Economic Value of the Heritage Vehicle Sector – SURVEY NSW clubs

Dear Motoring Club Representative
 
The Australian Motor Heritage Foundation (AMHF) is conducting a survey of heritage vehicle owners to ascertain the contribution that the heritage vehicle sector, both classic and historic, makes to the Australian economy. This survey is fully supported by the Council of Motor Clubs in NSW.
 
Details about the study can be seen in the attached PDF file which provides more information about the AMHF and the objectives of the Economic Value Study.
 
The survey, being distributed through clubs like yours, is being conducted on the Survey Monkey platform by the economics advisory firm, The Mercurius Group.
 
It is anticipated that the survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete and is totally anonymous as we do not capture any private details of respondents.
 
The survey can be completed by following the link below, which takes you to a preamble of the survey which provides further details and instructions.
 
 
We would be grateful if you distribute the survey to all of your members via email as soon as possible.  
 
We aim to get at least 10-20% of members from each club responding.  The survey will remain “live” until mid September and we may ask you to follow up your members during the course of the next months, depending on response rates.
 
We will of course share the findings of the study with all participating clubs.
 
Yours sincerely
 
The Australian Motor Heritage Foundation

Euro Motorfest 2023

What a wonderful day, and what a wonderful array of marvellous cars. We had 300 cars on the day!
Thanks again to Newcastle City Council, Radio 2NUR, Tyrepower Gateshead, Repco Hamilton, Shannon's Insurance, O'Neills Coffees, The Crafty Pit, Eurospec Diecast Models, all the participating Clubs, the individual car owners, the fantastic team from MGCC Hunter Region, and the General Public who came on the day.
See you in 2024!

Gold Coast MG Car Club Centenary Badge

The Gold Coast MGCC has produced a limited edition Centenary car badge to celebrate one hundred years since the first six MG sports cars were produced.

It is believed that one of these cars (painted yellow) was sold to Oliver Arkell for three hundred pounds and we have represented that car in the badge.

These are available to buy for a limited time for $60.00 each plus $10.00 postage.

If you're interested, please contact Allan Ross (Regalia, Gold Coast MG Car Club) at mg54tf@gmail.com.

 

MG 2023 National Meeting Sporting Videos

2022 (Delayed) MG CC Hunter Region Concours

The 2022 Concours was unfortunately delayed due to inclement weather conditions and poor ground conditions until Sunday 22nd of January 2023.

Although it was intermittent raining the grounds were still quite hard and we had the Council approval to proceed.

Regrettably the officials scoring of the presented cars on the day were saturated wet after completing their respective tasks. Nonetheless the wet scoring sheets could be read by the counting officials and results can be seen in this magazine.

The following pictorial record is presented for information.

Modern MGF and TF display starting to build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MGB and MGB GT display area starting to build.

Line-up of first position winning cars for each division of award. See here for the results.

 

2022 Concours Results

The rollout for the 2022 Concours (yes, held in Jan 2023 - our attempts last year were beset by flooding) was great for yet another wet event day. Congratulations to all folk who brought their cars today, and to the Committee and Members who make these events possible. Well done everyone!

MG Car Club Hunter Region Concours Class Winners

MG TD - Ray Tolcher

MG TD - Denny Bowden

MG Y-Types - Elliot Burns (YT)

MG Roadster/Twin Cam - Andrew Gowans (1600 Mk2)

MG Midget - Bev Jones

MGB MkI Roadster - Stephen Jones (1st) - Paul Embleton (2nd)

MGB MkII Roadster - Alan Wylie (1st) - Greg Jenkins (2nd) - Keith Gibson (3rd)

MGB L Roadster - Doug Campbell

MGB Rubber Nose Roadster - John Woolmer

MGB L GT - Dave Young (1st) - Alistair Leask (2nd) - John Stuart (3rd)

MGB GT V8 - Don Noble (1st) - Noel Armstrong (2nd)

MG RV8 - Peter Dever

MGC Roadster & GT - Ken Campbell (GT)

MGF - Lyall Clarke (1st) - Anne Pettigrew (2nd)

MG TF (Modern) - Alan Brown

MG Z-Series - Lyall Clarke (ZS 180)

MG Specials - Neville Roxby (MGC GT 'Sebring')

Non Marque - Dave Young (1st - Austin 10) - Cenny Wagemaker (2nd TR4) - Paul Mudie (3rd Morris Minor)

Outright Trophies

Pre-MGA - Denny Bowden (MG TF 1500)

Post TF to MGB Rubber Nose - Ken Campbell (MGC GT)

Post MGB Rubber Nose - Lyall Clarke (MGF)

Historic & Classic Vehicles Log Book Fact Sheet

Dear car club organisations and representatives

Transport for NSW is pleased to share with you the historic and classic vehicle log book and club runs fact sheet.

<View Here on the MGCC HR Website>

The fact sheet has been created to address some of the frequently asked questions from car club members about the log book.

Please share the fact sheet with your members and contacts.

The fact sheet has come about thanks to feedback from the Historic and Classic Working Group with representatives from NSW Police, the Council of Heritage Motor Clubs, the Council of Motor Clubs, the NSW Historic Motoring Association, the Motorcycle Council of NSW, the National Historic Machinery Association and the Australian Confederation of Motor Clubs.

We look forward to continuing to work with industry representatives to give car clubs and members the information they need.

We’d also like to encourage all organisation and car club members to sign up to receive DRIVE, our quarterly newsletter for road safety and regulation updates. The latest edition of DRIVE features an article about the Shannons Sydney Classic at Eastern Creek NSW, where many historic and classic vehicles were on display.

Kind regards,

Matthew Cafe
Manager Partnerships
Safety, Environment and Regulation
Transport for NSW 

Transport for NSW
110 George Street
Parramatta, NSW 2150

2022 Clubman Trophy Award Photos

The final Club Night of 2022 was on Tuesday 13 December, and was also our Clubman Trophy Awards, for attending regular Club events (see here for details). Not all Winners were there for photos.

Clubnight introduction by Denny

Ian introduces the Clubman Awards

MG Magnette 1st - Denny Bowden

MGB 1st - Graham Haywood

MGB GT 1st - Ian Ashton

MGB GT 2nd - Charlie Head

MGC 1st - Neville Roxby

MGF Equal 2nd - Alan Andoni

MG RV8 1st - Denny Bowden

MG ZT 1st - Andrew Gowans

Clubman Non Marque 1st - Phil & Jenny Mudie

MG Mate 1st - Trish Ashton

MG Mate Equal 3rd - Kay Bowden & Carol Roxby

Clubman 1st - Ian Ashton

Clubman Equal 2nd - Graham Haywood & Charlie Head

Sporting Non Marque 1st - Bruce Melville

2022 Clubman Results

MG Magnette

MGB

 

 

MGB GT

 

 

MGC

MGF

 

 

 

MGRV8

MGZT

Non Marque

 

MG Mate

 

 

 

Outright

Clubman

 

 

Sporting

 

 

 

 

1st

1st

Equal 2nd

Equal 2nd

1st

2nd

3rd

1st

1st

Equal 2nd

Equal 2nd

Equal 2nd

1st

1st

1st

 

1st

2nd

Equal 3rd

Equal 3rd

Overall

1st

Equal 2nd

Equal 2nd

1st

2nd

3rd

Non-Marque

Denny Bowden

Graham Haywood

Larry Dickason

Ian Macarthur

Ian Ashton

Charlie Head

Austin Blanch

Neville Roxby

Arthur Nicholls

Jef Lauff

Anne Pettigrew

Alan Andoni

Denny Bowden

Andrew Gowans

Phil & Jenny Mudie

(Morris Minor)

Trish Ashton

Maggie Head

Kay Bowden

Carol Roxby

Champions

Ian Ashton

Charlie Head

Graham Haywood

Gary Piper

Austin Blanch

Stephen Jones

Bruce Melville