MG Car Club of South Australia
HISTORIC VEHICLE REGISTRATION
ANNUAL LOG BOOK UPDATES
H opefully more helpful notes from your Historic Vehicle Conditional Registration scheme scribe. As your Annual Subscription is now due and your log book requires endorsement for 2017, it is timely to remind all members that Club inspectors are available to carry out inspections and log book updates every Saturday morning from January to the last Saturday morning of February. Opening times for subscription payment, log book endorsement and reinspections( if required) are from 10 am open to 12 noon close. Please allow for some extra time if reinspection is required. Please bring the following for each vehicle covered by the HVCR scheme:- � proof of your membership renewal, � log book for the vehicle, � current blue registration papers with proof of payment and expiry date and a
� signed statutory declaration, indicating either no change or specifying any modifications made since the previous year’ s declaration( the form is available on the Club’ s website).
Please note that if subscriptions are not paid by February 28 for the 2017 financial year, you are no longer a financial member of the Club, your historic vehicle registration is invalid from that date and the Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure will be notified in March. You will subsequently receive a letter from the Department warning you that a decision must be made within 14 days to either pay your subscription to the Club or change your registration to full registration. Meanwhile, in this interim period, you must not use the vehicle as it will not be covered by the HVCR scheme and as such, it is no longer registered and covered by third party insurance.
More minor improvements for MGAs:- Head-light lighting was barely adequate when new for night driving and the bulbs themselves slowly deteriorate with usage. The tungsten filament gradually deposits itself on the inside of the glass envelope of the bulb, reducing the visible light output. I suggest changing to quartz halogen head-light bulbs, result: 30 % brighter. Exact replacement bulbs to the Lucas pattern are available from Club member Anthony Pearson. As radial ply tyres are in common usage, some minor changes should be made to the suspension and wheels. These changes mentioned below are allowed within the Code of Practice for Historic Vehicles. Radial ply tyres are not only superior in many ways when compared with cross ply tyres( originally fitted to MGAs) but also are considerably safer. Stopping distances are shorter, especially on wet roads. However, in the early 1950s the vehicle’ s suspension was designed around the best available tyres, the cross ply design.
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