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The first
British car that I owned was a 1951 MG TD which I bought for $200.00 from
a junk yard. The car had been hit by a tree, head on, so there was
a lot of body damage to the front part of the car. All four tires
were flat, and there was a 3” diameter tree growing through the passenger
compartment! But, not knowing any better, I bought it anyhow. Seventeen
years later I finally was able to drive my freshly restored TD. My
wife and I have driven that car to Bend, OR; Sun Valley, ID; Jackson Hole,
WY, to mention only a few of the trips we have made.
I
might have driven the car 15 years earlier if I had known that there were
other people around that would have been willing to help me (and if I hadn’t
have made decisions to buy shoes for the kids instead of carburetor parts!).
And when I did find that there were other like-minded folks, I would have
used their help if I had not been so intimidated by them!
If you join up with the Paradise British Car Club, you will find that nearly
everyone in the club is anxious to see you drive your car, and would be
more than willing to help out with any problems you might have. And
you will find that we are all alike in some respects—we are not an intimidating
group of people. We have all gone through the same pains of trying
to figure out what to do next, or how to find the part we need, and have
all tried to do that by ourselves. What a difference it makes to
know that there is someone you can call that won’t make you feel stupid
or a lesser person simply because you don’t know all you should know about
your car. And the help is readily available. And free!!
And who knows—that person that you call may just become one of your best
friends!
Please do
consider coming out to one of our events to meet our members and you will
see what I mean. We always have a good time chatting or ‘kicking
tires’, and I can assure you that the conversations are not entirely about
cars.