Concours

ABOUT CONCOURS

This event derives from an earlier one called a Concours d’Elegance which originated in Paris in the early 20th century. It was a combined showcase of fashion and cars. It was revived at Surfers Paradise as part of the Speed Week held there in the 70s.MG Car Clubs formed in Australia from the early 1950’s picked up the event as one of their annual features and in 1970 incorporated it as a National event in their Annual National Meetings.

Our Club has presented a trophy for Concours since 1962 when Denis Geary presented the Club with a trophy for this purpose.

The first winner was Tom Armstrong. The current Concours event is confined to judging vehicles for their relative merits in terms of finish, originality, cleanliness and appointments. The coachwork design is not a factor, but is for the purpose of determining classes, the determinant of the the marque. The basic intent of the Concours is aimed at ‘Maintaining the Marque’.

(The above is a summary of the introduction to the Club’s Concours Procedures Manual.) The full text of the manual – 50 pages – may be downloaded here .

MGCCQ CONCOURS

2025 Geary Sports Car Concours

The annual Geary Sports Car Concours was held at the Rocks Riverside Park area 3 - the River. What appears to be normal for this year is rain being predicted on the day selected for a club event. Fortunately the day was a beautiful Winters day.

A great number of single cam MGA roadster cars were present with most should be in the one concours class. As the organisers had the right to include additional classes depending on the entry, the MGA class was expanded to five sub classes.

The various classes with members attending the Concours:

Class C Pre War Sports over 1000 ccs including Supercharged cars, all TA and TB models including Tickford and Airline: Richard Mattea MG Magna L Type;

Class D MGTC: Terry Jones;

Class E MGTD: Brad Hart, Don Webster;

Class F MGTF: Brendon Dyer;

Class G MGA Roadster Single Cam:

MGA 1500 Roadster: Tracy Bergan, Bill Fischer, James Wiltshire, Andrew Manfield;

MGA 1500 Mk 1 Coupe: Tracy Bergan;

MGA 1600 Roadster: Jeremy Buffigieg;

MGA 1600 Mk 11 Roadster: Trevor Jones, Stephen Donaldson;

Class H MGA Twin Cam Roadster and Coupe: Mark Wellard;

Class I MGA Coupe Single Cam: Graham Moore;

Class J MGB Mk 1 Pull Out Door Handles: Ken Wasley, Ray Edwards;

Class K MGB Mk 1 Push Button Door Handles: Graeme Walker;

Class M MGB BL and Later: Andrew Macbeth;