August 2018
leaving photographic duties solely with
David TD McNabb.
General Business: Russell Garth ad-
vises that Motor Registration needs to
see your MG CC SA membership ID
when negotiating services relating to
renewals and the like.
Bob Schapel requests that members
keep an eye out on the roads for Geoff
Barnes rear shock absorber off his TB,
apparently it has “fallen off”, if you see it,
pick it up he needs one.
Bob has also visited Jack Whiting to see
his TC Special and help him out with a
spline for a decent steering wheel for
the car. ( hope to see Jack as a member
of the club soon)
Peter Cundy held us spellbound with his
recent purchase of adjustable head
spanners picked up from Bister Heritage
event, north of Oxford UK, for those
really hard spots to get into on the NA it
seems. Impressive name too, RATCH-
ETECH.
Peter picked up another nifty device, a
small piece of aluminium channel fixed
to the rod stabilising bracket off the ra-
diator shell that supports the bonnet in a
vertical position without it touching the
scuttle. He has the affixed to the TD
and proudly shows that it works. Amaz-
ing !
Andrew Bate is working on getting his
hood made for the TF soon.
Russell Garth is wanting members to
send information on their cars, recently
we received details from Jenny & Lin-
ton Schiller for their TF 1500, chassis
9628, XPEG 3496, Rego MG1955,
beautiful red car, please send your de-
tails in to [email protected]
The Gold, Brian Golding , our great
mate from Murray Bridge who got a
mention in last month’s report, proudly
displayed the pistons from his seized
engine. It is well known now that you
simply do not feed a TC engine on
Ethanol Fuel it seems, no need to ex-
periment as Brian has it well and truly
covered and can offer expert advice.
Apparently he has history with his rac-
ing bikes in times past with similar epi-
sodes. Tut tut eh Goldy ?
Was good to see Ronnie Jellet back up
with Goldy although not feeling well he
sat out in the car to rest up a bit, hope
things improve for you Ron in the very
near future.
General business was accelerated to a
speedy close with the arrival of the
Pizza boy from Aldgate Gourmet Piz-
zas, I now know that to bring the meet-
ings to a manageable end it needs for
the food to be laid out in front of the
members, I will adopt this technique in
future.
The legend who is Laurie Foody turned
88 on the 13 June, wonderful achieve-
ment indeed and it is amazing that he
can give up the TD on a wet night and
drive up in the Porsche, managing to
park on the road and not on Leigh’s
neighbours lawn is another achieve-
ment.
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