[Earlier snippets are in the News clips Archive]

February 2006

President's Prattle

• The President has been busy

Secretary's Scribble

• Promoted to page one
• Stamp out boring stamps
• Un-doctored black smudge remains
• Over 50 members attended club's Christmas Social
• Yvonne's tasty buffet
• Several people took bits home
• Father Christmas wasn't real
• Get your diaries ready
• Prevent boring newsletters: contribute articles!

Other Items

• In the Vanguard or driving
  • The last three miles are the hardest
  • Twenty car convoy to crematorium
  • Roundabouts, traffic lights, tractors, refuse trucks, and trunk roads
  • Several 360 degree turns
  • Dead end road to crematorium (how appropriate - ed)
  • Yorkshiremen guided through Basildon
  • Sunbeam Talbot owner to the rescue
  • Three-yard limping to roundabout chaos
• River duck joke
• What a gas
  • Apprenticed to the motor trade
  • Stables, water, hidden hot pipes
  • Soap like toffee in a dirty bucket
  • Unusual gas ring lighting tool
  • Shocking treatment of mechanics
  • Private supply of red lead
• Britain's first police car chase
• Pay as you drive joke
• Two 1960s vehicles photographed
• Email mailing list
• Ford repair part provided by a Ford
• Help - where is Amber Gold Cortina 1600E, reg SGV 724J?

For Sale

• FREE - Ford workshop & Service manuals
  • 50s and 60s Consul/Zephyr/Zodiac
  • 60s Corsair, Cortina
  • 50s and 60s Thames Trader
• Tan front seats for Triumph Stag (probably)