MGF Register CTM09

CTM RUN

STONELEIGH

2009

Saturday & Sunday

20th/21st

February

Paul Bridgman's You Tube of the CTM run

At the Holiday Inn, Rugby	The Rally Plate	Trophy Twins
Lined up at the Holiday Inn	Arrived at Coventry	Nice line up at the Coventry Transport Museum
Fs and spirals	Some concepts in the museum	Another Roadster Concept
One that went into production - the TR7	Princess Diana's old Metro	Coventry Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral	More modern architecture	The F Reg stand at Stoneleigh the next day
ZR/ZS/ZT Register shared our stand	Hello ? Rich gets to grips with the latest mobile phone	Zed boys in their new regalia
Steve accepts Alison's raffle prize from chairman Tim and MGCC General manager Jools
	Organised by Keith Williams & Steve White with Tim Morris


	Photo Acknowledgements Tim Morris

Blue skies means hoods down. Certainly true as the Register gathered on a crisp morning at the Holiday Inn, Rugby ready to set off for day 1 of a late winter weekend in the Midlands. Designed to enhance the Stoneleigh International MG Show the next day Saturday consisted of a scenic run from Rugby to Coventry taking in the Naseby Battlefields en route. Most of us stopped here , or were forced off the road anyway by rampant horse boxes, to take in some of the history of the place before moving on towards Coventry City centre. What an excellent finish point the Coventry Transport Museum proved to be with a line of colourful Fs all along the curved front of the futuristic building with its spiralling walkways and octopus tentacles.. On the forecourt was a stylised world map with time zones on which the cars parked attracting a lot of attention from the general public. Inside the museum were some fascinating exhibits from the local area including Princess Di's Metro and two Thrust speed machines as piloted by Richard Noble amongst many other well presented vehicles and dioramas. A short walk away we found the quieter but poignant modern Cathedral juxtaposed to the bombed out remnants of the old Cathedral, a reminder of tougher times.

A Banquet at a hotel on the outskirts of Coventry in the evening had been arranged by Keith and Steve and proved to be a great night with brilliant food and very reasonable prices ! This set us up nicely for the following day at Stoneleigh itself. We had a spring display this year with three bright yellow cars , the Trophy Twins from the South East and Andy Knott's sunspot TF which only just made it to the show in time. Daffodils and rabbits completed the scene as Elaine took control of the Regalia . Unusually this year we shared the stand with the ZR/ZS/ZT Register and it proved very successful with another yellow car, Nick Holland's ZR ,completing our front row and two blue Zeds around the corner. There were several stalls with an MGF flavour and the cowsheds were once again overflowing with F/TFs.

Overall a good weekend augmented by the additional day out on Saturday which may well become a feature of future Stoneleighs for the Register.