MG Car Club of South Australia
PRE-WAR & T - REGISTER
From..John Bray,
Photos by David McNabb
6 December 2018
The Olive Tree and Tennis Court ,
Eden Hills.
with his offer of old Safety Fast maga-
zines.
Peter Auld is still lamenting his not so
successful trip to Melbourne to reac-
quaint with his old 1931 F Type that the
current owner is not interested in selling
or restoring, persistence may work out
in the end Peter you never can tell. See
page 22 of the November magazine.
Russell Garth reported on the Orion
flypass that was witnessed by a number
of us in the register from Mt Lofty sum-
mit.That took a bit of organising to get
there thanks Thane.
T
he pre Christmas meet was again
this year at Mozza & Steph Line-
han’s under the olive tree and attendant
parking on the ma inlaw’s tennis court.
Maurice did a superb job in marshalling
us through the wire onto the court just
see the website photos for the fine array
of cars displayed.
43 signed in , 18 register cars with 1
prewar & 1 Y Saloon included.
Apologies
Those who could not attend, Doc Dall-
witz, Simon Ewart ( both overseas), Jim
Bowring, David Kemp, Geoff Glasson,
Brian Forth, Nick Proferes, Lachy Kin-
near.
New members.
Peter & Di Lancaster attended their first
register gathering at a members resi-
dence, Tyson Jeans with his son in the
52 TD, a 10 year member.
Good to see David Herbert up from Mt
Gambier with the TC , proud owner of
course.
General Business
There was plenty of discussion going
around, really hard to make much sense
of a lot of it but Goldy opened the batting
Chris Bennett reported on the week-
ender run to Clare and Mintaro, seems
his close coupled caravan to the TF
creates quite an interest on tour.
Bob Schapel’s articles on technical mat-
ters appearing in the magazine are
most informative and provide a wealth
of information that is so useful to us T
Typers, great work Bob.
Reg O’Malley commented upon an arti-
cle written by Ian Curwen-Walker in the
70’s when things were not all that
buoyant in the club, but the T Register
was holding well with strong member-
ship and attendances.
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