Geez – Video . . .
I’m an audio guy – Nick takes care of the GoPro, and he’s in Boulder.
I am now re-upped with the MG3 Club, the Milwaukee and Great Lakes MG Motor Group.
http://www.mg3club.org/When I started this racing project, lo these many years ago, so much of my time was spent working on the car that I let many of my social considerations and affiliations fall to the wayside. But after today, I vow to never let that happen again.
We wound up with about 2 dozen very interested MG enthusiasts here at the Pommy Pigmy Playhouse. The donuts were probably better than my talk, but it was our first really decent weekend of spring, which I’m certain helped turnout.
To confirm the group was at the right house, I planted a distinctive flower in the front yard . . .
. . . and with Spring planting, one is assured that the “B”s will arrive . . .
One incredible car of note – one of the members ordered and picked up a 1965 MG Midget . . . IN 1965 . . . picked it up in London – and I don’t mean London, Ontario, I mean London, England. He still drives it, although not a lot. It has 46,000 original miles on it, and has not been rebuilt . . .
A stunning, one-owner car with a 50 year history, and it looks factory fresh.
My talk was essentially a truncated and updated powerpoint version of the speech I did for the New England MG-T Register in Bennington, Vermont, two years ago. About half of it was MG’s record setting history, concentrating on Bonneville and including Pat Kinne’s drive in 2004 in the MG Estate wagon - the other half, a short winded version of this long, torrid thread without the beer references – which brings it down to about an hour.
Fordboy traversed the Cheddar Curtain, and was able to provide cover on a few questions . . .
At the end, Club Tech Director, Jim Maslowski, and Club President, Dave Jefferson, presented me with a very nice congratulatory plaque, for which I was tickled pink.
Tomorrow is Cecil Kimber’s 127th birthday. Part of the marketing strategy with MG in the early 1930’s was encouraging social networking through a shared passion of inexpensive, fun, sporting automobiles. As the chief of MG, he also encouraged the competitive end of sports car ownership. Both of these ideals dovetailed very nicely out in my garage this morning.
So tonight, I raise an Old Speckled Hen to Cecil. The plan is still working.
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