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Aut o- Bar n Hopping- Chapel Hil l , TN

UK Nat ive and Club Secret ary

Dave Bishop is Vint age Euro

( wit h more t han a hint of Nippon)

Out in bucolic Chapel Hill, Tennessee, NBCC's secret ary Dave Bishop, st ill ret aining his

Brit ish passport , recent ly finished building a barn. He hasn't t urned t o farming in his
ret irement . This handsome st ruct ure, which also includes a one bedroom apart ment for guest s, was
built t hrough sheer det erminat ion during t he Covid pandemic. It sit s on 10 acres, wit h cows for
neighbors just over t he back fence. The bovines know t hat Bishop will be out wit h feed each day,
even t hough t hey act ually belong t o a neighbor. You can see in t heir liquid eyes as t hey wat ch him
approach t hat t hey believe Dave, a newly mint ed cow whisperer, is pret t y special. And, he is --for
what 's going on at Dave's barn is unique and not just because of his conversat ions wit h cows.
Bishop's prist ine and well designed barn was built t o house cars--some his, some belonging t o
ot hers, car part s, original mot orsport and advert ising art , physical t hings sharing space wit h
Dave's dreams for Vint age Euro. No longer a part t ime hobby business but a ret irement small
business, Vint age Euro is a source for all t hings gent ly used but st ill useful, needed by ot her people
whose foreign car quirks can be t he st uff of night mares. Dave locat es, curat es, cleans up, and files
"st uff "- t he hard t o find and t he more obvious and also locat es cars. His approach t o acreage,
vint age cars and t o t he people who love t hem is t he same -- be helpful, find somet hing nice and
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leave it nicer and don't become, as t hey say in t he horse business, barn blind. Cont inue on page 24