April Alchemy
Alchemy: An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold.

Here's your chance to practice a bit of ancient alchemy this spring. On Saturday, April 22, the BMCU will host a swap meet at Bailey's Service, 187 West 4800 South in Murray. Gather up all the, uh, fine treasures you have stashed away in various dark and dank locations and haul them down to the swap meet. With throngs of British car enthusiasts swarming about you'll have no trouble selling those rusty, base metal artifacts for a golden sum!

For those wishing to offer parts, show up around 9 am with your stash. Space will be available on a first come, first served basis. If the weather cooperates there should be a fair amount of space outdoors, otherwise we'll have to squeeze folks into limited space inside Mike's shop. You'll need to bring your own tables, chairs and such. For BMCU members there will be no charge for space to sell your stuff, commercial vendors will be asked to provide a $25 donation to the BMCU coffers.

Those folks wanting to just pick and choose from the fine array of rare and classic hardware offered can show up around 10 am or so. We expect the festivities to carry on until 3 or 4 in the afternoon. If you work up a bit of an appetite drooling over that NOS backfire frobulator bracket offered only on the '54 model, John Perry at J Burger and the Hansens at Skool Lunch have generously offered to donate various victuals.

This should be a good time for all, a chance to make a great deal on whatever you might need to get the car ready for summer. If things don't go well with the offering of your treasures, the dumpster out back will be available.

-- Mark Bradakis

Those seen in the crowd included Steve Nelson, Don Bailey, Pugs Pivirotto, Paul Jaroch, John Progess, Larry and Mary Bishop, Louis Perez, Dennis Hoagland, Doug Wimer, Duff Lawson, Joe Chou, Rich Sanders, Wade Ashby, Gary Lindstrom, Mark and Karen Bradakis, Mike Bailey.

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