PAST EVENTS of 2007

Since our last report Hot Nites in the City event has been held in August by the car clubs of Kamloops and over 450 vehicles were in attendence including 8 British cars.

We also were invited to the Kamloops Flying Clubs annual Fly-in Pancake Breakfast. Five members attended including Tony & Francis Bradwell in their ,new to them, 1974 Emerald Green TR6 purchased from a Jeff McKinnon in Pt Coquitlam. Does anyone know Jeff as I don't believe he is a member of OECC? The Bradwells 1976 TR6 is advertised for sale in the Spanner.

Tony Bradwell organized our annual Fish & Chips Run in September. This year we followed the historic Steam locomotive 2141 from Kamloops to Armstrong intersecting with it at a few rail/highway crossings along the way. Those people who were on Brits Round BC 2005 will remember the tour of the 2141 locomotive shop in Kamloops at our BBQ. We had 8 members start out from Kamloops including David & Annamarie Beardsell on their inaugural run in their recently restored Jaguar Series II E-Type coupe. The car ran very well except for sticking brakes which provided some undue excitement, (smoke), on the way. Congratulations on another resurrection of one of the great British cars!

 

Francis Barnett was also in attendence after returning from an 1800 mile tour of the Oregon coast in his TR6! The only difficulty on his trip was the starter which also failed on the Steam trip since he had only returned to Kamloops the day before and had no time to replace it yet. Similiarly, Vic & Sally Mowbray's starter in their MGB also failed due to an electrical problem. Both failed at the last crossing with the 2141 and caused 4 of us to get seperated from the group. Dick & Terry Taylor led us off assuring us he knew the backroads to Armstrong and finally after a few detours we arrived 30 seconds before 2141 arrived in Armstrong!! We met up with 12 members from the Okanogan and Vernon British car clubs and member Andrew Brims in his Austin Healy 3000 from OK Falls. Fish & Chips were had by all and then we all started, or push started, our cars for the journey back to Kamloops. Joseph Lucas was still not satisfied as Pat & Fred Kaatz in her Austin Healy Sprite also suffered starter problems on the return trip!! All arrived safely however and reinforces in us all the uniqueness of British Car ownership compared to the mundane, (reliable), ownership of a Toyota or Ford!!

October 14th is the final road event of our season being the annual Steam Museum run to Pringles farm in Westwold. On display will be steam powered cars, trucks, tractors, saw mill, shovel and saws. As always home baked breads, muffins, pies will abound!! Let's hope Joseph Lucas ignores us!!