MG Car Club of South Australia
PRE-WAR & T - REGISTER
From..John Bray,
2 May 2019
Octhanes Immaculata Garage , The
Walk Coromandel Valley
his personal influence with the Sporting
Car Club that got the MG’s front row
stalls position in the display paddock at
the Mallala Historics. Well blow me
down, everybody was astounded that he
has soo much influence in motor sport
these days, more to come, read on.
Russell Girth, An interesting announce-
ment that a famous factory of motor
sport is closing in Melbourne, that of
Harry Leslie “Harry” Firth. Legend of
Australian Motor Racing. An appeal has
gone out to Clive Palmer , saviour of
Australian politics, to purchase the build-
ing and let it go to ruin.
Seriously , Harry Firth apart from his
fame and successes with Ford Works
Team & Holden Dealer Racing in the
70’s , Bathurst 1000 winner x 4 times, an
ingenious and talented engineer, Austra-
lian rally champion, but even more inter-
esting the driver of a TC Special that in
1959 won the Templestowe Hillclimb in
outer Melbourne, also a big performer at
the famous Rob Roy hillclimb.
Y
es it was a damp night, but that
failed to dampen the enthusiasm
for 38 + members to drop into the meet-
ing at “Walk the Talk” , Octa-Thane’s
immaculately presented garage, Coro-
mandfel Valley set to rival Jay Lemos
Garage in the USA if any of you have
seen it on Youtube.
Anzac Day was not that far ago, so the
last post was blown for those missing in
action who included the following dig-
gers:
Messers Forth (again) , Wyatt
( Jordan & Petra war zone), Fairbrother,
The Mc Ivers x 2, Von Ritcher, Burkey,
Foody (shingles,ouch!) Micklems x 2,
Gazza Chapman, Kempy (surgery) ,
Tickford Twins Goolwa, Mullins wheels,
Capt Ewart, Bennetts x 2 & David Her-
bert (USA)
David Herbert deserves a special men-
tion as he will be visiting the Martine Inn
MG Museum in Monterey USA which by
all accounts Willow Willington will be
visiting sometime in near future, how-
ever David will not be flying solo across
the Pacific to get there this time. Look it
up on Google.
General Business: Well there was a lot
of good stuff to report on this week, a
few puffed out chests and swelling egos,
complaints and general greasing up to
the Boss of the Register.
Firstly, Dean Hosking, brimming with
pride on driving the newly purchased TD
ex Fowler car to a Register meeting for
the first time, sadly it was dark and rain-
ing but the hood got a good cleansing
rinse and all was good, well done Dean.
Arthur Rudiger, swelling like a Granite
Island penguin, announces that it was
Anthony Pearson.com, had interesting
news, as he always does, on the fact
that the MGCCSA, T Register has more
TC’s attending meetings than the total
number of T Types at the National Meet-
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