25th June 2008
# 31170 added.
24th June 2008
I know I'm a bit slowly with updates. Several gallery entries lurk in my
mailbox. Here is on of them:
# 4767 of Ron Jillard from Australia
17th June 2008
I just returned from a sunny but cold and windy Silverstone. My Magnette did
the trip nearly without any fault. Only one core plug disappeared when I was
hunting an MGB on the road to Silverstone. Luckily it was the plug above the
distrubitor which is the easiest to reach. So the Magnette could be repaired on
the road.
Here are a few more
pictures of Silverstone...
1st June 2008
One month ago I wrote that time runs by very fast. It seems I've written that
yesterday., but we already have June. So it's only two weeks to Silverstone!
Hope to meet many of you there!
We start the new month with a nice picture of the month...
22nd May 2008
Matthias Schreiner sent two more pictures for the wedding gallery....
14th May 2008
Michael Heeley owns these two Magnettes that have been added to the gallery:
# 31978
# 32368
13th May 2008
Matthias Schreiner sent a new
picture for the wedding gallery.
Also this nice shot that shows that Magnettes still are magnettic and show
attraction:
11th May 2008
There was another beyond repair on ebay (# 27205). The last pictures are shown here....
4th May 2008
Let's start the new week with more explored Magnettes:
# 14848 belonging to Alan & Jennie
Barnard in Australia,
# 27070 of Ian Shipton,Victoria, also Australia,
who looks towards a long restoration and
# 36970 of Trevor Panter from
Gloucestershire.
Nice to have some cars that are in good hands and are not going to the
scrapyard. All three enthusiasts a warm welcome.
1st May 2008
I feel time is running faster and faster. So we all missed the 8th birthday
of this website in April! But nevermind.
As we have the beginning of a new month we have a new picture
of the month . That's it for the moment. Want to get my Magnette out for a
drive....
30th April 2008
More Magnettes on the gallery:
# 16761 seen on ebay UK
# 27770 found somewhere on the web
# 33028 seen on ebay USA
# 32745 seen on ebay UK
27th April 2008
Our 555th entry on the gallery is Lachlan Story's car #
16101 from Australia! So we nearly have
one third of the known cars on the register on the gallery as well. We'll press
on to get the rest....
...and we start here with # 31676
belonging to Peter Smithson from the UK.
And after some time there's a new picture on our
wedding gallery...
14th April 2008
Please welcome #13870 . Proud owner is Ton Smits from the Netherlands. The next car will be no. 555 on the gallery. So who will be next?
13th April 2008
Diedrich Krahn, organiser of the Magnette Day, asked me to remind you to send
the entry form to him if you want to take part! You can download the form
here...
Then
Roger Tennyson recently checked our gallery and helped providing pictures of the
inividual police cars. So we now have # 16375 and #
19625, both Norththumberland police cars with the
correct picture! Many thanks!!
# 16375 is exactly the car before another famous Magnette: #16376 is Jose de
Sousa's car, that was featured last year when he took part in the Peking-Paris
Rally. When looking at the report I found some more pictures of the stage-finish
in Koblenz in my folder. These
have been added now here...
Well, and it looks as if we get some more nice reports and pictures soon as the
car will be used on the Classic Safari Chellenge in Southern Africa next August,
where the car will be driven by his aussie friends Roger Allen/Maggie Gray from
Sydney. (Jose will also be there but driving his Volvo 142 S).
But he will be using the Magnette for the 2010 Peking-Paris (different route
from the 2007 event) again.
5th April 2008
Again I wasn't quick enough to upload the monthly update on the 1st of the
month. But life's not only Magnettes and webistes - unfortunalety. Anyway. But
therefore we have some interesting stuff to bring. Let's start with a
report from the Melbourne Concours
followed by a new Pic of the Month (including a nice
story).
More interesting stuff during the next days...
29th March 2008
Here's report from Stephen Tickell of Magnettes &Steam , the traditional season opener. This event never was famous for a warm dry sunny day out, but this year saw a very cold event, as you can see on the faces...
14th March 2008
While we await spring and the season our friends in Australia have their last runs in this years autumn. Loz Scott reports on the EMR last sunday...
Talking on events:
Jeroen van den Akker, organiser of the 2nd Continental Old Z Meeting, asked
me to inform interested parties, that registration is still possible until 30th
of April !
6th March 2008
#
35345 of Barrie Hope added to the gallery.
Also information of the Wagga Wagga Event in Austalia.
4th March 2008
A few days too late for the monthly update, I know. But I was sure you come
back later ;-)
So here we have the new Picture of the Month: Luis Benito
is waving the Magnette flag in Mexico!
We also now have more information for the Magnette Day
at the end of June and
at least I've added # 7081 from ebay Australia
to the gallery. The first Magnette with Mitsubishi engine...!
24th February 2008
Here we are with four new cars for the gallery:
# 11510 of Austin Graham, England
# 29310 of Kevin Dixon, Australia, who
bought his car 1970!
# 34152 John Monico, who brought his car
back on the road last week and
# 35644 from ebay USA
I also included an entry form for the summer gathering.
17th February 2008
# 8130 belonging to Lionel Burrell added.
14th February 2008
Details for the Rover Club Rally added...
Also some more pics of # 31875, a very
poor rotten Magnette sent by Pete Wilson... (probably the first and only
Magnette with a rear wiper)
# 36534 was recently for sale in Las
Vegas
6th February 2008
Gerrit de Graaf sent an Dutch advert from 1958....
1st February 2008
While we still have a cold and wet winter here in Europe, I gonna warm
you up with a Magnette surounded by flowers on Hawaii as the
Picture of the Month....
Also Loz Scott tries to bring some light into
CKD (Completely Knocked Down) Magnettes,
which were exported in this form... I hope this article is a source for
discussion and we get some more information from you....
27th January 2008
More cars for the gallery which were for sale on different locations on the
internet:
# 4531 Australia, #
8399 UK, #
28600 Switzerland, #
36219 UK
24th January 2008
There is another Magnette rusting away in the US: # 31875 but therefore another awaits to get finished: # 31005
21st January 2008
No 540 on the gallery is # 26636 of
Moira Wallace, UK
20th January 2008
Here are two new entries for the gallery:
# 31513 of Andy Hunt, UK and
# 27793 of Annoni Mauro,
from Italy, which marks another Magnettic country now! The 26th magnettiZed
country...
13th January 2008
Two new entries for the gallery. Both Magnettes were for auction recently, were they were spotted by Rutger Booy from the Netherlands: # 28787 # 36225
7th January 2008
Perhaps some considerate readers have recognized that for some time we had no reports from Loz Scott in Australia. Well, my fault. His reports are sleeping in my mailbox (but nothing get's lost!). So a new year and a new technical report, which is for the trained DIY owner, I suppose. Read how to overhaul your swivel pins...
2nd January 2008
Welcome in 2008! I hope you all had a good and healthy New Year's Eve. I for
myself hope that I find enough time to update during the next weeks regulary as
I have quite a lot stuff in my mailbox. So watch what happens. Let's start with
an update of the gallery: Please welcome:
# 7889 of Murray Cowley from Devon
and
# 34486 of Colin Hall from Norwich.
I've uploaded also a reprint: which Stephen Tickell sent me. It's the the
November edition of Classic Cars for sale
which included another buyers guide.
1st January 2008
The Magnette events calendar for 2008 is ready now.
So, make your diary now!
And of course a new Picture of the Month....
