September 2019 Tappet Chatter Tappet Chatter Journal of the MG Car Club of Canberra Number 448 September 2019 0413 646 321 2 MG Car Club Canberra September 2019 Tappet Chatter Number 448 September 2019 Contents: Official Journal of the MG Car Club Canberra Inc Presidents Torque 6 ABN: 49 156 199 381 Torque 8 Correspondence to: Inaugural Ladies Run 13 Post Office Box 4141 The Law’s According to Mike 17 Weston Creek ACT 2611 MG RV8 Air Con refurb 18 Monthly Meetings are held How much can I get for my TC 21 on the second Thursday of Other Club Mags 23 each month, (except January), at St Peter's 2020 Autumn Tour 24 Anglican Church Hall, cnr of September Midweek Meander 25 Parkinson St & Watling Pl, MG Mark II Roadster 26 Weston at 7:45pm. Video’s 29 Banking Details Club Calendar 30 BSB: 633-000 Account: 144920741 Gear Aug 2019 34 Account Name: MG Car Club MG an Underrated Marque 37 Canberra Inc Royal Daimler and NMA Car Club 41 Council Communique 46 Sporting Report 50 A ‘Lunchtime Natter’ is held at MG News 59 Weston Park, Yarralumla (second picnic spot on the Services Directory 43 right) each Tuesday from Help Line 45 12.30pm. Marquet 46 The MG Car Club Canberra Inc. accepts no responsibility for the Acknowledgments – the editorial team thanks all accuracy or reliability of articles, correspondence, who contributed articles and photographs for this opinions and advertisements month’s magazine. contained herein. Articles may be copied for publication by Car Clubs, but Cover Photo an acknowledgement and due accreditation is expected. Printed Post Approved 100003009 Jo with her MG and snow on them thar hills. September 2019 Tappet Chatter 3 MG CAR CLUB CANBERRA INC. LIFE MEMBERS: Margaret Brown OAM, Malcolm Robertson, Ian Holden, Brian Oxley, Kent Brown & Brian Calder. COMMITTEE 2019 President: Vice President Peter Dalton Kent Brown 0412 788 217 0412 558 029 [email protected] [email protected] Secretary Treasurer Bryan Tuckey Brian Calder 0484 636 355 0434 307 742 [email protected] [email protected] Committee Member Committee Member Laurie Gardiner Trevor Clement 0418 488 931 0411 102 759 (Display Events) (Membership) [email protected] [email protected] Committee Member Public Officer Mark Horsfield Bryan Tuckey 0415 400 044 484 636 355 (Editor) [email protected] [email protected] 4 MG Car Club Canberra September 2019 MG CAR CLUB CANBERRA INC. NON COMMITTEE 2019 CACTMC Delegates: Brian Calder 0434 307 742 [email protected] Social Coordinator: Vacant [email protected] Asst Social Coord: Graeme Corbett 0437 679 497 [email protected] Motor Sport Coordinator: Kent Brown 0412 558 029 [email protected] Club CRS Registrar:(Historic Plates:) (Northside) Greg Whitfield 0498 107 658 [email protected] (Southside) Robert Chilman 0412 024 228 [email protected] Manager of Club Regalia: Peter & Val Long (02) 6227 0643 [email protected] Manager of Club Library: John Cooper 0408 624 801 [email protected] CAMS Delegate: Kent Brown 0412 558 029 [email protected] Natmeet Coord : Mick O’Brien [email protected] Club Car Trailer: Laurie Gardiner 0418 488 931 [email protected] Tappet Chatter Distribution: Laurie Gardiner 0418 488 931 Club Workshop & Equipment: Laurie Gardiner 0418 488 931 [email protected] Webmaster: Mark Horsfield 0415 400 044 [email protected] September 2019 Tappet Chatter 5 President’s Torque 2019 Presidents Report Hello MGers, he past year has seen very many members participating in the regular and T special club activities that fill our busy calendar of events. Many thanks to all those members who volunteered to devise so many interesting monthly runs during the past year. We will be offering additional local and long distance touring opportunities and reintroducing workshop and restoration runs as we move into 2020. You will have opportunities to enjoy your cars even more next year as some fertile minds among us have approached the club committee to suggest further ideas to keep those MG wheels turning on the tarmac. New members have been warmly welcomed into our friendly club activities and these new faces often turn up at our informative MG workshop instruction days kindly facilitated by Laurie Gardiner and Kent Brown. Our monthly meetings have been well supported too and we have been spoiled there by the excellent and too-tempting evening suppers provided by Sandra, Nome, Mo and the other ladies assisting in the kitchen. As a new Club President I have been greatly assisted by the experienced com- mittee members. Both Kent Brown as Vice President and Brian Calder as Treasurer offered me wise council. Our club finances continue to track well and I am pleased to report we have achieved a modest surplus for 2018-2019. A significant financial contri- bution was produced by the successful Motorkhana Events organised by Kent and managed by Chris Hillman, together with generous funding support by Shannon’s Insurance. The free thinking and spirited advice of Trevor Clement and Mark Horsfield has enlivened the committee debate. Bryan Tuckey (aka B2) as your dedicated Secretary has complimented our club committee well. Laurie Gardiner has now stepped down after almost a decade on committee. On behalf of our club I warmly thank Laurie for his long, strong and committed service on our team and am pleased to advise that he will continue to assist with the club workshop and display co-ordination. 6 MG Car Club Canberra September 2019 Planning will shortly commence on a new concept to create an expanded bi-Annual gathering in Canberra, not only for MG T and Y types as has been the case in the past with MG TYme, we will also have the National Assembly of the superb and iconic Pre-War MG Register. This combined event will culminate in a particularly large number of our fabulous and historic vehicles and their interest- ing crews travelling from all corners to assemble in Canberra in October 2021. We look forward to your support for this very special initiative. Looking back I thank all the members who assisted in so many ways to support our club in their non-committee voluntary roles such as with the production, com- position of and contributions to the club magazine and for the web-site, regalia, library, mechanical advice, trailer maintenance, social organising roles, touring planning and for providing the splendid MG club workshop facility at Fyshwick. We lost a couple of very special blokes this year. Both Tony Argyle and Peter Daley were close friends and they each served the club with great distinction as Presidents and in their many other capacities over several decades. In recent years they shared the back row of almost every monthly meeting, happy to con- tribute good humour and unsolicited but knowledgeable advice from the rear. This memorable pair are sadly missed and we are all the better for having en- joyed their company for as many years as I can remember. I look forward to sharing the road with you all in the coming year. Regards Happy MotorinG President Pete September 2019 Tappet Chatter 7 8 MG Car Club Canberra September 2019 Torque MG Car Club Canberra on the Web Website: (http://mgcccanberra.org.au) View our website for information on upcoming events, past events and Gallery's Facebook Social Page: (https://www.facebook.com/groups/MGCCCSocial) See what other club members are doing, interesting articles from around the web, or, just catching up or chatting. Please send contributions for the October 2019 issue of Tappet Chatter to the Editor by Friday 27 September 2019 at: [email protected] Club Trailer Bookings Membership Subs are Due he procedure and protocol for The new membership year has begun T booking the MG Car Club car so memberships are due. If you have trailer is: CRS (Historic) registration, it is a legal requirements that you are a “Fully Fi- 1. Bookings for the trailer must be nancial” member of CRS endorsed made during business hours; motor Club. 2. Bookings must be made at least 48 Don’t risk being caught - pay your hours in advance; subs today preferably online, but you 3. The trailer must be picked up from can pay at the next club event. the storage facility during business hours; Banking Details 4. Only genuine emergencies will be BSB: 633-000 considered outside these timeframes. Account: 1449 20741 A plea from the Treasurer Account Name: MG Car Club ...to ensure that you include your Canberra Inc name and the purpose when you do Family $70.00 an electronic transfer to the Club’s Single $60.00 bank account. In the last month two members have made EFT deposits with no name or purpose. September 2019 Tappet Chatter 9 Enthusiast day at Wakefield Park the MGs can have a run round the track, at a 'comfortable' road or all the enthusiasts out there, speed. Track departure time would F 29 September 2019 is a date to probably be around 1430. quarantine in the calendar. Historical There will be no cost to Club mem- Sports and Racing Car Association bers, other than the trip down and (HSRCA) will welcome members of back. Members are welcome to take the MG Car Club of Canberra to their own lunch/nibblies/etc, but there Wakefied Park Raceway. is also a well stocked canteen on site, The President of HSRCA would like with plenty of room for tables and members, with their cars, in place by chairs. 1030. Accordingly, those members The day offers a fabulous photo op- travelling to Goulburn are asked to portunity, but take some extra layers, assemble at the BP servo, cnr Antill early spring at Wakfield Park can be a and Federal Hwy, Watson at 0845 for tad coolish.