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May, 2016

Jeff Scott’s 2009 Rolls Royce PhantomDrop Head Coupe

Next MeetingsMay 2, 7:00 pm at Moe Joe’s Family Restaurant

2175 Candia Road, Manchester, NH 03104May 19, 7:00 pm at the Common Man in Plymouth, NH

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My name is Jeff Scott. My wife Ireneand I have been enjoying fine cars foralmost twenty years and are now joinedby our 11 year old son in our car hobby.For me it all started when I was 18 yearsold and lived in New York City. Iworked in a CB radio shop owned bymy elder brother. We installed and soldCB radios and car phones. Back in the80’s to get a car phone you had to beput on a waiting list and had a very longwait to receive a phone number. Not tomention the cost back then was astro-nomical. One day while working in theshop, a RR Corniche came into the shopto have a car phone installed. I was giventhe car to install the phone. As I startedto take apart the car, I noticed it waslike no other car I had ever worked on.The fit, finish and craftsmanship of thedoor moldings, carpets, roof liner, etc.were twice as heavy as any other car Ihad ever dissembled for phone installa-tion. What typically was a three to fourhour job took me one and a half days. Iknew it had to be 100% perfect in ev-ery detail. After the job was completed,my brother had me clean the car andtake it for a test drive to make sure therewere no rattles and the phone worked.Also he told me to fill the car with gas.I was 18 years old and driving a RollsRoyce in NYC and I remember havingeveryone stare at me as I drove by. Iremember asking my brother what sucha car cost, and upon hearing the answermy jaw dropped and I wondered whatthe owner did for a living to be able to

have such a beautiful British work of art.For the next few months all I could thinkabout was the car as I drove to work inmy Chevy Vega. Many months passedand I started buying books on British carsand set about learning about them. I thensaid to myself one day I would like toown a Rolls Royce. I figured if I had toset a goal, it would be to be the best andmost successful I could be in life and ownthe best car I had ever encountered. Sixyears later I left my brother’s shop andstarted pursuing a long time passion ofmine, jewelry making and sales. I at-tended the GIA in NYC to study aboutgems.

When I was 24 years old, I sold an apart-ment in NYC that my parents had givento me and took the money and startedmy own small jewelry shop. I workedmany 12 hour days, six days a week. Ireinvested every penny I made back intothe store and built it up. As things startedgoing well, I never forgot about my questfor a high end British car. I also had aninterest in Italian cars. I remember Ibought a new Datsun, took care of it andevery year or so I traded for somethingnew. No matter what I bought I trea-sured it and treated it like it was a RollsRoyce. About six years ago my wife andI moved our company, Jeffrey Scott FineJewelry, to Amherst, NH. We wanted abetter life, cleaner and greener, for ouryoung son, who is now eleven and lovesto do car things with the family. In sixyears our business has grown faster inNH than even over twenty years in ourother location.

About four years ago, I bought my first

super car, a Porsche 911, very nice andfast. However, it was very small, espe-cially the back seat. I still had in the backof my mind that I wanted the RollsRoyce.

I then went into a Ferrari California. Thiswas a very big step for me. The car wasagain very fast and sexy, but still reallysmall and hard on the back, and a tight

fit for my son. I then said I would go formy first British car and bought a newBentley GTC. I was in awe, my firstBritish car, so much different from any-thing I had ever had and loved it. I hadit for three months and four hundred mileswhen the dealer called and said they hadbought out a collection with a 2009 RollsRoyce Phantom Drop Head Coupe with2800 miles on it, almost as good as newout of the show room. And they told methey would take back the Bentley.

I could not sleep thinking about it. Ithen went to the dealer to take a look.And when I sat inside my draw droppedand I was speechless. I then took it fora ride. At that moment I knew my dream

Quest for our Rolls Royce

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BCNHMONARCHY

PRIME MINISTERRobert Mitchell

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

John Giese

NEWSLETTERChuck & Diane Connors

Owen & Virginia Christiansen

REGALIAJoan Young

SECRETARYNorma Karle

WEBMASTERKate Stanley [email protected]

MEMBERSHIP COORDINATORLouis Belanger

TECH SESSION COORDINATOR(open)

ADVERTISING COORDINATOR(open)

PUBLIC RELA TIONS(open)

INTER-CLUB COORDINA TORBob Dougherty

CALENDAR COORDINA TORSue MacDuff

SHOW OF DREAMS DIRECTORBob Stanley

HISTORIANMike Sweet

NORTHERN COUNCILMINISTER

Karl Braconier

NORTHERN COUNCILSECRETARY

Kellie Braconier

www.bcnh.orgContact information on page 4

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Prime Minister ’sMissive

Louis Belanger 11 Forest Lane, Litchfield, NH 03052 (603) 424-7835 [email protected] Braconier 295 N. Mayhew Tpk. Hebron, NH 03241 (603) 744-8444 [email protected] Connors 8 Mont Vernon Drive, Londonderry, NH 03053 (603) 401-0101 [email protected] dos Santos PO Box 840, Manchester, NH 03105 (603) 361-2653 [email protected] Dougherty 28 Ledgewood Drive, Strafford, NH 03884 (603) 948-2078 [email protected] Giese 153 Crooked S Road, Lyndeborough, NH 03082 (603) 654-2565 [email protected] Karle 51 Durgin Road, Chichester, NH 03258 (603) 437-8931 [email protected] MacDuff 11 Governor Square, Peterborough, NH 03458 (603) 924-1066 [email protected] Mitchell PO Box 270, Stratham, NH 03885 (603) 772-1116 [email protected] Stanley 64 North Shore Drive, Center Barnstead, NH 03225(603) 776-6698 [email protected] Sweet 3 Cross Street, Laconia, NH 03246 (603) 527-8563 [email protected] Young 204 Concord Hill Road, Pittsfield, NH 02363 (603) 435-8660 [email protected]

Contact information

By the time you read this, we will havealready had our First-of-the-SeasonBCNH Drive. It will be interesting tosee what the turnout is. John Bowe -the organizer of this Drive – has someconcern that he is going to have “morecars than he can handle.” If the Cars &Coffee on April 16 is any guide, he maybe right. As mentioned elsewhere in thisissue, we had about 75 cars at thatevent.

We have talked recently about the factthat the current size of the Club (now at236 Memberships) allows us some flex-ibility that we didn’t have when wewere smaller. Not only can we now holdmore events – and of greater variety –but for Drives like this one there mayactually be an advantage to breakingthem up into two groups.

I have often quoted the old saw that“They only make two sizes, too smalland too big.” There are several varia-tions of that adage and I have often heardindividual members “comment” (notcomplain you understand) that thespeeds that we drive on rides are either“too slow for sports cars” or “too fastto appreciate the scenery of the routechosen.”

Well, as the size of the turnouts in-creases, we may now find that it makes

sense to break up into two groups withthe “Let’s go fast” group heading out firstand then the “Let’s Smell the Roses”group leaving shortly after. In fact, forDrives that will end up at a restaurant forlunch or dinner, the restaurant may actu-ally prefer NOT to have 50 people allarrive (and expect to be fed) at the sametime. I know that, with the cafeteria ser-vice at the Green Bean, it is very pos-sible that the last people in line will stillbe in line when the first ones are finishedwith their meal and ready to go home.

We will do a variation of this for the Lu-pine Festival on June 11 where one groupwill take a westerly route paralleling –but avoiding – I-93 and an Eastern Groupwill go up through Rochester andConway and then across the Kanc. Bysplitting the groups this way, our Mem-bers that live in varying parts of the Statecan join up along the way with which-ever group passes nearest to where theylive.

Over the past year we have seen atten-dance at the Manchester Meetings climbto an average of 50 to 60 Members permonth. I have often said that the peoplethat do the most, have the most fun– and it’s pretty obvious from thosemeeting that the 50-60 Members therehave been having a lot of fun.

When you add the Lakes Region andNorth Council meetings, instead ofhaving “just” 50-60 people getting the

full benefit of Membership in BCNH,there are 70 - 75 people that do. Al-most a 50% increase.

With the addition of Members from theNew England MG Car Club in Maine,we hope we will be able to also get aSeacoast Region Council up and run-ning this year. Wouldn’t it be great if100 fellow car buffs could have thechance to get as much out of the Clubas the “Regulars” from theManchester Ar ea have in recentyears?

Watch the Calendar Section of the Boot,Hood and Bonnet on the Events Pageor on the www.bcnh.org website to seeall of the outings we already have sched-uled for this season – and go back oftento see as additional “opportunities” to getout and use your cars are added.

We haven’t had many events up Northbefore, mostly because those of us thathave planned events just don’t know thatpart of the state well enough. Over thenext month or two I think you will findsome new events that are organized bythe Lakes Region and North Coun-cil and sited in their part of the State.Those events will be open to allMembers, regardless of where youlive, just like all the rest of the eventsare open to all Members.

On some weekends there may be sev-eral different events scheduled in differ-

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So Saith the Prime Minister

Treasurer’s Report

March 15 to April 15Club account

Start Balance $5,327.06Membership $390.00Sunapee Cruise deposits $256.00Membership Expense - $30.27Newsletter -$171.90Sunapee Cruise deposits - $150.00End Balance $5,620.89

Show of Dreams accountStart Balance $2,766.42Porta-potty raffle $160.00Sponsor $350.00Registration $100.00Regalia Sales $30.00Bread & Cheese Boards -$489.50End Balance $2,916.92

Manchester MeetingMinutes

It was a cold and snowy night when theApril BCNH meeting was held on April4th at the usual MoeJoe’s. The call toorder from Prime Minister Bob Mitchellwas on time at 7:00 pm.

There were 33 brave BCNH souls inattendance. Everyone complainedabout the weather when they showedup in boots, jackets, hats scares andmittens.

The secretary’s report and thetreasurer’s report were accepted asprinted in the newsletter. There weretwo new NEMGCC members in atten-dance – Norm of Brit Bits fame withmultiple cars and Ben Morong with a1970 Midget. Also in attendance wasa guest who will become a member;Norm Fournier who has a 1972 TR6. Welcome to all.

We started by reviewing the calendarof events. The NEMGCC has a“Blessing of the Fleet” scheduled forMay 1st. We start with a social hour atthe Oak St Bistro in Alfred Maine at10:00 am for a social hour (to me thismeans their great Bloody Mary’s) andbrunch at 11:00. From there we willhead off to the monastery for the bless-ing. All cars that attend are guaranteedcarefree driving for the season. You willneed to RSVP for the brunch if you planto attend. Please email or call me (603-490-6115 or [email protected])The Oak St Bistro will need to makesure they have enough staff to cover us. From the brunch we will take a shortdrive to the Monastery and becomeblessed… You can simply join in at themonastery if you prefer. They have agood bakery if you are one of thoseearly breakfast people and just need asnack. The blessing is by the Broth-ers of Christian Instruction, 132 ShakerHill Road, Alfred Maine.

We then reviewed the rest of the calen-dar – see the printed version elsewherein this newsletter.

Norm from Brit Bits talked about a July10th event in Portsmouth – the 4th annualclassic car show, Details to follow. Alsohe told us about a Nova Scotia trip thathe is leading. The trip is about 7 dayslong. If you need more information andwant to join in please contact Norm atBrit Bits.

Diana gave us an update on the Showof Dreams. We are looking for spon-sors – if you have any ideas please let usknow. For $100 you can get your nameor your business name listed on the backof the event T-shirt. Let us know if youwant to do that.

The porta potty not 50-50 was won byWade Dos Santos who donated the $40back for a total of $160 to the fund. Thank you Wade!

ent parts of the State – and out-of-State.All BCNH Members will have the free-dom to choose which of those eventsappeal most to them and to attend theones that do. Over time I hope we willsee substantial “mixing” between thegroups – thus giving each of us an op-portunity to meet more new friends.

Go BCNH!!!!

As stated in previous Prime MinisterMissives, I know that we run the risk ofscheduling “too much.” But I’d ratherhave members only able to make it tohalf of the many events because of“scheduling conflicts,” than to not makeit to any because there were too fewopportunities.

It’s going to be a great season for BCNH.

IF YOU HAVE OTHER IDEAS – LETUS KNOW.

Also please think every once in a whileabout contributing an article to theNewsletter.

1. When you attend an event – and havea good time – tell the rest of us about it.

2. When you are reminiscing about whenyou bought your current car – or a pre-vious one – and how much joy it hasbrought to your life – tell us the story.

3. If you’ve had a particularly vexingproblem – or have gratefully “found afix” for one – tell us about that, too.

4. If you find material in other sourcesthat you think our membership wouldenjoy or benefit from, send in the refer-ence. Editors Chuck and Diane Connorswill check for reprint authorization fromthe source and print it if we can.

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Respectfully submitted,Bob & Diana Stanley

April 2016 SOD Meeting

The April Show of Dreams event at His-toric Motorsports was attended by 12committee members and representativesfrom High Hopes and NH Food Bank.

The following items were discussed:

Cars Registered to date: 33

Tee Shirts ordered to date: 16

Wine: Bottling will take place in mid-May and be ready for the show.

Alvirne Hills House Field Use Agreementis signed; a check to cover the field renthas been mailed.

The following Raffle/Silent Auction Itemshave been pledged / received:

Home Depot, Rochester, NH donateda Husky Mechanics Tool Set

valued @ $100.00

Sanel Auto Parts donated

$100.00 Gift Certificate

Bond Auto Parts donated

$25.00 Gift Certificate

More raffle sponsors are needed.

The following sponsors have donated:

pledged: Anonymous $1,000.00

Davis & Towle Group $500.00

Weathervane Seafoods $100.00

Historic Motorsports $500.00

Historic Motorsports

Tee-Shirts $100.00

Norma Karle Tee-Shirts $100.00

Derry Veterinary

(Eliot More) $100.00

Vance Spaulding $100.00

Sports Car Art $150.00

J.C. Taylor

Antique Auto Agency $ 100.00

Austin Healey Club

of NE $ 50.00

More sponsors are needed.

The Dash Plaques have been ordered.

Wine Bottle Labels are ready for print-ing.

Tee Shirt art is ready. Norma Karle &Joan Young have acquired pricing fromTeddies Tees; Bob Mitchell will acquirepricing from Varsitees and DeniceAnderson will acquire pricing from In-dian Head.

Registration forms are ready and arepublished in this newsletter and on thewebsite.

Posters have been printed. We needvolunteers to distribute the posters.

Norma is preparing the ballots and plac-ards.

The donation of a dumpster for the showhas been approved by Casella Waste.

Regalia: Joan Young is acquiring pric-ing for BCNH baseball hats. BobMitchell will be receiving the car badgesamples next week. Bob will try to havethem ready for the SOD.

High Hopes and NH Food Bank volun-teers will be assisting the committeemembers on the field in the areas of park-ing spectator cars, selling raffle & 50/50tickets and manning the Mini Cooper atthe entrance to the field to hand out or-ganization brochures and collect dona-tions.

The May SOD meeting is scheduled forSaturday, May 28, 2016 at the home ofRamona & Jerry Branch; 185 Monu-ment Road, Dublin, NH. The meetingwill be a pot luck dinner.

Time: 4pm (cocktails) 5pm Meeting withDinner to follow. Directions will beemailed to the committee members.

The June SOD meeting is scheduled forJune 18th at the Queen’s Birthday Cel-ebration. More details will follow as to

time and place.

The July SOD meeting will be held atthe home of Bob & Diana Stanley 64North Shore Drive, Center Barnstead,NH. Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 4pm forcocktails, 5 pm packing of the GoodieBags, followed by pot luck dinner. TheJuly 16th meeting will be the last gather-ing before the Show of Dreams on July23rd.

To all club members: Please contact WilBernstein if you have parts you wouldlike to place on the BCNH Parts Tableat the Show.

Please bring your raffle items to the clubmeetings so Wayne & Maggie Bolen cancatalogue the items ready for the raffletable.

Show of Dreams Tee Shirt

To order your BCNH name badgecontact John Giese at:

(603) 654-2565 or

[email protected]

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By Bob Mitchell Prime MinisterApril 16, 2016 – but nobody was talk-ing about Taxes!! One of our “tag lines”at Historic Motor Sports is “It’s all aboutthe Cars” – and certainly most of theconversations were. The total in atten-dance during the three hours between8:00 and 11:00 was somewhere around220 people. Considering that we hadabout 75 people at the first Coffee &Cars back in November, it’s clear thatpeople have started to look forward tothese monthly opportunities to get to-gether with friends.

As usual, there was no Agenda and noProgram – just a chance to convert morestrangers into friends.

What was different this time was thatthere was more to see out in the parking

lot than there was inside the building. Infact my guess is that there were somepeople that never did make it into thebuilding at all. The weather was beauti-ful and we must have had 50 to 75 carsparked wherever they could find space.

Show of Dreams (SOD) CommitteeChair Bob Stanley called that commit-tee to order upstairs in the “BCNH Club-house Room” at about 11:00. The Com-mittee has found that this is a great time

to accomplish all there is to be done (seeminutes elsewhere in this issue) withouthaving to schedule yet another meeting

at yet another place.

It was 1:00 in the afternoon by the timewe again locked the doors at HMS.Glance over the pictures to see someof the eye candy that there was to see.

Next month’s Coffee & Cars will be onSaturday, May 14, 2016 at 8:00 am –with the Spring Tech Session (on Car-buretors) starting at about 10:00

Coffee & Cars

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End will give all BCNH club members ameans to purchase items you want towear to the many events around NewEngland and elsewhere to support theclub.

If you have any questions, please con-tact:

[email protected]

Diana Stanley [email protected]

The club will have an area set up at theShow of Dreams, July 23, 2016 wheremembers can have new and used carparts sold. Simply drop off your partslabeled with your name, cell phone num-ber and price. I will over see the tablesand instruct people to call you directlyat the show.

You can donate car magazines that willbe free to anyone with a donation toHigh Hopes & the Food Bank.

If you have questions, feel free to [email protected] or call WilBernstein at 603-930-8682

Be advised that BCNH and WilBernstein will not be responsible in anyway for lost, stolen or damaged autoparts.

British Cars of New Hampshire haspartnered with Lands’ End BusinessOutfitter’s to bring you new logoed ap-parel options! Our own ordering websitehas been created to make purchasingitems with the BCNH logo easy. Simplyvisit the company Storefront online athttp://business.landsend.com/store/bcnh/to place your order for apparel, totesand more.

Select your items, add the logo, createyour own account and check out..Prefer to call or email your order in?

Call 1-800-535-3060 or email ourdedicated [email protected]

Logo application fee of $8.50 peritem.

2 logo size options are available foritems with logo size restrictions.

Subscribe to emails atwww.business.lansdend.com foradditional sales and promotions

The number of British Cars of NewHampshire club members has grown byleaps and bounds over the past fewyears. With that growth comes the re-quests for items bearing the club’s logo.Keeping an inventory of tee shirts andjackets can be a costly thing to do whenone is not sure what size or color wouldbe most popular.

With that thought in mind, BCNH hascreated a BCNH Store Front withLands’ End. We have four logos avail-able in two sizes; 4" Black lettering, 4"Red lettering, 3" Black lettering and 3"Red lettering. The style of the garmentwill determine the size of the logo.

Lands’ End has prepared instructionswhich will be posted in the Boot Hood& Bonnet each month. BCNH has rep-resentative, Karen Knouse at the ready,by email or phone, to help if we havequestions about the orders we place.

Charge for the 4" logo is $8.50 over thecost of the item.

Charge for the 3" logo is $5.95 over thecost of the item.

Note: The Lands’ End representativewill review each order. If the logo cho-sen is too large for the item ordered, theLands’ End representative will make thechange and correct the logo fee accord-ingly.

The Lands’ End instructions invite ev-eryone to subscribe to emails for addi-tional sales and promotions. We en-courage all to do this because the dis-counts may include free shipping or freelogo, etc.

We hope this partnership with Lands’

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North CouncilMinutes

Meeting Notes 2016 April 21

The April meeting of the BCNH North-ern Council met this past Thursday, April21st which just happened to be theQueen’s 90th birthday. God Save theQueen!

The knock off hammer came down at7:03 pm with many discussions alreadyunderway among the 19 people in at-tendance about the upcoming, jampacked, amazing calendar of events.With the warm weather several of themembers took advantage and arrivedtop down in their British cars and onemotorcycle.

Introductions went around the room withtwo new car enthusiasts that joined thegroup from the Penacook area, MikeWright and Frank Marsh. Mike ownsa TR6 which Minister Karl had left aBCNH card on his windshield and hewas curious enough to come see whatall the fun is about. This led to NeilFlaherty reminiscing about how BobMitchell had “absconded” him in a park-ing lot to join the group. GeorgeSherback took advantage of the beau-tiful evening and drove his TR8 up tothe meeting.

Happy news for Bob & Diana, they arethe proud grandparents of a healthy,happy baby granddaughter!

Paul and Don brought along some hand-outs for the Castle in the Clouds antiqueand classic car event which will be onSaturday, July 9th from 10am-3pm. Thisis a beautiful venue for the car show andall cars registered will receive free en-trance to the Castle.

Minister Karl went over several of thedates for upcoming events which are onthe calendar (thank you Sue). The onechange being for the Hobbs Brewerytour on May 21st. This event sponsored

by Bob & Kim Dougherty will still berun but the club Motorsport piece willbe pushed back due to paving of thetrack sometime in June. Bob has de-cided to make a gimmick rally which willstart at the “Habitat for Humanity Re-store” at 583 Tenney Mountain Highwayin Plymouth. Frank McClaine of “Habi-tat for Humanity” will have coffee &donuts at 9:00 am and bathrooms willbe available. Drivers will set off at 10amfor about a 1.5 hour drive ending atHobbs Brewery in West Ossipee, NH.As an incentive each member that bringsan item to donate to the Habitat Restorewill get an additional 5 points in the rally.Bob spoke with Jorden at the HobbsBrewery and they will set up the sundeck for our group. An email will besent out for an RSVP request to get ahead count.

Prime Minister Bob then took the floorand covered all the events coming up thatwould require some preplanning and res-ervations, an email blast was sent out withall the dates and information. Pleasecheck your calendars and get your res-ervations in soon!

We then got our first look at the twoBCNH car badge samples that Bobbrought with him. They both came outreally nice, “I do think we are relativelysafe in ordering 100 each of the two dif-ferent badges. The 50/50 split of Verti-cal and Horizontal mounting hardwareseems about right.”

We finished going over the calendar andMinister Karl challenged the group to agame of trivia about the Queen Mum.Once again Norma and her group roseto the challenge and guessed the mostcorrect answers to win the first prize, anextraordinarily valuable bottle of vino.The second place prize of equal valuewent to Pete & Linda Wirth along withMike Sweet. Everyone enjoyed somebirthday cake, strawberry coveredcheesecake without candles because theQueen Mum chose to be a party pooper

and didn’t show, wasn’t present to blowthem out. The hammer came down at8:25pm and then we retired to the park-ing lot to ogle the cars.

Respectfully submitted but with no re-gard to the facts,

Kellie Braconier & Karl Braconier

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1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8$59,900 or B.O.Call Steve @ 603-867-6464 or email @[email protected] in Manchester NH.

Car Wanted2014/15 F-type Jaguar,

Sapphire Blue, Tan InteriorContact Nancy Rousset:[email protected]

1980 MGB LE -$10,99545,000+ miles on the odometer. Less than1,000 miles on rebuilt engine. Weber carband John Esposito (Quantum Mechanics)remanufactured overdrive transmission,new clutch, pressure plate, throw outbearing, pilot bearing, clutch slave cylinder,hose and master cylinder, steel clutch line,turned and balanced flywheel, rebuilt frontsuspension and steering, new brakes andSS braided hoses, new radiator, newbattery. Previous owner had bodyrestored to rust free condition andprofessionally painted. Luggage rack andLE stripes and hard top go with car.Convertible top is serviceable but coulduse a new one. Car is in Longmont, CO.For more details or photos please callCharley at 203-733-4421 or [email protected].

General all season ALTMX TR43P215/70R15 - Our old minivan died rightafter I bought these tires. When I boughtthem the minivan only needed two tires.So, two have never been used and theother two have 2,000 miles on them. Ipaid $460 for the set and am asking $250including mounting & balancing. [email protected] or 603-654-2565.

FOR SALE- 1979 MGMIDGET has Been in my possessionsince 1995 at which time The mileageis 35000 miles, color is original blue,with black top and tan interior, nearnew tires, original radio, luggage rackand it runs really well. Best offer. CallLen 321 752 [email protected] Melbourne,Florida

Original, correct, complete set of TC sidecurtainsNew Tompkins steering gear kit for TC/TDCollection of miscellaneous .new/usedcommon parts including an original,correct, working C-45 Lucas generator,22amps. 4 powder coated knock-off nuts,Oil filter and element, door and windowhardware, Wire wheel hubs, wiper motorand mechanics. Some of these items aredifficult to find. Frank BuonoPhone 270-991-4767Email: [email protected]

1994 Jaguar XJS Coupe’RHD shown, Car is LHD L 6 cyl,injected late XJ6 engine.approx. 30 mpg highway !Car won 96+ points at a JudgedJaguar event this past Summer based on its 100% originality. Texas, rust free car.current NH registration and inspectionAsking $9,000 negotiableBCNH MemberJohn [email protected]

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I have owned my ’73MGB since 1988and I was the second owner. She has64K original miles since I have lived inthe north all that time and the car was.garaged for 8 months of the year. She isin excellent shape with a bit of rust nearthe bottom panels but minor. DuPontGarage here in Dover, NH has beenservicing it for the last several years andput in a new carburetor two years ago.The rag top is gone but the frame isthere and I have a hard top that goeswith the car. If you are interested inpictures or speaking with me, pleasecontact me, Susan von Hemert,via [email protected] email orat 603.205.6055.As I said, we are moving and only havea two car garage with no place to storeone extra.Asking $6000

It’ s back!The MV Mt Sunapee Cruise

Join us for an early dinner aboard theMV MT Sunapee II.Date: Saturday July 2Time: We leave the dock at 4:00 PMreturn at 5:30 PM so be there no laterthan 3:45Place: Town dock Sunapee Harbor,NH

Cost: $37 per personDinner is buffet style see menu belowCall or email to reserve your place.Norma - 603-490-6115,[email protected] checks out to BCNH & mail to:Norma Karle51 Durgin RdChichester, NH 03258 The charter is limited to 46 people soyou must plan ahead. Ten tickets havealready been claimed

You must make reservations in advanceand you must pay in advance. If forsome reason you cannot go I will doeverything I can to get someone else totake your place and return your money.However, if I cannot, you should sendone of your friends or relatives. We’llshow them a good time and maybe sellthem a car.

Charter includes:· A private 1 ½ hour cruise· Buffet luncheon· Soft drinks, dessert, and coffee· Tax and gratuity· Cash barMenu includes:Extensive Salad barFreshly Baked Dinner Rolls & ButterHerb-Stuffing in Baked Chicken BreastHomemade Macaroni and CheeseVegetarian LasagnaCheesy Scalloped PotatoesAssorted Gourmet Cakes

SAVE THE DATE

COME ONE, COME ALLTO BRITISH CARS OF NEW

HAMPSHIRE’S20TH ANNUAL SHOW OF

DREAMSThe Town of Hudson, NH and theHudson Historical Society will wel-come British Cars of New Hampshirefor the 20th presentation of the “Showof Dreams” to benefit High HopesFoundation of New Hampshire and

The New Hampshire Food Bank.The Date: Saturday, July 23, 2016The Place: Alvirne Hill House Field, 211Derry Road (Route 102) Hudson, NH03051Time: 10am to 3pmFeatured Marque: MORGANAs always, the Show of Dreams will in-clude 25+ classes of antique, classic Brit-ish cars with trophies presented in eachclass plus: Best in Show, Best of Fea-tured Marque, and a special prize forDiamond in the Rough.

The show field will be filled with car re-lated vendors, craft vendors, the BCNHTech Tent, show regalia, the BCNH Raffle& Silent Auction and Great Food. Longtime friend of BCNH, DJ, Jim Georgewill be guiding us through the day withinformation and entertainment.

As in years past, the goal of the BCNHShow of Dreams is to raise funds for theHigh Hopes Foundation of New Hamp-shire and The New Hampshire FoodBank.

Please join us on the field to enjoy thewonderful examples of British Automo-tive History and support two very wor-thy organizations.

For further information on the charitiesplease visit: www.highhopesnh.org andwww.nhfoodbank.org

Spectators are free, however, donationsat the field entrance are encouraged andgratefully accepted.

Car Registration: $25.00 Pre-Registration; $35.00 Day of ShowRegistration$10.00 additional car (same owner)Note: Pre-registration is recommendedRegistration forms available:www.bcnh.orgOr call or e-mail: Norma @ 603-490-6115 [email protected]

Diana @ [email protected]

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BCNH 2016 Calendar of Events

May

1st Blessing of the Fleet, Alfred, ME

2nd Monthly Meeting at Moe Joe’s,Manchester

7th 5th Annual Spring Coastal MG Drive

7th Lift day at Brit Bitts, Rye, NH

14th Coffee & Cars, Historic MotorSports

14th Annual BCNH Tech Session TBD

19th Monthly Meeting at The CommonMan, Plymouth

21st BCNH Hobbs Brewery and ClubMotorsports Drive

June

1st-5th New England MG “T” RegisterGathering of the Faithful, Groton, CT

4th BCNH visit to the Ice HouseMuseum

5th British By The Sea, Waterford, CT

6th Monthly Meeting at Moe Joe’s,Manchester

9th - 12th British Motorcar Festival,Bristol, RI Festival

11th BCNH Lupine Drive



18th BCNH Queen’s BirthdayGathering

June 23rd-25th Vintage MotorsportsFestival, Thompson Speedway, CT

June 25th Ride to the Roses and TheOld Salt Restaurant

26th British Car Day, Larz Anderson

July

2nd BCNH Lake Sunapee Cruise andDinner, Contact Norma @ 603-490-6115 or [email protected]


9th BCNH Castle in the Clouds


16th British Motoring Festival, NovaScotia

21st Monthly Meeting at The CommonMan, Plymouth

23rd BCNH Show of Dreams

31st Day of Triumph, Larz Anderson

August

1st Monthly Meeting at Moe Joe’s,Manchester

6th BCNH Aeroplanes and Olde AutosDrive, Manchester, NH


13th BCNH drive to Harpoon Breweryand Precision Museum

14th BCNH Peterborough, NH Cruz-InDrive


20th MG Day, Larz Anderson

20th BCNH Drive to Wright Museum,Wolfeboro, NH

September

10th BCNH Drive TBD




17th BCNH Covered Bridge Drive,Western, NH

16th-18th British Invasion, Stowe, VT

23rd-25th BCNH Fall Foliage Tour

24th BCNH Rocky Road Drive,Salem, NH

30th BCNH drive to Speckled Hen Run,West Dover, VT

October

1st-2nd Speckled Hen Run, West Dover,VT

3rd Monthly Meeting at Moe Joe’s,Manchester

7th-9th British Legends Weekend,Falmouth, MA


15th or 16th Extreme Pumpkin Chuckinat NHMS TBD

20th Monthly Meeting at The Common

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Group Confirmation LetterSpeckled Hen Run 2016Arrival Date: September 30Departure Date: October 2No. of Nights: 2Breakfasts: 2Dinner: 1

Group RatesRates include 2 nights’ accommodationwith a hearty country breakfast eachmorning, 1 evening meal and tax.

Double Occupancy (2 per room)$ 298.00 inc.Single Occupancy (1 per room)$ 196.00 inc.MealsBritish styled meals will be served onSaturday evening. To be determined!Breakfast is our usual menu fully cookedto order served with a smile.

To qualify for group prices your groupmust have 10 rooms booked and/or 20people or more in your party. If thefinal booking falls below this amountthen rack rates will apply to eachindividual booking.

[email protected] (802) 464 8310 or (800) 388 8310 f: (802) 464 2675332 Route 100,West Dover, Vermont 05356, USA

Kitzhof Rules and RegulationsCancellation PolicyIf cancellation is received 14 or moredays (21 days for holiday periods)

PetsThere are no pets allowed . Eventhough we are a “pet friendly” inn,bringing pets on the trip complicatesthings too much and creates a hardshipfor the pet and the other members ofBCNH. SmokingThe Kitzhof Inn is a Smoke Freebuilding. We are a zero tolerance Innand there will be a cleaning or damagecharge added to the bill if this isviolated. (up to $150)

Man, Plymouth

23rd BCNH Drive TBD

November




December




To All BCNH Members:

The Connecticut MG Club is present-ing their annual “British by the Sea”

Sunday, June 5, 2016 at Harkness Me-morial Park in Waterford, CT.

BCNH has arranged a special group ratefor lodging at:

Hilton Garden Inn224 Gold Star HighwayGroton, CT 06340Group Rate: $169.00+taxGroup Code: BCHSpecial Rate Dates: 6/3/16 – 6/5/16Cutoff Date for special rate: 5/01/16Website: www.mysticgroton.hgi.comPhone: 860-445-6800We suggest you call the hotel directly tomake your reservations. Please men-tion you are members of BCNH and usethe group code.

Please visit the Connecticut MG Clubwebsite to register for the show.

www.ctmgclub.com

British by the Sea Show

prior to arrival, the deposit will berefunded less $25 per room handlingcharge. Within 14 days prior to arrival(21 days for holiday periods) there willbe no refund on the deposit. Pleaseremember that a reservation is yourcommitment for the full period that yourequest. If you leave the Inn beforeyour reservation has expired or arrivelate, your entire fee will be forfeited. Deposits are applied to the last nightof your initial reservation.

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Show of Dreams Registration Form

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Ian & Christine AthertonFreedom, NH1975 MGB & 2004 Jaguar XJ8

of over 30 years ago had come true. Thecar was a “bespoke” car with customred inside, burled elm wood, stainlesshood and custom crystal lady hood or-nament. It has a few special features in-cluding suicide doors, umbrellas thatpop out of the doors, a humidor and afull picnic set in the trunk. I now haveowned the car for a few months and havedriven a few hundred miles. As theweather improves I will use it on week-ends.

I was searching on line looking to join

some car clubs. I joined the Rolls Royceclub but when I came across the BritishCar Club of NH I knew I had to join. Ican’t wait to see and meet all of you withmy family.

Jeff Scott

Car of the MonthContinued from page 2 New Members

Jennifer BlanchardDamariscota, ME1960 MGA

Vin & Karleen Dell’OvaDurham, NH1976 MGB

Jay & Marty GoozeDurham, NH1980 MGB

John & Shirley HeggemanGreen, ME1952 MG TD

Peter & Marcia JolicoeurStandish, ME1976 MGB

Mike OlivaNorth Weymouth, MA

Norm Michaels &Charlotte MandelLee, NH1966 Jaguar, 1963 MGB GT,1966 MGB

Bob & Deborah MorneauPortland, ME1961 TR3ABen & Candace MorongYourk, ME1969 MG Midget

Joseph & Dolores PerryNashua, NH1965 Ginetta G4

Carl W. & Judy Fr enchAlfred, ME1960 Triumph 10 Estate,1967 MGB, 1972 TriumphBonneville, (two) MGB GT’s

Lyn SudlowParsonsfield, ME

Daniel & Kathy FuenteScarborough, ME1952 MG TD

Lowell HaylingRochester, NH1951 MG TDGeorge & JacquelineThanchemotagneStanford, ME1972 MG Midget, 1973 MGB

Leon & Cheryl ThanchemotagneBiddeford, ME1988 Jaguar XJS

Erick & Kimberly Van SickleArundel, ME1948 MG TC, 1951 MG TD,1960 MGA, 1961 Morgan,1961 TR4, 1961 AH 3000,1972 MG Midget,1970 & 1971 TR6

Anthony & Fenella LevickTroy, NH1936 Riley Adelphi 12/4,1972 MGB GT1984 Jaguar XJS Coupe

New Membersfrom NEMGCC

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Car Out of Storage”Courtesy of

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Drew & Dottie BetzNaples, ME1965 Jaguar, 1968 XKE, 1987 XJ6,1992 XJS

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