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MG Car Club of South Australia

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

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Peter Auld ’ s Fife Ave Torrens Park 2 February 2017
MGR o , for those anticipating another prewar MG entering the fold this is the Peter Auld , My Garage Rules meeting held in the leafy suburb of Torrens Park which was awakened by the barking exhausts of the many MG ’ s that arrived and departed with gusto in that placid neighbourhood . Put simply it was another equisite night and if it was Manou or Pete assessing the garage it might very well go like this for Peter & Christine :
Manou . The ambience and texture of the garage can only be described as “ sweet ”, the arrangement and presentation is ” puurfect ”, I give you a 10 .
Pete would probably say , “ could you have done better ?”, I give you a 10 .
Thankyou Christine and Peter for excellent cuisine , good as seen on MKR for sure , devoured instantly by the ravenous horde of excited members who gave you a group score of 9 . Apologies : TD McNabb , David Fairbrother , Ken Fisher , Trevor Driver , Laurie Foody , Mike Lyons , David & Joy Pearson . Forty two members actually signed in , 15 Register Vehicles , 8 TC , 2 TF , 2 TD , 1 Y , 1 NA & 1 NA General business : Neil Stagg spoke on the forthcoming MG CC SA weekender in October to Kangaroo Island inviting members to participate , the World Press has been informed that Maurice Linehan is taking the TC over so that they do not miss front page this time round . Sandra “ Carnell ” ran two raffles in support of the National Meeting fundraising for April this year . Reg O ’ Malley returned from illness , sprightly as ever , great to see him back in the fold . Ian Buckley was able to report on Barry Bahinisch ’ s current state in care at Daw Park through Daphne who wished to be remembered to all , Ian having called in to see Barry for a
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