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T HE S T . L OUIS MG M ETRO G AZETTE P AGE 1 The MG Club of St Louis Newsletter Volume 30 Issue 3 / March, 2019 Inside this issue— The MG Club Photo Challenge for February was to Take a Photo FEB Meeting Minutes: at any City Hall. See Page 21 for more photos. Page 2 Events Calendar: Page 4 Chairman’s Message: Page 5 Editor’s Column: Page 6 Ramble Along Rallye: Page 7 History—MG Y Page 8 Old Race Cars: Page 9 Pinewood Derby Report: Driving Challenge: Page 9 Page 22 SCCA Begins: RUBCO : Page 11 Page 26 Tech Session: Jaguar Run Invitation: Page 12 Page 27 This & That: Classifieds: Page 15 Page 28 Arnolt Bertone MGs: As Seen in the Wild: Page 16 Page 29 Pinewood Derby: Long Range Plans: Page 17 Page 30 Polar Bear Run: Parting Shots: Cover photo by Page 20 Page 31 GOF Central: Support and Officers: Page 21 Page 32 T HE S T . L OUIS MG M ETRO G AZETTE P AGE 2 February’s monthly meeting at Trailhead Brewing Co February 11, 2019 MG Club Meeting Held at Trailhead Brewing Co. St. Charles 7:10 PM: Meeting called to order by Andy Ackerman. New members: Rich & Anna Marie Baller - MG TD Treasurers Report: Main Account $5950.15 GOF- $1112.66 Marcus Tetzloffseconded minutes. Steve Hurd, from the Jensen Healey club, *Membership Dues are due* spoke about Jensen’s History & the many types of Jensens that will be at the All British Walt Murphy said to look for a “membership Car Show. The members of the Jensen Club database for club members” which will in- look forward to having a combined show for clude members' contact information and car 2019. The Jensen Club has already arranged a types. Look for it in a future newsletter. trip to Fulton, MO to tour the Winston Gerry Goecker mentioned a plating shop Churchill Museum with a stop at Autoworld called Highline Plating in Cuba, MO. He’s had Car Museum. good luck with them. Projects: Old Business: th Bob Bentzinger is installing a set of wire Polar Bear Run Postponed till February 17 . wheels he bought. Article to follow. www.sltoa.org Ranney Dohogne refinished the wooden th dashboard on Lee's TR6. He replaced the ve- Tech Session Monday February 18 . Brook- lands Restoration LLC 9532 Lackland, Rd neer & added many, many coats of varnish. John Mangles built two MG steering wheels Overland, MO. 63114. Topic: Ignition Timing with Baltic Birch wood rims. Paul Summers found a glitch with a battery sustainer. The sustainer showed a full charge. The car would crank over but not start. Turned out to be one bad cell in the battery. (The sustainer showed green light/normal.) Lee Fox has found a 24 Hour Autozone in Kirkwood at 1205 S. Kirkwood Rd. Old Business: A membership list will be emailed to all mem- bers. You must “Opt In” if you want your contact information on this list. Look for it soon. (Minutes continued) T HE S T . L OUIS MG M ETRO G AZETTE P AGE 3 February’s monthly meeting at Trailhead Brewing Co For Sale/Wanted: Pete Westby has a set of Mazda Miata seats for sale. Greg Deppe is looking for a set of MGA seats. Stanley Wagner has club shirts & hats for sale. Attendance prizes drawn. 8:09 Adjourned February 24th Pinewood Derby -Llewelyn’s Members present at February’s meeting: Pub 17 W. Moody in Webster Groves. Stanley Wagner, Lee Fox, John Mangles, Carol Terry Fanning Rally March 23rd. Bring cash as Mangles, Gail Melton, Jack Melton, Tom the Terry Fanning Rally will take a Ferry twice. Brydon, Helena Von Metz, Wanda M. Deppe, They do not accept credit/debit cards. Greg Deppe, Steve Hurd, Rich Rhyner, Nick Paul Summers talked about how the GOF is Baller, Gerry Goecker, Lorrie Goecker, Bob shaping up for 2019. www.gofcentral.com Bentzinger, Rich Berger, Bob Casanova, Bob Horzmann, Paul Summers, Jim Byrne, Kim st RUBCO- February 21 . Chris’ Pancake House Noble, Rodney Bahr, Andy Ackerman, Justin 5980 Southwest Ave. St. Louis, MO 9:30 AM Ackerman, Rich Baller, Anna Marie Baller, Byron Golfintalked about an article he read in Ranney Dohogne, Jim Elfrink, Jim Vivian, Tina Hagerty, about MGs being converted to all Vivian, Carolyn Golfin, Byron Golfin, Walt electric. The younger generation wants an Murphy, Carolyn Westbay, Pete Westbay. easy to maintain and clean car they can drive. [Editor's note: For photo and more infor- mation re: the electric MG, review the story on page 16 of the November 2018 issue of the Metro Gazette.] All meeting photos by Andy Ackerman T HE S T . L OUIS MG M ETRO G AZETTE P AGE 4 Events Calendar March —for a complete list, visit our website: StLouisMGClub.com Monday~March 11, 2019: Monthly Club Meeting will be at Michael’s Bar and Grill / 7101 Manchester Ave / St Louis 63141. Drinks and fellowship—6:00 Meeting will start at 7:00 PM. Drive your British Car to the meeting. Monday~March 18, 2019: March Tech Session Advanced Diagnosis at It’s Alive Automotive // 11714 St Charles Rock Rd, Bridgeton, MO 63044 Saturday~March 16, 2019: Jaguar Club Drive to Elephant Rocks will meet at 08:30 at St Louis Bread Company, Highway 21 and Kennerly Rd. Details on page 19. Sunday~March 17, 2019: Chicago Swap Meet Autojumble—Details on page 29. Friday~March 22, 2019: RUBCO will meet at Denny’s // 11226 Midland, at 09:30. Saturday~April 6, 2019: Missouri Endurance Rallye— Details on page 6. Monday~April 15, 2019: April Tech Session at Brooklands Restoration // 9532 Lackland Rd // Overland, MO 63114 Meet at 7:00 PM. Topic: Steering and Electrical Sunday~April 21, 2019: 58th Annual Easter Car Show and MG/Triumph Challenge to see which club will win the coveted traveling trophy. Whichever club has the most drivable entrees in the show wins the trophy—that is currently the MG Club’s prize. Thursday-Sunday~June 27-30, 2019 : GOF—Gathering Of the Faithful at the Double Tree in Chesterfield, MO. Keep the date open. Wednesday-Sunday~July 10-14, 2019 : GT-44—NAMGAR Get Together. This annual event, which will be organized by the Minnesota MG Vintage Racers, and will be held in the historic town of Dubuque, Iowa. MG CLUB CHALLENGE for the month of March: Take a photo of your LBC at any fast food place and send it to: [email protected] T HE S T . L OUIS MG M ETRO G AZETTE P AGE 5 Chairman’s Message By Andy Ackerman systems. Adam Key gave a complete presenta- tion on every aspect of how a car creates spark and ignites gas to give your car power. I saw a lot of note taking and we had plenty of examples of different types of coils, distribu- tors and the equipment to test them. Our next tech session is on March 18th at It’s Alive and will be on advanced diagnostic systems. We all can learn something from these classes and I hope you will take the time to come and What a great Pinewood Derby we had this see Jeff Homsher’s nice facility. year! Ranney Dohogne, Rich Berger, and Bob We may have one last blast of winter for the Bentzinger went all out to ensure a nice event beginning of March but I am hoping the cold for everyone. It is always nice to see a group weather exits soon. Although it was a bit nip- of adults thoroughly get involved in having a py and very windy for the Polar Bear Run, we fun time and reviving a few memories from had a few MG’s represent us for the drive. their childhood. It was even nicer to have Looking forward to spring and a return to some families with small children participate some nice top down driving, I will see you on and start some new traditions of their own the road! which involves racing cars and building win- ners. I was also very impressed with the wide Safety Fast and Motor on! variety of creative hand made cars which in- Andy cluded “The Sloth” by John Mangles (it was pretty slow) and “The Wall” from Lee Fox. It is not too early to start thinking of entering your MG in the Easter Car Show on March 21St. As you may recall, we wrestled away the British Leyland Trophy from the St. Louis Tri- umph Owners Association and of course we will want a repeat this year. So, I encourage everyone to start working on getting that shine on and putting an end to those winter projects which had your cars on jack stands. Many thanks to Brooklands Restorations for sponsoring a nice technical session on ignition March 11th meeting will be at Michael’s Bar and Grill 7101 Manchester /St Louis, MO 63141 T HE S T . L OUIS MG M ETRO G AZETTE P AGE 6 Top Down with the Editor by Glenn Owens The point of this story alludes to the photo on the cover of this issue of the newsletter. The club’s challenge is to get the membership out in the public with their LBCs every month of the year. Jim Vivian’s MGB has been driven to the challenge as well as to club meetings on several occasions this winter. Next month may include some Triumphs as the challenge has been extended to their club as well. Spring weather in Missouri is not something In April, the Easter Car Show in Forest Park that can be determined by looking at data will have another challenge for the Triumph from an almanac or by some calendar date and MG clubs.