april 2017 vol . 58 no . 03 · 2017-04-06 · president adrian ward mob. 0400 577 169 email....

APRIL 2017 VOL . 58 • NO . 03

CONTENTS

Committee…………………….…. 2

Advertising Index………….…….. 4

Magazine Contributions…….….. 4

Club Events………………….…... 5

Editorial……………………….….. 5

Presidents Report……………….. 6

New Members…………………… 7

Library Report / New Members… 9

Secretaries Report………………. 10

Classic British Tour Promo…….. 14

Kangaroo Island Weekender…… 16

MGB Register Event……………. 18

Strathalbyn Show & Shine……… 20

MGB Register Event…………….. 21

Calendar 3 month………………. 22

T Register Reports……………… 24

.MGC News………………………. 28

Motorsport News………………… 30

Mid week Lunch Run Report…… 36

Conditional Registration……….. 38

Breakfast Run Report…………… 40

Flemington Concours…………… 42

National Meeting Up-dates…….. 44

Trade Directory……..…….…..… 46

Classifieds……………………….. 47

Cover Photo. T– Register meeting at Brian &

Kath Goldings at Murray Bridge on 2nd March

See report page 24

APRIL 2017 Volume 57 Number 3

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MG MOTORING

MG MOTORING is the official publication of:

The MG Car Club of SA Inc. 93 Chief Street,

BROMPTON SA 5007

A.B.N. 37 304 683 381

Phone (08) 8346 7747

E-mail [email protected]

Web-site: www.mgccsa.org.au.

www.facebook.com/MGCarClubofSA

Postal address

P.O. Box 200

BROMPTON SA 5007

The articles printed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of the

MG Car Club of S.A. Inc. or the Editor.

Technical tips and methods suggested are the views of the person submitting them

and the Club cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy of these whatsoever.

See details for submitting articles

on Page 4.

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MG Car Club of South Australia - Committee Appointments 2017/2018

PATRON

Ed Ordynski

AUDITOR

Graham Tull

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OFFICE BEARERS

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PRESIDENT Adrian Ward Mob. 0400 577 169 Email. [email protected]

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VICE PRESIDENT Tim Edmonds 1 Toohey Cresent Pasadena 5042 Mob. 0419 804 645 Email [email protected]

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SECRETARY Arthur Ruediger 28 Huntingdale Avenue, West Lakes 5021 Phone: 8353 1870 Email: [email protected]

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ASST. SECRETARY Bev Waters 356 Barossa Valley Way, Kalbeeba 5118 PO Box 346, Gawler. 5118 Phone: 8522 1940 Mob: 0402 262 156 Email: [email protected]

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TREASURER Alan Cardnell 5 Inyari Court Modbury Nth 5092 Phone: 8264 9168 [email protected]

MAGAZINE EDITOR Laurie Houghton 2 Firbank Ave, Fulham Gdns 5024 Phone: 8356 9953 New Email: [email protected]

MOTORSPORT SEC. Murray Stephenson 120 Upper Sturt Road Glenalta 5052 Ph: 8278 4687. M: 0419 565 970 E: [email protected]

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ASST. MOTORSPORT SEC.

Peter Coulson 17 Brookside Dve Mawson Lakes 5095 Ph:: 8260 5901 m:0419 215 964 E:: [email protected]

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IMEDIATE PAST PRES. Allan Semmler 7 Benthall Avenue Oakden 5086

Phone: 8266 2561 Email: [email protected]

SOCIAL SECRETARY G

SEC. OF REGISTERS John Burns 192 Muellers Rd. Birdwood SA 5234, Mob. 0458 711 435 email [email protected]

GENERAL COMMITTEE

Steven Spong 22 Valleyside Dve Crafers 5152 Ph: 8370 8913 Mob: 0417 817 101 Email [email protected]

Leigh Richter 21 Hillside Rd. Aldgate SA 5164 Ph. 8339 3918 email [email protected]

Ian Curwen-Walker 84 Hawthorndene Dve, Hawthorndene 5051 Phone: 8278 2781 Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

REGALIA Geraldine Hough 6 Player Drive Fairview Park Ph: 8251 4807 Email: [email protected]

PARADES& DISPLAYS Adrian Ward Mob. 0400 577 169 Email. [email protected]

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BREAKFAST RUNS Steven Spong 22 Valleyside Dve Crafers 5152 Ph: 8370 8913 Mob: 0417 817 101 Email [email protected]

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KNOW YOUR MG Leyland George 12 Graham St Para Hills 5096 Phone: 8396 3815 Mob. 0417 829 678

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CONDITIONAL REGISTRATION

Geoffrey Goode . 2 Steuart Place, North Adelaide, 5006. Phone 82673740, email [email protected] Arthur Ruediger 28 Huntingdale Ave, West Lakes 5021 Phone: 8353 1870 Email: [email protected]

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CAMS DELEGATE Ian Curwen-Walker Phone: 8278 2781 Email: [email protected]

WEBMASTER Peter Coulson 17 Brookside Dve Mawson Lakes 5095 Phone: 8260 5901 Mob:0419 215 964 Email: [email protected]

BAR MANAGER Berry Treffers 28 Francis Ridley Court Brompton 5007 Phone: 0434 485 331 Email – [email protected]

PROPERTY MANAGER Doug Marshall 11 Siesta Crt West Lakes 5021 Phone: 8268 1527 Email: [email protected]

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F H M DELEGATE Geoffrey Goode Ref Historic Registration

MID WEEK LUNCH RUNS

Diane & David Holmes Ph: 8336 4557 Email. [email protected]

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MGA/MAGNETTE Sandra Cardnell 5 Inyari Court Modbury Nth 5092 .. Phone: 8264 9168 [email protected]

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MGB Steven Spong 22 Valleyside Dve Crafers 5152 Ph: 8370 8913 Mob: 0417 817 101 Email [email protected]

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MGF,TF,Z Barry Burne 32A Church St Magil 5072 Ph: 8332 1239 Mob: 0478 538 130 Email: [email protected]

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MGC Ian Hobbs PO Box 625 MYLOR SA 5153’ Ph: 8388 5600 Email: [email protected]

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FWD,MIDGET Anthony Pearson 82 Cumming Road Blackwood SA Phone: 8278 4393

T & PRE-WAR John Bray Ph. 8278 5133 Mob. 0403 043 434. Email. [email protected]

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REGISTER CO-ORDINATORS




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Submissions for the magazine Close on the

10th day of each month For inclusion in the next issue.

Photos should include owner of the photos name and address as well as

details of subject/s. Articles can be forwarded to:

Classified Advertisements can be submitted as for articles or

phoned through if they are short. Classifieds are free for members. Non-members fee is $20.00 per ad per issue.

Adverts are normally only valid for one issue

It’s your responsibility to notify the editor if you wish to repeat your ad in subsequent issues. Note. Cars for sale must have rego. number or engine number if unregistered

Note to Contributors Articles etc submitted by e-mail should be as an “attachment” Word document, Arial 10, Justified, NOT formatted or tabbed, photos should also be “attached”, not reduced in file size ie; low res

MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS

Laurie Houghton - Editor 2 Firbank Avenue Fulham Gardens SA 5024 Phone: 8356 9953 on CD ( Word or Publisher) Arial 10 please

E-mail [email protected]

MG Car Club of South Australia

Note. NEW ADDRESSS

Shannons Insurance Agents ........................ Inside Front Cover

Frontline Developments ......................... Inside Back Cover

Willshire Motor Trimmers……….14

Sports Parts Sydney………….. 15

Custom Car Covers……………..23

Guarna Legal………………….…34

City Radiator.............................. 35

Alans Auto & Marine……….…...35

Adtech Electrical……………..….35

Adelaide Stacking & Racking…..39

MG Adelaide Workshops……….43

Trade Directory………………… 46

Classified Advertisements……..47

ADVERTISING INDEX

Editorial From ..Laurie Houghton

Editor

MGCC Clubrooms

Monthly General Meetings Held at 8.00 pm on the second Tuesday of

each month at the Clubrooms. All those who are interested in MGs are welcome.

“Noggin’ & Natter” Every Friday night at the Clubrooms. Time:

7.30 pm - ~ 10.00 pm. All welcome for a chat and a drink. Licensed premises.

Tea and coffee available.

Register Meetings “T” Reg. First Thursday of each month.

Time: 7.00 for 7.30 pm.start. Venues as advertised in Register Report. Everyone

welcome - even if you don’t own a Register vehicle.

MGF Reg. Last Friday of the month at the clubrooms 7.30pm

MGA/Magnette Reg Bi-monthly on the third Thursday of the month, starts Jan in odd numbered months, 7.00 pm for 7.30

Know Your MG Meetings Third Tuesday of each month. Time: 7.00

for 7.30 pm. Start. Venues as advertised.Everyone welcome.

Breakfast Runs Now Meet at Veale Gardens, CBD South

Tce. For 9.00am starts. BYO everything for breakfast. See Calendar for dates etc;

Mid Week Lunch Runs Second Thursday in the month.

See the calendar Motorsport Events

See Motorsport Report.

And don’t forget, please support our sponsors whenever possible and be sure to let them know you are an MG Car Club member

Printed by Kwik Kopy Unley. Shop 1, Cremorne Plaza. 246 Unley Rd Unley Ph: 8271 7422

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G ood day members, we now have a new Committee for the

2017/8 year, A new President, Sec-retary of Registers a General Com-mittee appointment and an Auditor. I would like to thank everyone for their 2016 input to this magazine and apologise for any errors that have occurred, obviously didn’t up-set too many as no one stood for the editor role. Just to advise you that the May is-sue could be delayed due to the Na-tional Meeting, it is my intention to include as much copy about the event as possible as I think we may have reached National Meeting overload by then, so a warning to contributors !! With the Advertiser’s Thursdays Club Notes withdrawn continue to rely on our Website to confirm or amend events that have been advertised in this magazine.


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C ontrary to my March report this is definitely the last one. We have a

new chairman in Adrian Ward who will guide the club for the next couple of years and we are losing the services of committee person Dick Manning who has taken up the position of Dep-uty Clerk of Course for the newly named Adelaide Rally to be held in conjunction with the Festival of Speed this year, and Wayne Hough past President and Register Secretary is also having a break this year. I am sure that all members wish them both well.

There was a great turnout of mem-bers at the Annual General Meeting (94) in March for the presentation of annual reports, club awards and the election of officers for the coming year. All committee positions and committee appointments have been filled with the exception of Social Sec-retary position. I wish them well for the challengers that lie ahead.

There was a slight problem with my last report in that the last couple of paragraphs along with some photo’s went missing (the editor has included the missing bits in this edition) I think we will blame a computer glitch for this slight hiccup.

I have one item of breaking news to report, club member Kevin Weeks has been accepted to compete in this years Pikes Peak Hill Climb. If you are not familiar with this event here is a bit of info.

It is the second oldest motor sports event in the U.S.A. first run in 1916 so

this year is the 100th

anniversary and 94th

running of the event. The course is 12.42 miles (19.988km) long with 156 turns. Starts at 9,390 ft. (2834m) finishes at 14,115 ft. (4302.24m). The thin air at the summit robs the engines of approx. 30% of their power and driv-ers suffer similar a loss of reflex and muscle power. The current record is held by Se-bastien Loeb driving a Peugeot 208 T16 with a time of 8m 13.878s set in 2013.

This event is recognised as the most challenging hill climb in the world and attracts race teams willing to spend many thousands of dollars and many months preparing to try and become the King of the Mountain. 97 entries have been accepted this year, 64 cars and 33 motorcycles. Of these there are 4 Australian entries, David Rowe - 1985 Audi Quatro, Tony Quinn - 2015 Ford Focus, Kevin Weeks - 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera and Rennie Scaysbrook riding a 2017 KTM 1290 Super Duke R.

The race will be held on Sunday June the 25

th, and my understanding is that

on the preceding Tuesday practice starts at 3.30 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. on the top 1/3

rd. section, and the same start

and finish times on the Wednesday and Thursday for the middle and bot-tom sections. Friday is qualifying and Sunday the big day with all competi-tors having just one run up the full

PRESIDENTS REPORT From.. Allan Semmler

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course. Competitors are required to be at the course at 2.00 a.m. on race day.

As I am sure you can imagine things will be pretty hectic in the next few months at Supaloc Racing preparing for this event along with the Hot Laps at the National Meeting and the Mt. Alma Hill Climb in early April. On behalf of the M.G.C.C. of S.A. I wish Kevin and his team all the best for this challenging event.

That’s it for me,

Allan Semmler Immediate Past President.

Supaloc Racing Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

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MISSING PART OF LAST MONTHS PRESIDENTS REPORT

The last paragraph of the March re-port was a story about an MGA run-ning a 428 Cobra Super Jet V8 en-gined project and here are the miss-ing photos.

The report continued.......... My brother and club member John has finished the restoration of his Red MGB and those members who have seen it I think would agree he has done a great job for a retired school teacher, pity it is overshadowed by a fantastic Twin Cam in the back-ground.

As a matter of interest a pretty rea-sonable Twin Cam sold at Shannon’s

Sydney Auction in early February for $85,000. A 1950 MGTD went for $25,000 but a number plate NSW243 went for $142,000 Please Explain. Cheers and all the best for the club in 2017 Allan.

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NEW MEMBERS The MG Car Club of South Australia extend a warm welcome to the

following new member who joined in the February period We look forward to meeting you at club meetings and events

Lesley Morrish ( Leon ) MGB James Garner TR 6 Damon & Robyn Abbott Rod O’Malley MGBGTV8 MGA MGF

April 2017

LIBRARY REPORT From..Geraldine Hough

MARCH 2017

T he MGCCSA Library is available to all Members of our Club and is

housed in the regalia and meeting room opposite the Office. Any Mem-ber can borrow books from the Library for up to 4 weeks (with extension if needed) if a Member of the Executive Committee is there to open the cup-boards. The cupboards are organised from Right to Left: 1 – factory work-shop, restoration and repair manuals; 2 – MG books; 3 – other motoring books and biographies, 4 – videos, DVDs and magazines. The Library catalog is viewable on line on the Club website.

This report is mainly to acknowledge the contribution of Terry Wright, who recently donated over 25 books, some very high value and/or out of print, to our Library. Thank you, Terry. The most recent purchases, including the Mark Webber F1 story and Stirling Moss’ latest book, are now in place on the shelves. Thank you to the Members who use the Library and to those who have contributed in the past. Geraldine Hough Librarian MGCCSA

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SECRETARY’S ANNUAL REPORT From Arthur Ruediger – Secretary

MG CAR CLUB OF SA INC.

PRESENTED TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

HELD ON TUESDAY, 14th MARCH

2017

I t gives me pleasure to present the sixty first ( 61 th ) Annual Secre-

tary’s Report of THE MG CAR CLUB OF SA INCORPORATED, covering the 12-months, January to December, 2016

Our membership decreased by 22 during the year which compares with an increase of 4 for the previous year. Total membership at the end of the 2016 club year, as a result of 96 res-ignations and 74 new members was 935, made up of 666 full members and 269 wives, partners or depend-ent members. It is interesting to note that the decrease of 22 were all SPD members bar one.

The 2016 executive committee were:

President Allan Semmler Vice President Adrian Ward Secretary Arthur Ruediger Assistant Secretary Bev Waters Treasurer Alan Cardnell Magazine Editor Laurie Houghton Motorsport Secretary Murray Stephenson Assistant Motorsport Secretary P eter Coulson Social Secretary ( no appointment ) Secretary Of Registers Wayne Hough

General Committee

Dick Manning Ian Curwen-Walker Steve Spong

Bar Manager: Berry Treffers Patron Edward Ordynski Auditor Dean Crook

Committee Appointments

Regalia Geraldine Hough Parades & Displays Adrian Ward Cams Delegate I an Curwen – Walker FHMC SA Delegate Geoffrey Goode Property Manager Doug Marshall Breakfast Run Coordinator Steve Spong Mid Week lunch run Coordinator Di & David Holmes Web Master Peter Coulson T - Register Secretary John Bray MG A / Magnette Register Coordinator Sandra Cardnell MG B / Tech. night Coordinator Leyland George MG C Register Coordinator Ian Hobbs MG F ,TF & Z Register Coordinator Barry Burne

As in past years I would like to take this opportunity to thank all committee members and appointees for their contribution over the past 12 months.

To all the other volunteers who have freely given of their time to promote the activities of our club during the year, I thank you also on behalf of the executive committee and members. Without you our club would not oper-ate as successfully as it does.

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Club Activities

Once again 2016 provided a full and varied calendar of events to suit all members of our club, following is a brief outline of these events.

Social – The hi – light of the social activities for 2016 was the 60

th anni-

versary dinner held at the Glenelg Cricket Club in July with 134 past & present members attending. In addi-tion 2 film nights and a “ pie & footy “ night were held at the club, organised by Sandra Cardnell and then in Octo-ber, thanks to Mick Mitolo a “ pig on a spit “ fund raiser for the 2017 National Meeting was held with a roll up of 80 members & guests. The Robe Weekender was held in October with 70 members and 33 MGs travelling to Robe via Strathal-byn for a fun filled weekend, thanks to Gary Davies for organising an enjoy-able event.

Register Meetings – the various reg-isters within the club staged a variety of events;

Pre War & T - Register, 12 meetings, the majority of these being held in members garages as per the long standing tradition, with one new loca-tion this year, at Peter & Bronwyn Micklems home at Paechtown. These meetings attract up to 50 members and 24 register vehicles including a record 3 pre-war vehicles at one meeting. The Irving Cup, awarded to the member who drives their Pre War or T – Type to the most T Register events and monthly general meetings was awarded to Peter Auld .

MG A /Magnette Register – 6 meet-ings , plus a run to John & Margaret Georges property at Swan Reach in

November and the Christmas lunch at Balhannah in December.

MG B – Register – in June a run to Goolwa including a visit to Michael Finniss’s motor museum with 11 MG Bs, and in December 19 Bs ventured down to Milang , via Strathalbyn and visited the Milang Railway Museum

The C – Register – had its annual Automnal run April & its torsion bar run in October.

MGF,TF & Z – Register, eleven meetings at the club rooms .

Breakfast Runs – these monthly Sunday morning runs are one of the most popular events on the calendar with up to 50 members attending each month.

Mid week lunch runs – this monthly activity is an ideal opportunity for the retirees in particular, to meet for cof-fee and then travel to selected venues for a relaxing lunch, the popularity of these outings is emphasised by an increasing number of attendees in recent years with up to 60 attendees at some venues.

Parades & Displays – club members were once again called upon to pro-vide cars for the various parades & displays in 2016, these included the traditional Australia Day Parade Down King William Street ,4 Xmas parades ,including the traditional pa-rade through the main road of Black-wood, the Onkaparinga Council pa-rade at Christies Beach, the Westfield Tea Tree Plaza parade, also the McLaren Vale Vintage Festival and the Bay Sheffield parade for past and current winners. ..

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All MG Day – On Sunday April 10th

the second of the successful All MG Days was held at TTG Civic Park with the Mayor of TTG arriving in Leigh Richter’s TD to officially open the event.

Motorsport – The motorsport calen-dar for 2016 involved 13 events which were used to calculate the “Club Competition Champion. “ This year the eligible events included 4 motork-hanas, 4 multi club hill climbs at Collingrove and 5 MSCA super sprints at Mallala. In addition 3 extra events, namely the MSCA Peter Hall memo-rial six hour and the National Meeting motorkhana and sprint in Perth were eligible events for Club Member of the year.

Other motor sport events entered by club members included outings at Sandown Park Raceway, the South Australian Hill Climb Championships, the South Australian Motorkhana Championships, the Victoria Park sprint, The Prima Tour section of The Adelaide Motor Sport Festival and the Legend of the Lakes Hillclimb at Mt Gambier

The motorsport presentation night was held at the club rooms with guest speaker Cody Hill talking about is Australian and overseas racing ex-periences.

Annual Kimber Birthday Run – The Kimber Run for 2016, the twenty first run to date, was held in August with a total of 96 cars and 189 persons as-sembled on Torrens Parade Ground for the start of the event which took us to Nairne for morning tea, and then on to the Murray Bridge Racing Club for lunch, we thank Allan Semmler and his team of helpers for organising a

successful event .A special thank you also to the RAA crew & vans that were on hand for any breakdowns.

National Meeting –The National Meeting for 2016 was held in Perth with the three Western Australian clubs, The MG Car Club of WA, the MG Owners Club, and the TC Owners Club combining to put on a memora-ble event. We had thirteen members from our club attend and featured significantly in the various competitions during the meeting. Rob Hall in his “ Beast “ 5

th

Concours , 1st Sprint & 2

nd Motork-

hana. Jason Edwards , Class TD 1st

Concours, 2nd

Sprint & 3rd

Motork-hana, and then in Class TF 2

nd Con-

cours. Tim Edmonds, Class V8 & Costello, 3

rd Concours, 2

nd Sprint & 1

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t Motorkhana. Bev Waters, Class V8 & Costello, 2

nd Concours, 2

nd Sprint &

2nd

Motorkhana. Ian Buckley, Class MGC GT & Roadsters, 2

nd Concours

& 2nd

Sprint. Bob Bazzica, Class RV8 5

th Concours & 2

nd Sprint. Geoff

Glasson MGB Mk 2, 1st Concours &

12th Observation Run. Other awards

included Rob Hall- Outright winner of sprint, Tim Edmonds – Perpetual V8 Chris Dodds Memorial Trophy and Jason Edwards – Best creative sec-tion of the photographic competition.

Historic Registration – the historic registration committee again provided their voluntary services on the 2

nd and

4th Saturday of each month, we now

have over 660 vehicles on the historic registration system.

Regalia – sales continued to be an important aspect of club require-ments, with several new lines of shirts, jackets and caps being intro-duced to compliment the range of re-

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galia available to members..

The library - new publications were added to our already extensive library this year thanks to or Librarian Geraldine Hough. Dads Army – were active during the year attending to all the requirements that need attention to ensure that all members can safely enjoy the facili-ties provided.

MG Motoring – the eleven issues of the club magazine , that members received during the year, again proved to be an invaluable source of information, with details of forthcom-ing events as detailed in the calendar, together with all the various reports on the years events interspersed with items of interest and technical tips.

Awards for 2016 – congratulations to the award winners for 2016 Club Member of The Year Arthur Ruediger Club Competition Champion of The Year Tim Edmonds Womans Competition Champion of The Year Bev Waters Competition Novice of The Year No award Competition Encouragement Award Peter Coulson Presidents Award, for outstanding contribution to the club Joint winners, Sandra Cardnell & Peter Coulson The Knox Trophy Rob Hall The Irving Cup Peter Auld The MG A / Magnette Trophy Murray Stephenson The MGF / Z / ZT Hick Trophy Geoff Burls

Other Events – there were several other events, some of which were not

necessarily “official MG Car Club of SA events” that were attended by our club members.

Notable among these were, All British Day, with a display of 64 MGs, the annual Climb to The Eagle Run. the Goodwood Revival, the McLaren Vale Vintage & Classic day, the Bay to Birdwood Rally ,the British Classics Tour at Victor Harbor and the Ade-laide Motorsport Festival in April .

In October 4 of our members took part in the Vintage Collingrove Weekend, which consists of social activities, a tour through the Barossa Valley on Saturday, and a hill climb on Sunday, topped off with a farewell dinner Sun-day night. This popular event attracts entrants from interstate..

In conclusion I remind you that clubs like the MG Car club, rely almost solely on unpaid volunteers, who give their time for the benefit of all mem-bers. Without volunteers we could not operate or provide the level of service and compliance with the statutory re-quirements that are necessary for the execution of the day to day duties in-volved in successfully running our club. We should be thankful that in the past 12 months we have been fortu-nate in having a team of volunteers to do just this. On behalf of all club members I sincerely thank all of these people, regardless of the level of their contribution during the year.

Arthur Ruediger Secretary 14th March 2017

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CLASSIC BRITISH TOUR VICTOR HARBOR Sunday, May 7th 2017

Sandra Cardnell advises she will make a lunch book-ing for those members who are interested at the Grosvenor Hotel in Victor Harbor for 1pm. Ph 0419169540 or email cardnellis@bigpond .com. for bookings. Sandra Cardnell

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MGB REGISTER EVENT From..Steve Spong

Saturday 18th February 2017 Beach Run

T he plan was for a balmy sum-mers evening drive along the

coast from Brighton to Largs Pier, however our weird summer weather had different ideas. It did not rain but it was overcast and chilly. However for the select few who made the run it was a great evening.

We welcomed back Roger Ford who has been off convalescing after a nasty ladder fall, and admired his re-cently re-sprayed Camino Gold "B". It was also great to meet the newcom-ers to the club out for their first event, namely Daniel Cooper & Cheryl An-drews-Cooper and David & June Hill in their lovely "Bs".

We managed to keep, more or less, in convoy for the whole of the route but the actions of some drivers do make

you wonder, and what is it about roundabouts that people do not un-derstand? At the Anzac Highway roundabout in Glenelg, we were all continuing straight ahead when a lady cut in from the left, across the bows of Leigh and Judy, and shot off to make a right hand exit. All with unrestrained kids flying about in the back. Luckily Leigh managed to take the necessary evasive action but it was a close thing.

Anyway the rest of the drive was un-eventful and we arrived at Largs where some had to return home, only coming for the drive, whilst 6 of us headed for the pub for a meal and a very congenial night. So thanks to all who came and we look forward to seeing everyone and more at the next B Register Event, yet to be advertised.

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Attendees.. Daniel Cooper & Cheryl Andrews-Cooper MGB (Newcommers) David & June Hill MGB ( Newcommers) Roger Ford & Heather Cummings MGB

Peter & Jan Lorimer MGB Leigh & Judy Alberton MGB Steve Spong & Barb Harrington MGB GT John Roach MGF

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STRATHALBYN SHOW AND SHINE

FIRST IN FIRST SERVED ALL MG’S WELCOME

The Strathalbyn Heritage Centre will be playing host to the MG Car Club of SA

on Sunday 18th June 2017, so a great opportunity to display your cars.

Address…Cnr of South Terrace and Rankine Street Strathalbyn

Maximum ...20 cars only on display, albeit adequate street parking is available.

Arrival time ....Strictly 9.30 – 10.30AM.

Departure time all cars.... 3.00PM.

Gates open to the Public....11.00AM.

Cost....$10.00 p/h when booking in.

There will be Morning and Afternoon Tea available at $2.00 p/h

A Sausage sizzle, trading table, and plants for sale.

Rope Making Demonstrations

The Steam Ranger Station Monthly Market opposite, just for the Ladies!

An interesting glimpse into the past of the local history of the township, and surrounding areas. A fascinating journey indeed. All housed in the original Police Station and Courthouse.

All centrally located within the township

First in, first served

Also a mystery entrance prize to be won on the day

No Dogs please

Enquiries to be made to....

Jeanette Walsingham – Meath [email protected]


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MGB REGISTER EVENT From..Steve Spong

T he MGB Register is holding an event on Sunday 18th June 2017

in conjunction with the Strathalbyn Heritage Centre. Jeanette Walsingham-Meath, an MGCCSA Member and a volunteer at the museum, has arranged for 20 MGs, of all types, to be displayed at the front of the museum. Later arrivals can find plenty of park-ing local to the museum. It will be a make your own way affair to arrive between 09.30 and 10.30 am.

3 club volunteers will be required as parking marshals at the museum. Please refer to the attached flyer for more details and for what is on offer on the day.

The Strathalbyn and District Heritage Centre

1 Rankine Street Strathalbyn SA 5255

08) 85362 656

The Strathalbyn and District Heritage Centre is in the former police station (built 1858) and courthouse (added in 1867). Features include several rooms set out in the style of the Victo-rian era, a room reflecting changes in health care over the years, and a courtyard with very high stone walls. From the courtyard, one can access the three jail cells. Displays in the re-cently refurbished courtroom focus upon the lives of the original inhabi-tants and upon the settlers who first came to the district. The Scottish influence is emphasised. In the yard is an extensive collection of farm machinery from the past, in-cluding an excellent example of a fur-phy, a blacksmith's shop, horse drawn

vehicles and exhibits centering on the history of the local Emergency Ser-vices. Notable exhibits include an original horse works and the world-beating high technology solar cycle, the Solar Flare. The Centre also holds a large collection of books, photo-graphs and newspaper accounts of people and past events in Strathal-byn.

National Trust

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2017 CALENDAR

May 2017

4 Thur T Register Meeting B

7 Sun * MSCA 6 Hour Regularity Mallala E

7 Sun British Tour L

9 Tue Monthly General Meeting Clubrooms

11 Thur Mid Week Lunch Run D

13/27 Sat Conditional Registration Clubrooms 10.00am until 12.00noon A

18 Thur MGA/Magnette Meeting Arthur Ruediger’s West lakes L

21 Sun Winter Cup 2 Hillclimb Collingrove E

28 Sun * * Motorkhana Rd 3 Venue tba E

28 Sun Breakfast Run Barossa Valley F

April 2017

2 Sun McLaren Vale Vintage & Classic

6 Thur Mid Week Lunch Run Bridgeport Hotel Murray Bridge D


9 Sun * * Motorkhana Rnd 2 Mallala E


13 Thur T Register BBQ B

14/18 Fri/Tue MG National Meeting Adelaide

23/24 Sun/Mon Historic Race Meeting Mallala E

30 Sun * * Multi-Club Hillclimb Collingrove E

30 Sun Breakfast Run Murray Bridge F

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June 2017

1 Thur T Register Meeting B

4 Sun Hillclimb Rnd 2 Collingrove E

8 Thur Mid Week Lunch Run D

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PRE-WAR & T REGISTER From...John Bray

2 March 2016 Brian & Kath Golding's Murray Bridge

The MG Palooza at the River.

The Crafers Hotel carpark, given a jolt by the assembled members eager to get on with the run to Goldy's, Murray Bridge . Patrons arriving for dinner were somewhat put out however the hot night ensured that beers flowed freely out to drivers and passengers alike, phew!

Bad luck descended upon A Register member Geoff Goode in his A with starter motor breakdown in the car-park, an unfortunate scratching to the event.

This was the end of the hot night, it got progressively colder on the way to the Gold's ranch .

Thanks to Brian and Kath for hosting members of both registers, 42 signed in but there were at least 6-7 more , 16 T Types,1 YA, 1 WA, & 1 MGA man-aged to negotiate the limestone gravel into Goldy’s yard. Brian’s vintage Vin-

cent motorcycle and sidecar was a highlight in the shed. Amazing story that it was assembled from parts all around the globe, single cylinder en-gine, would you believe that some poor beggar in Brazil is still searching for that single cylinder numbered pot eh Brian?

Apologies. Ken Fisher, Peter Cundy, John Neilson, TD Mc Nabb, Maurice Linehan, Peter Auld, Bob & Shelly Bazzica, Geoff Glasson (late break-down held up ) & Reginald O'Malley

Visitors. From the UK we welcomed Gordon & Gaynor guests of Inspector Buckles . Gordon had the sheer de-light of steering the wandering TC from Crafers to the meeting under supervision of course. Gaynor was escorted in the V8 B driven by Lachy Kinnear, yes great to see both of Buckles cars on the run. Great friends indeed , some stories about Bucks exploits were aired, now we know where the famous steering wheel came from.

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April 2017 General Business. An-thony Pearson asked for sup-port at the Na-tional Meeting C o n c o u r s e event on the easter sunday at Colley Re-serve, messers Martin, Davies, Walker & Bray said yes , how-ever it was noted that the very first to register his intent some time ago, An-drew "Willow" Willington had been left off the list, "not happy Jan " , but he's ok now we think.

Geraldine reported that there are 323 registered for the Nat Meet to date. Newly crowned and accredited CAMS media photographers Terry Wright and Wayne Hough did quite a bit of back slapping over their acceptance into the world of the paparazzi. Watch for the hi vis vest of Terry Wright stalking about at next meeting, you will not miss him it's a size XXL , bal-loon fitting i am told.

A big welcome to the A Register members, Greg Atkins was the lone A Series car to make it, Geoff Goode could not make it past Crafers unfor-tunately but it was good to see all the others there. Matters of insignificance. Thane Martin has taken to wearing the Por-sche cap to meetings, let's all ac-knowledge it now that he has pur-chased a very nice 911. Don Walker could hardly wait to get his hands on a set of 19" wheels from Goldy, not sure where they are going , on the special maybe ?

Good to see the boys bring the WA up from Goolwa again, adds class, first to arrive , thanks Peter & Don, it's al-ways a great sight to see register cars of a similar vintage when we can get them together. TD Mc Nabb was in New Zealand on the MG Palooza over there, there is heaps from him going up on the web-site you can be sure.

Russell Garth made an impressive run in the TF without problem this year, the 30 year old resto is holding up well Russ, fingers crossed.

Bob Schapel's paint job on the TC has a rather nice patina about it if you had not noticed, love it !

The Doc was able to dump radiator coolant on the gravel this meeting unnoticed i say.

Technology foiled by a TC. In case you did not notice, the barking dog horn on Ronnie Jillet's TC does not work when the car is in motion. That goes to show that no thorough bred car is going to put up with frivolity and a departure from originality. Maybe Goldy can fix it Ronnie?

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Finally we were promised last year by Goldy that this year's event would feature a "golden" sunset at Murray Bridge in day-light saving time, not only cold after Crafers , but no sunset at all, looks like he slipped up on that, however next year might be better, still it was a good night after all. Next meeting 13 April at C l u b r o o m s C h i e f St Brompton

We will be holding the meeting at the club to welcome and en-tertain as well as showing off well prepared cars to interstate guests arriving for the National Meeting. It's Easter Thursday , hot cross buns time & big raffle.

Geraldine and others are going to pre-pare another outstanding supper so make sure that you all roll in for this night with shiny cars, still check the website for more information.

May meeting venue not decided but i will get onto it. Good luck everybody, see you at the April meeting and at the Nat Meet Concourse Easter Sat-urday.

John Bray Register Coordinator and grand Vizer.

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MGC NEWS MGC conversations by Richard Mixture, April 2017

A Supercharged Story

H ello again, it’s Richard here with supercharged story. You might

remember last month’s story about the ‘MGCs Down Under’ book that that nice young Register Co-ordinator is writing describing MGC in New Zealand and Australia. Well he passed on a note to me about this young fella, John Caffin, whose been racing MGs since the late 1950s when he started racing a MG TD that was supercharged. John, found it easy to maintain and very reliable. So, what better thing to do but supercharge an MGC.

John has been involved in historic racing for most of his life and has raced many different cars including a Ferrari, a Lotus Elite and a Cooper Climax with a 2 litre, twin cam engine. He decided to return to supercharging a car and chose a car with a roof but found he had a bit of a barrier with his Director General of Indoor Duties. Here’s what the note said;

“I had purchased a GEN3 M90 Eaton supercharger on E Bay and at the time I was negotiating to buy a Por-sche 912 with the intention of super-charging it. This was the 4 cyl model based on the VW. In the early 1970’s two of these had been supercharged here in Melbourne and they were very successful according to the Porsche Distributor who had told me about them. The only problem I had was my wife did not want a Porsche with a roof on it, see wanted another MG. There just happened to be rust free

automatic C Type Roadster for sale here so that’s just what we pur-chased.

The C Type didn’t require much ex-amination to see that there would be no problem accommodating the M90. There were two bolt holes in the bottom left hand side of the block to locate the belt adjuster pulley and to support the front of the super-charger. The harmonic balancer also had 4 tapped holes where the air pump pulley was mounted (for North American MGCs), so there was no problem with the crankshaft Pulley.

I fabricated the manifold out of 1.6mm steel tubing clamped to a large piece of C section steel to avoid distortion. I bored the holes in the C section using an exhaust manifold gasket to locate the flanges for the head. Initially I made the carburettor to supercharger manifold to suite a single 2” SU. It was just not up to the job and it was replaced by twin 1¾” HIF6 SU’s. Which are easy to tune.”

After sorting out a few teething prob-lems John was out for a run in his white MGC when he noticed a flash from flames trying to escape from un-der the bonnet. Fortunately he had a small fire extinguisher so he popped the bonnet open and squirted it at the flames. The flames were reduced until, unfortunately, the extinguisher was empty and they were back with vengeance. I’m sure you can imagine what happened while John waited 20 minutes until the fire brigade arrived. It was back to square one!

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The car was rebuilt and re-painted red. I guess that’s so the flames won’t be so noticeable next time? Fortu-nately there hasn’t been a next time and the C is per-forming very well. John fit-ted a digital speedo which coincidentally looks very close to the original one. Depending on the program selected the speedo is able to give him speed, time and distance. So his best standing ¼ mile has taken 14.55 seconds at a speed of 157.6 kph. Not bad considering the time tested by Autocar in 1968 was 18.2 seconds for an auto.

‘MGCs Down Under’ will describe John’s modification of his MGC in de-tail with lots of photos. John shared his supercharged plans with long time mate John Sheppard (HDT team

manager 1978-79) who thought it was a great idea and wanted one himself. A photo of his engine bay appeared in last month’s car club magazine. So, there are at least two supercharged MGCs in Melbourne!

Remember ladies and gentlemen keep ‘em tuned, Rich


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MSCA Presentation Picnic

O n Sunday 26 February the MSCA picnic was held at Virgara Win-

ery at Angle Vale. The site was great with lush green lawns to park and sit on and plenty of shade. There was also a winery and Subway nearby (very different target markets). We had six MGs on display, one MGB roadster, two MGB GTV8s, one MGTC, one MGZR and one MGA. In a parallel nearby display were a Lotus and a Toyota 86. The MG display theme was MGs in motorsport (thanks to Sandra for the idea) and we adorned our cars with old photos and racing memorabilia. The Alfa club had a display depicting forty years of their club which was judged to be better and they won. There was some seri-ous banter between Bev and her son-in-law who was directing the Alfa dis-play. Trophies for the 2016 sprint series were presented and MG members were rewarded as follows: John Davies Class win and Sprint Champion Jason Edwards Class Win Laurie Houghton Class Win Congratulations to all our competitors and thanks to the flaggies.

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MSCA Come & Try Super Sprint 12 March

On Sunday 12 March the MSCA ran the first SA Come & Try super sprint at Mallala. The MSCA of Victoria has been running these for approx three years and their leaders, Bruce and Petrina Astbury, came over to run this day. They also brought two regular Vic instructors, Kim Cole and Les Bone, to help. A total of sixteen regu-lar sprinters worked as instructors with competing on the day as well.

The C&T participants had three class-room sessions, two on track sessions with an instructor and two sessions solo. They had the same number of laps as the regular sprinters and C&T groups were fitted in after the sprint-ers. Five MGCC SA members partici-pated, Nick Micklem (MGZR), Steve Spong (MGBGT), Christine Oppatt

(Supra), Brian Hills (MGBV8) and Karen Stephenson (MGA), and Garry Bolt and Murray Stephenson acted as instructors.

The weather was very unkind at times and the participants had a great time in torrential rain, particularly in the open cars! The objective of the day was to develop skills and to introduce participants to sprinting so that, if they come back for a “real” sprint, it won’t be as daunting. Although there was room to improve on the organization the day was a success and the feeling from partici-pants and instructors was very posi-tive. It is anticipated that MSCA will do this again but as yet a date has not been set.

Thanks to all the drivers and instruc-tors who made this a great day. And


Driver Car Time

Laurie Houghton MGBV8 1:25.34

Gary Bolt MGBV* 1:29.64

Rob Hall MGZS 1:30.14

Dick Manning MGF 1:30.34

Lindsay Hick MGTC Special 1:42.70

Tony Freckelton MGB 1:43.16

Non Marque

John Davies Lancer Evo 8 1:16.18

Jason Edwards Lotus Exige 1:20.15

Scott Stephenson Circuit Excel 1:29.97

Craig Ruediger Ford XA GT 1:40.98

thanks to the MGCC flaggies who worked in the rain to keep the track safe.

Murray Stephenson

Super Sprint Rnd 1 Mallala By John Davies

T he 1st Super Sprint round for the year was held on 12th March and

MG CC had 10 entries in a large field of 94 with 6 MG's and 4 non Marque cars.

The MSCA was holding a Come & Try as part of the Sprint and with an addi-tional 24 entries it made for a large field but the MSCA did a great job as usual and it was a very well run event. It was our turn to provide Flaggies for the day and a big thankyou to Alan Cardnell, Dean Hosking, Wes Bray and Craig Steel who assisted in this area.

The forecast for the day was for pos-sible showers/thunderstorms and al-though it looked optimistic early the heavens opened during the drivers briefing making a very wet and slip-pery (and entertaining for the drivers) first run.

Fastest MG for the day went to Lau-rie, Garry Bolt had his new car out and completed 14 laps this event, a big improvement on just 1 lap at the last event last year. Garry still has some work to do sorting the car with fuel starvation and overheating issues (overheating on a British car, No couldn't be!) Rob had a Good day in the newly acquired ZS and had a tight tussle with Dick Manning and both enjoyed a great day of sprinting. Lindsay ran well in the TC and it was great to see Tony back out in his MG B.

In the Non Marque group Scott had the Circuit Excel out with the full 3 Driver team running to test and set the car for the upcoming Bathurst 6Hr. The car ran well and all 3 drivers did 20 laps with good consistent times. Good Luck at Bathurst guys. Craig had issues all day loosing alternator belts and finally also breaking the main belt and only managed 2 laps for the day but still got to drive the car home. Jason had a solid day and again made the top 10 in the Batmo-bile. I had a good run in sprint 2 but broke the right rear diff mounting bar and decided to call it a day to prevent any further damage to the car.

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Motorsport Mutterings

T he first rounds of motorkhana and super sprint are done the

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Motorkhana Round 2 – Sunday 9 April

Round 2 motorkhana will be run at Mallala on 9 April.

As usual, this round will again include Come & Try so you can have a go for the first time. This will be final opportunity to prac-tise prior to the Nat Meet so come to shake down the car and sharpen the skills or just encourage your fellow club members.

Friday 14 April to Monday 17 April – MG National Meeting in Adelaide.

This year’s National Meeting includes a Super Sprint at Mallala (17 April) and a motorkhana (16April) in Port Adelaide. If you would like to assist with these events I am sure we can put you to work so please contact Pe-ter or Murray to volunteer. Otherwise, if you are not entering, come out to barrack and watch some classic MGs being used as they were intended.

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Sunday 7 May – Peter Hall Memo-rial Six Hour.

The Six Hour is coming up in four weeks. It’s a great team event which tests twenty five teams against each other to cover the most laps at a steady pace. It’s a lot of fun for drivers and crew and the day is finished off with the presentation dinner. Team Emgee has had some success in the past and hope to do well again. The pit crew is as important as the drivers

so, if you haven’t volunteered yet, please contact Murray or Peter to vol-unteer.

Queen’s Birthday Weekend – MG Challenge, Victoria

The MG Challenge is another great traditional rivalry between Victoria and South Australia which is generally run each year, alternating between Vic and SA. Due to Nat Meets and other distractions it has not been run since 2014. This year it is in Victoria. A Hill-climb at Rob Roy and a super sprint at Sandown make up the motor sport components and there is always time for one or two social outings for a good feed and a chat. With the poten-tial demise of Sandown in the not too distant future this may be one of the last opportunities to compete there.

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MID WEEK LUNCH RUN NEWS From Diane Holmes

Thursday 9 March, 2017. Mt Barker

T hankfully the temperature had dropped ten degrees from our

last lunch run & it was great to see so many MGs turning up for coffee at the Arkaba Hotel – mostly with the tops down – for another return to The Barker Hotel. We headed up the free-way to exit at Stirling & then took the wonderful winding way through Aldgate, Bridgewater & the leafy main street in Hahndorf. These hills are such a feature and a wonderful play-ground for our beautiful MGs.

Brian & Kath Golding drove up from Murray Bridge for a first visit to the lunch runs & as we are heading their way next month they will be joining us

again. It will also give us the opportu-nity to catch up with Raelene & Jim from Meningie. Quite a while ago we visited another hotel in Murray Bridge so this is a first time visit & later in the year there are a few more new ven-ues on the horizon.

Next mid week lunch run will be on 6 April (first Thursday due to Easter) to the Bridgeport Hotel at Murray Bridge meeting at the Craf-ers Inn at 10.30am and departing at 110.30am. and if you would like to come please remember to book as we need to confirm numbers for the venues. Diane & David Holmes – email [email protected] or phone 8336 4557.


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CONDITIONAL REGISTRATION REMAINDER OF THIS YEAR

F or the remainder of this year, if you continue to register your

car on Conditional Registration you are not required to present your new registration papers for updating our records nor are you required at this time, to have your new registration paper stamped by the Club. Simply update your log book with the new dates. Use the space on the left of the “Commencement Date” and “Expiry Date” fields to write in the new dates in the current membership year. However, please remember to bring your new blue registration papers and proof of payment to the log book up-date period for the next membership year to the clubrooms (when making a subscription payment in January/February) or when a new log book is required, whichever comes first.

If you require a new log book during the year (and re-inspection), please come to the clubrooms on or before the date shown in red at the top of your log book, on one of the sched-uled inspection times, from 10am to 12 noon on the second or fourth Sat-urday of the month until December. In December it will take place on the first and second Saturdays. Remem-ber to bring the blue registration pa-pers, proof of payment and your old log book for cancellation.

On a completely different topic, some-times adversity can bring out some good. At Crafers, on the night of the last month’s T-register outing, a drive to Alan Golding’s place at Murray Bridge, I suffered what is politely

called a “show stopper”. Some know this sort of incident by other names, none of them pleasant or worthy of mentioning, so I won’t.

Anyway, upon pulling the starter knob I heard a weird noise, a sort of groan. Pulling the knob again, a sound of tin dinner plates being rapidly struck, emanating from under the bonnet. A couple of members rushed over to see what had happened and to offer advice. No it wasn’t the fan against the radia-tor or some foreign object. Nor the clutch either. It was in fact, the re-straining spring that hides within the starter motor pinion gear. This spring normally holds back the pinion from the ring gear immediately the engine starts, at the top of the spiral drive. Mine failed this important step as the spring had broken and with the pinion gear bouncing on and off the ring gear on the engines flywheel, made the car undriveable. I might add, breakage of this spring is a rare event, thank goodness.

So what to do? Climb under the car and remove the starter motor or call the RAA? I weakened as night was falling and called the RAA. Two hours later, we were home again in North Adelaide after a nice ride home in a tow truck.

The question is, can something be done to get out of having to call for a tow? Obviously, removal of the starter motor would help, but can it be pulled out without removing the oil filter on an MGA? If that is required, it presents a major issue for one stranded on roadside.

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April 2017 I will report back on that procedure when I remove the starter at home. However, there is a “work around” if you have on hand 18 inches of fine wire. From underneath the car, with a wire formed in a “u” shape, you can loop the shaft in front of the pinion gear and pull it back and then tie it off around the rebound spring at the end of the shaft. Problem solved. You just need a push or use of the starting handle and you’ll be back on the road going to wherever you were intending to go, without the embarrassment of having to wait for a tow truck to bring you home!

From adversity, comes the fix: agile use of a piece fine wire; make sure you carry some (along with overalls), it could be useful when you least ex-pect it.

Geoff Goode Club Registrar for the Conditional Registration Scheme

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BREAKFAST RUN NEWS From..Steve Spong

Mount Barker 26th February 2017

A s the number of attendees suggests, it was a perfect

day to take the cars for a run. It was good to welcome several club new-comers along to the event, as too the guests of vari-ous members and all in MGs no less. Ron & Julia came along in their brand new convertible V8 Mustang, an impressive machine indeed!.

The route was via Coromandel, Iron Bank, Bradbury and Mylor, with a few travellers losing their way at times but all eventually making it for breakfast or at least brunch.


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Attendees: Peter Micklem MGTD Don Walker & Sandy MGTD Guest Jeanette Walsingham-Meath MGTF Wayne & Geraldine Hough MGA David Archdale MGA Gary & Velli Algats MGA Nick Micklem MGA Berry Treffers & Brandy MGB Kevin Glyn-Roe MGB Peter & Marilyn Young MGB Marian & Glenys Karczwski MGB Liz & Derek Laynes MGB June & David Hill MGB First Timers Daniel Cooper & Cheryl Andrews-Cooper MGB First Timers

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O n Sunday 19th February, club

member David Maxwell and I attended the Flemington Concours at Flemington race course, Melbourne. This is an annual event and is open to all British and European cars. It is also the premier event for the local MG Car Club of Victoria.

On arrival at the race course and after recovering from a $20 charge to park our car, we entered the event at a very reasonable $5 fee. First in view was the Mercedes Benz Club who had a very large display of cars rang-ing from early limousines, sedans and sports cars including an original gull-wing up to the latest AMG gullwing. Chamois were being regularly used after every shower to keep them look-ing good!

On the MG front, there was a large display of many models with the club’s main feature being a display of MGCs, being its 50

th

anniversary. There was also a feature of the T/TF range being its 20 year anniver-sary. For MGC fans, the highlight for me was the supercharged MGC roadster done very professionally (see photos). As you might imagine, there were plenty of very well presented MGs of most models on show, including modern ver-sion up to the Chinese MG6. MGBs were

FLEMINGTON CONCOURS 2017 By Stephen Holmes

most numerous as usual, with many excellent MGB GT V8s, plus other standard and modified cars.

The venue was excellent, but the weather was less so, typical Mel-bourne 4 seasons in one day. In fact it was only 3 seasons, summer wasn’t around.

Many other makes and models were on display. Aston Martin, Roll Royce, Triumph, Austin Healy, Ford Cortinas, Jaguar, Minis, Rover etc. There were even 6 Daimler Darts, not often you see 6 of them in a row these days. A variety of trade stalls were present and the usual catering was available. It is an event well worth visiting and I imagine it may well have been bigger if the weather had been kinder. I’ll happily return in future years. Stephen Holmes

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EVENT TIMETABLE

Friday 14/04/2017 Registration & Scrutineering 10am – 3pm Festival Function Centre, 292 Findon Road, Findon Noggin’ n ’Natter for Registrants in the evening.

Saturday 15/04/2017 Concours 9:30am to 3:00pm Wigley Reserve, Anzac Highway, Glenelg (MGM) Movies Theme Night Festival Function Centre, Findon

Sunday 16/04/2017 Motorkhana (Competition) 8.30am-4.30pm Dock 2 Wauwa Street, Port Adelaide

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MGB Register Event 12th March 2016

Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens

Many thanks to all those club mem-bers both regulars and newbies, and their friends, who came along to the MGB Register Meet at the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens on Saturday 12th March. Thanks too to Allan and

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MGB MkII Wrecking Many parts available, including body panels, engine, gear box. Very cheap wanting to clear space. Jeff Jeanes 0414 672 291

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MGB 1972 MK11 Roadster British Racing Green Electric O/drive Engine been re-built and modified for unleaded pet-rol. Excellent condition through out. With receipts and maintenance re-cords.Showing 23736 miles. $17,500.00 Enquiries to Peter on ph.8351 4886.

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MG TF Engine. XPAGTF 35664 Reg. RMG053 Purchased 2006 Sydney, NSW. Reconstructed over four years approximately 1994. A beautiful drive, more photos avail-able. Price $34,500 Contact John Heneker 0419437870 Location. SA Encounter Bay.

1967 MGB Roadster with recently rebuilt motor 2016, new differential 2011, fuel pump &c, with hardtop. Badly damaged front and rear offside panels. Possible res-toration project or will sell as is $5,000 Contact Alan: [email protected] or Ph; 8267 4331

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1971 MGBGT. O/D In need of restoration. Motor rebuilt 15 years ago; front brakes and front end done; overdrive gearbox; wire wheels. MWC616. $3,200 ono.

1986 . MG MAESTRO 2.0 EFI In need of some body r e s t o r a t i o n . Registered and d r i v e a b l e . Loads of spares. Believed only one other in Australia. WXG899. $3,700 ono. Contact Darrell Evans for both cars on 0418818339 or

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2000 Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe BB598A 5 speed, very tidy, receipts for regular servicing Mag wheels plus spare set of wheels & tyres White with black interior. Start hag-gling at $2000 Contact: David McNabb 0407 795 681

Wanted secure undercover storage for my MGA. Preferably in the North Eastern suburbs. Willing to pay a rea-sonable rate. Please contact Allan Hawkes on 0499228844 or email at [email protected]

4 x MGB 60 spoke 14x4.5 silver painted wire wheels fitted with Eduro CR2000 tyres 185/75R14 with 5mm tread depth. All in very good condi-tion. Price: $300 ONO Contact: John M. 0438594327

MG F Wrecking. All parts available and Very CHEAP 0412 818019 Dick Manning


MGB Parts Number Plates MGB 077 White lettering on green background. $950.00 Car Bra. To suit MGB Rubber Bumper 74 onwards. Used 3 times. Excellent condition. $225.00 Big Brakes. Slotted/Drilled/Vented Rotors with Volvo Calipers & Braided Brake Lines & Green Stuff Pads. $450.00 Air Cleaners 1 Pair STD SV Type original Air Cleaners in good condi-tion. $85.00 Distributor. To suit MGB new never used, fitted with Electronic Ignition. $185.00 MGB Electric Overdrive Gear Knob Switch. P/No 462 525 Brand New $100.00 MGB MK11 Starter Motor. Good condition. $80.00 MGB Rear Brake Shoes (New) Still in package. $55.00 Wheel Cylinders $10 each MGB Rear Rubber Bumper Good condition. $200.00 MGB Interior Door Cards Etc Black $100.00 MGB Set of 4 Door Hinges Good condition. $125.00 Contact. Roger Dawe. 0419804556

MG body/ mechanical and electrical parts for sale - suits TC and TF . Also MGB hardtop J&S . Phone John 8235 9491 West Beach SA


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