27th Dezember 2006
Here is the last update for 2006 with news on the
Peking-Paris preparations...
and a link to
Magnettes in movies.
Thank you all for input, pictures, reports and nice comments! Even if I may
forget some names I want to thank Malcolm Robertson and Loz Scott, both from
Australia, who provided me with many reports, José Romão de Sousa from
Portugal, who finds some time to send some pictures about his rally project,
Rutger Booy from the Netherlands, who finds more and more interesting postcards
(not shown yet) and Paul Barrow from the USA, who always keeps an eye on
Magnette sales on ebay for me (except if he wants to buy himself). Well, and
finally YOU, who visits this site regulary and makes all the work worthwile!
Many thanks to you all and a
Happy New Year!
24th Dezember 2006
The Magnette Register wishes you all a
Merry Christmas
Next update next week...
17th Dezember 2006
Well, the year is comming to an end in large steps. Although this time of the
year is everything else than calm and reflective I've prepared an international
batch of updates for the gallery:
# 4981 of Andrew Bailey from Australia,
# 17261 of Peter Kocher-Schnyder from
Switzerland,
# 25599 of John Hastie from Australia,
# 33878 of Arch Boston from USA,
# 34075 of Eric & Gina Nelson from USA,
# 34865 of Bev Croft from England
A warm welcome to you all and enjoy Magnette ownership and this site as well.
11th Dezember 2006
I hope you enjoyed the advent calendar so far? I haven't received any
comments so far, so I'm not sure if you like or don't . Please let me know.
Today we update the
preparations of
José Romão de Sousa from Portugal.
1st Dezember 2006
Dezember? Where is the time running? It's like yesterday that we had some
fantastic events under the summer sun.
Ok, the alendar forces me to switch over to the "christmas edition" with our
M.G. advent calendar. I hope you like it again with many new and different
pictures every day.
Also another picture of the month, snowy as well....
27th November 2006
Here's another reprint, kindly supported by Paul Barrow...
19th November 2006
Some weeks ago several Australian Magnette owners set out for a pleasure weekened. Loz Scott reports....
12th November 2006
The first dates for your diary 2007 are released...
Italian Prince Borghese and his Itala, his rival Dutchman and three other cars
set out in 1907 on the first-ever trans-continental marathon, driving the
greatest distance between two capital cities. 100 years later several historic
cars celebrate this by driving the authentic route from Peking to Paris! Amoung
the more than 100 teams is at least one Magnette.
Read more....
Still haven't received any pictures for the advent calendar! Please see your
archives or do some snapshots now. I accept every picture not only
Magnette-related. Can be funny pics, snowy pics, any car pics or or or.
9th November 2006
I found another advert. This time from Sweden!
3rd November 2006
Urgent information for German TV viewers:
Sunday 05th a new episode of "Tatort" (Liebe am Nachmittag). It's playing in an
classic car garage and you may recognize at least one MG....
(picture copyrighted to ARD-Foto)
For all others: I need pictures related to snow and/or christmas or just funny
for our advent calendar!!
1st November 2006
29th October 2006
Loz Scott wrote an article about Upper cylinder lubrication
22nd October 2006
As promised here's another update with some entries to the gallery:
# 2592 of Jose de Sousa from Portugal,
# 19486 the restoration project of Hiram
Kelly from Oklahoma, USA,
# 24490 was on ebay in Australia,
# 32571 of Malcom Wells, England
Classic Car owners in general are quite old, Magnette owners in particular are
very old (except for some mid-aged owners). So wat happens in some years when we
change the Magnette wheel against a wheel chair?
Arch
Boston does not want to see his car rotting away so he carefully attracts his
grandson to the airsmoothed lines of the Magnette. And looking at the picture it
seems to work!
"The flags on the car are
official embassy flags (my son who is a lobbyist in D.C., got them for me from
an "approved" source). "
17th October 2006
Hi, I had some trouble with my PC and wth my health. Both faults haven't been
cured yet. So here's just a very short update. Hope to bring more soon:
Another advert added.
03rd October 2006
Kevin Hoare of zeroexhausts (www.zeroexhausts.co.uk) is looking for a LHD Magnette to use as a jig. He is going to make an exhaust manifold and system for some Magnette owners in the USA. If you can lend your lhd car he is prepared to give the owner of such a vehicle a manifold and system for lending their car! Please contact him directly at:sales@zeroexhausts.co.uk or phone: 01233 638193
This month's update has a new picture of the month, of
course and a few more Magnettes on the ever growing gallery:
Göran Johnson had a look htrough the old Swedish archive and found some nice old
pictures:
# 4538 , #
14373, #29800,
#30926
also from Australia we welcome Jo Reed and #
27929 and from South Africa Kevin Loader and #
21294
24th September 2006
Magnettes make excellent touring MGs and to prove it nine cars converged on
Corowa, on the mighty Murray River in Southern NSW, Australia, for the first
National Magnette weekend. Malcolm Robertson reports…
17th September 2006
Last year the MGA celebrated is Golden Jubilee. Amoung many events was a tour in South Africa. Why I write this here? Well, amoung many MGAs was at least one Magnette that did the tour. Kevin Loader sent some fantastic pictures...
13th September 2006
Peter Martin sent a report and pictures of the Norwich event two weeks ago...
10th September 2006
Another advert from 1958 added.
And some more cars on the gallerie:
# 666 another early Magnette
# 7472 from ebay
# 27929 of Jo Reed, Australia
# 33768 of Clive Webb, UK.
Isn't it interesting that in between two weeks two early Magnettes appear on
ebay? The prices were low (about 300 GBP) but hopefully they will be rescued.
1st September 2006
You may wonder why we had not many updates during the last weeks. But my
Magnette suffered from my journey across France. The latest fault was that
she first missed the MOT, because the right rear brake wasn't working.
Well, no problem I thought, must be the brake cylinder. So I quickly
dismantled it, cleaned and reassembled. The following bleeding was a
surprise. No brake fluid was comming! Closer inspection showed that the
brake pipe along the rear axle was squeezed from the exhaust pipe! Well
this happens when you have your car fully loaded and the rear springs are
50 years old...
But enough fairy-tales - or blogs as it would be called nowadays. You want
Magnette stuff. So here we go:
A new picture of the month. The greenest we ever had
;-)
and some more interesting entries on the gallerie:
# 22704 owned by John Gunnell,
it's the 100th US-Magnette and the second time we have a successive
chassis number.Also # 1898 which
was on ebay recently. And finally #9320.
I'm sure it's the strongest Magnette we ever featured!
28th August 2006
K&R now have images of the built MG ZA Magnette from both the Monte Carlo & RAC Rallies on their website...
19th August 2006
Ebay really brings interesting stuff to light. Recently there was an
early non-quarterlight Magnette # 571
on auction! Bad condition but for historical reasons worth to be saved!
If you're not going to Lou Shortens event in September you might like to
see the Goodwood Revival. This year Magnette #
33212 is piloted by Bruce Chapman,
grandson of Nancy Mitchell, the famous lady rally driver (in a Magnette)
of the 1950s! More info about Goodwood
here... I hope to show more pictures and a report later.
15th August 2006
There's a new nice old advert from 1956
inviting US
residents to buy their British car in the US and pick it up for a holiday
in Europe. A nice idea of the advertising agency. I wonder if anyone
did the trip..
12th August 2006
Four new entries on the gallerie:
# 6960 Bruce Bramhill, from Australia,
#20927 Philip Jowett; UK.
A warm welcome to you both!
And two other cars without owner (yet):
# 30574 seen on ebay and
# 22705 that was mentioned in the notes of 24th but might be scrapped by
now .-(
6th August 2006
I happily can pronounce that another country is Magnettified. This time it's Mexiko. Please welcome Luis Benito from Mexiko with his two cars: # 12441 and # 34739.
And you may have seen the new picture on the homepage. Eddy Lepez (B) banned Roger Webb in the Cambridge area on his camera while giving his car a underfloor washing...
1st August 2006
Here's another event report. This time from the
Sledmere weekend.
And of course a new Picture of the month.
27th July 2006
The Magnette mentioned in the news on 24th probably will go to scrapyard
very soon. Noone to rescue her or take as a parts car?
Pictures of restored cars can be seen in the report of the "Event
of the year" in France...
24th July 2006
I received the following mail, which might of interest for someone looking
for a parts car:
"I do not know what model the MG Magnette is but I am looking for somebody
local to the Worcestershire area who would be interested in a rather tatty
Magnette which is about to be scrapped and we do not want that to happen.
It has been sitting in a coach house for many years and then the coach
house fell on it so the roof is dented but the rest of the car is in a sad
state too. My brother, who lives Canada, has asked me to get rid of it.
The people who have bought the coachhouse want it out of the way as of
yesterday. Is anyone interested.
We do not want to scrap it or leave it to the current owners of the
coachhouse to dispose it or smash it up. Maxine Shields, email:
maxine@cmail.co.uk
20th July 2006
The season is in full swing. I have problems to show you all the reports and pictures that fullfill my mailbox. Here are some pictures of MG 2006 in Northern Ameria...
16th July 2006
Here's another report. This time about the
Magnette Day in Germany,
that took place on the last weekend in June...
Note: Magnette owners who have had brake shoes from Lou are asked to
please return the old units,as there now is no more shoes in stock, if
anybody has any spare shoes could they let Lou have them.
Now the GOOD news is that the much wanted and waited for RED furflex that
goes around the doors is back in stock
contct Lou on +44(0)1603 872436
9th July 2006
Here am I back again from a 1,600 miles trip across France. Apart from a
blown headgasket, which I could replace the same afternoon, the
Magnette ran fine. Unfortunalety a stone hit my windscreen on the last
day, so there's another thing to repair. A full report and some nice
pictures of two Magnettes on tour in France will follow. But let's start
in the right order. First there are some
Silverstone
pictures and a new Picture of the Month.
More reports of Magnette Day and European Event of the Year to follow
soon.
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