Wentworth County Backroads Tour
The Rural Ramble

I've got some updates, contact info, and a route map for the June 27th Rural Ramble

June 24th

Route Sheets are up

David Wood

Thornhill Cruisers Car Club
Cruise Nights

Cruise Night Every Monday, 5pm to 9pm May 24 to September 6, 2010. At The Bayview Glen Church, 300 Steeles Avenue East Thornhill (Just East of Bayview).

All Antique And Collectible Cars 15 Years or Older Welcome Free On-Site Spectator Parking Available

There is Never Any Entry Fee For Cars or Spectators!

The "Higher Ground Grill" is Run by the Church and Provides Excellent Food and Refreshments Including Hamburgers, Sausage, Chicken Salads and Even Ice Cream!

The BSCCoC has been invited to the Monday June 28 British Car Night Cruise!

So come on out, show your car, meet people, and eat!!

Track Day at Shannonville
Friday June 25th

Here is a rare opportunity to safely drive your LBC on a track instead of regular roads and really have some fun.

The MG Car Club of Toronto as part of MG 2010 (www.mg2010.com) is holding a track day at Shannonville Motorsport Park, Shannonville, on Friday June 25th and we still have some open spots which we are offering to other vintage British Car Clubs. In the UK Track Days are very popular and are held at a circuit somewhere almost every month. We are being assisted in this event by the St Lawrence Auto Club of Kingston.

The format will be as follows:-

We hope to see you there having fun and if you want any more information please contact us at 1 866 436 3278.

John Burrows.
Shannonville Track Day Co-ordinator.

June 8th

The numbers are creeping up slowly but we still plenty of spaces so we are still looking for participants.

John

June 22nd

Three days to go! There are still openings available.

Drive Ins are welcome but get there early enough to get all of the forms filled out before the driver's meeting in the morning

Contact me for John's cell phone number

David Wood

British Car Week

Get out! Drive your Brit car!

Then send me a picture or two!

Your Favourite Tour Routes

In the last few days there have been tour notices and meetings to plan tours.

What I would like are your favourite touring routes. It will be a great opportunity to share your roads with everyone. Send 'em on to me

The Rural Ramble Tour
Sunday, 27th June

We will start our tour of Wentworth County back roads at the Tim Hortons in the Sobeys Plaza, Dundas St. E, and Hamilton St. N, Waterdown, east of Hwy 6 at 11:15 AM

About 12:30 we will stop, stretch the legs and enjoy a BYO picnic lunch at Rockton Fairgrounds. Rockton has an excellent local pottery plus a country General Store and the Cookhouse Cafe for hot food if desired. It is good so is likely to be busy.

We will depart about 2:00 touring more of the little known roads in Wentworth County.

We will finish and fan out for home around the area of Sheffield Rd. and Hamilton Rd. 97. At about 3:30 for the Kitchener Crew exiting via 97 West to Cambridge; 4:00 for the Milton Muster exiting via Hwy 6 North to 401 East; and 4:30 for the Burlington Brigade taking Hwy 6 south of Freelton to Concession Rd. 10 E to Derry Road and points east.

We will have toured approx 110 km, mostly on Ontario backroads! The route has been arranged such that all turns onto major high volume roads, such as Highways 5, 6 and 8 are right hand so we can keep the group together.

Route sheets and maps will be handed out at the beginning of the run.

Any questions, contact Andy Procktor aprocktor@hotmail.com

Get Together at the Halton County Radial Railway
Sunday June 13th

Meet our joint organizers, the Upper Canada Region Rolls-Royce Owner's Club at the Mohawk Inn for brunch at 11:00. Afterwhich we will drive about 15 minutes north arriving at the Halton County Radial Railway about 12:30. Enjoy a 2 kilometer Streetcar ride in the country and pick-up a fridge magnet or souvenir at the gift-shop.

Brunch at the Mohawk is $14.95, Children 5 to 10 $7.95, 4 and under FREE.

Group admission to the Halton County Radial Railway is $8.50, children 4 to 7 is $6.50 and under 4 is FREE.

The Mohawk Inn, 9230 Guelph Line is located on the west side of the Guelph Line immediately north of Hwy 401, exit 312.

The Halton County Radial Railway, 13629 Guelph Line is on the east side of the Guelph Line, just about 14 km north of the Mohawk Inn.

Please send an e-mail by Friday June 4 to Tony Fox or Andy Procktor if you want to attend this event.

Grey-Bruce BSCCoC Meeting!!

We will be a gathering the Grey-Bruce Chapter of BSCCoC at the Queen's Bush Pub, in Hanover, Saturday May 29. at 11:30. The pub is on the south west corner of 10th St. and 13th Ave.

Excellent parking is available behind the building and across the road.

This is to be a casual get together to discuss possible activities for the chapter.

See you there!

Email Dave Allen if you have questions.

June 4th

The meeting went well, there were 7 of us, so not bad for a first time gathering. There was talk of a garage tour to Markdale as well as a waterfall tour in that area. I think a visit to Chapman's Ice Cream would be a cool thing to do :-) There will be another meeting at the end of June, date to be announced.

Elva Allen

Ford From Ancaster Identified!!

This little Popular was the object of my obsession. There was no card on it at Ancaster. But I did find another picture from the Quebec car club CARVAQ. I could almost read the entry card that I blew up from the picture

The owner came forward and identified himself! Now that we know that. I want to find out where the car came from before that. It had an oil change sticker from a Wisconsin shop. Any Wisconsin English Ford people out there??

Website Re-arrangement

I'v re-arranged the website a bit. Whenever you click the link to http://www.bsccoc.ca you will come here. I have been looking at some other sites and thought this may not be a bad idea. Coming here will give everybody the chance to see what is new. All of the stuff originally here has been moved to a "Who We Are" page.

Chairman of the Board and the rest of the Executive

I have a picture of Andy Procktor and his very first Presidential message. So if you see him, welcome him. Hit him up for money or a patronage appointment. There is also more Executive changes. I hope they are all reflected in the list. Any executive who wants to check it feel free.

Member Galleries

There are some business cards no longer on the page because Roger and/or Don have not received renewals. Check it out. Renew yourself!

Eastenders' Garage Tour

The Eastenders had a garage tour, and I have pictures to prove it!

Ancaster Flea Market

Spring has sprung for real now! Any snow that falls now will be just a little annoyance because it just can't last.

The BSCC and AHCSO put on the Ancaster Flea Market in the, now completed, new Marritt Hall. I got there the crack of noon and have some pictures for you all

I also met our new Chairman Andy Procktor, a nice guy who will take us into the future!!

So check out the Ancaster pics I have up here, and if you have any, I can put them up too!

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

We have a new Chairman of the Board!

Roger worked his magic on any suitors for the job of Chairman of the Board. Andy Procktor has signed on the dotted line.

We also have a new Membership guy, Don Walker will help keep all of the vital statistics straight, who's new, who needs to re-new. Its all to keep you getting your Oily Rag every month.

Here in the south of Ontario we had two weeks of January Thaw. Enough for some bikes to get out and about. Now we are back in winter. It can't last too much longer. This coming Tuesday Wiarton Willie and his kin will discern the light and shadow for their wintry future.

I am getting serious about the Modified Cars page. So far a couple of responses.

Dave Allen sent:

Nigel has a genuine Allis Chalmers muffler carefully crafted, does that qualify? I also have a 1942 Oliver tractor powered by a Nissan diesel truck motor. Will that work?

Dave in the snow

Tony Fox sent:

I saw your request for interesting items on Brit Car Talk, check out the 'Essential Buyers Guide for Stags' I've been working on, published by Veloce in the UK, cover attached. Now available through Amazon. Happy New Year and hope you had a good Christmas
Tony

Who knew Tony and Norm wrote a book?? I didn't. I do now, and so do you. So, buy one. Links are in the Member's Gallery and Modified Cars pages