Agreed, Yankee Candle, while out in the middle of nowhere (no offense to
those that live in western mass), just wouldn't have the same feel. Does
anyone know why the Museum and cars are being sold, or did I miss something?
Safety Fast
Ross Overcash,74B,NAMGBR 2-1172
Ayer, MA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Alan Claffie
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 09:47 AM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Westminster MG Museum
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> --- MGRagtop@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I have been to the Fall Fraternity Tour twice, MG-less both times.
> > Both days were those incredible crisp,nice fall days. I really wanted
>
> > to go last fall's event, I remember the weather was really lousy,
> > keeping me away, There's always next year, or so I thought... I
> > wonder if there is a way to keep the Fall Fraternity Tour going, even
>
> > if it isn't at Westminster. There must be another suitable location
> > nearby that would be willing to host it, possibly the Yankee Candle
> > Car Museum located nearby in South Deerfield, Mass?
>
> I've been to the Fraternity Tour a few times, a couple with my derelict
> MGB (even entered it in the show to demonstrate how hope springs
> eternal). Once I took my dad's red '76 Spitfire on a frigid day and
> took 3rd best Spit.
>
> Last time I went there my oil pump konked out on the ride home and I
> got to spend another quality winter rebuilding the engine. I think
> that's why I haven't been back in the last 3-4 years.
>
> The Yankee Candle museum would be a super location for me since I'm
> only an hour drive's away, but I don't think it would have the same
> out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere clubby feel, probably because I can't
> recall if there's any patches of grass big enough to hold the show on,
> and I really like car shows held on grass (British on the Green in CT,
> and the Hillcrest Hospital annual show in Pittsfield MA).
>
> To digress a bit, my favorite part of the Westminster museum wasn't the
> cars on display, but going back into the shop seeing all kinds of cars
> in various states of dismantledness. Sometimes they'd put a piece of
> paper on the projects to help identify them, but there were still a
> couple "whattheheckISthatthing?" lurking.
>
> --
> Claff
> Derelict '71 B Roadster
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