I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Prez Words 1

August Happenings 2

Welcome New Members 2

IBCC Board 2

Events 3

News & Member’s Tid-

bits

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Sunbeams Westward Ho 5

Mtn Home Lions Car

Show

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Classified 7/8

As another hot August winds down

and Charlie heads back to school, I'm

heartened to think about cooler

weather, perfect for driving our British

cars. I hope this finds all of you look-

ing forward to the autumn driving sea-

son, as well.

I'd like to thank the people who

attended to Lion's car show in Moun-

tain Home, despite the heat, for repre-

senting the IBCC so well. Thanks, too,

to Bob Hurtt for paying the entry fees.

Bob, I have an award for you!

The IBCC board met in early August

to debrief on Summer Tour, as well as

brainstorm about next summer's tour.

One of our ideas is to make our tour

four days, rather than three, which

would allow us to go farther afield.

Northern Idaho might make a great

destination. I'd welcome input on a

four day tour - send me an email or

grab me at coffee and let me know

what you think.

President's notes for September2014

U P C O M I N G E V E N T S

August 27, Wednesday

Night Drive

August 30, Odd Saturday

Out Drive

September 2, Coffee at

Caffe’ Capri

September 20, Coffee at

Moxie Java

September 24, Wednesday

Night Drive

October 4, General Meeting

SPOKE ‘N’ WORD MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE IDAHO BRITISH CAR CLUB

Available in color on the webpage http://idahobritishcars.org

September 2014 Volume 23 Issue 9

We also realized that none of us has

the most current by-laws; they didn't ever

get updated after we voted to amend

them the last time. Nancy and I are at-

tempting to remedy that and will be

sending out a copy of the amended by-

laws via email for our membership to re-

view. Our first coffee meeting in October

will also be a general meeting in order to

vote on the new by-laws.

There are lots of organized opportuni-

ties for drives coming up in the next few

months and impromptu gatherings are

always welcome, too. Seems like we

need a closing drive for the year. Ideas,

anyone? Maybe we could convince the

Little Camas Inn to try hosting again...

Happy motoring, folks!

Realy Ann

The "Board" has put together a general survey of club events/activities

seeking your thoughts on how we can improve our club.

We are using an online survey tool (Survey Monkey) in order to have the survey be

anonymous - well, except for the very last question that asks if you are willing to serve

on a committee to list your name and committee of interest. That page will be reported

separately to the "Board". The Survey link was sent via email to current IBCC members

on Tuesday, August 26.

We would like the survey to be completed no later than Monday, September 8. Survey

results will be posted in the October Newsletter.

Coffee Time Name Tag Drawings:

August 2 — Becky and Rod Nichol’s name was drawn and they were there—they won

enough $$$ to fill their car with petro!

August 16 — Margaret & Gregory Bell’s name was drawn, Gregory was there and was wear-

ing his name tag!

AUGUST HAPPENINGS Page 2

Lee Roberson, Lee drives a TVR

***** New Members can pick up their name tags from James Barry at coffee.

I B C C C L U B R E G A L I A

License plate frames $20 (silver or black )

Grill badges $30

Sew-on patches $5

Window decals $1

Contact Realy Ann if you need anything

Welcome New Members

President Realy Ann Wingert mini64@q.com 208 338-0837 (H)

Vice President Bill Dryden bs2rdry@cableone.net 208 867-8670 ©

208 388-8863 (H)

Treasurer Wes Seideman banker@spro.net 208 514-7209 ©

208 384-0566 (H)

Secretary/Membership James Barry jameslbarry@gmail.com 208 409-4515

Events Coordinator Brad Eells bradlnss@yahoo.com 208 631-3991 ©

Newsletter Editor Nancy & Lee Otterness nancyandleeotterness@gmail.com 208 376-5931 (H)

208 861-1186 Nancy’s cell

208 861-8333 Lee’s cell

Web Master Rick Mills rm1950@mac.com 208-890-7252 ©

208-895-0752 (H)

Historian/Archives Bob Frisby bbfrisby@cableone.net 208-336-2169 (H)

Past President Dave Countryman dkcountryman@juno.com 208 336 0806 (h)

208 841 8251

IBCC Board for 2014-2015

IBCC Related Events

August 27, Wednesday Night Drive. Note start time is 5:30 pm Event Coordinator Brad Eells—please con-

tact Brad for any last minute questions.

August 30, Odd Saturday Out. Ride to Bogus Basin Hosted by Rick Mills. Meet at Caffe Capri, 2596 N. Bogus Basin Rd, Boise at 10:30 AM Take a drive on the best sports car road in Boise! Lunch at the Bogus Creek Grill at Simplot Lodge. Stay for a hike on the Ridge to Rivers trail system or watch the Northwest Hillclimb Association event on the upper lodge roads! September 24, Wednesday Night Drive. Meet at Veterans Memorial Park for a 6:30 departure to Miss

Tami's Cottage and Tea Room, 1031 N Main St, Meridian, ID 83642

October 4, General Meeting. We will be voting on the revised by-laws. They will be sent to you in a sepa-

rate email from the September newsletter

October 29, Last Wednesday Night Drive of the season. Need Event Coordinator!! Contact Brad Eells

November 19, Pub Night (note change in date due to TG). Need Event Coordinator!! Contact Brad Eells

November 29, Odd Saturday Out. Need Event Coordinator!! Contact Brad Eells

December 13, IBCC Annual Christmas Party.

December 31, Pub Night. Need Event Coordinator!! Contact Brad Eells

Other Car Club Events Around the NW Area

United Street Rods of Idaho has a listing of all the local car shows: http://www.usri.org/events-calendar/ August 29-31, All British Field Meet Saluting Triumph - Labor Day Weekend 2014—Portland Internation-al Raceway - Portland OR www.abfm-pdx.com/2014

September 12 & 13, Caldwell Idaho’s 12th Annual Indian Creek Festival. Friday event: 5-9 pm Downtown Car Cruise; Saturday event: 8am-3pm Car Show and Shine. September 9-14, 2014 VTR National Convention http://www.vtr2014.com/ September 27, British Car Club of Wenatchee, Washington Registration sheets are available by con-tacting BritCarClubWen@aol.com

June 8-12, 2015, NAMGBR Annual Convention, MG 2015 “The MaGic in Niagara Falls” Canada, http://

www.mg2015.com/

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News and Tid-bits from IBCC Members

Sent by Kim Ward:

This clip from our safety and loss control department might be something you want to share with your family

members, your drivers or other employees….. Turn up the volume.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JHixeIr_6BM?rel=0&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3

Vintage Motorcycles by Charlotte Zaugg

Charlotte and Jerry’s son Jared sent this:

Vintage Motorcycles will be coming through Boise on their way to Lewis-

ton. The riders will be coming in from Elko Nevada and will rendezvous at

the High Desert Harley-Davidson in Meridian on Thursday September 18

at 5pm. The next morning they will depart for McCall. Charlotte and Jerry

plan on driving along in one of their British cars and invite any club mem-

ber to join them on Friday morning.

Our club was presented the Best Club Trophy at the

Mtn Home Lions Club 2014 Ramble and Roar Car Show.

Nine IBCC cars attended the event—Bob Hurtt gracious-

ly sponsored our club’s participation and will be pre-

sented with the trophy at the next coffee.

See page 6 for more information about the show.

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I started the drive west to Idaho from Delaware on a Saturday morning hoping to avoid the week-

day traffic in Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. (I really dislike driving through Indianapo-

lis as I have almost been hit twice by bad drivers in the last two years when I was there during a

weekday.) Saturday traffic was light but I was rained on a dozen times while in western PA. On

into Ohio, through Columbus OK and made it the 485 miles to the first night stop in Springfield

Ohio. Not up to driving so walked to the Cracker Barrel and discovered it was the Saturday dinner

place of choice for all of the local citizens.

Sunday was uneventful and I made the trek through Indianapolis OK and ended up in Hannibal,

MO after 440 miles of driving. Mark Twain was napping and Tom Sawyer had left town for more

exciting places as everything was closed by the time I got there. Monday started out good except

for a partially sticking oil pressure relief valve and I made 380 miles before stopping near Waco,

NE for my second tank of gas. OOPS, the car wouldn’t start. Tried several things including cuss-

ing with no luck and finally decided the starter was bad. Called AAA who could not locate the des-

olate almost deserted gas station in the middle of nowhere where I was stuck. I eventually was

towed to a real town, York, Nebraska 8 miles farther along. Crawled under the car to remove the

starter and found a broken wire. Repaired it and everything worked again.

Tuesday I had to make up the distance I didn’t make on Monday so I had 657 miles to drive

which wasn’t too bad except for the now badly sticking oil pressure relief valve that had to be

whacked every time I stopped for gas so it would reseat. Fortunately I had a spare with me so I

changed it out that

night. It worked fine in

Rock Springs, WY but

when I started driving

the final 490 miles on

Wednesday it stuck

again. Back to whack-

ing at every gas stop.

Made it to its new

home in Eagle and

pulled into the garage

just as the skies

opened up and torren-

tial rain, high wind and

hail came crashing

down. All in all, it was

an excellent trip.

Greg is a new IBCC member

Greg car at the Mt Home Lions club car show

Sunbeams West-ward Ho

Greg Bell, Driving his 1967

Alpine

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Mt Home’s 13th Annual Ramble & Roar Car Show

reported by Lynn and Jan Gardner

Thought you’d like a little note about the car show in Mtn Home. We had 9 cars show up

allowing us to win the “Best” club award (that award definitely goes to Bob Hurtt who

sponsored us).

The drive down was uneventful, with only one of us having a non-car related pause that

was soon remedied. The weather was very nice going down, but heated up as the day

went on. Fortunately, Bob Hurt secured the best spot in the park and provided us with

soothing liquid refreshments allowing us to last till the awards were given out at five pm.

One of the most interesting cars I saw was a 2 seater Messerschmitt. I’m really surprised

that this car didn’t win the “Best” foreign car since ‘cute' almost always trumps ‘cool’. At

any rate, I thought it was very cute and would love to have it in my garage. Wait, it’s not

British is it? Oh well, probably for the best.

I’m embarrassed to say that the judges gave my E Type the Best Foreign car trophy. I

heard a rumor that the MGC was a top contender till the owner pissed off the judge when

he wouldn’t open the bonnet for the engine to be inspected. Hmm, don’t think he knew it

was THE judge.

We had a very good turnout, all of which were beautiful contenders; with the Gregory and

Margaret Bell’s beautiful Alpine, Terry Thompson’s MGC, Jim Hahn. with his TR6, Rick

Lake, Dave Countryman and Bob Sanders with their MGB’s, Bob Frisby with his Austin

Healey and Stanley Lee with his Midget. All in all, a good turnout considering the hot

sun. Next year I would like to see us get even a few more cars. With a few more cars, we

could really turn it into a British Car Show!

Later in the day, we were joined by Rick Mills in his TR6 which seemed to be running well

(perhaps too well-it didn’t want to stop running). Several of us finished up the day with a

drive up to Little Camas where Rod and his Band were playing a benefit for Leukemia re-

search. That for me was the highlight of the day. We had a 360 degree view, thunder and

lightning in the distance adding to the bass, good music, friends, and beer under the

stars! Doesn’t get much better than that! Wish you’d have been there!

Cheers,

Photo’s courtesy of Aaron Dicello of the Mtn Home Lions Club

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Classified ads are free for club members. Non IBCC members can place an ad for 3 months without charge.

Note: Since you can now place your own ad on the IBCC website—if you would like it also posted here in the news-

letter—please send me a copy of your ad. Our newsletter is sent to other British car clubs throughout the US.

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