November 2018
early. A good showing of cars turned up
for the run into Hahndorf.
I managed to shoehorn Reg O’Malley
into my TC as a passenger from there,
he was a really good navigator despite
his OBE, and yes Reg, I enjoyed your
company even though hood was down
and you had to yell at me to be heard.
Arthur visited his favourite spot near the
freeway again, I have it on good author-
ity that the cold and rigid TC suspension
has that effect on the bladder and he is
not the only one I can assure you.
General Business.
Not a lot but there were some notable
points of conversation put forward by
the assembled populous.
Chris Bennet was able to hand back the
axle to Gordon Brice . What a nice ges-
ture by Gordon to lend it just in case the
caravan would prove too much behind
the Bennet’s TF on the way to Tasma-
nia. Dean Hosking let it be known that
Chris & Heathers TF with caravan in tow
would be displayed at the Sporting Car
Club that week. Just shows the “power”
of MG.
Some large industrial MV lights were
offered by Peter Micklem for “free” how-
ever there were no takers, amazing
what you find cleaning the shed for a
Register night.
A green bottle bag left behind in 2017
found its rightful owner, a Mr Richard
Mixture raced in to claim it.
Speaking of cleaning up, Peter M was
no orphan , Terry Wright brought along
a stack of Safety Fast magazines from
1959-1967 for anyone to take home, a
few went off , maybe the rest will end up
in a Medical waiting room on Unley
Road ?
Nice of Willow to share around a bottle
of wine , won at an earlier register night,
it was pretty good but I could not recall
the label.
Gary Chapman was acknowledged as
he would be talking at the Club’s Ed
Ordinsky night on rallying in the car club
early days. Gary and the late Alan
Hutchings were legends in their own
tool boxes in the 60’s at the club. It
must be noted that as both were em-
ployees of the Lands Department they
had the upper hand on anyone else as
they had access to detailed mapping at
the Government’s expense. No so for
Chris Kinney, the department sent him
off up north well away from the LTO.
Ken Fisher spoke volumes of praise of
the advice given by a member that
cured the wheel wobbles on the front of
the TD. He purchased a set of Han-
cook tyres , after 80 k’s , just beautiful !
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