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CHAIRMAN'S CHARITY WEEKEND

23rd & 24th March

The weekend is once again in three parts which will begin at 2.30pm on Saturday with the Register’s AGM. This will be held at Kimber House and is more like a talk on the Register itself with a PowerPoint presentation summarising our year and looking to the future. New attendees often comment on how good it is and not what they expected of an AGM so please do come along and start your weekend by meeting the committee, some of our Regional Reps and other F/TF enthusiasts.

Next is the Annual Awards Dinner which will take place on Saturday evening at the Steventon House Hotel, just outside of Abingdon at 7.30pm. This is a new event which replaces the old awards lunch we previously held at Christmas. There will be a four course dinner followed by our guest speaker, Peter Jones of MG Motor UK Ltd. Peter began his working life at Longbridge as an Austin Apprentice in 1974 and has spent most of his time as a development engineer and worked on several MG types from the MGB to the MG3 and of course the F/TF. His fascinating illustrated talk will concentrate on cooling systems and testing around the world and you will be able to ask questions afterwards. Following Peter the presentation of the Register’s Annual Awards themselves will round the evening off nicely all for the price of just £28.50 pp.

The following morning we enter part three of the weekend with a vehicle run from Abingdon to Basildon Park. This elegant Georgian mansion was rescued from near ruin by Lord Lliffe in the early 1950s restoring it to its 18th century glory whilst at the same time installing contemporary 1950s features such as the kitchen providing the modern visitor with a glimpse of two different eras. Following the scenic run the Register will have privileged parking directly in front of the Mansion itself. The house is now run by the National Trust so entry will be free for NT Members . Prices start at just £7 per car for National Trust Members and we have negotiated a special rate for non members. Of course the weekend is in aid of our charity MacMillan Cancer Support and donations can be made at the event or online at our new 2013 charity webpage http://www.justgiving.com/mgfregister2013 . Of course with online donations you can also contribute more by allowing the charity to claim Gift Aid which we can’t do with cash donations.

BOOKING

To book all or part of this great weekend please go to our online shop at http://www.mgfregister.org/shop/10-events

We hope that you will be able to join us for this special weekend.
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REGISTER FEATURES AT THE NEC

Hard Top, Supersports II, Tim Morris, Keith Williams, Darren Vaughan, Joan and Ron Kemp - the Sunday crew

The MGF Register had its own stand at the Classic Motor Show at Birmingham's NEC sandwiched between the ZR/ZS/ZT Register and the Midget Register.

The main club had a stand nearby which featured the BTCC racing car of Jason Plato as its star attraction. Our own stand had its own star in the form of the unique MGF Supersports II now complete with Supercharger, just to remind us what may have been if this car had gone in to production.

We also featured the Hard Top on display telling its story to fit in with the theme of this years show.

2012 PHOTO COMPETITION

Winning Photo by Adrian Clifford

The winners of the 2012 MGF Register Photo Competition have now been announced. The overall winner was Adrian Clifford who entered the above photo of a  Trophy Yellow MGF enthusiastically entering a ford at Stoke by Nayland. The judges from Kimber House, Safety Fast Editor Andy Knott and Deputy Colin Grant, liked the movement in the photo as the car throws up plumes of water.

Main Runner Up with an almost all white photo of his TF in front of the Queen's Stand at Epsom was Damien Jennings with only the blue stripes on the car contrasting the overall whiteness of the photo.

Main Runner Up photo by Damien Jennings

With around 80  photos vying for the 12 winners positions to feature in our 2013 MGF Register calendar the competition was fierce and yet again of a very high standard.

Congratulations go to the other 10 runner ups who all get their photos published in the MGF Register Calendar for 2013. The calendar is available in a printed version for a special introductory price of just  £10 including p&p from the online shop HERE

The other runner ups were Peter Opie, Steve Haines, Dave Tynan, Dawn Clifford, Jan Austin-Taylor, Tim Morris, Simon Davies, Paddy Willmer, Lee Rose and Martin Cumming.

The calendar is also available as a free download at the following links:-

Full 2013 Calendar free download

Single page year planner free download

You can view all the entries for the competition at the below link.

WINNERS ONLY

2012 PHOTO COMPETITION

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 FASTFORWARD 29

SPRING 2013

The Spring2013 edition of FasTForward magazine is out now. This one features articles on fitting a cruise control, changing your headlamps, Dave Kerley's trip to China, Dr Alex Moulton and more.  There is, as always, the usual news, views and reviews plus the regional columns.

To subscribe simply go to our online shop, with subscriptions starting at just £16 per year you can't afford not to complete your MGF/TF experience.

SUBSCRIBE HERE

SUCCESS FOR MGF REGISTER HARD TOP RELAY

The start at Church Square Autos in July

The Register's unique Hard Top relay around the UK has been a great success with around 50 cars taking part both in the UK and on the continent. Funds raised through donations and sponsorship now push the total raised in 2012 for the Register's charity to over £3300.

The Hard Top began its journey in Shepperton at the premises of event sponsors Church Square Autos at the end of July and continued for seven weeks across the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic events. The Relay itself was registered as an Olympic Community event so became a part of the great sporting summer the UK enjoyed.

Lee Opie with the Hard Top at Land's End

The aim was to get it around as much of the UK as possible to include as many of our Members and Region who could take part as we could. Most Regions took part and the Hard Top travelled to most corners of the UK from Lands End to...well not quite John o' Groats but to Knockill in Scotland. It visited Angelsey in the East and Ramsgate in the West to cover all points of the compass, plus of course many places in between.

Neil Sutton with the Top entering Scotland

The Relay finished back at Brooklands where a delegation met it in the famous paddock but that was not quite the end. For it went on a further Lap of Honour to Germany and back allowing several of our European Members to take part as well.

Several of our regions held supporting raffles and events which all raised additional funds towards our grand total and had some funwith an event that came to them rather than them going to an event !

You can read about the entire Relay as it happened on our internet forum where you'll find the....

 ONLINE RELAY BLOG

One of the aims of the relay is to raise funds for the Register's charity for 2012 Whizz-Kidz and you can help by sponsoring the volunteers taking part and making a donation on our charity fundraising page:-

 WHIZZ-KIDZ DONATIONS

Nigel Silman with the Top at Longleat House

Dieter and Steffi at Dieteren (is that a coincidence ?)

Steve Haines with Olympic Torch Bearer

Sponsor David Koskela and Chairman Tim Morris with the Top and a Harley in the Brooklands Paddock at the finish.

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