Thread: Gentlemen driving for a cause.

Thank-you for your generous support Don130.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Thank-you for your generous support Don130.

Thankyou Don 130 and to all who have donated you can still donate until the end of October'


Here's a pic of my TC with Colin's TC at the event

Slight difference under the bonnet though

Could anyone wishing to avail themselves of the anonymity of this account, please do so this week, in order that I can make the transfer three days prior to the cut-off date.

Originally Posted by jerryd

Hopefully It's okay to put this here


On Sunday, September 26th 2021, I'll be taking part in the world's first The Distinguished Gentleman's Drive. Together with thousands of classic car enthusiasts around the world, I will be raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer and men's mental health for the charity, Movember. Before the dapper day, I'll be looking to raise as much as possible for the cause, to help men around the world live happier and healthier lives. With men's chances of developing prostate cancer later in life increasing, and one man dying every minute by suicide, we must do all we can to prevent more men from suffering. This is something that affects us all and together, we can make a change.

Please give what you can. Details here


The Distinguished Gentleman's Drive - jerry dietrich

I would suggest quite a few older members here would have had Prostate Cancer although younger blokes can get hit with it as well. I certainly did & as my Urologist told me a few years back "A lot of folk die with it not because of it" (I wish he had told me that before he ripped a heap of dosh out of me)
Some actually snuff it without even realising they have it.


Life after surgery, if that is the way you want to go, (not go as such, direction is probably a better word) can be a bit fraught, but day by day you make the most of it. Other methods ie. , Radiation therapy, Laser, Keyhole, other than major Surgery may be a lot simpler but of course you don't normally get the opportunity to choose & my bloke prefers surgery so he can get in there & have a good shufti around. Probably charges more for a Consult too.

One certainly needs a very tolerant spouse & really have your PSA checked on a regular basis.

But Hey Ho, there are many other worse things that can bugger up your day.


Mental Health.
This seems to have come to the fore in the last couple of years due to many things, but I suggest the C-19 Pandemic has a lot to answer for. We were all possibly a bit doolally before Covid hit due to many personal things in our lives but never quite got around to contemplating Suicide.

Case in point.

A friend of ours of many years, came home one day & found, lets call him Bob for that is his name, flaked out on the floor while in the process of packing for a holiday to Cairns. Bob had had a Stroke & was hopitalised for a few weeks & then transferred to a care home. Now Veggie status.


Wife couldn't see how she was going to cope & eventually took a handful of pills & as daughter couldn't contact her by phone, checked the premises & found her face down, dead.

So, No Holiday Bob is now a permanent fixture in the Care Facility & he is only my age.

He had held a few executive positions in his work life but I doubt it included basket weaving or whatever they do these days.

Last chance, I'm going to transfer the money on Wednesday.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Last chance, I'm going to transfer the money on Wednesday.

Thanks for this, Ian.

Is it going to Jerry's Offshore account?

He has an account on Bribie?

Originally Posted by Saitch

Thanks for this, Ian.

Is it going to Jerry's Offshore account?

Probably will use it to buy lots of Ice Cream from Ben.