"Meet the Club" Luncheon
Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004

Union Jack's Cafe
Portland, Pa.


The club had an exceptionally nice outing when we hosted lunch at a British restaurant for a family of MG lovers from New Zealand.

Ron and Jacqueline Blackwell from Nelson, New Zealand, and their 13-year-old son Andrew were in the area for Jacqui’s reunion at Pen Argyl High School, where she graduated as an exchange student. Ron found the club through our website and sent an email, asking if he could meet us.

A lunch was set up at Union Jack’s Cafe in Portland, Pa. The weather was with us, and every club member arrived in an MG so we could show off our cars to our guests. (One MGB GT, four MGBs, two 1952 MG TDs, and a TR-6. New club members Marty and Marybeth Chamberlain braved the trip up from Nazareth with the top down on their TD!)

Ron couldn’t bring his 1976 Sandglow MGB-GT, of course, but he did bring a laptop computer, and after lunch showed off the photos of his MGs, past and present.

Stefan, restaurant owner and chef from Yorkshire, spent some time talking with us after serving up 22 fine English meals. Fish and chips, steak and onion, pork pies and shepherd pie were among the authentically British foods we enjoyed.

Dale presented club caps and a club decal to the Blackwells, who thus became honorary members of the club.

Safe to say, a good time was had by all, and the after-lunch talk quickly drifted to discussions of MGs.

(And, while we were having lunch, someone walking by put a note on Kim de Bourbon’s 1966 MGB, expressing an interest in buying it. She did not call the phone number, but kept the note . . . So if anyone is looking to sell an early B, she has the number of someone who is looking!)

Photo Description:

01 - Union Jack's Cafe in Portland, Pa.
02 - Seven MGs and a TR-6
03 - Dale Guth arrives in '52 MG TD
04 - N.Z. guests: Ron, Jacqui and Andrew Blackwell
05 - We took up most of the restaurant
06 - Stef, British chef/owner
07 - Who says British food isn't good?
08 - Andrew tests out the driver's seat
09 - In the Chamberlains' '52 MG TD
10 - Marybeth and Marty Chamberlain. Brave!

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