What a wonderful day we had! There were some really nice cars in a wide variety. Though there were some really good MGs , the day belonged to Triumph. Three absolutely immaculate TR3s – including our own Bill Berg’s making the show in grand fashion! It has been a long road and really is nice to see Bill driving this baby.
Some unusual cars – a 1936 Ford right hand drive convertible. This has to be a very rare car. There was much speculation – was it built in the states or across the pond? Were English Fords around back then? Thanks Doc for allowing Tom the pleasure of driving it to the show. How about two Lotus? Lotuses? Loti? A beautiful yellow Elise and an equally beautiful lotus Excel – which I had never seen. We had a yellow Volkswagen Bug attend. This car is really nice and look closely – it has air conditioning! It was great to see him at the show and hopefully he can bring more VW owners next year. One Porsche 911, a Mercedes, and a Mazda rounded out this group.
I just love the older models. They are ingrained in my blood. The MGTD, several gorgeous MGBs, two MGAs rounded out our MG stable. More maybe in numbers, but not enough to sway the votes from the awesome Triumphs. Three TR3s, a TR4, Two TR6s, and two Spitfires. The Jaguars held their own too. An early E-Type Coupe (with air!) that looked amazing and two newer models looking good as always.
Blitz Welch again did an outstanding job of bringing things together with the help of a few friends. The food – what else can be said. Where can you eat like that for 5 bucks anymore? I heard several compliments on our registration, so a job well done.
That brings us to the awards. Wish I could have gotten one. Andy beat me out by one vote! Mine. The awards were made by Tom Miro from car parts. Primarily pistons sliced in half and mounted on a wooden plaque. The Best in Show was of two mirrors – a fender and a dash mirror. Tom says, so the winner could bask in pride while admiring himself!
I truly had a great time and hope everyone else did as well. Let’s do it again next year!
David
Car Show [PHOTOS]
| Awards | Entrants | Car Show Committee | Donations & Sponsors | Food | Top |
2018 BMC Car Show Awards
Best of Show
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Yardley and Kim Bailey, 1958 Triumph TR3A – WABCC
Top Five Thru-1980 Cars
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C. H. Cox, 1951 MG-TD – BMCM
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Randy Darden, 1967 MGB – BHAM
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Tom Densmore, 1965 Triumph TR4A IRS – BMCM
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Jimmy Farris, 1956 Triumph TR3 – BHAM
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Bill Berg, 1960 Triumph TR3A – BMCM
Top Five Post-1980 Cars
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Dr. Ian Peden, 1984 Rolls Royce Corniche – BMCM
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Don & Verna Green, 1998 Jaguar XK8 – BMCM
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Hubert Holmes, Lotus Excel SE, RHD – BITV
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Larry Miller, 2000 Porsche 911 – BMCM
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Jason Adams, 2006 Lotus Sport Elise – MGM
Diamond in the Rough
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Andy Martin, 1969 Triumph TR6 – BMCM
2018 BMC Car Show Entries
42 Total
| Last Name | First Name | Year | Make | Model | Club | Awards |
| Bailey | Yardley | 1958 | Triumph | TR3A | WABCC | Best of Show |
| Bettes | Stephen | 1974 | MG | MGB | BitV | |
| Bizzoco | Dr. Bruce | 2017 | Mazda | MX-5 RF( L.Ed) | BHAM | |
| Board | Tom | 1974 | MG | MGB | BHAM | |
| Bransford | Pam | 1969 | MG | MGB-GT | BMCM | |
| Byrne | Dan | 1979 | MG | MGB-LE | BMCM | |
| Cox | C. H. | 1951 | MG | MG-TD | BMCM | Top 5 Old |
| Darden | Randy | 1967 | MG | MGB | BHAM | Top 5 Old |
| Densmore | Tom | 1965 | Triumph | TR4A-IRS | BMCM | Top 5 Old |
| Drasheff | Don | 2000 | Honda | S 2000 | BMCM | |
| Dzuirlik | Jan | 1972 | VW | Beetle | CAMAC | |
| Green | Don & Verna | 1998 | Jaguar | XK8 | BMCM | Top 5 New |
| Holmes | Hubert | 1991 | Lotus | Excel SE | BitV | Top 5 New |
| Horn | Steve | 2012 | Mercedes | SLK 350 | BHAM | |
| Jenkins | Andre | 1974 | MG | MGB-GT | BMCM | |
| Jenkins | Andre | 1977 | MG | MGB | MGM | |
| Jenkins | Andre | 1980 | MG | MGB- LE | MGM | |
| Jones | Curt | 1969 | MG | MGB | BHAM | |
| Farris | Jimmy | 1956 | Triumph | TR3 | BHAM | Top 5 Old |
| Krauss | William | 1969 | Jaguar | E-Type Coupe | BHAM | |
| Martin | Andy | 1969 | Triumph | TR6 | BMCM | Diamond |
| McKitrick | Mike | 1980 | Triumph | TR8 | BMCM | |
| Miro | Thomas | 1976 | Triumph | TR6 | BMCM | |
| Price | David | 1959 | MG | MGA | BMCM | |
| Robinson | Donnie | 1973 | MG | MGB | MGM | |
| Summerlin | Bill & Susan | 1964 | MG | MGB | BMCM | |
| Taylor | Mark & Vicki | 2015 | Jaguar | F Type | BMCM | |
| Welch | Blitz | 1978 | Triumph |
Spitfire 1500 |
BMCM | |
| Whigham | Russell | 2010 | Mini Cooper | S GEN2 | BMCM | |
| Williams | Allen & Ione | 1963 | Austin Healey | Mk II, BJ7 | WABCC | |
| Adams | Jason | 2006 | Lotus | Sport Elise | MGM | Top 5 New |
| Berg | Bill & Barbara | 1960 | Triumph | TR3A | BMCM | Top 5 Old |
| Branch | Malcolm | 1967 | MG | MGB | BMCM | |
| Kean | Rick | 1980 | Triumph | Spitfire 1500 | MGM | |
| Miller | Larry C. | 2000 | Porsche | 911 | BMCM | Top 5 New |
| Pardo | Ron & Joyce | 2009 | MINI Cooper | S Cabriolet | BMCM | |
| Peden | Ian | 1936 | Ford Coupe | Cabriolet, RHD | BMCM | Top 5 New |
| Peden | Ian | 1984 | Rolls Royce | Corniche | BMCM | |
| Smith | Bob & Marion | 1974 | MG | MGB | BMCM | |
| Treadwell | Keith | 1960 | MG | MGA | BitV | |
| Ward | Linton | 1957 | Morris | Minor 1000 | MGM | |
| Womble | Steve | 1976 | Triumph | TR6 | MGM |
Car Show Committee
Blitz Welch – Chairman, Head Cat Herder, Sponsors, Shirts
Terry Young – Posters
David Price – Meeting Room, Signs, Banners, Signs, Printing, Complaint Window
Hank Sims – Signs, Donations, Parking Coordinator
Deborah Sims – PA announcer
Debra Sims & Amanda Welch – Show Prizes, Spokes-models, MC’s, and Book Sales
Dan Byrne – Parking Attendant & Sponsor relations
Mignonne Haynes – Donations, Jim ‘N Nicks Baked Beans, cheese crackers, and candy
Cathy Whigham – Registration, Treasurer
Verna Green – Registration Assistant
Russell Whigham – Photography, Weather
Brandon Brazil -State of Alabama liaison, Donations, Publicity, Sponsor relations
Pam Bransford – Food Coordinator
Lunch prep and servers – Pam, Linda, Deborah, and Barbara
Tom Miro – Publicity, Chief Mechanic, Trophies
Donations & Sponsors
Donations
Moss Motors – stickers, pens, hats and discount coupons
Victoria British LTD.- Nitril gloves, and $50 Gift Certificates (Dan)
Hagerty – tote-bags, stickers
Matthews Foreign Car Parts
RockAuto.com – car pix Magnets
Crown Health Care – pens, sticky-notes
Children’s Harbor – pens
Peaches ‘N Clean – pens
River Bank & Trust – pens, phone card holder, popsocket cell phone grip
Homestead Hospice – pens
Fidelity Bank – pens
Alabama Bicentennial – mints, beverage openers, and pins
Encompass Health – balls, hand sanitizer, lip balm
O’Reilly – air pressure gauge
??? Gunk Windscreen solvent (David)
BITCO Insurance Companies, First aid Kit (David)
Sponsors
Bath Innovations – bags with pens, ducks, koozies, mint, promo flyers
Jess L. Butrica – Friend of BMCM
Foshee Architecture
Prattville Outdoors
Re-Imagined Furnishings @ The Waters
“The Garage” Vehicle Storage, Frank Parsons
Event Shirts – Southern Threadworks and Shirts
Food
BBQ – Fat Man’s BBQ
Members & Friends:
- Linda H.- brownies, chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies
- Beans from Jim and Nick’s (Mignonne)
- Deborah S.- banana bread
- Joyce P.- chocolate pound cake
- Doris T. – chocolate chip cookies
- Jason’s wife – jam-filled sugar cookies
- Pam – buns
- Blitz – doughnuts
Our 23rd British Car Show will be on October 12, 2019