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News FlashGrand European: the French take the prizes!

In the face of considerable

international competition,

our members Patrick Crespin

and Laurent Doret won

important awards presented by

the Cadillac LaSalle Club ofAmerica. Patrick received the

prize for the Best car of the

1920s with his 1923

Convertible Sedan

(the subject of a report in our

Bulletin No 6).

Patrick with Dirk Van Dorst and (right) Claude Lenoir (Sec AUVL)

Laurent won the prize for

Best car of the 1930sin a

class hotly contested by thevisitors. Laurent has no

hesitation in expressing his

gratitude to our member in

Kansas City the expert

restorer Marc Ohm who

helped Laurent with parts for

his car that simply could not

be found in Europe.

Laurents Type355A in front of the Chteau at Champigny sur Veude.

It is also with immense satisfaction that we report that our Vice-

President, Genevive Keyaerts and her sister Magali received the

very well-deserved Texas Trophy sponsored by Honest John

Foust of Justin, Texas, in recognition of their activities in the

promotion Cadillac and LaSalle automobiles in Europe and

elsewhere.

(Right) Genevive with our Treasurer Danielle Lepron at the CavesPainctes of Chinon.

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The full results.

Oldest car : 1915 - V8 Convertible Sedan (Jos Cubells, Espagne)

Best car 1920s : 1923 - V8 Convertible Sedan type V61 (Patrick Crespin, France)

Best car 1930s : 1931 - V8 type 355A (Laurent Doret, France)

Best car 1940s and Most Travelled award: 1941 - V8 Convertible Coup (Jos Candido Muricy, Brsil)

Best car 1950s: 1957 - Eldorado Biarritz (Harry Kjensli, Norvge)

Best car 1960s: 1960 - Eldorado Biarritz (Christian Freudenthaler, Autriche)

Best car 1970s: 1976 - Eldorado Convertible (Ivar Wahl, Norvge)

Best car 1980s: 1987 - Sville (Emmanuel Fassler, Suisse)

Best car 1990s: 1992 - Fleetwood (Dick Mostert, Pays-Bas)

The Peoples Choice: 1952 - Sedan (Floris Van Os, Pays-Bas)

Most original car: 1959 - Sedan de Ville (Flat Top) (Likele de Boer, Pays-Bas)

Most interesting modified car: 1959 - Fleetwood (A. A. Dortangs, Pays-Bas)

President Pierre Gravels trophy : 1951 - Coup de Ville (Peter Lewin, Espagne)

Director Dirk Van Dorsts trophy : 1956 - Sedan de Ville (Klaus Deisinger, Allemagne)

Viva Brsil!

Jose Candido Muricy crossed the Atlantic to participate in the GREC.

He receives the Longest Travelled prize from Dirk.

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The organisers prizes.

We, the four organisers, dont have any trophies or cups to give away - but if we did these are the

prizes we would have awarded:

The Good Luck Prize and the Good Samaritans Prize.

Jan Ivan Christiansen and Henni Jensen + Pierre and Batrice Gravel.

At every CLC event in America there is always an award for the participant who suffered the worst

luck: the Bad Luck Award. The trophy, which was available for the Grand European, was not

awarded during the event as, happily, no one had any bad luck during the event. On the other hand,

had there been a Good Luck Award (which there was not) then it should have been presented to

Jan Ivan Christiansen and his friend Henni Jensen.

Heres the story: Traditionally, two of the three staff of Pierre Gravels notarys office take their

holiday in August. Hence, during the holiday season, files can sometimes build up in the

Secretaries office at the Notaries. Batrice (who has lots of experience in Notaries business)

sometimes takes the opportunity to put the files away in good order.

By chance, on the evening of Tuesday 31 August, she decided to tidy up a bit in the office. But very

late we are talking about half past ten at night, much later that usual for this task.

A bit later: Tinga linga Ling . The telephone. But who? Even the greediest inheritor would

hesitate to call the Notaries at getting on for eleven at night.

She picks up the phone: all.

In reply, someone who speaks in English, of which Batrice only knows a few words. Desperately

she asks the caller to hold on while she goes off in search of Pierre.

The rest is briefly told. Jan Ivan and Henni had travelled several days from Norway in their 1998

Sedan de Ville without thinking that perhaps Richelieu isnt Las Vegas and that the hotels dont stay

open 24/24. When they arrived they found the Relais du Plessis and Le Puits Dor shut for the

night. The only other contact Jan Ivan had was the number of Pierres office. He called it on the one

night for years when there was someone there to answer him.

Naturally, the Gravels made up a bed for the couple and at breakfast the following day even had a

translator to help sort out our Northern friends: thus meriting the Good Samaritan prize.

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The Franoise Chambraud prize for nice people.

Joseph Gildea.

The article Our members and their cars # 4 (april 2010) ends with the words of Franoise

Chambraud: The Cadillac Club has helped us to meet so many nice people. The Grand European helped us meet them too.

There were very many but if one had to pick one out from the rest the prize would go to Joseph

Gildea, President of the New England Rgion of the CLC of America.

We might have expected to find Mister Gilda, President of the largest Region of the American

Club, to be a bit pompous, performing his function with dignity. But Jo isnt like that at all. He is

calm, courteous and nice. And, above all, he helped us throughout the duration of the event.

He helped us sort out the parking problems, seated people where they should be at table, checked

the arrivals in a nutshell, he was always there when we needed someone without once standing

on his dignity. A real friend and a gentleman.

Jo Gildea between two 59 Eldorado Broughams. The super-rare Broughams, of which only 99were bodied by Pinin Farina in Italy, carry consecutive chassis numbers.

Next event: Sunday 24 October.

Relaxed... a drive with our friends from the AUVL to the Lorry Museum at Montrichard. We

meet at the Cardinals statue by the South Gate at Richelieu at 8h30 and drive in convoy to theMuseum. Or meet there at 10h15. Lunch there. No entry fee. Nice.

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