28th June 2007
Just a picture of Jose de Sousa and me with our Magnettes
in Koblenz/Germany. Just two days to paris and finish. Jose will thn drive the
ast 1,500 km back home. Still on three cylinders. More later. Will be off for
the Magnette Day.
Can anybody please send impressions from Silverstone?
26th June 2007
Latest news from the Peking-Paris rally. I will be off tomorrow to see the Magnette and crew...
22nd June 2007
Part II of Paris - Peking report. Don't miss it!
19th June 2007
You enjoyed the Paris Peking report? Ok, here it goes on with more fantastic pictures and Jose de Sousa's magnettc adventure... (Part II will follow soon)
14th June 2007
A great update with fantastic photos from Jose de Sousa's Beijing - Paris adventure...
4th June 2007
Although not such an intrepid journey as Jose's Peking-Paris trip, I thought it was worth recording that four Magnettes braved the weather to support the Dorset Midget+Sprite club event at Kingston Lacy on 27 May 2007, on one of the wettest ever holiday weekends even by British standards. Read Stephen Tickell's report...
3rd June 2007
As promised I edited the pictures of the V8 Magnette, seen last weekend in Speyer on the European Event of the Year. It's Andrew de Bernes' Magnette #9600
1st June 2007
New month - new Pic of the Month!
Also Bryan Reading from Bucks designed
this cartoon. Seems he still
doesn't know that it's a sports-saloon ;-)
We also have our 3rd car from Sri Lanka on the gallery. Please welcome Gihan
Salgado from Columbo and #17802
That's it for the moment. Some nice pics of the V8 Magnette to follow...
29th May 2007
Last sunday the big experience for Jose de Sousa started! You may have
followed up his preparations for the Peking-Paris rally in his Magnette. The
first information from Beijing already arrived:
Today we got our first experience of chinese requirements: we were given
plastic car number plate and driving license, both valid for a week..
Read more...
Also last weekend the German MGCC held the European Event of the Year. With
400 M.G.s the event was a great success. Amoung them were 5 Magnettes (one was a
V8!). Also some more Magnette owners were spotted in other M.G.s. report to
follow.
17th May 2007
Some more cars for the gallery:
# 12728 seen on ebay
# 14357 formerly Register president's car
# 17218 of Pedro Mendes, Valencia in
Spain
# 18701 seen on ebay and
# 30739 of Robert Hudd, UK
Welcome to you all!
13th May 2007
Australia saw three Magnettes in a Historic Car Sprint. Read David Dixon's report....
9th May 2007
My Magnette really has a magnettic attraction to woman. Again a woman driver tried to kick Maggy off the road, which resulted in a damaged rear wing... Nevertheless she managed to bring my family and me to an special MG event. Read more...
1st May 2007
Yesterday the register's president and welknown Magnette parts supplier Lou
Shorten celebrated her 80th birthday. The committee presented her an octagon
cake as well as some other useful presents:
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There is also another entry on the gallery: # 23660
of Dave Newland of Romford, Essex.
And of course a new picture of the month, which also is a
new entry to the gallery and for the second time a following number!
26th April 2007
There was another M.G. gathering nr. Norwich last weekend, where some Magnettes attended....
20th April 2007
I linked the wrong pictures with the last update. So please check again troubles before shipping...
18th April 2007
Jose de Sousa's magnette is now on it's way to Beijing. Read his last minute troubles before shipping...
14th April 2007
Did you survive Friday the 13th? I brought my Magnette to a garage to replace
my frontscreen that still lacked from a flying stone on my journay across France
last year. I hope it wasn't a bad day to do this. The next rain will show, but
luckily the weather is totally untypical at the moment with temperatures up to
28 degrees.
Jose de Sousa sent some
more
pictures of the Steam event. Intersting to see how different people look
through their camera and take shots....
12th April 2007
Some more pictures and full report of Magnettes & Steam event by Stephen Tickell, UK
10th April 2007
Eddy Lepez from begium sent first impressions from last weekends Magnettes & Steam event...
6th April 2007
The Peking-Paris prepared Magnette is now fnished and started it's way to the docks for shipping. See more detailed pictures of the interior and read what happened during the firdst testdrives...
4th April 2007
Last weekend I found an italian advert for la macchina ZA...
1st April 2007
After a long time we can welome another entry on the gallery:
#21789 and Andrew Chambers, UK
and of course a new
picture of the month,
but no April fools this year ;-) !!
24th March 2007
Stephen Tickell sent a nice report about his
maniflow exhaust
system with MGA manifold.
I also recognized that E. Lepez has a nice video on his
website.
21st March 2007
The Magnette for the
Peking-Paris
Rally touched the road for testing....
It seems my idea of an international birthday card for Magnette supplier Lou
Shorten wasn't good. I only received two or three greetings, so it makes no
sence to start making a small bookllet.
8th March 2007
As every year we start the new season with a full report of the anual concours of the MGCC Victoria in Australia...
3rd March 2007
I was so busy during the last days I didn't recognized we have a new month
and a few might wait for another update. But at least I recognized today.
There's not much to report. Your input is a bit low at the moment! Even my
request for sending some birthday greetings for Lou Shorten (see news of
24th) to me ended in 1 (one) incoming email! So what's going on in the
Magnette world? Where are you all?
Updates for now are a new Pic of the Month and a report
about horn ring repairs
(pdf) from Laurie Scott in Australia. If you like old car
brochures have a look at
www.car-brochures.nl, a link that Eddy Lepez in Belgium brought to light.
24th February 2007
Jose de Sousa brought some light into
the
interesting link from 19th February. "The warehouse exists (forget about
the barn find story...) and I understand the owner owns a classic car garage in
Lisbon."
Ok, so it's not the barnfind we all dram off. But nice pictues at least...
Concerning Jose: Last Sunday he went to England for a training session on GPS
handling and orientation (waypoints, routes, etc.). It was a 60 mile practice
run, with circa 45 participants, some of them driving their P2P cars (I drove a
rented Toyota Prius though…).
I thought you would like to see some
of the cars present…
Steve
Hanegan from Washington has updated his information on #
35361 with some nice.
Somehing different: MG supplier Lou
Shorten will be celebrating her birthday in a few weeks. Beeing a gentleman I
don't talk about the age of a lady. But I thought we (the internet community) should
send her a birthday card. My idea is that you send me your greetings to her as a
word file, including your name, location and chassis number. If possible include
a picture of your car. I will put all your greetings together, print it out and
hand it over. I hope you like the idea and many of you participate. Many thanks!
Günter
22nd February 2007
# 1033 an early '54 model seen on ebay
#18243 John W. Barker, UK
19th February 2007
Simon Fisher from Ontario, Canada sent me this interesting link. At least there's one Magnette...
16th February 2007
Thwe 450th Magnette on our gallery belongs to Tom Noonan from Australia and is one of the rarer straight ZBs # 27372 . The next example is in a more bad state: # 8078
14th February 2007
Roger Parker of the MG Owners' Club informed me, that he received the following information from another enthusiast:
I have come across an MG
Magnette which has been stored away for a number of years, and somebody in your
club may be interested in trying to buy it. It is in a garage outside Barrow in
Furness,Cumbria, I first saw it in 2000, but have not walked that way again
until last week, and surprised to see it is still there but the garage is
gradually deteriorating. I am not and expert but I would say it is a ZA or ZB
around 1960 - it has the registration 792 HTF (it's a Varitone - registrar). If
you have member(s) in this area who might be interested ask them to get in
touch, it looks like a complete car, one of those that was put away one day and
has just sat there. I don't know who owns it, some detective work would be
required as the garage is in the open countryside, or even if the owner is
prepared to sell. Worth a try though for a real enthusiast.
If you are interested send an email
to John West.
Some more news on the
Paris-Peking
project...
10th February 2007
Hi Magnette world. Here am I back again. Hope yo've been missing the egulary
updates on his site. As there's much to do after a month absence I will start
slowly with updates. But I hope to bring a few things over the week.
First there are more information about this years Magnette
Day. Also there is a new Picture of the month.
9th January 2007
After 6 months I managed to finish my report about the
journey across France. Hope
you like the selection of pictures.
By the way: this is the last update for the next four weeks. Will be hiking
along the Ho Chi Minh trial and other scenerie in Laos....
8th January 2007
Malcolm Robertson from Australia wrote another episode about Living with Allison...
6th January 2007
Still more and more Magnettes appear and our gallery is stll growing. 449
Magnettes from 25 countries now! Here are the latest additions:
# 2214 a remeining chassis
# 9593 a nice ZA of David and Marion
Blaxall, from Australia
# 17078 on ebay in Australia and
# 28106 on ebay in the USA
1st January 2007
Welcome to 2007! No time for the webmaster to relax (not yet)...
So here we go with the Picture of the Month, and two new
pictues on the wedding
gallery...
You may also check the updates on Ray Green's
V8 conversion. Also the
events diary has been updated...
We start the new months with some pictures. Of course a new Picture of the Month and then we have several Magnettic pictures of the Goodwood Festival of Speed...
