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sad news for Boat Tail two seater owners - JonE - 01-02-2020
Just reading the latest A7OC magazine to hear that Chris Chubb, long time registrar for the Boat Tail Register, passed away in November 2019. When I caught up with him at Bewl in the summer he had drily commented something along the lines of his (SWB) boat tail having been "gradually shrinking"... and I know he had been trying to get his (LWB) van properly running for continued, comfortable, Austin 7 travels.
My car will be finally running soon as a result of purchasing a spare front axle from him, so I will have a prompt to good memories of someone who has helped me with various 7 things in recent years.
RE: sad news for Boat Tail two seater owners - Tony Betts - 01-02-2020
hi jonE.
sad news about chris.
im sure everyone has positive memories.
when i restored the boattail i had with scottish friends, chris was more than helpful. lending parts to be copied, as a large part of the car was missing.
with thanks to chris, theres another lovely boattail out there.
tony
RE: sad news for Boat Tail two seater owners - Nick Salmon - 01-02-2020
Very sad. Chris was a true enthusiast and always had time for a friendly chat. He will be missed.
RE: sad news for Boat Tail two seater owners - Douglas Alderson - 01-02-2020
Very sad, as Tony says he was very helpful with information on Boat Tails, hopefully someone will continue with the register.