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Chairmants Chat
CHAIRMAN’S CHAT
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A VERY WARM WELCOME to the latest club magazine. And indeed, it has been a little warm recently, so I hope several members, like myself, have been lying on the not-so-cold garage floor working on your Sunbeam Lotus.
My free time over the past few weeks has been spent continually on my Sunbeam Lotus. Although there is still plenty to do, I can see a realistic completion sooner rather than later. I do not need to rely on anything at this point to get done that is beyond my control, so I will ponder on with it. I have put the rest of my car collection on the back burner.
There have been changes that I mentioned previously on the club committee. Richard Blackburn is now running the parts with Mike Trim still there to answer and help with all technical queries. Mike is also there to help me with dealing with getting parts projects sorted. I am behind on the fuel line kit (as I have had to deal with moving house and other painful duties), but I hope to have it all sorted with Mike’s approval for what we have to offer very soon. At first it was a matter of replacing the fuel line. But the deeper I got into it, you realise that there are other components that need sorting out and that members may want to purchase parts of it and not just the complete kit. This also raised the question of options for Fuel Pumps, so I have had to look at this as well.
Another fabulous change is Mark Higman is now dealing with events and is way ahead at planning them than we have been previously. He has numerous ideas, and I will be supporting him in making sure the committee make ensure these plans come to fruition for us all. Looking back, our most successful year of events was when I sent out a fridge magnet early on with all the dates. This is a task I will repeat for 2023.
By the time this magazine has landed on your doormats, we would have enjoyed our National Day weekend and will be looking towards the NEC show in November. Mark is looking to organise a Christmas Dinner somewhere almost central/accessible to all if there is enough interest. That should be it for 2022 but I expect with Mark eagerness, we will have plenty to do in 2023.
For now, I will sign off and let us all get our Sunbeams running and leave you all with a little teaser photo of a prototype I have received recently which will be available to club members after some testing and fine tuning (and input from those more knowledgeable than myself).
