MG Car Club of South Australia
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From Ian Hobbs, MGC Register Co-ordinator, July 2017
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The 2017 Automnal Run
the speed limit, we stuck together. The
trip did take a little longer as one driver,
who shall remain anonymous, had trou-
ble getting their ‘C’ out of first gear.
Hopefully next time Robin comes along
he’ll be able to engage the gear stick in
a position closest to him and back.
Once he’s mastered the gear stick we
can tell him what the long handled
switch does on the right hand side of the
dash.
hen I woke up and peered out the
window to a lovely autumn morn-
ing, the sun was shining on the gum
trees which was the first time in a week
of drizzly days. A great day for the
Automnal Run. When I arrived at Beau-
mont Road there were a couple of early
birds, I said g’day and unfolded our
MGC anniversary banner. It was well
received. It was promised to be ready
for Easter but was eventually finished
two weeks later. So much for promises!
We parked in a row and wondered over
to Adelaide Biplanes, situated in an iron
clad building with Baltic Pine floors in-
side, a flight office and kitchen and
some very comfy chairs. There are ta-
bles and chairs under the veranda out-
side looking over the taxi way and run
ways. Every time a plane started its en-
gines heads turned to see what the
noise was about.
The roll call counted six MGCs and two
MGBs. Jim McCrickard and Lynton
Fuller were there in their roadsters, one
red and one Pale Primrose. Robin
Gibbs and his beautiful wife Maxine ar-
rived in their White roadster and Mike
Greenwood and Jan drove down in their
red GT and I was in my red GT. We
picked up Ron Telford in Clarendon in
his red GT. We had an Ex arrive in a
Damask BGT, Ex MGC owner that is.
Current ‘C’ owner John Craven arrived
in his ‘B’ to update us on the Australian
MGC Register.
I called the meeting to order but no one
had any formal business but Mike had
something to share. I reopened the
meeting and ask whether anyone was
keen to take over as Register Co-
ordinator. Mike kindly asked if I was
happy to continue and I said yes so I
was duly nominated and voted in for
another term.
As usual we headed for the Adelaide
Hills along Unley Road and up all the
way to Blackwood. We continued on to
Clarendon where we picked up Ron,
then on to the top of Willunga Hill and
almost to Myponga. We then headed
north down Sellicks Hill waving to the
large Buddha on our left as he looked
out over the sea to the west. Finally we
arrived at our destination, the Aldinga
Airfield.
The coffee arrived together with some
wonderful cakes. I can certainly vouch
for the Moist Fruit Cake particularly
when the cook had up-end a half bottle
of Jack Daniels into the mix. Very tasty.
Lynton brought up the topic of faulty
brake light. It was suggested that the
problem lies with the reproduction brake
light switches which are made from poor
quality metal and the contacts tend to
arc eventually making poor contact
unless you increase the pressure with
The run to the airfield was pleasant and
while several people were keen to ex-
tend their machines and travel at least at
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