagerty's
                                                  Media.
    Special! Int ernat ional Journeys,
                                                  We also have  chilly looking photos from Germany, thanks to  Nick Gwozdz,
                st art  on p. 24
                                                  last seen at the Dickens brunch wearing a truly terrible Christmas sweater.
       Brit ish Herit age- about  Guy             Nick  was  sent  to  Leipzig   by  Porsche  of  Nashville  to  pick  up  cars  for  the
                                                  dealership and was there for enough days to get in  some sight seeing. Now,
                Fawkes, p. 46                     if you daily drove high performance cars as part of your job, what would you
                                                  drive if you had the chance while in Germany to drive something unusual?
        Advent ure--Picking Up an
                                                  Do you know the Trabant? Prepare to make its acquaintance. The guys at the
                 MGTD, p. 56                      rental location in Germany  are still laughing over  Nick's choice.

                                                  Closer  to  home,  our  intrepid  president  is  now   looking  for  a  permanent
              Track Rat s, p. 66
                                                  location for our Cars and Coffee event since the legal eagles at the theatre in
     New Sust ainable E-Fuel,   p. 72             Brentwood   decided  there  is  too  much  legal  liability  to  have  cars,  sitting
                                                  parked, with an average age of over 50 as exhibitors/ drivers, in their totally
                                                  empty  lot  for  3  hours  on  a  Saturday  morning.  We're  also  looking  for  a
                                                  volunteer  to  take  up  the  mantle  of  Car  Club  vice-president.  Russ  Welty's
                                                  grandchildrens'   weekend   sports  activities   necessitated   his  resignation.
                                                  Burns Suppers are also   must -do events in January.  And don't forget  the
                                                  story of Gay Fawkes, executed in England in  January in 1606.
                  Where's Winst on?
                                                  Then,  in  February   it's  time  for  our  annual  meeting,  the  only  meeting  we
        Winston  closed  out  2022  on   a  good   actually have in a year -making NBCC the perfect car club, more time for fun,
        note.  A  visitor  to  the  newsletter  John   less time for administration.
        Shaw was the first to find Winston on     2023  also     brings  us   Daniel  Craig  in  a   new  way,  having  retired  after  15
        page  20,  peeking  out  from  the  car   years of being  James Bond.  ( Bond -in-Motion cars are  in a new exhibit if
        window, but member Al Gloddeck went       you  have  a  road  trip  of  your  own  in  mind.,  in  this  issue  on  p.  18.)   The
        the larger route and said that was him    director for this  Belvedere Vodka ad  said he didn't know if Craig could dance
        on page 64 in Parting Shots. Granted it   when he hired him, but it appears that his moves are not confined  to fast
        looked  like  him,  ,  and  in  the  spirit  of   cars, creative bad guys,  and interesting women. A dual British and American
                                                  citizen, Daniel Craig  proves  at right ,  he can continue  to surprise his fans.
        Christmas  past,  two worthwhile  prizes
        have been awarded.          Find Winston    A dancing Daniel seems to me to be a perfect segue into the New Year  --
        (hiding in much smaller form)  in our     surprise  yourself   in  2023.  You  might  find  that  you  like  it  when  you  get
        pages.  Then,  send  your  name  and  his   outside your comfort zone and try something new.  I'll see you on the road--
        location     by     page      #     to    with  any  luck  ,  this  year  in  my  own  Aston  Martin.  Hey,    It's  a  New
                                                  Year--anything  could happen!  Cherie
        twasbrilag@aol.com
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