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Club News From the Chairman
The Club Flourishes
I have noticed an increasing interest in our club, especially by the e-mails
and phone calls I receive and the requests for enrolment forms. Also, thank you
Bob for the 'New' disc with the club members and their individual cars. Don't hesitate to send a photo of your car to Rob Maidment and
Bob Thomas with details, so they can be shown on the club website and in the membership list.
Some excellent Shows
Tatton Park's Stars and Stripes weekend near Manchester was an excellent show, and was well attended by many members of the club. Much to my surprise, Alan and Kath Reed suddenly materialized before my eyes. They had just purchased a very nice 1963 Coupe de Ville and, being near the place of purchase, decided to visit 'us lot from the north' - a very pleasant surprise.
We met again at Knebworth at the Rally of the Giants, a show very close to my heart, which our own show organiser, Alan Murphy, has arranged and compared for years. All those gorgeous pre-war cars on such a nice day and well attended by many members of the
COCGB.
This Year’s Show
Remember, we
have all been invited to attend 'en masse' at Zeebrugge for the first European
Grand National on the 1st-3rd September 2006. We will be there representing the
club, so make every effort to be there to fly the COCGB flag in
full force and style.
Some
Toy
I am still learning from my new STS
Seville and almost frightened myself to death on the M6 Toll road. It was very quiet, so I opened the throttle right up. It was as if I had been fired from a gun: the car hurtled forward at great knots, and I thought the car following, a BMW, was going in reverse!
– 0-60 in 6.2 seconds is pretty fast for such a big car. However, the greatest delight is the head up display, making all the readings appear outside in line with the driver's vision. It gives speedometer readings, Sat-Nav instructions and cruise control settings, as well as allowing the radar unit behind the large badge on the grill to stop the driver from ‘tail gating’ by slowing the car if too close. The Sat-Nav is in four languages, including American-English and English-English. Furthermore, if you get bored sitting in a Supermarket car
park anywhere in Europe, you can switch to normal TV stations, but I think it will zap the battery too much. Still I've usually got a Hemmings Motor News to read.
Friends ‘Down Under’
I know the speed story will please Maurice Hendry, the Auto Historian who lives in New Zealand. He has the earlier RHD
STS Seville, and has also ‘played’ with a BMW driver – it really is a pleasure to see their expression as you disappear into the sunset. I have Maurice's book on the complete seventy years of Cadillac history written in the seventies, and a most comprehensive compilation of Cadillac history it is too. He is presently awaiting the latest updated version to be printed, as am I.
