MG Car Club of South Australia
PRE-WAR & T REGISTER From... John Bray
4 May 2017 The Walk, Coromandel Valley Thane Martin’ s“ RAA” Garage
Walk the walk & talk the talk. Yes it was a case of turning up at the Walk to talk the talk in Thane’ s immaculate showpiece garage down at Coromandel Valley. Twenty eight enthusiasts signed in, twelve T Register cars turned a generally quiet suburb into a classic car display including the noisy others that got the dogs barking upon exiting the Walk from the RAA garage brilliantly illuminated and buzzing with talk the talk. Missing in action. Firstly the usual suspects, Buckley( China dolls) Bazzica( via Arthur) TD Mc Nabb( Shepparton via Kaniva) Kenny Fisher( feeling poorly) Doc Whyatt( cruising with his beloved) Joy & Daddy Pearson( much too cold) serial pest John Neilson( too far too cold) and lastly the best excuse of all, Peter Cundy( carrying shopping bags in Europe for his beloved while hoping to sniff out NA parts) The Garage. Sincere thankyou to Thane Martin again this year for preparing his garage that I termed the“ RAA” Garage full of beautiful memorabilia, signs, petrol bowsers, tin cans, posters, etc. His recent purchase of a Porsche banner from an unsuspecting neighbour clearing his garage to make way for an elderly aunt, was an outrageously cheap price( steal) that is testimony of his sniffing ability almost as good as the“ Doc” Dallwitz in his day. It’ s about all they have in common though. Sorry to hear that Peter Auld was convinced that Thane actually ran a RAA
10 garage at Coromandel Valley on the Main Road, guess I have to be less than subtle in my articles in future, hate to see people getting lost and frustrated looking for the place. Visitor Club member and first timer to a register meeting was Simon Ewart who now has a 1946 MG TC, chassis 0644, engine XPAG 10842 and would you believe it, it is listed in a register booklet that Wes Southgate gave me several years ago, miracle! Simon purchased it out of Sydney NSW. General Business. Well, there was some and lots of interjections from the assembled populous as usual, however I have endeavoured to report on a few that are worthy of sensible comment, Russell Girth, please note. Anthony Pearson thanked members of the Register who assisted in the Nat Meet concours at Glenelg over Easter. Anthony is to be congratulated on his leadership running the event this year. Anthony will be overseas with his bulbs in June, Chelsea Flower Show I think. Maurice Linehan gave an insight on the difficulties of wearing Stephies pyjamas and the potential embarrassment that can ensue if one is caught at an inopportune moment. Well that’ s basically what he said. Nat Meet Director Tim Edmonds appeared and thanked members who participated in what was a hugely successful meeting for the car club at Easter. Terry Wright’ s amazing and highly professional photographs of the racing at Phillip Island were a highlight of the night that kept interested party’ s preoccupied and attention diverted from important aspects of the register meeting,