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Welcome to autumn! This morning was the first morning which really smelt like autumn, so I guess we can be happy with that. And let’s face it, this weather is perfect for open top driving!

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Welcome to March everyone!

What a difference two or three days less makes to how long a month seems to last! But February was a great month, with a particular highlight being the presence at our Tyre Kick and Coffee of the SSC Emira, along with Phil and Graham’s customer cars. Very grateful thanks to Lee and Richard for giving Michael the Emira to bring along, and thank you also to all the twenty or so cars who turned up, making it our largest Tyre Kick event for some time.

What a fabulous thing the Emira is! For the first time in a long time, I am actually tempted to get the Roskill wallet out, release the moths, and shell out on this magnificent car. Well done to Lotus.

We also spent some time in February getting into the detail of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations which we will be hosting from 23rd-25th June at the Fairmont Resort in Leura.

If you haven’t yet booked, I’d ask you to do so soon as we need to start confirming numbers with the hotel shortly. If you’ve lost the link to the booking form, it’s here: https://cla.memberjungle.com/index.cfm?module=event&pagemode=indiv&page_id=1791670

The event is designed to be a celebration of the future as much as the past, and we are looking forward to welcoming plenty of more recent members of the club, the team at SSC and, of course, the Emira (and, who knows, there might even be a surprise guest car there!) Please get in with your booking as you’re sure to kick yourself if you miss out!

In other news, we will be looking to run one of our upcoming Tyre Kicks from Evalence’s workshops in Hornsby, possibly as early as this month if I can get organised with Charlie Frew, so watch your emails for a last minute change of plans!

We’re also interested to find other locations for this sort of event, so if you know anyone who might like to host us, please let me or any of the committee know, and we will gladly follow up.

Meanwhile, in other news, Apple TV is bringing back Ted Lasso – if you didn’t see the first series, I highly recommend it. And while you are at it, there’s some new footage on YouTube from Car and Classic on Gordon Murray’s Favourite Five.

And while you are online, get in and book for our excellent 50th Anniversary gathering in the mountains in June!

Well, I can scarcely say Happy New Year given it’s now February, so let’s go with I hope 2023 is all you wish for instead.

And I for one have made several resolutions which, unusually, I intend to keep!

For one, I have committed to listening more to our membership’s needs, wants, and ideas. So please, do let us know if there is something we should be doing that we aren’t. Would you be interested in us reinstating the shed tours, for example? And if so, is a weekday evening too inconvenient, or still good? Or would you prefer a weekend? How can we make grass roots motorsport even better? Or anything else that tickles your fancy.

My other resolutions are mostly related to things I failed to achieve last year too (like rebuilding the Range Rovers), but there’s not enough room here for all that.

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