40th anniversary photos - (part 5) a celebratory dinner
Saturday night, everybody gathered for a meal, at which organiser
Ronnie Peters gave an address (below). In fact, there were so many people attended,
the dinner had to be split into 2 sessions to accommodate everyone. In our session
there must have been a couple of hundred or more.
We met these two earlier on at the campsite, and they'd travelled all the
way from Japan for the event, as members of Renault 4 Club Japon. Their names
are Kubota Hiromichi (left) and Akira Mizorogi. The guy on the left took many
photos at the event, whilst the guy on the right made startlingly brilliant
sketches of everything he encountered - quite how he made so many sketches,
so accurately and so fast was astonishing. He even made one of all the guests
whilst sat having his dinner. You can see him holding a postcard which he
designed, featuring a girl and a Renault 4. My brother, who teaches in Japan,
assures me that everybody is taught to draw this well over there, but it was
still pretty remarkable. Kubota Hiromichi has since sent me a bundle of Renault
4 items in the post, and you can find some of his photos at the end of the
Arnhem report.
