MG Car Club of South Australia
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MSCA Presentation Picnic
n Sunday 24 February the Marque
Sports Car Association held its an-
nual Presentation and Picnic at Virgara
Wines in Angle Vale. The venue has
been used before and is a great location
with large grassed areas and lots of
shade. Given that it was quite warm this
shade was vital.
The MSCA member clubs gather and
present a display of members’ cars
which is judged by an impartial panel of
representatives from the clubs present.
Alfa Romeo Owners Club uses this
event as a show and shine so their cars
are all well polished and lined up for
their judges. MX-5 Club had a large
gathering of about a dozen cars along
with five from Modified Mini, one from
Triumph, three from Honda, four from
Fiat Lancia and three from Nissan Da-
tsun.
Under the expert direction and organiza-
tion of Sandra Cardnell and Dick Man-
ning the MG Car Club assembled a
great display of “MGs Through The
Ages” with a TC (Arthur Ruediger), TD
(Faye Edwards), TF (Heather & Chris
Bennett), A (Karen & Murray Stephen-
son), B (Sandra & Alan Cardnell),
BGTV8 (Garry Bolt), C (Gary Julian), F
(Dick Manning), ZR (Nick Micklem), ZS
(Rob Hall) and MG6 (Berry Treffers) in
the front row with a BGTV8 (Bev Wa-
ters), a B (Anne & Ian Moulds) and a
classic TF (Sue & John Davies) in the
second row. The display also had a mo-
torsport leaning as cars and the area
were adorned with helmets, driving
suits, chequered flags and other MG
banners. The judges were impressed
and MGCC won the display competition.
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Well done team and a particular thank
you to Sandra and Dick who also ar-
ranged gazebos for members’ shelter.
Trophies were awarded to the class
winners from the 2018 series. To win
any trophies a competitor must com-
plete every lap at four out of the five
events for the year so it is an achieve-
ment to win anything. Dick Manning
(MGF), Jason Edwards (Lotus Exige)
and John Davies (Lancer EVO 8) each
won their respective classes. Although
there are many classes available during
the year only ten class trophies were
awarded.
In addition to class winners there are
two awards which might be considered
the “outright” awards. These are the
Sprint Driver of the year, which recog-
nizes consistency across the year, and
the Sprint Champion which recognizes
the fastest driver.
John Davies won the Sprint Champion
award with Jason Edwards as runner up
and Dick Manning was Sprint Driver of
the year. Congratulations to these three
regular competitors who fly the MGCC
so well. Well done and well deserved.
As a side note, has anybody seen Dick
Manning speechless? He wasn’t quite
speechless but very close to it, and very
surprised!
Well done to all who came out on the
day. It was a very relaxed and enjoyable
day but driving old English cars without
a roof on a hot day can be a challenge
and several of our members achieved
that with, I expect, an element of dis-
comfort.