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The VRCBC held its May meeting at the fabulous Johnson Collection in Aldergrove. The eclectic variety of vehicles on display is obvious from the following photographs. Many thanks to our host, Terry Johnson.
In March, Alyn Edwards wrote a very informative column about the Collection in the Vancouver Sun. You can read it here.
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The VRCBC's April general meeting was actually a special visit to Ferrari Maserati of Vancouver (website). The Club members and guests who attended were too distracted by all of the beautiful new and pre-owned high performance cars on display to actually focus on any regular business agenda - so we didn't even try!
The few photos below don't do justice to these fabulous machines and the state of the art, multi-story facility on Burrard Street. It was a very enjoyable evening. A big thank you to General Manager Mark Edmonds and his team for hosting us.
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The VRCBC hosted a day trip of both members and non-members to the fabulous LeMay Family Collection Foundation ( www.lemaymarymount.org/ ) in Tacoma on Saturday, October 29th. Many automotive collections have a few very high value cars displayed in what seems to be an art museum - you think you must speak softly. In contrast, the LeMay has endless numbers of 'real' cars displayed in 'real' conditions. There were rows of Model T's and Model A's, Chevrolets, Dodges, Buicks, countless Cadillacs, probably the largest collection of Packards anywhere, a Tucker, a Franklin, 'Fire Truck Alley', a DeLorean, a Bricklin, Studebakers, early 'brass cars' and farm tractors, a gas turbine powered kart, Pierce Arrows, aircraft engines, Lincoln Continentals, Rolls Royces, Kaisers, and on, and on, and on. And it seemed around every corner, there was also another collection of toys or dolls, or even hose nozzles!
There were constant comments like: 'My dad had a car like that!' - or even more frequently - 'I tried to convince my dad to buy a car like that!' It really was Gearhead Heaven! Highly recommended. A big thank you to the Lemay folks for the excellent tour and to our own Al Reid for pulling the trip together for us.
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[caption id="attachment_5592" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="VRCBC Pres. Stan Guy presents our lead tour guide (and VRCBC racer in 2012), Pierce Issacs with some BCHMR 'swag' as a thank you. Al Reid is still amazed."]
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And another big thank you to Larry Payeur, President of the Fraser Valley British Motor Club ( www.britishcarclub.ca/ ) for most of the photos you see here and below.
