April 2006
Minutes of the General Meeting
Photos and (most) captions by David Edgar

The April meeting started out in the usual chaotic way, until officially called to order. Keeping with tradition, the mail was the first order of business and contained a few interesting items. The California Oil Museum in Santa Paula sent an advertisement for a British Motorcycle Display running from May 7 through August 27. The MG Club of Nantucket invited us to join their upcoming parade so anyone who feels like a short drive across the country to Nantucket would be welcome to participate in the festivities. The rest of the mail was the usual offerings of various catalogs, the ARR newsletter and a flyer from Petersen Museum regarding current displays.
The first order of business was to discuss the recent threat of legal action over a seemingly anonymous poem published in the last newsletter. It was undecided how to deal with the problem and will most likely remain that way until more research can be done. If anyone has legal advice to offer please contact Ron Simon.

Members consider the owl's sage advice

             Old business began with a review of last month's minutes. They were accepted as printed, but a typo in the newsletter was corrected regarding the holiday party. This year's party will be held on December 3, not April 3! Many apologies if anyone showed up for the Christmas party last month!
Joyce Edgar reviewed the club's membership status and reported that 103 members have renewed, leaving only 8 unaccounted for.
Lloyd Hendrickson noted that the presentation on wire wheels has been rescheduled for June. In July the Henkels will hold their annual picnic. August will be a car safety check for the Conclave event. The Simon Movie Night will be held in September and October is of course the Halloween party. November is currently set for a paint touch-up class offered by Lloyd and the year's events will wrap up in December with the holiday party.
Jim Crandall put out a request for more photos for the next issue of the Classic Chassis, and as of the time of this writing he has received more than he can handle. He also noted that Stan's story which was recently published in United Airline's Horizon Magazine has been pulled from the upcoming Classic Chassis because the required time period since United's publication has not yet lapsed. Look for it in the next issue. In its place will be a humorous reprint of a Road and Track article on Nigel Shiftright's MG TC.

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some ice-cream and cookies today."

(Thanks go to Kevin Kershaw for bringing the cookies and ice-cream for refreshments.)

Kay Einhorn recounted the recent Hollywood Hills Run and all agreed that it was a fantastic event. There were over 20 cars, mostly T-Types on the run and despite a brief period of rain, the tops stayed down! Evan and Judy Humphreys of the Vintage MG Club did a wonderful job coordinating the run.
Kay also started out new business by mentioning Kavanaugh Motors in Sherman Oaks as a good place to take your TC for maintenance. They have taken over Mike Goodman's old stock of parts and regularly have TCs in the shop for repair.
A few moments were taken to reflect on Gayne Wimer's recent passing.
The last order of new business was a discussion about transferring old club film and video footage to DVD for archival. Larry Einhorn and Steve Simmons offered a few options which are being considered. The meeting was then adjourned and the group returned to the normal chaos. ll

Submitted by Steve Simmons,
TCMG Secretary

Participanting in Hobby Night Show-and-Tell were:

 

 

Ann Haile with a horned owl named Click. Click is part of a wildlife rehab group Ann works with. The owl is not able to survive in the wild due to an injury and is under protective custody and used in educational programs. Check South Bay Wildlife Rehab http://www.sbwr.org for more information

   Pete Henderson loves golf and plays about 3 times a week. He couldn't bring his cars down to the room so relied on pictures of his midget racer, sprint car, TC and a Model A
   Loyd Hendrickson started collecting matchbooks after inheriting 2 albums of matchbooks. Although never smoking he caught the collection bug and now has thousands of very unusual and early matchbooks.
   Tony displayed some castings in bronze he is working on. One is a copy of a plaster race car and he also had some Lincoln parts cast cast in bronze to replace the pot metal originals.
   Here is a mug shot of George with ID number. Actually George collects license plates. The one he is holding up is a 1919 enameled California plate with the WWI victory red star. He also has his sequentially numbered personalized plates from Ohio when they live there and also an old Rhode Island plate since that is where he was born.
   David McCanne brought just one streetcar of his HO train collection. And since this is a TC group he brought a few small cars (including a TC) used to accessorize his layout. David belongs to a modular model railroad group specializing in the 20s and 30s era. http://www.trainweb.org/20s30s
   Ron Simon collects (or maybe it is more of a not getting rid of) old movie cameras. He has his old wind up that he used to film his racing. Next was the half-16 mm camera where you shot half the 16 mm film, flipped it over and shot the other half of the film and then the film was cut down the middle to form 8 mm. Ron went through the different cameras up to his current small digital movie camera.
   Pete Thelander had quite an assortment of MG related belt buckles, watches, pins, and other jewelry on display. Of course there as an interesting story to many.

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