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Latest on the London Bridges Run ISSUE 407 FEBRUARY 2018 MASCOTTHE MAGAZINE OF THE MIDGET & SPRITE CLUB £3 Latest on the London Bridges Run IS IT FATE? A RALLYING REUNION BATTERY CUT-OUTS – A WHY AND HOW BY DR JOHN ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH • ALPINE MIGLIA PART 2 • PULL A WISHBONE? Specialist vehicle insurance from people who share your passion. rhspecialistinsurance.co.uk 0333 043 3911 From iconic models to future classics – we’ve been providing specialist vehicle insurance for over 40 years. 17812 06/17 MIDGET & SPRITE CLUB ISSUE 407 WELCOME TO THE FEBRUARY EDITION OF MASCOT NEIL THOMAS [email protected] Thank you for the very nice messages you have sent sending me in larger resolution photos. This is me regarding the new MASCOT layout. I am pleased fantastic. With the new look mag I really need the and relieved that you like it. best quality pics you can supply me. The ‘Dear Mascot’ section this month contains Richard Wharmby is doing a great job with the letters regarding concerns over the theft of classic social media side of the club and we have a vehicles. This is a worrying matter for us all. This very active Facebook site. Take a look at it and will be followed up in a future issue. contribute. There are non MASC members on there In January I discovered that the owner of Dragonfly too so try and encourage these to join MASC. Quite cars, Mervyn Rees, had retired to Saundersfoot just a few have done so over recent months which three miles from my home. I contacted Mervyn, we is great for the club. Thanks to Richard, we now met and a feature on his involvement with the cars also have an Instagram site which is beginning to will appear in a forthcoming MASCOT. attract more and more followers. It’s a great way to promote the club to potential new members This last week also I had reason to speak to and to attract younger Spridget owners. Take a MASC member Andrew Webb from Somerset. look at it and watch it as it builds. Mike Bennett, Andrew’s son, Ben, has bought a 1961 Midget our webmaster, does a great job maintaining our which he is learning to work on and hopes to drive website. If I’m short of room to advertise an event, once he has passed his driving test (the photo then Mike will load the details up onto the website. shows Ben looking under the bonnet). I think it is For example, details of the forthcoming Treffen really important that we do everything we can to in Germany in May, which has a fast approaching encourage young members to get involved with the closing date. Check it out if you want to go. Also club. If any of our younger members want to contact details and discount codes for the Donington me, I would be more than happy to save a page for Historic Festival will be on the website, once the you each month to tell us what you have been up to organisers have supplied us with the information. with your cars. Now there’s an opportunity. Perhaps see some of you at Stoneleigh? If not, have I notice this month that members have been a great month. Neil COVER IMAGE: The statements and opinions expressed in each THE DEADLINE FOR ARTICLES Photo of Swiss and every issue of Mascot are not necessarily the AND REPORTS TO BE member, Oliver considered views of the Midget and Sprite Club. INCLUDED IN MARCH’S Wilkinson’s lovely The views expressed by the editorial contributors, letter writers and advertisers are their own and do EDITION OF MASCOT IS... 1964 Midget Mk2 not necessarily reflect the view of the Club. The Midget and Sprite Club accepts no responsibility FRIDAY 10TH for the results of following contributor’s advice, nor does it necessarily endorse the services or OF FEBRUARY products offered by advertisers. 1 EVENTS CALENDAR 2018 11th Feb MG/Triumph Spares Day 23rd-25th March Practical Classics Show, NEC (see flyer) 22nd April Drive it Day to Bletchley Park (contact Richard Bowles at: [email protected] 4th-6th May Donington Historic Festival (see website for details) 20th May Dorset 60th Celebration 20th May (contact Ian Beaver at : [email protected]) 3rd June Autokarna, Wollaton Park, Nottinhgam (see flyer on page Page 23 of this issue) Be part of the 20th-22nd July Silverstone Classic world’s biggest classic motor racing festival 24-26th August Spridget 60th, Wroxall Abbey Hotel, Warwick All-inclusive tickets are fabulous value, providing: ■ A packed schedule of historic motor racing Send your events details to [email protected] on the famous GP circuit ■ Full access to the paddocks – get close to Area Reps, Please remember that you can now add your monthly events on the Club’s website. the cars and talk to the drivers ■ Great viewing from the grandstands and Please contact Mike [email protected] on the big screens ■ The chance to display your car with like- minded enthusiasts inside the event when buying a car club package. ■ Live music on Friday & Saturday evening ■ A vintage funfair & much more! ... all included in the ticket price! Use our offi cial club booking code. The Super Early Bird price applies until 31 Dec “We just couldn’t believe the access. It changed it from being an event we went to watch to one we felt like we were part of” CLUB WEBSITE 2017 visitor WWW.MIDGETANDSPRITECLUB.CO.UK Members Only Pages: Go to the members area and select ‘website registration’ from the drop down menu. Follow the instructions on the screen. Car club packages for 2018 are available at 2017 prices until 31 Dec /silverstoneclassic @silverclassic @silverstoneclassic /silverstoneclassictv Book today at: www.silverstoneclassic.com/clubs WHY NOT FOLLOW US ON WANTED Offi cial Partners Offi cial Charity FACEBOOK & TWITTER SC18 Car Clubs A4 V1.indd 1 17/10/2017 11:47 MIDGET AND SPRITE CLUB TECHNICAL (MASC)@MASCUK ARTICLES AND ON INSTAGRAM MASC@MASCUK 1300 Facebook members as of 1st October EVENTS DETAILS NEEDED FOR 2018 Area reps please make Neil Thomas aware of any events already in your diaries and any that are planned for 2018 so that they can be added to this section of the magazine and the website. For the magazine Neil can be contacted at [email protected] For the website Mike Bennett can be contacted at [email protected] 2 EXCLUSIVE CLUB SATURDAY OR SUNDAY DISCOUNT** CLASSIC CAR & RESTORATIONSHOW With SPRING’S BEST CLASSIC CAR SHOW 23 -25 MARCH 2018 NEC BIRMINGHAM 1,000 Classic cars on display | Over 150 Classic Car Club stands | 350 Specialist exhibitors & traders Spring’s largest indoor autojumble | Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership | Classic cars for sale & leading dealers Classic Car Auctions | Practical Classics live stage | Carole Nash Barn Find The Workshop, sponsored by SkillShack | Sporting Bears Dream Rides SINGLE** FAMILY** £16.50 TICKETS ON SALE NOW! £35.00 QUOTE: NECRESTORATIONSHOW.COM QUOTE: PCRS18CS PCRS18CF In association with Sponsors *All bookings are subject to a single transaction fee of £1.50. All information correct at time of publishing. Call 0844 858 6758 to book. Calls cost 13p per minute plus network extras. See website for all information. Tickets include a show guide worth £4.00. **Club SINGLE ticket (adult 16 years+) offer only applies to Saturday and Sunday single day tickets when booked in advance and is limited to 10 tickets per member. The club FAMILY ticket offer is limited to 4 family tickets per member, each admits 2 adults and up to 3 children (5-15 years). Hand in your ticket stub or print-at-home voucher to your club’s stand and they will benefi t from a commission. 394478_PCRS04_Ad_A5_Portrait_2018_V1.indd 1 29/11/2017 11:37 DECEMBER 2017 > JANUARY 2018 We extend a warm welcome to the NEW MEMBERS following new and rejoined members 5567 David Hunt Cheshire Midget Mk 3 5568 Paul Bottrill Shropshire none None 5569 Alan Lodge Nottinghamshire Sprite Mk 1 5570 Robert & Jennie Harrison Hertfordshire Sprite Mk 1 5571 Rob Mcgeown West Sussex Midget 1500 5572 Bryan Horrocks Devon Midget 1500 5573 Mike Brown Monmouthshire Sprite Mk 1 5574 David & Colin Curle South Lanarkshire Sprite Mk 1 5575 Keith Warboys & Mike Osborne Kent Sprite Mk 1 5576 Jason Dring-Morris Leicestershire Midget 1500 5577 Paul Beardmore Staffordshire Sprite Mk 4 5579 Sven Eckhardt Germany Sprite Mk 1 5580 Rick Wood Essex Midget 1500 5581 Antony & & Sam Feltham-White Herefordshire Midget Mk 2 5582 Emma Jacobs South Yorkshire Midget Mk 4 5583 David Bergg Kent Sprite Mk 3 5584 Johnathan Frame Cornwall Midget Mk 3 Rejoined member, Dennis Tower, about to start the New member Chris Roberts looking forward to restoration of his sleeping Frogeye tackling the restoration of his 1500 Midget, last driven in 2004. He’ll be looking for advice. Rob & Linda Owen putting their Frogeye through its paces on a track in Wales. Emma Jacobs and her Mk4 Sprite Keith Warboys with his Frogeye Rob McGeown on track with his K series Midget but now currently undergoing a Jag V6 transplant 5 SPRITES IN MASCOT BY TERRY HORLER In the December edition (405) a winged Frogeye down a hill before the smell and smoke revealed the appears on page 29. Have I seen one before? Yes, problem. I pulled off the hubcaps, backed off the we had one on the club stand at Bristol Classic Car brake adjusters, drums all round, and completed Show back in the 1980s. That one had just about the journey on the handbrake and gears.
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