British Motor Club of Utah

Woke up this morning and it didn’t look good for the 2010 Concourse De Elegance down at Thanksgiving Point. By the time things got rolling it was still quite windy, but the rain had stopped and the sun came out. The new venue was the Thanksgiving Point gardens — a beautiful spot for some beautiful cars.

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The picnic is “ON” for Sunday, Sept. 12th. Marty VanNood will provide hot dogs, buns and condiments. Everyone else bring something to share “pot luck” style. Entrance to City Creek Canyon is in the Avenues at Bst. and 11th. in the LDS Hospital area. Time will be early afternoon, TBD. I’ll be asking us from up north to meet at Checker Auto Parts in Kaysville, we all know where that is. We’ll trundle south to the capitol and City Creek.

BMCU members north of SLC who will be meeting at the Checker Auto Parts in Kaysville, it’s at 315 W. 200 N. just east of I-15 at the Kaysville exit. Meet at 12:30 PM for at 1:00 PM departure on the Main St. route. Those that would rather of course take I-15 into SLC. Main St. route takes one hour from Checker to the gate at City Creek Canyon Park. Party starts at 2:00 PM at the park.

Any and all questions call Paul at 801.389.8940 (bughous@msn.com)

The BMCU’s 22nd anniversary Alpine Loop Run will happen on Saturday August 21, 2010. “No one” has stepped up to organize it. We will meet at 9:30 AM or earlier at 8:00 if you would like to have some breakfast at Mimi’s Café. The café is located east of the mall parking lot we are meeting in on the west side of State Street. We are meeting on the east side of the South Towne Mall (take the 106th South exit off I-15 going east, enter the mall parking lot off 106th South or from State Street about a block north of 106th South). We will plan on departing at 10:00 AM. For those who are coming from down south, we will be stopping at about 10:45 AM for bio-reconditioning at the C-Store and Chevron Station in Alpine just before SR 92 enters Alpine Canyon.

Bring your own lunch or find food in Heber. There is no raffle this year and no one is preparing food. “No one” didn’t know who to contact to reserve the pavilion at the Heber City Park. “Someone”, however, made the reservation, so we can again use the pavilion we have used other years. Turn left off the Heber main street along the north side of the park. Turn left again across the grass between the cones toward the pavilion.

Here’s our route

- “No one”

A little video of this year’s British Field Day, courtesy of Josh Clason.

British Field Day 2010.

WOW! If you didn’t make it to Friday’s impromptu dinner, you REALLY missed a good time and a GREAT dinner. The owners went out of their way to make certain that we were well taken care of and no one went away hungry. In fact, with the large servings, I saw several people walking away with “doggy boxes.”

Thanks Paul for arranging this. It cannot help but to be one of the club’s yearly (bi-annual?) events. Thanks!!!

It was fun to see how excited the proprietors were to see the British cars. Even coming out from behind the counter and out of the kitchen to look at the cars in the parking lot.

Bottom line: two thumbs up!

- Roger Davis