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NEWS
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CLUB POINT
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Click here for Progressive Point Scores
Click here for Point Score Rules
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NEWS FROM THE MGs IN EUROPE |
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SUCCESS AT NATIONAL MEETING |
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Our Club is coming home with
two major trophies, the Wratten and the Nuffield. Our website has also won the inaugural award for Best Website.
John Walker also won
the Chris Dodds Memorial Trophy and Ross Kelly won the TC Owners Perpetual
Pre War Plate
Congratulations and thanks to those who made the trip to Adelaide and contributed to our wins and also to our wonderful
web mistress, Glenda Crew.
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SWAP MEET & OPEN
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The third annual Open Day/Swap Meet was held at Mt Cotton on Sunday, 20th
June. Eager sellers and buyers were in abundance before the advertised
starting time of 7.30am and by 8am the centre and back sections of the pits
were full of swap meet regulars. They were joined at 9am by those on the
Club run organised by John Tait and all arrived having enjoyed another of
John's now legendary runs. These cars plus a number of other MGs which came
directly to the venue formed a colourful and varied display with the models
ranging from an MGY to an MGZT with a couple of standout specials such as
Chris Carswell's MGC roadster amongst them as well. (A report and photos
from the run will be on the Social pages.)
While this isn't a great revenue raiser for the Club, it is a relaxed
social day and also an opportunity to show off our venue to others who
wouldn't normally visit there. Thanks go to Lucien Lloyd-West for taking
the following photographs (on the gatekeeper's camera).
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ONLINE RENEWAL CAMS LICENSES |
CAMS announces convenient online renewal of 2010 CAMS LEVEL 2
COMPETITION LICENCES. Click here for the letter from CAMS and
here for the
explanation of the process.
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ENTRY FORMS |
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Entry forms for Club events will be
posted on the web site on the entry page,
as a PDF file, as soon as they become available.
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CAMS
OFFICIALS |
From time to time CAMS advises us
of training sessions for people wishing to become CAMS
officials - stewards, flaggies, time-keepers etc.
If you
would like to be on a list to receive this information could you
please email Elaine Hamilton
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ROCKHAMPTON STREET SPRINTS |
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ASix members of our Club made the journey to Rockhampton for their Street
Sprint held on the weekend of 24/25 July. They were (l to r) Craig Winter
(MGF - 2nd in class Sports Cars 1601 3000 cc), John Davies ((Bolwell Nagari
- 5th in class Sports Cars 3001 5000 cc), Darren Duffied (RPV - 1st in
class Racing Cars 3001 cc and over, plus FTD overall), Ian Fettes (BMW Z4 -
4th in class Sports Cars 3001 5000 cc), Giles Cooper (Lotus Elise - 1st in
class Sports Cars 1601 3000 cc and 10th outright), Allan Dansie (MG Midget
- 2nd in class Sports Cars up to 1300 cc).
Congratulations to them all with special congratulations to Darren for his
outright win! |
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MORE WORK AT CLUBROOMS |
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At the Noggin 'n' Natter on Friday July 16, Roger Paltridge (pictured with helper Peter Smith) installed new units for use in the Regalia shop and we thank him for his work and generosity in this. Those who came along on the night either to help with this work, to take part in the regular night navigation run or just to socialise
benefited from more generosity, this time from Gregg Clarke of Pizza Capers who provided samples of his business's products to those in attendance. |
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CLUB RAFFLE LAUNCHED |
The Club has just released tickets for purchase for its major raffle for
2010. The prize is a motor scooter valued at $1990. Tickets are $2 each or a
book can be purchased for $20 making the buyer eligible for the book buyer's
prize of a high quality jump starter valued at $145.
Tickets are available
at the clubrooms, at the hillclimb or by downloading an order form
here.
Tickets will be on sale throughout the year and the drawing of the prize
will take place at the final hillclimb of the year on December 5th. Pictured is
Scott Dean of
Carselling.com.au handing over the scooter to
Club President, Peter May.
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CAMS
EVENTS |
Important message for anyone
who takes part in CAMS events. CAMS have advised that if a
new rule or a change of rule appears on their website then that
information is deemed to have been distributed.
Therefore, it is
wise that everyone check the CAMS website often.
www.cams.com.au
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JOHN
CAMPBELL BOOK |
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John Campbell's book "Centaur"was launched at our
Clubrooms on Friday, 3rd August, 2008.
Click to read advertisement.
Click
here to download Order Form.
Errata list for book available
here
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CONCESSIONAL REGISTRATION UPDATE OF INFORMATION |
Recently I was asked by a couple of members to seek clarification from Queensland Transport as to whether or not our members are permitted, under the restrictions of Special Interest Vehicle Registration (commonly referred to as 'Concessional Registration'), to drive their concessionally registered cars to the Clubrooms on a Friday night for the weekly Friday night Noggin 'n' Natters.
The guidelines which are published on the Qld Transport website and the letters which those with cars on this type of registration received from Qld Transport last year certainly did not give a clear indication of whether or not this usage was permitted. Please click here to read the response from Queensland Transport in full.
Elaine Hamilton
Hon Sec
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CLUB DINNER &
TROPHY PRESENTATION |
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Click here
for Report and photos of our annual Club Dinner & Trophy
Presentation on 13 February, 2010.
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Updated lists of the resources available to you in the club library are available here. There is one listing all the resources by title, one by shelf list i.e. the order they are in on the shelves, one by author and one by subject. Don't forget that the library is open on the first and third Friday night of each month for browsing or borrowing. Please come along and make use of this wonderful resource.
Click here for:
Title List
Author List
Shelf List
Subject List |
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HISTORY OF THE HILL |
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HISTORY OF THE HILL: A pictorial
history of the first 40 years of Mt Cotton
This book was launched at the Australian Hillclimb
Championships on the
first weekend in November by hillclimb designer, Jon
McCarthy who came from
England especially for the occasion.
The book features:
- An illustrated history of the hillclimb
- The winners of all major trophies
- Information on all those who have won FTD or Top
Six
- Information on milestones in terms of times
achieved and a
celebration of those who have broken the magic 40s
mark
- The Tighe Cams series
- ‘Personal perspectives’, a collection of
reminiscences from a wide
range of contributors
- Tributes to interesting vehicles and also to the
occasions when
Leonard Teale attended and when Dick Johnson took
part in special challenges
The book comes with a CD containing
- Full results of all hillclimbs from Feb 1968 until
the end of June 2007
- Full reports of all hillclimbs (from the Club’s
magazine, the ‘Octagon’
Price for the book and CD is $80. They are not being
sold separately.
If any errors are found in the book, you are asked
to contact Elaine
Hamilton at vprojects@uq.net.au. A list of errata
has been updated and is
available here.
Copies are available at the Clubrooms or
by using the order form available
here.
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JUNIOR DRIVER INITIATIVE |
New Committee member and well-known hillclimber, Neil Lewis, has put
together a Junior Development Program for pre-licence age youngsters with
the aims of fostering interest in motorsport and club camaraderie and
assisting young people in gaining a basic understanding of how to use a
motor vehicle in a safe and sensible way. He intends to devise a training
plan for each participant based on their current abilities. He is also
hoping that this program will encourage younger members to our Club.
In keeping with his goal of making the tuition highly individual, only four
participants were accepted into the first get together of the first group
to undertake his program on November 21st in the pit area of the hillclimb.
The Chief Steward of the meeting sat in on the discussion/tuition session
and was so impressed that he highly commended Neil's program in his
Steward's report. The photos below are from the training session which
included a 'walk and talk' around the hillclimb circuit. For more
information contact Neil Lewis on 3807 6273. |
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