MG Saloon Day 2003

[Maria]

Is the bonnet a Maestro or a Montego bonnet? If it's a Maestro one, I'll have it off you as we still don't have a replacement for the racecar's knackered one.

[Guest]

Looking forward to MGM. I managed to get the Metro into Bromley this year and what a fantastic show. The weather made it even better. I hope the weather is that nice next weekend.

Hope everyone is looking forward to our first event of the year!

[tony]

Originally posted by Tom
Looking forward to MGM. I managed to get the Metro into Bromley this year and what a fantastic show. The weather made it even better. I hope the weather is that nice next weekend.

Hope everyone is looking forward to our first event of the year!

yes good weather please

[CyrixDes]

Right then Maria the bonnets yours for a tenner if that sounds fair? If thats ok i'll bring it along. It is a Maestro bonnet yes.

[Maria]

Racecar due for new windscreen tomorrow, so it'll be at MGM, just with a slightly rippled bonnet! Also had the camper's exhaust bodged to get MOT-legal until I get the new one on Wednesday, so that'll be coming along too

I'll definitely take that bonnet off you - cheers

[tony]

5,4,3,2,1, times up big day tommorrow hope we have good weather,finally looked on the map for where it is polished the car today,well polished round the rust hope that kat from next door does not walk all over it now ,its been sleeping in the car all week going through the hole in the roof see u there

[Guest]

I can't garuntee I will be there tomorrow, I have had a hectic week, and have gone down with some sort of chest infection now and just feel rough. If i'm feeling up to the drive tomorrow, then I will be there, in a very dirty H902! I hope to make it, i've been looking forward to it, so, see you if i see you basically!

Rich

[Maria]

I shampood, polished, waxed, wheel cleaned, dash cleaned and glass cleaned the camper from 9 this morning until 3 - my arms ache and my back ache now, but he's looking very shiny Unfortunately he's disobeying Golden Rule No 1: Thou Shalt Not Rust There are a couple of niggly bits that need sorting when I can find a bodyshop that's not mad busy and that I can trust to do the work well - oh, and some cash!

The racecar got a new windscreen this morning too, so providing Chris isn't still busy rebuilding dead mail servers and building new ones, hopefully that'll be along too, but I haven't had a chance to clean it up at all.

[Jonathan]

Arrrgh!!!!

Well that was an interesting MG Saloon Day, and the first time since 1998 I haven't been able to make it. How about 4 hours stuck in a broken down Rover on the M25 near Rickmansworth and nothing to show for it but a £180 recovery bill. I hate cars. Not having much luck with them recently.



Apologies for the lack of committee members and major parts of the M&MOC stand, hope those of you that didn't suffer any terminal failures on the way enjoyed the show. I'll await the photographs.

I'm bloody furious

[Guest]

Sorry 2 hear of your unfortunate day CHO,
Myself and my 2 youngest lads(6 & 2) had a great time,
apart from them wanting 2 spend all day on the playground.
The eldest of the 2 youngest,dan, was pretty well taken with your camper,maria and insited on having his photo taken by the rear door by the maestro 500 decal.
Saw tony and the cab,top car!
Talk about a small world,bumped into a mate of mine from work,known him for about 4 years,find out he's got a maesty turbo and its one of the concours cars,i'll find out tommorow how it got on.
by the way maria our dan wants your race car aswell
top day!

[tony]

yes tony likes marias car ,got plenty of pics

[Guest]

hopefully mt pics will turn out as our dan took a load! :laugh:

[Guest]

that was meant to read"my pics" :laugh:

[Maria]

Shame you didn't make it, Jonathan

It was a very good turnout, and I was particularly impressed at the number of the Z cars and newer Rovers that turned out - many thanks to the MG-Rover.org forumers for coming en masse!

My favourite part of the show is always to meet our club members and their, although thanks to being very rushed to get there in the first place and have a look round, I didn't get to do much of that Chris was up all night installing a server for work, and didn't get it done until 9:30am when we legged it to the garage, got WBM trailered up and Muddle out, and headed through the hordes of Sunday drivers down to Coventry. I had to ring Chris a couple of times on the drive home to keep him awake!!

To me, our cars are much more interesting than the MGM cars. There are some beautiful and impressive MGMs there every year, but for me, once you've seen one immaculate Turbo, you've seen 'em all. I'd much rather see a non-MG with some interesting mods, or an immaculate City, or an early VP

One thing that disappointed me this year was the lack of autojumble. I'd brought quite a bit of cash hoping to get some bits for my turbo (I know, very hypocritical considering the last paragraph, but I wanted to make sure it went to a good home!), and there was practically nothing there. No Brown & Gammons, no other MG groups, not even many independents with biggish stocks. There were only a very few people with small piles of parts by their cars

Still, good weather, good company and some lovely cars, so all in all a good day out

[tony]

hear hear maria had a pocket full of cash for some new disks and pads.
my 1st show and i enjoyed it even though i missed f1 very friendly bunch,i even met someone i saw on the west coast of france .whens the next one:laugh: