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NCRS Dutch Chapter News
After the cancellation of the roadtour on the 10th of August, due to the bad wheather circumstances, the board decided the shift the tourdate one month forward to the 10th of September. Today we can only say that this has been a good decission, because the wheather was more then perfect due to the sunshine and an average temperature of 24 degrees centigrade.
The aim was to have a brief boardmeeting before the start of the tour so it was decided to meet around 10:30 am at Cafe Old-London in the city of Zeist. After an early start Andre was the first to arrive followed by the small convoy from North-Holland.
The parkinglot of Old-London was big enough for the rapid growing Corvette collection and within the hour some 14 vettes came together and their owners were enjoying a fresh cup of coffee. Due to the enthousiasm triggered by the big group of people showing up the board meeting was skipped and attention was paid to the explanation of the roadtour. The tour of this year was a castletour in the province of Utrecht which was provided to us by the Stingray '82 club.
Around 12 the engines were finally fired up and it became very obvious that the C3 of Fred produced the biggest amount of decibels. During the first stage of the tour our convoy leader was Rob in his C3 BB and after seeing some nice castles we stopped for a short lunch break.
During the break we enjoyed some nice foods and all of us took the time to get to know eachother a bit more. After 45 minutes the tour we continued the tour and now with Andre, in his fully body-off restorced 62 C1, as the squadleader.
The first castle we saw was Castle Sanderburg and here we grapped the opportunity to shoot some nice pics in front of the castle gates. After this brief stop we drove further on nice countryroads and some dikes to eventually end at the last castle. It was here that we almost ended with all the vettes on a ferry crossing one of our rivers. With some muscle (no powersteering) we could turn all the vettes around on the small country road and since Clemens and Piet needed to catch the ferry to get home we said goodbye to them with a Wave.
The final stop we made on a small town square where also an Alfa Romeo and Classic VW clubs had assembled themselves. The big surprise for the Dutch Chapter came from Han Clems with his donation of a limited edition production of a Grandsport Corvette from the sixties to the chairman. This nice painting will receive a nice place in the new clubhouse.
Around 5 pm we all turned back home.
A special thanks we can give to Birgit Baars who created a short movie of the tour, which can be downloaded from our website.
Click here to see a photo impression of this event.
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