April 2001

My congratulations once again to the new Board and Officers for 2001. Tom Ehrhart, Eric Gibeaut, Tom Calvert, John Webber, Andrea Hellings, Wally Swift and Stu Brennan are the 2001 Board of Directors. The 2001 Elected Officers are Bob Sharkey as Vice President, Pat Morrison as Secretary, Carl Moon as Treasurer and me continuing as President. Congratulations to these Club Leaders and thanks to everyone who ran.

Things are pretty quiet in Sunbeam land…or at least in my Sunbeam land. The Winter months do seem to slow down the Club's activity. But there is a lot of planning going on for coming events.

As mentioned in an earlier column, TE/AE's United will be in St. Louis on 5-7 October, 2001. You can expect the usual high quality event with all the trimmings…Concours, autocross, parts room, tech sessions, banquet and plenty of camaraderie. And in the unique city of St. Louis.

The annual BASH is being put together for May 12, 2001. Come join fellow "beamers" for a tour of Gettysburg Battlefield in historic buses from the 30's! Your day will include lunch, tour of the battlefield, snack and rally through the beautiful Gettysburg countryside. Some great driving areas!
This year, TE/AE is co-sponsoring an event on June 8-10, 2001 appropriately titled "The Sunbeam Invasion". We are helping out the www.SunbeamAlpine.org folks for this joint event. Come join other Sunbeam owners for a weekend of fun! The event will be held north of Dayton, Ohio in historic Tipp City. There will be a poker rally, parts swapping, pig roast, some very special quests and a $500 Sunbeam Specialties gift certificate Grand Prize drawing. It looks to be a great event.

This month's update on the 347-stroker motor and 5-speed project is that there is no progress. My time (and motivation) is being spread around and the Sunbeam is not getting much right now. I just bought (but have not even ridden due to ice and salt on the roads) a BMW K1200RS sport/touring motorcycle to add to my Harley Sportster 1200. With new mechanical things to diddle with, the Sunbeam is idle (pun intended).

Mark those calendars now for all the great events we have coming up and make those vacation plans to join your fellow TE/AE Sunbeamers at all the events this year!