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Winter Recovery weekend
The GEORGE OF STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE.
Click here for details of The GEORGE OF STAMFORD

“Stamford is a unique treasure trove of provincial English architecture built in the finest stone that this country has to offer. Everyone who travelled north passed through Stamford and the coaching trade elevated old medieval inns like the George into major nationally renowned hostelries. Prosperous professional men and merchants were attracted to the town and they built their fine vernacular and later Classical or Georgian houses which today provide the backbone of the town's fabric. It is the consistency and quality of these houses and the exceptional streetscapes they create, which encouraged the BBC to film 'Middlemarch' in the town.
The George is perhaps England’s greatest coaching inn, retaining the charm and atmosphere of its long history and yet offering today’s guests every modern comfort. The history of the George is well worth the read dating back some 900 to maybe 1000 years. In recent years the hotel has been modernised, but great care has been taken not to destroy its interesting historical features. Much of the most recent work of modernisation and decoration has been restoration. Luxurious bedrooms, a cuisine to satisfy the most exacting tastes and a truly warm welcome make The George an ideal stopping point for tourists and businessmen alike. The cellars are a source of great pride, where wine of the finest quality is stored under ideal conditions in vaults, which date back to the earliest days of the foundation.”
Having made a visit to Stamford I was impressed by the historical value of the town, as the above extract touches on. The George too was very impressive with its choice of lounges, bars, formal and informal restaurants one of which would be used for our private dining.
I have reserved 23 rooms for the two night weekend break, the rates of which are £175.00 per person for double occupancy. The hotel does have a number of single rooms again at £175.00 per person. The rate includes two nights accommodation, full English breakfast, early morning tea, a daily newspaper on both mornings, a three course dinner is included on the Saturday night, excluding drinks, which may be freely chosen from the a la carte Restaurant menu in advance. Rate is inclusive of VAT. Dinner on Friday night is not included in the package but can be taken on arrival in the less formal Garden Lounge. Due to the popularity of the George the rooms are held in our name until 14th December 2007
If you are interested in coming along will you let me know as soon as possible. My telephone and e-mail address is at the front of the magazine. I shall require a deposit of £20.00 per person payable to R A Burn.
Booking is NOT direct with the Hotel.

Alexander Palace
Panther Car Club Ltd At The London International Classic Car Show,in the Great Hall, West Hall & Panorama Room.
With a larger stand at the Alexander Palace classic car show for 2008, we are diplaying 5 cars this year on Stand Number 43 + 44. don't miss out on this one.
The London International Classic Motor Show is the leading classic vehicle event in the South of England featuring MG's Jaguar, Rolls Royce etc. plus associated trade and autojumble stands, classic bikes and the final of the Autoglym Concours.
Sat & Sun; 10.00am - 5.00pm
Admission; Advance.....Adults:£10.00.....Senior Citizens: £8.00.....Children:£5.00
Admission;On the Door..Adults:£12.00.....Senior Citizens:£10.00.....Children:£5.00
Advance Tickets: 08700 115007
Contact Val Bridges 07971 866829 / 01234 709775 / val.bridges@btinternet.com

2008 Event

Derbyshire Weekend
Area 2 spring weekend 2008.
This year we have decided to visit the Peak National Park in Derbyshire, for the weekend of Friday 11th April and Saturday 12th April, which is 3 weeks after Easter.
This is another beautiful part of our island for Area 2 to share with the Club. Included are unparalleled opportunities for subterranean excursions – amongst which we can choose the Blue John Mines Cavern and Speedwell cavern, with its barges. Haddon Hall and Chatsworth are close by if we feel so inclined.
We have found and reserved 12 rooms at the Losehill House Hotel in Hope. It is in a beautiful location, a mile out of the village up Edale, with panoramic views of the hills.
The rooms are all recently refurbished to a very high standard as are the public rooms. There is a spa, an indoor pool and an outside Jacuzzi. The menu is what you would expect.
To us it looked a splendid place that we can recommend. It received from The Guardian an award as ‘Peak District hotel of the year 2007’.
The double/twin rooms that we have reserved are £145 prpn for B & B. (dinner is additional) – though there are more expensive ones available if you wish. The rooms are being held for us till March 5th, but if you are interested or intend to join us, will you please phone me as soon as you can..........0161 7922098
The hotel’s website is Hotel Losehillhouse
Alan Shaw

Workshop Day
Give Andy a call Tel-01752 348811 or email Editor@panthercarclub.com to register your interest in this opportunity to carry out some 'hands on' work to your Panther in Andy's fully equipped garage.
Workshop Day has attracted some 'Goodie Bags' from our workshops local parts factor 'Mill Auto Supplies'a first for Andy's open workshop day.
Open to All PCC members.
For a map of the area just click on the photo.

Drive It Day
To visit "The Federation of British Historical Vehicle Clubs" website click here to see if there is a planned run near you, or why not organise one for Panther owners in your area.
area 12 are planning a day out for this National event by tagging on to a trip organised by "Tamar Historic Transport Club" 30 THTC members plus Panther owners will be heading for St. Michaels Mount in Cornwall, if you would like to join us then give Andy or Ray a call for the deatails and to let us know you are coming.

Area 5 Kent Meetings

Gawsworth
Please contact Andy Stobbie.

MARCHES TRANSPORT FESTIVAL

RHS Rosemoor Gardens

Disneyland Paris, Classic car Rally and Show

Event Update
With 15 Cars booked including members from Germany Sweden and France the Panther Car Club will certainly leave its mark on this 1st ever Classic Car Show at Euro Disney Paris organized by Quay Travel and sponsored by Classic Car Weekly. We are still able to secure places on this trip so if you would like to join us please contact me as soon as possible. We are all meeting in Dover on the Thursday 4th June staying at either the Premier Inn at Dover West or Ramada Inn Dover, for a 10.05am ferry on the 5th June.
Val Bridges
The Panther Car Club have received an invite to this Inaugural Event which will run from 5th - 8th June.
The price includes;
Included in the in the Classic Car Package :-

• Return Ferry with P &O ferries Dover/Calais
• Special Inaugural Classic Car Rally Plate
• Full and Detailed Tour & Travel Guide and Documents
• Admission for your vehicle to the 2008 Classic Car Show
• 24 Hour Secure Parking in Show Area.
• 3 Nights at our chosen Disneyland Paris Resort Hotel
• Continental Breakfast Each Morning
• Parade through Disney Village for selected vehicles
• 2 Day Disney Park Hopper Ticket to the Disneyland Park & Walt Disney Studios Park
• Ticket to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Dinner Show & Awards Presentation
• Admission to Chateau de Compiegne& National Car Museum with inclusion for your vehicle in the exclusive UK Classic Car Display
• Choice of Rally Routes to Disneyland Resort Paris
• 20% Discount Coupons for Selected Food Outlets in Disney Village.

I now have booking forms and will be issued on a first come first served basis so members wishing to participate in the first ever show at Euro Disney should contact me a.s.a.p.
Cost for the 4 day trip starts at £299.00 per person depending on hotel selected. It would appear Disney’s Hotel Sequoia Lodge has proved the most popular with our members at a cost of £359.00per person inclusive. Further Details available on the 4 available hotels.
Places are limited and are going fast please contact as soon as possible. Val Bridges

Evesham Balloon Festival
Please contact Terry Borton

Area 2's Rally & BBQ
Area 2's Caravan section are holding a rally and B.B.Q. on the weekend of 13th -15th June at Tideslow Farm, Tideswell Moor, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8JE - situated on the A623 Chapel-en-le-Frith to Baslow road 6 1/2 miles NE of Buxton (Map ref. OS119 SK153782)
Site fee is £5 per night and £1 per additional car. Dogs FOC. Area 2 invite all PCC caravanners to join them for the weekend and for any PCC member to join us for Sunday's B.B.Q. (Bring your own food and drinks but Pymms will be provided by Eric Ellis).
We have the entire field to ourselves (apart from a few sheep). Further details and to register interest ring Terry Noble on 01773 823815 or email jagpanman@aol.com (5 outfits attending so far and a handful of Panthers).

Bromley Pageant of Motoring
This years show is taking place on 15th June, 2 weeks earlier than in the previous 27 years.
For more information and to book in for this event please contact Geoff Coad on 01689 852250

Area 12 Father’s Day Event
Open to all PCC members. Sunday June 15th.
Meet at ‘Chandlers Bistro’, Queen Anne’s Battery, Barbican, Plymouth 12.30pm.for fruit juice cocktails.
Drive to Lanhydrock House, Cornwall for a Cornish Cream Tea, parking will be arranged in the house grounds. Then return to ‘Chandlers Bistro’ for a 5.30pm BBQ.
For those may wish to refrain from driving after the BBQ Panthers may be left overnight, QAB has secure parking with night watchmen.
Any queries to Stuart or Samantha James at chandlers bar and bistro Plymouth

Adridge Classic Car Show
Classic Car Show at Abridge Essex.
For details please contact Jim Dempster 07836650457

AutoGlym HSCC Historic festival - Brands Hatch –
We have been invited to attend this event at a special entrance price of £14 per car for 2 people with a parking area provided for us on Colin Chapman Way on the start finish straight. We will be attending on the Sunday and this does not stop anyone from going on the Saturday or both days just book in the day that suits you.
The spectacular amphitheatre of the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit will once again see genuine F1 cars in fierce competition, at the Autoglym HSCC Historic Festival on 28th and 29th June 2008. The Festival’s headline event is the FIA Historic Formula One Championship, reliving the glory days of F1 from 1966 to 1985. The competing cars are just as they were when driven by such heroes as Gilles Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell and Emerson Fittipaldi. But it’s not just F1 that makes the Autoglym Historic Festival an unmissable event – there is a full and varied programme of historic racing on BOTH days – and a host of attractions for all the family. Wander round the open paddock and you’ll have the chance to get up close to the cars and drivers in one of the UK’s biggest historic meetings, with classic saloon cars, sports cars and single-seaters.
Please get in touch with me if you would like to attend, and I will send you the race and booking details. The first 1,000 to book also get an AutoGlym car care kit (RRP £10.99). A voucher for this will be sent along with your tickets for you to collect on the day you attend.
Car clubs are being offered the chance to come along at a discounted rate of £ 25 per car (per day with 4 occupants - special rates for 2 seaters £14) (normal cost to public is- per person £16 per day or £20 per person on the day)
For further details please contact: Geoff Coad Tel: 01689 852250

Matching Green Classic & Sports Car Club Annual Show
Matching Green Classic & Sports Car Club Annual Show.
Sunday 6th July 2008
A Car Show on the Green at Matching Green in Essex.
For details contact Tony Ansell on 01227 374080

Cars in the Park Lichfield
Please contact Terry Borton
For more information please visit www.carsinthepark.com

Wheels


To book your space online........
Vist the WHEELS home page here
Or............
Contact Ray Smith Tel 01726 851491 or email webmaster@panthercarclub.com to book your space at this relaxing day out.

At home with Roger & Joyce
On Saturday 19th July we are having an ‘at home,’ where you will be invited to join us in the garden for a BBQ. If you would like to bring your choice of meat, fish, etc. to cook yourself – we will provide salad, potatoes, puds and of course the BBQ.
On Sunday 20th we will organise a drive out to the Cotswolds during the morning finishing with a pub lunch. From there you can depart to your own homes.
The idea is for you to choose whether you come for one or both of the days. Should you choose both, you may like to spend the evening at the theatre, one of the numerous pubs or restaurants and we could help by suggesting various places of accommodation which you would need to book ASAP.
We do wish to know numbers for both of the days. Please email, write or telephone your choice by the beginning of June so we can plan for the weekend.
Please see contacts page for Rogers details.

Birthday Boy BBQ
John Mendez's Sixty FiverBBQ party at his home-kentville, Gravesend Road, Higham, Kent, ME3 7EQ.
A mile and a half from the M2.
Tel 01474822313 commencing at Mid-Day. Plenty of parking space.

Nurburgring trip
Event Update
14 Cars are now booked to join the 15 Cars signed up in Germany for our 2nd European gathering of the year. Uli & Peter Haupt are doing an excellent job in putting the itinerary in Germany together. We are leaving the UK for France on the Thursday afternoon staying over night and then start our journey across France to the Mosel region on Friday with the promise of a very enjoyable week ahead.
Once we arrive in Germany the excitement begins starting with an 80km drive to the Old Timer Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on Saturday. Sunday takes us on a 64 km drive along the Hunsruckohenstrabe to Saaburg a 1000 year old town. Monday a 52km drive to Idar-Oberstein. Then a selection of trips to do as desired but to suit ones needs including a 96km drive to the small city of Beilstein and the Castle Eltz, a 99 km visit to the Cultural Heritage of the world Volklinger or simply stay in bed relax and enjoy yourself and this beautiful region of Germany. We leave for our return journey on Friday staying over night in France and retuning home on Saturday.
At the time of writing I am informed there is one room available in the local hotel for two nights before the main hotel becomes available for the rest of the stay.
Further details of this trip, accommodation in France, etc to follow.
Val Bridges
This trip to include a visit to the Old Timers Grand Prix and touring the Mosel Region. The trip in Germany is being organized by Uli & Peter our German members.
The cost of the hotel including breakfast is 34Euros pppn there is a 7 Euro supplement for single occupancy. Plus ferry crossings which Ray and I will source.. Interest is high so any one wishing to take part must let me know as soon as possible.
Programme of events...........As suggested by Uli and Peter
Thursday 7.8.2008 (German members only)
Hotel Zummethof, Panoramaweg 1-3; Tel.: 06507 93550 Arriving of the first 5 Pantherdrivers
Friday 8.8.2008 A little drive along the river Mosel. In the afternoon arriving and welcome of the 21 Pantherdrivers and a little skilful play.
Saturday 9.8.2008
Drive to Nürburgring Distance 80 km. A special reserved Area is booked. Easy route, lightl traffic, so the drive is pleasant.
Sunday 10.8.2008
Drive to Saarburg, Distance 64 km We stay there for 4-5 hours. Saarburg is a 1000 years old town and e real jewel. The drive goes along the nice Hunsrückhöhenstraße. Panther parking place at “Villa Keller” just on the river Saar. The hotelier has a small selection of lunch. From here we have enough time to visit all the historical places......
Monday 11.8.2008
Perhaps Drive to Idar-Oberstein Distance 52 km We stay her for 4-5 hours. Panthers to park in middle on the history market-place, surrounded by different pubs and café and a lot of precious-stone-shops
Here are some for selection.
1. Mosel up and down, The small city Beilstein and the castle Eltz. Distance 96 km (Princess Margret, so is told…..has burned a little whole in the tablecloth, during a related visit).
2 Visit of the Cultural Heritage of the world: Völklinger Hütte, formally a big steel-company, today a museum of special events. Distance: 99 km.
3. Simple stay in bed
Friday 15.8.2008
Departure
"Dunkirk stay overnight (if desired) return to Dover 16th August.”
Please contact Val Bridges a.s.a.p.
Hotel Zummethof

Midshires at Mt Edgcumbe
MIDSHIRES (Area8) Cornwall 5-day break..... Open to all PCC Members
Thurs 31st July to Tues 5th Aug. To coincide with Mt Edgecombe Classic Show. B & B provisionally booked at the CROWN INN Two extra rooms now available.
Call TERRY BORTON now ! On....01543.278860

Mt Edgcumbe
Very popular Classic car show in the grounds of Mt Edgcumbe Cornwall, overlooking Plymouth Sound.
Download your entry form here.
Please contact Andy Graves to let him know you are coming.

Classic car show
A new venue for Area 12, this is to be a Classic car show held at Aveton Gifford, Nr Kingsbridge, South Devon.
Click here for details.

PCC Grand Gathering
GRAND GATHERING 2008 SATURDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2008
The 2008 Grand Gathering will be held this year at the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B60 4JR. Avoncroft Museum. The Museum is on a fifteen-acre site and is home to 25 interesting buildings spanning 700 years of history.
The Museum have requested that our display is in position for 10.30am when they open to the public, but arrangements have been made for the entry of later arrivals.
Weekend accommodation has been reserved at the recently refurbished four star Bromsgrove Hotel, Kidderminster Road, Bromsgrove, B61 9AB. www.pedersenhotels.com. The Hotel has easy access to the motorway system and has a leisure club open to residence. The PCC has reserved a number of rooms for both the Friday and Saturday night, these will be held until the end of July only, so to avoid disappointment book early. We are dining in the Parador restaurant on Friday evening and have private dining on Saturday followed by entertainer Paul Salvage, back by popular demand, and dancing.
The negotiated rates are as follows:
Friday – dinner, bed & breakfast - £55.00 per person.
Saturday – private dinner, bed & breakfast - £62.50 per person.
Sunday 7th Panther Car Club Ltd AGM
Please make your reservations direct with the Bromsgrove Hotel, tel:01527 576600 quoting the Panther Car Club.

Isle of Wight
ISLE OF WIGHT Charity Classic Car Show 13th -14th September 2008
This two day show being held at Newport Quay on Saturday and Ryde sea front near the canoe lake on Sunday promises to be spectacular. The Deville has been used for the show publicity in the Wightlife magazine which is good news for the club.
Once again this event is well supported by the Panther Car Club and I have a long list of members wishing to attend. Most will be extending their stay leaving Friday 12th returning Wednesday 17th September and I have once again secured our accommodation at the self catering Buntshill Barns Porchfield where we are well received by the owner Ken who not only provides excellent accommodation but allows us to use one of his Barns for the cars.
Sponsored by Wightlink we have limited but a generous allocation of crossings available but a very reduced rate for crossing is available should it be needed. A contribution of £4 per head is requested by the organizer, Vic Gallucci, to assist with the ever escalating cost of Show Insurance which I will collect with deposits for accommodation.
Anyone wishing to know more about the show/weekend please contact me ValBridges@btinternet.com
Or Tel 01234 709775 or 07971 866829

Northern Spain
Trip to Nothern Spain with Andy and Mary Graves, Possible departure date of September 21st,"Dates to be confimed".
15% discount offer from Brittany Ferries finishes end of Jan, Price will be £1230 per couple per car. Only 2 places left.
- this includes an early booking discount of 15%, all cabins are Club 4 with porthole, Sat. Tv and drink making kit. (book before end of January/early Feb. if going for the discount.) and B & B in the hotels.Travel Insurance has not been included as many members have their own.
We are staying the first three nights at Los Agustinos Hotel in Haro, Four nights at Toro's 'Juan II' with a guided Tapas tour one evening and a lunch in a local winery. The winery has offered to produce a limited amount of special Panther Car Club wine bottles c/w our own labels. Then three nights at the 'Del Oso', Potes when a visit to Llanes is envisaged.
To keep trip within a fortnight the stay at Llanes has been deleted.
Please contact Andy for more info and to registar your interest.
editor@panthercarclub.com or give him a call.

NEC Classic Car Show
Further information will be added as details become available.

2008 Event