MG Car Club of South Australia
50 th MG Australia National Meeting
Brisbane, Queensland
From.. Michelle and Jason Edwards
O
n the 9 th , 10 th and 11 th of January
1970, the first Annual National
Meeting for MG Car Clubs in Austra-
lia was held in Sydney. This was the
only MG National Meeting not held over
the Easter weekend. A total of 98 com-
petition competitors attended this meet
according to the historical records. The
cost of the weekend was broken down
to events, with Concours at Vaucluse
House costing $1 to enter, $2 for the
Hill Climb at Amaroo Park Raceway
and $2 to participate in the dirt circuit
event. On the Saturday night, dinner
was $4 per head at the Chevron Hotel
located in Kings Cross. Unlike today’s
organised event with pre-registration,
back in 1970 there was no registration
was needed – you just showed up with
your money in your hand and you were
in.
J um pi ng f or war d 50 ye a rs to
Easter 2019, the 50th MG Australian
National Meeting was hosted by the
MG Car Club Of Queensland in and
around the Brisbane bayside suburbs of
Redlands, overlooking beautiful More-
ton Bay. Peter and Delia Rayment need
to be thanked and congratulated on the
considerable time and effort they put
into a photo wall display of the 50 years
of National Meetings. Thank you, also,
to all the contributors. There were over
130 competitors and 110 social en-
trants from all over Australia, and even
a few international visitors, who made
their way to beautiful Queensland to
participate in the four days of social and
competition events.
Preparing to Leave Adelaide
Faye spent a week cleaning and polish-
ing each of Jason’s cars prior to depar-
ture. Tim dropped off his race wheels for
Jason to transport to Brisbane in the
trailer, but Tyler and Aiden took one look
at them and decided that they were too
dirty to go in the trailer, thus embarking
on a cleaning project. They came up
quite well, so well in fact, that Tim
swapped over one of the clean wheels
for a dirty one, so it also could be
cleaned.
Getting to Brisbane
The MG Car Club of South Australia had
eight people register for the event, how-
ever due to unforseen circumstances,
the Bray’s withdrew, leaving Tim Ed-
monds (president of the MGCC SA)
driving his 1974 MGB GT V8 and the
Edwards family, with Jason driving his
1952 MG TD, and Faye, Michelle, Tyler
and Aiden driving in a tow car, with their
1955 MG TF in the trailer.
The SA contingent – Jason, Faye, Aiden, Tim,
Tyler and Michelle
The four days spent on the roads
through outback South Australia and
New South Wales provided many oppor-
tunities for Jason and Faye to hone their
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