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I don't know about your experiences but I'm over the heat wave
of summer 2022 in middle Tennessee. People may enjoy hot Club Leadership 2022-2023
wheels but I think the temperatures we've been experiencing,
when combined with driving in a convertible, is akin to saying
you enjoy getting sunstroke. Going with the theme, we do have
hot stories in this issue.
Who was hot at the recent British Grand Prix held at Silverstone, the President- Todd Fontechia, tfontechia@gmail.com
home track for the first F1 race? We've got the story and video. What hot Please Take Note of the Following
car blew everyone's socks off at the recent Goodwood Hill Climb?
Submissions
Picture a fan that can produce 2,000 pounds of down force. Now picture
it attached to a car. No sweat --leave it to an Irish -English team to Articles submitted for publication must be
deliver. You can also see what Red Bull is building to blister the WORD documents. If you do not have access to
pavement. Then take a moment to read an elegant obituary about a WORD, please submit your article within the
driver from a previous generation. We've been given permission to body of an email. Vice-President & Car Show Chair, Russ Welty.
weltyrr@gmail.com
reprint from The Times of London, memorializing a British driver who
Images (what used to be called photos) should
funded his own F1 cars at a time when that was still a possibility.
be high-res, 300 dpi , jpeg files. Please submit
Moving on--Todd is encouraging people to send in stories about their them as individual attachments to email.
personal restoration projects to run in MOTORING. While waiting for Include appropriate caption information.
stories and related photos to come over the transom (this constitutes a Treasurer- JD Damon
I mages, unless identified with the name of the
hint to take part), this issue has some burn- a- hole- in- your- wallet
photographer via a photo credit, are inserted
news about the cost of various grades of professional restoration
either by common license, are in the public
jobs. Can the cost ever be returned in an increased value at sale for
domain, or used under the Fair Use Doctrine
the car? You be the judge. There are times to go crazy and times to be
with no intention of violating copyright
sensible. You'll know where you are on the perfection thermometer after
protections.
you look at the numbers. Secretary-Dave Bishop
Some articles in the magazine are the product of
August also brings us the Dog Days of Summer, as well as the chance to
aggregate news stories and research. All
find Winston in the pages of the newsletter. While on the subject of
articles are subject to editing. Opinion pieces
dogs, have you wondered why these are called the dog days ? No, it's Officers at Large
are published as the opinion of the author alone.
not because of that British patter song of the '50s written by Noel
Nashville British Car Club assumes no liability Andy Adams- Webmaster
Coward, 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Noonday Sun'. Under
for any of the material found within the pages
the category of interesting but useless information, you'll discover the
of MOTORI NG.
real reasons in this issue and learn how to get dog hair out of your car Chip Hanback
while contemplating entering our upcoming club car show. [Disclaimer: Please submit stories, images, and story ideas
Lest anyone be offended, the use of the word "native" in the song, is not to the editor at Twasbrilag@aol.com
meant in a condescending colonial way but intended to separate the Method of Distribution
existence of those people who actually are native to a country from the Len Melanson
people who arrive and take up residence in a country already occupied by MOTORI NG is an online, digital publication,
others. ] produced as a benefit, without cost, to club
members. It has a publication date of the first Paul Sanguinetti
You'll find photos from our July club drive and Cars and Coffee, news
day of each month and is available through a
about our upcoming Car Show, to be held, mercifully, in the cool of
link at the NBCC website. It can be viewed on a
October in a new location, the story of a visitor from Canada with a
desktop computer, a tablet, or on a smart Ken Springer
thoroughly modern MG, and an interview with our British Car
phone. The best effect, however, is obtained
Whisperer, JD Damon. There's also information about another British Car from viewing on a larger screen.
Show held this month in a place you may know little about, Rugby ,
Barry Whitehead
Tennessee, a utopian community founded by a Briton. See the One Day
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"Read all about it " this month from the comfort of your air-conditioned Prest ige Aut o Det ailing, p. 46
home. Mind how you go. Cherie The Bavarian Bierhaus, p.33 Newslet t er Edit or
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