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NATIONAL MEETING '12

National Meeting 2012
As there was no Hobart representative available at Newcastle to taken expressions of interest for the 2012 National Meeting, many MGCCQ members seem to have forgotten to inform the Tasmanian club, our Nat-meet co-ordinator, or our accommodation organiser.

Have you registered your interest in attending the Hobart National Meeting in 2012? Have you advised the MGCCQ Nat Meet Co-ordinator of your interest?

Have you advised the Qld Accommodation Co-ordinator of your interest? If not, you should do so ASAP via the following:

Bulletins 1, 2 and 3 are below.  Accommodation at Riverfront Motel and Vilas, 897 Brooker Highway, Hobart is still available through Julie

The National Meeting in 2012 will be held in Hobart in Tasmania and is centred around Wrest Point Casino which will be the venue for Accommodation, Noggin 'n Natter, Registration and Dinner.

The Kimber Run will be in the foothills of Mt Wellington, the Speed Event will be at Baskerville Raceway, the Motorkhana will be at DEC Complex and the Theme Night will be at Moorilla / MONA.

Click here for the MG Car Club of Tasmania Inc web site.
Click here for Bulletin No.1
Click here for Bulletin No. 2
Click here for Bulletin No. 3
Click here for
National Meeting Registration Form
Click here for National Meeting General Regulations
Click here for National Meeting Regalia form

There are four important National Meeting documents to download:
a) 2012 MG National Meeting Bulletin #3
b) National Meeting Registration Form;
c) National Meeting General Regulations
d) National Meeting Regalia form

Please note that Registration forms and regalia purchase forms should be sent to the National Meeting postal address, not to the general MGCCT GPO Box at Hobart. The correct address details are: National Meeting Registrar, PO Box 171, ULVERSTONE POST SHOP, Tasmania, 7315

Important dates to remember are:
Closure of Early Bird Discounts on Registrations February 17 2012
Close of Entries March 9 2012

Registrations after the close of entry date will incur a late fee of $50. On behalf of the National Meeting Team I wish all our MG friends a safe Christmas Break and a great 2012 National Meeting in Tasmania next Easter.

Cheers, Herby
Dennis Burgess
2012 National Meeting Director MG Car Club of Tasmania Inc

NATIONAL MEETING '11

Official results of the 2011 National Meeting are now available. The Club won the Wratten trophy and the trophies for Best Website and Best Magazine. Club member, Peter Rayment, won the Golden Gudgeon and the New Zealand Plate trophies.

Click here for photos of Theme Night.
Click here for more general photos
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Overall Results:

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for Concours results
Click here for Touring Assembly results

Click here for Motorkhana results
Click here for Speed Event results
Click here for Perpetual and Outright Trophy results

 Here are some slide shows taken by club members at the Nationals:
Cathy Bartley Gary Lawrence Matt Johnson
Max Johnson Peter & Delia Rayment Shez Letten & Tony Slattery

General Photos - Photos by Gary and Dawn Lawrence

Click here for photos of Theme Night.

HISTORY OF NATIONAL MEETINGS

The first MGCC National Meeting in Sydney January 1970.

Five members of the Queensland club went to Sydney for the first ever MG car clubs of Australia National Meeting to be held over the 9th-10th-11th of January, 1970.

Peter Rayment 'TC’ and Ross Horton TR4 went down independently. Jon McCarthy, Will Charlton, both in MGBs and me in the “Truck” (MGC-GT), travelled as a group down the dreaded Pacific Highway with the inevitable road-works and rain where we went through a couple of the famous NSW DMR De-Tours with wet sandy loam which coated the undersides of our carefully cleaned cars.

By the time we reached our Motel in Lidcombe this muck had dried solid and all the Motel had was 1 garden hose without a nozzle which flowed like an empty rain water tank so three filthy cars were not well cleaned.

Friday night was a Barbecue at St. Ives, the home of the Sydney Club’s Competition Secretary with a steak and a beer, or two, at $2-00 a head. Getting back to Lidcombe was a navigation exercise at 1 o’Clock in the morning. The one way roads we went there with were OK but to get back using different roads and no UBDs was, to say the least, quite difficult.

Saturday was the Concours staged in the gardens of Vaucluse House. There was a lot of interest in the “Truck” as nobody outside the Brisbane area had ever seen an MGC-GT before. We had been interstate a few times but nobody knew there was one of these in “OZ”.

Saturday night was interesting as we had to go to the Chevron Hotel at Potts Point for a Dinner Dance. I had forgotten that the 3 of us crammed into the “Truck” with Jon jammed into the Kiddy seat and big Will in the passenger seat. John or Will reminded me of this. Saturday night was typical January in Sydney, hot, and we went from the Motel down Parramatta road to the city. In those days the police booked you if you travelled over 35mph anywhere except Parramatta road [they just wanted the traffic to flow and it surely did] so three country lads found what a continuous Red light Drag Strip was like. There were tuned 179 Holden Utes and everything that could mix it with them everywhere all doing wheel spin starts at every green light, with screaming drum brakes at each red one. We thought this was for us and joined in, [I think there may have been a lot of encouragement from Jon and Will to get into it] this only encouraged them to have a go at this MGB and try even harder, what a drive.

I thought if you lived here you would need a new clutch every year. When we parked at the Chevron I seem to remember the poor old “Truck” was boiling.

 

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Sunday was competition day, no gymkhana or social runs at the first National Meeting but a Hill Climb and a quarter mile oiled dirt short circuit at Amaroo Park, Annangrove. The Sydney club had organised a supply of Crash Helmets and Fire Extinguishers for visiting club members. The Amaroo climb was tricky for a first timer with a short straight followed by a tight right turn then uphill to an extremely tight left hander with a ginormous boulder just of the track, to the inside of the turn which scared the pants off the new boys. I forget how the rest of the Hill went I just remember the boulder. I was doing well against the TR4 and TR5 competition with Ross Horton pushing me in his TR4 then on the last run for Ross he took a full second off my time and there was just no way that the terrible handling, understeering “Truck” could beat him by 1.1 seconds so he won the over 2 litre class.

The dirt circuit really showed I was driving a “Council Grader”, wheels on lock and car going straight ahead like a Grader blade does with wheels on full lock, not a sports car but a truck. This really confirmed the name “Truck” for the C-GT. Accelerated like a truck handled like a truck and was heavy like a truck. Try as I might I couldn’t get the rear out and then use power or use power to get the rear out the roll and understeer defied all efforts. Ross killed me on the dirt as well. The standard MGC is a dangerous car on loose gravel surfaces.

We all thought what a wonderful event the first National Meeting had been and planned to go to the next one which from memory didn’t happen in Melbourne the next year as was planned.

Bruce Ibbotson Member # 600.

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