June, 20th, 2004
Please welcome Nick Williams and his Magnette # 26607. They are the 250th entry on the gallery!
June, 16th, 2004
A few days ago everybody was talking about the D-Day. Hey, what's the
D-Day? We talk about Z-Day! This will be at the end of the month and it
looks as we will have a good turnout from all over Europe again. So don't
miss it! Who knows if we still celebrate this 60 years later (surely not
we but maybe our cars). More details at events.
Talking 'bout events: Neal Yates managed to get three Magnettes together
for a little but therefore nice
birthday party to celebrate the Golden Jubilee in the US. Well done
Neal, enthusisats like you are needed.
Please also welcome Mr. Ron Cunningham, California, USA and his Magnette #29266
in Magnette world and on the gallery.
Now there are also some pictures of the cars mentioned in the news of
July,12th available (see below). Nobody there to save or scrapp? Notice the ZA still has the
hockey-trim.
Hey, still have so much interesting material that I don't have to spread
over the month. So here's another reprinted article I received from
Harry Harskamp in the Netherlands, a Wolseley 4/44 owner but regular visitor
to our site. Here's the article
originally printed in the MGOC yearbook some years ago.
I think that's enough for the moment....
June, 12th, 2004
You live in AZ and can't get enough Magnettes? Here's a chance:
"The city of Tempe is making me get rid
of my British Collection and they desperately need new (loving) homes.
All cars and parts have been sitting 20 years in the AZ desert. List
of cars:
4 1956-1959 MG Magnettes
1 1966 Austin America
1 1967? MG 1100 (twin to the above)
1 1969 MGCGT tub--no rust, no motor, no trans
3 MGB core overdrive transmissions
And miscellaneous other items
Perhaps someone out there can save the cars or use them to keep his own car on the road? Let me know...
June,
9nd, 2004
Today my Magnette passed it's MOT without any faults. As I'm very happy
abot this (although I expected this result) I give you a big update:
First we have three new entries from all over the world on the gallery:
# 6628 proud new
owner Tony Oliver, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
# 35539 Phil White's new
project, Arizona, USA
# 35770 a single-coloured
Varitone owned by Ingela and Ulf Edström from Gotenburg.Sweden
Now we'e only three cars away from the magic "251"
I
also added a nice reprinted article
and finally repaired the link for the advert!
And at least here's an article of Loz Scott from Australia about an
interesting brake gear
lever...
Many more intersting stuff still in my postbox.... :-)
Thanks all for your input!!
June, 2nd, 2004
There were two mistakes in yesterdays update. First the advert
did not enlarge and secondly the Magnette # 29886 wasn't for sale on ebay.
It belongs to Henry Marcus, the first entry from Ireland! Sorry for this
and welcome Henry!!
From Eire to Australia: Laurie Scott sent some pictures of a scenic tour
they had with some Magnettes last weekend. Look here...
June, 1st, 2004
So here we are for another monthly update. We start with a new Picture
of the Month, followed by a contemporary American advert.
New on the gallery is # 29886,
which was for sale on ebay recently.
As we will see the Z-Magnette-Day at the end of this month, I contributed
a small pdf-file how this
event started as a private BBQ party a few years ago. Maybe this can be
copied overseas, where owners normally not meet?!
More updates soon.
May,
25th, 2004
Well I was a bit lazy during the last weeks. Not really - but teh website
ad to stand behind house, garden, children and bicycle. The last I have in
common with the former Register president Dixon Morris and even Lord
Nuffield ! But you might not be interested in this. So here is what you
are looking for:
# 29321 new on the gallery
and another nice example of a Magnette
wedding car, this tim from Ian Hendry, UK.
I have more stuff on my compurter, but it has to be prepared for the
website. I will upload moe on 1st of June.
May, 13th, 2004
You may have noticed that a few links of the last update were not working.
My appologice for this, please try again.
It took four years to get the first Magnette from South Africa on the
gallery! Please welcome Maria Lederer an Magnette # 26026
on the gallery!
You still think about going to the 50th anniversary party in Somerset?
Hurry-up. Warren Marsh told me that there are only few places for the
dinner left (which does not mean you can't particpate in all other
activities).
What elese in Magnette world? One owner managed to get his brand new
wiring harness melted while working under the dashboard. He still doesn't
know how. But a new one is ordered.
And some more nice pictures of the barn find of
# 589 in France!
May, 6th, 2004
A totally different report this time:
Steve
Hanegan took some photos on a scenic tour round the area where he lives.
Beautiful landscape with a beautiful car! If you think you live in a nice
area too, why don't you follow his exampel and take some piictures for the
website? But first you might like to see his pictures.
And there's another entry on the gallery: # 30297
of Mr. Van Hecke from Belgium. Discovered by Eddy Lepez.
And the entry
form for the Z-Magnette-Day in Hamburg...
May, 1st, 2004
Already May! Everyone should have his Magnette on the road now or should
have opened his garage to finish the restoration at least. Many owners
already attended the season opener on Easter at the traditional
"Magnette & Steam" event.
John Barringer did a great job with some pictures of he event and 6 (!)
new entries on the gallery! Thanks for your work, as well as Mike Chell,
who also send pictures and a report. That's the way this site is living!
Look here for some more event
pictures.
So please welcome on the Gallery:
# 19768 of John Burton, # 24005 of Alan Slack, # 25745 of Peter
Martin, # 31164 of janet & Jo, # 31971 Richard Smales and # 35891 of
Lawrence and Val Miller. Please browse the gallery
to see these fine examples!
Of course there's also a new picture of the month..
April, 28nd, 2004
Pictures and report of Magnettes
& Steam added.
April, 22nd, 2004
Jörn Rasmussen from denmark recently was lucky enough to visit Australia
and to see Ken Mc Kimmie. You don't know Ken? Well, he travelled a few
years ago in his Magnette from Westaustralia to Eastaustralia. But he did
not use tarmac roads, he used so called "highways" which are not
more than rough Outback roads, normally only used by 4x4 cars. He wrote a
nice book about this adventure (see books page). Well now his car is
standing in his garage. Maybe I should ask for permission for soem of his
outback pictures to wet your appetite...
April, 22nd, 2004
The 90th ZA Magnette and 235th overall on the gallery:
#17758 of Eric Wilson,Vancouver, BC,Canada.
And the first comment on the hot rod from Gobby:
I agree in most points with Gobby. But what made me thinking was the rear wheel arch (perhaps it looks different because of the welded door) and the complete front. It would be interesting if we could find ou more...
April, 19th, 2004
Four new entries on the gallery:
# 4660, #4742,
#8727 and #36145
Maybe you think I'm joking, but the picture below was
arked on the internet as a Magnette. I looked very long at it and could
find some pieces that indicate it as a Magnette. But I'm not very sure.
What do the experts say? Any clues for YES or NO? Please help.
April, 13th, 2004
New entry on the gallery is
#389and there's a new picture on the Wedding-
Magnettes-page .
Still no comments on the hot-rod!
April,
6th, 2004
Finally I managed to create the new gallery called Wedding
Magnettes. More input welcome!
I have no response yet about the Hot Rod Magnette. This was NO April fool!
Can you find details that identify this as a Magnette (see below)
Over the last weekend the German Oldtimer Show "Techno
Classica", the largest show worldwide, took place. Both M.G. Clubs in
Germany celebrated the 50th anniversary of our old lady: the MGCC Germany
had four nice contempory sales brochures as posters on their stand and a
special edition about Magnettes in their quarterly magazine. The M.G.
Drivers Club showed a fresh restored twilight
grey ZB.
Also two new entries on the gallery:
# 31016 of Udo Scheidemantel, Germany (this is the above show car)
# 32954 of Neal Yates, USA, a car to be stripped down
April,
1st, 2004 eve
have you seen Gobby's classified with the brand new body shell? I'm
sure this is one of the reproduction shells that were available exactly
two years ago! ;-)
April,
1st, 2004
Welcome to another update. I only have one story, but it's a
special one: exactly 50 years after a Magnette left Abingdon she was
recovered by French enthusiasts.
Read more...
Even our Monthly Pic shows that Magnette owners are
funny on every part of the world!
And now a third Magnette (?) to think about. I found this picture on www.hotrodphotos.co.uk
and unfortunalety could not get any more information other than it should
have been a Magnette. What do you think? Can you recognize a Magnette?
March, 22nd, 2004
Attention to our US-Magneteers: Neal Yates from Connecticut,USA is
trying to get some Magnettes together to celebrate the 50th anniversary. He
wrote:" I was trying to get something
together in CT to celebrate Magnette's 50th. So far, I have arranged for
Magnetteers to have a free tent in Hospitality Row at the annual
British-By-The-Sea show, Sunday, June 6, 2004 in Waterford, CT. Sponsored by the
CT MG Club, BBTS attracts 300-400 fabulous British cars, but Magnettes are
almost never seen. I and the only other known Magnette owner in CT will be there
this year , but to celebrate the 50th, I would like to have at least two more
Magnettes join us to make four, the minimum for Magnettes to have its own
judging class and trophies -- for the first time! Waterford is on the southeast
coast of Connecticut, less than 3 hours from New York City and Boston, a short
ride from Foxwoods, the world's largest casino. Anyone interested can contact me
at neal.yates@snet.net - but they should do it by the end of March as the CTMG
club -- and we -- have to make arrangements for the hospitality tent display,
etc."
Also I cannot believe, but again I have two more cars for the gallery!
Stan Ball of theGeelong MG Car club in Australia has provided some information
on # 9451 and # 10468.
Should we rally touch the magic 251 mark during the jubilee year? Looks good at
the moment!
March, 22nd, 2004
Five new entries on the gallery! My thanks go to Ton Matthuis of Luxembourg, who
sent the details and pictures of:
# 11793, # 23046,
#28601 and
# 32982.
The fifth entrie is # 8533
of John Weston-Smith, Stafford, UK
Also another wedding
Magnette (still had no time to create an extra gallery). This time it
shows Peter & Daniala Holzigels beside their ZB. He asked me to tell you
that it wasn't his wedding, as you can see on their clothes.! He only loan his
car, which you may recognize as our entry-picture at the moment.
March, 17th, 2004
More information about the Z-Magnette
Day added.
March, 14th, 2004
Only a few hours after I uploaded the Magnette with the fly screen I received
the answer from Andy Brock:
"I think the Magnette with the perspex fly screen belongs to Anthony
Pearson from Adelaide, South Australia. As I recall he fitted it for a long journey (3 days)to an
MG event in Western Australia a few years ago where he won the concours and driving tests (or sprint).
It was quite effective for keeping the flies off but didn't do too much for the
aerodynamics."
Thanks for this information Andy.
Also our "wedding-competion" is going on. Chuck from the USA
(one of the guys who reproduce the steering centre piece) sent this
picture:
"Well, I finally decided to send you my MG Magnette wedding picture from
September 1, 2002. My lovely new wife, Bettye, is gently entering the car, and my three (most of the time)
wonderful children, Cameron, Morgan, and Rhiannon are already in the back seat, ready to zoom off the the reception!"
Well, I think we now have enough cars to open a new gallery. I will
try to create something special...
Please welcome Gert Jakobsen from Denmark with # 6175
on the gallery.
March, 11th, 2004
The information on the events page are available now!
March, 10th, 2004
Some
information about the Z-Day 2004 are added on the events
page.
Good news for American Magnette owners, who always wanted to have an original
tool roll: Paul Barrow, who got a small batch of these reproduced a while ago
has moved to the US, so p&p are much less now. If you are interested look on
the supplier page for more details. Only few
left...
And finally I question to you. Below are two pictures of a Magnette mounted with
something that looks like a giant fly screen. Can anyone tell the Register the
story of this effort?
March, 5th, 2004
As promised with the last update here are more nice pictures:
Lets. start with an intersting old picture.
Rutger Booy from the Netherlands wrote:
"Hi Gunter; I just found this picture
of the opening of a new Dutch BMC-dealership in Helmond in Holland. It was taken in
august 1957. Although the picture is of a very poor quality, you mightbe able to spot a ZA-Magnette and a
Varitone. As we still have the complete records of all Magnette's sold in Holland,
this Varitone must be KACD33-21687. Unfortunately I haven't been able to trace the ZA."
Is 21687 still alive?
Two other Dutch cars are, although one will die soon: # 24817
and #28878 both belonging
to Roland van den Eijnden in the Netherlands.
And thirdly we have another wedding
Magnette. This time Dieter Otten's fresh retored ZB in Germany.
Thanks you all for your input!
March,
1st, 2004
The Magnette world seems to be restless. Over the last weeks I
received many interesting emails and some nice pictures from all over the
world. I will show them over the month starting today:
Paul Bray and Peter Daley used their Magnettes recently as wedding cars
for a wedding held at the historic 'Lanyon' tation near Canberra,
Australia. The cars generated a great deal of interest as they are not
sure two Magnettes
have ever been used in a wedding procession in Canberra before.
More picures have been added to the gallery:
#
12321 of Thomas Glaze, US.
#
19129 was for sale on ebay
# 33691 of
Graham.Springthorpe, UK
Nice pictures (including Alan Fosters racing Magnette) can also be found
on http://www.carnote.co.uk/
. This link was discovered by Brian Pollard, Spain.
21.02.2004
Still winter north of the ecquator, but on the other side they
present their shiny cars under autumn sun. See pictures of Melbourne
2004...
16.02.2004
For those of you who are interested in the early history of the Magnettes
I continued the "50 years ago"
series.
13.02.2004
Added a link to the report of Japan (see below).
Repaired the link to the Swedish bulletin.
11.02.2004
Another entry on the gallery. This time from Belgium:
#21959
And I've added another contemporary advert
to our reorganised advert-page.
The MGCC of Sweden had a nice article of the Magnette. Although this bulletin
is written in Swedish you might like the pictures (3,5Mb).
And a Z made it to the overall winner at the 25th MG Day in Karuizawa/Japan.
This Magnette is also shown in Clausager's book and several magazines.
Well done Mr. Tomihiro Hibino! Here's a
report..
05.02.04
I have some more nice pictures, which I will show you:
First there are two new entries on the gallery:
#23864 , Mr. Eberhardt
from the USA and #23955
belongongin to Mr Robinson from Australia. Both a warm welcome!
Then I received a picture from
Clive Shelley, UK on the subject on models: "Picking up on the Paul Barrow 1/42 model holy grail quest, here's
a John
Roberts model of mine - 2 years ago."
And at least I received another picture from the Bremen
Classic Car Show from Peter Jenniches, Germany
That's all for now...
01.02.2004
Well, we had a calm January on this website. But your input was very
low and I'm very busy in writing articles for our club magazine to give
the Magnette a birthday present. So all I can say once more: it's YOUR
website so please give some input!!
Over the weekend there was a classic car show in Bremen in North
Germany. The MGCC stand was decorated with a maroon ZA and several
contempory wallpapers. Look here...
But we have two new entries on the gallery: # 12003
and # 17449 both from
Australia. So "G'day mates" and enjoy this website.
Also another pic of the month.
During the next days I will upload some more news on the Z-history.
25.01.2004
Laurie Scott from Australia compiled a report about removing
rust and paint.
15.01.2004
There are not too many news at the moment. But those of you who are a
member of the MGCC may enjoy this month Safety Fast!, which
contains a four page centrespread with Magnettism.
For the others I added two more old adverts, which Paul Barrow kindly sent
to me.
05.01.2004
Press release!
For some reasons the Z-Magnette Day will not be held in France! It will be
organised on the "traditional" date - last weekend in June - in
Germany. More details will follow soon.
If you think of going to England from the continent I advise to look for ferry
prices now. I found out that all of them have "early booking sales".
01.01.2004
Happy
New Year
to all Magnetteers!
Welcome to the first update in 2004, the year with some more Golden
Jubilee celebrations. Please make your diary now and visit the events. Surely
all events in Europe will be something special this year!
Are there any birthday events in the US, too? Please let me know.
So what's new in the Magnette world:
Talking on events there are some
more information of the main event in Somerset, UK.
Lou & John Shorten have some special
offers for the new year.
We have two new entries on the gallery: #25779 and #26823 and at least another
interesting article from "Automobil
Engineer" May 1955. Very technical, but interesting.
To continue our "50 years ago" it must be said, that at the end
of 1953 Abingdon had begun to assemble 36 chassis, but only 8 were fiished
in that year!
