The Octagon 

NEWSLETTER OF THE CLASSIC   CLUB

Vol. 47                       No.6                    Issue 561                                  June, 2010 

MAINTAINING THE BREED FOR OVER FORTY YEARS

  PRESIDENT: Jim McSweeney, 3516 Seaford Ln., Casselberry, FL 32707.  Phone 407

 695 2981  E-mail jimspeedmaster@aol.com.

EDITOR:   Al Cook, 8554 Amber Oak Dr. Orlando, FL 32817.  Phone 407 6678 6814- E–mail arcpa@mpinet.net.

WEBSITE:  www.classicmgclub.com  WEBMASTER:  Paul Plasschaert, E-mail: webmaster@classicmgclub.com. 

MEETING:  As usual, it is the third Thursday, June 17^th at 7:00 PM in the Maitland Senior Center, 145 S Maitland Ave. in (can it be?) Maitland.    Directions: from Horatio and Orlando Ave. (AKA 17-92), Go West on Horatio to Maitland Ave. Then left (South) on Maitland Ave. to Packwood. Go right (West) on Packwood about ½ a block to the parking lot. Pull into the 1st driveway on the left.  We will discuss past events and plan for future (summer) events.

MAY/JUNE EVENTS FOLLOW UP :  Our club had a good expedition to New Smyrna Beach to visit Jeannie Henderson and to share lunch. There was a good turn-out, considering the weather, and after consulting some of the GPS satellites, we actually found where she lived!  Lunch was at the Dolphin View Restaurant and, there were no reports of any dolphins being spotted (or eaten).  The group dined “al fresco” which is some language that means outside, under a canopy.  I hear that the weather cooperated and didn’t get too hot to drive until on the way back to town.  Our intrepid travelers were met by good friends from the coast, Art and Yvonne Floyd and I am told that Jeannie looked good and had a good time, in spite of the out-of-town company!

JUNE DRIVING EVENT: Last month, the consensus choice for June’s event was a short trip to a favorite watering hole in Winter Park, the Fiddler’s Green Irish Pub.  We often engage in a Dart’s Tournament and well as partaking of the local brew, but last month no one of our group thought ahead (no surprise) to the fact that the World Cup Football/Soccer Tournament was going into the Second Round on the very weekends that would be possible for us.  Our planning and events committee quickly realized that we wouldn’t have our usual fairly quiet event and decided to take a Penalty Kick and move the June Event to another of our  favorite locations, which we haven’t been to for a while.  With all that said, our June Event will be a luncheon Meeting on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 12:00 (Noon) at the Black Hammock Restaurant located at 2356 Black Hammock Fish Camp Road in Oviedo.  Because of the expected hot weather, we aren’t planning a road tour to get there.  The Plan is to assemble at the Restaurant.  A Darts Tournament will NOT, be held, unless you have a permit to go after the Alligators!

It has been traditional for us to invite the British Car Folks to our Darts Tournament, and we can, at the Meeting on the 17^th. Discuss whether to invite them to this Event, in stead.  If you have an opinion, bring it along to the Club Meeting.  There will still be sufficient time to extend the invite, if we decide to include the others. 

FUTURE EVENTS: Please make a note of the date for the next GOF South, sponsored and hosted by The Sun Coast Classic MG Club which will be April 8 – 10, 2011 at Weeki Wachee.  Information is available at englishcarclub@yahoo.com. 

Another event, which had it’s origins as the Fox Lake British Car Show has now morphed into the Brit Bash which will be held at the Riverside Park in Vero Beach, FL on October 29-30, 2010.  Information is available at www.mgcarclubflorida.org.  Special Rates are arranged with the Spring Hill Suites (by Marriott) at $89/night.