MG Car Club of South Australia
FLEMINGTON CONCOURS 2017
By Stephen Holmes
O
th
n Sunday 19 February, club
member David Maxwell and I
attended the Flemington Concours at
Flemington race course, Melbourne.
This is an annual event and is open to
all British and European cars. It is
also the premier event for the local
MG Car Club of Victoria. most numerous as usual, with many
excellent MGB GT V8s, plus other
standard and modified cars.
On arrival at the race course and after
recovering from a $20 charge to park
our car, we entered the event at a
very reasonable $5 fee. First in view
was the Mercedes Benz Club who
had a very large display of cars rang-
ing from early limousines, sedans and
sports cars including an original gull-
wing up to the latest AMG gullwing.
Chamois were being regularly used
after every shower to keep them look-
ing good! Many other makes and models were
on display. Aston Martin, Roll Royce,
Triumph, Austin Healy, Ford Cortinas,
Jaguar, Minis, Rover etc. There were
even 6 Daimler Darts, not often you
see 6 of them in a row these days. A
variety of trade stalls were present
and the usual catering was available.
It is an event well worth visiting and I
imagine it may well have been bigger
if the weather had been kinder. I’ll
happily return in future years.
The venue was excellent, but the
weather was less so, typical Mel-
bourne 4 seasons in one day. In fact
it was only 3 seasons, summer wasn’t
around.
On the MG front, there was a large
display of many models with the
club’s main feature being a display of
MGCs, being its 50 th
anniversary.
There
was also a feature of
the T/TF range being
its 20 year anniver-
sary. For MGC fans,
the highlight for me
was the supercharged
MGC roadster done
very
professionally
(see photos). As you
might imagine, there
were plenty of very
well presented MGs of
most models on show,
including modern ver-
sion up to the Chinese
MG6.
MGBs were
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See page 29 for
the engine photo
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