John's funeral was on Friday. We had a small display of 'John's cars' in place before the service, which was taken by the Longbridge plant chaplain, Colin Corke - it's his R8. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55419901271_15e6fed449_h.jpg The last Acclaim was brought along by the BMM. Many thanks ...
He lived a long and productive life! I hope he didn't succumb to a smoking related disease at the end after spending some time at least working a smoke filled environment. Surprisingly, he didn't! He had been living with dementia for most of the last decade, hence our fund raising for Dementia Rese...
Sadly, we have lost a very significant figure in the development of all our club cars. He basically kept the relationship with Honda running as smoothly as possible from the beginning to the end. His obituary is here - https://www.aronline.co.uk/news/obituary/john-bacchus/ On a personal note, althou...
Still need addresses for 8. Palio (Gavin 216GSi) and 10. Adrian Jones Should be collecting the tix on Weds... :cool Sorry John, I hadn’t seen this. Don’t get in here often as I’m mainly on FB these days! Pm incoming in a minute. :) Just checking you got this John? Confirmed address some time ago - ...
Last week BBC 5Live Drive asked for '2nd country' footy teams ahead of the World Cup, so I decided to tell the story of when Austin Rover played Honda. This was when the 'AR8' team were staying in Utsunomia, where Honda R&D are located. Notorious, eh ! :cool https://www.flickr.com/photos/1506004...
The results are in and the 8 free-ticket winners are :D 2. Iain (itcaptainslow) 3. Montegoman 4. MGZRreplca 8. Palio (Gavin 216GSi) 9. Sammy 10. Adrian Jones 11. ReubenVP 12. Mark A Wright Would these lucky people please PM me a suitable postal address. It's likely that the wristbands will be availa...