29th June 2009
Report and pictures of the 13th
Z Magnette Day in
Germany...
Unfortunalety I wasn't able to make good shots. So anybody who has more and
better pictures? Please send to me.
21st June 2009
The Event of
the year 2009 in Norway is over. Rikke Nissen from Denmark sent a report
from "summerly" Norway...
If you like to see more of Norway, look at
my older report of a trip in my
Magnette...
15th June 2009
Following is a picture for the royalist
amoung you. Prince Philipp
is waving to Grant Howlett and his Magnette
during the MG Royal Heritage Festival in Windsor.
11th June 2009
Have you seen the new 1/43 models of the Magnette? Look
here...
New models on the gallery as well:
# 10627 on auction at brightwells.com .
Spotted by Geoff Pollard and Rutger Booy.
# 11049 owned by Cara MacColl and
# 22456 John Beesley's restoration
project, which probaby can be seen at Silverstone.
6th June 2009
Finally weekend - but what a rainy day. I make the best out of it (no 2nd
best, as working in the garage would be best) and look into my mailbox and files
to update the gallery. Here are a few Magnettes:
# 16101 an unfinished project
# 17249 was for sale in Australia
# 21150 source of picture unknown
# 23454 of Nishad Wijetunga in Sri Lanka
# 27270 a Manumatic car that turned up
on ebay
# 28171 Geoff Pollard, Great Britain
(car is for sale)
# 32495 David Miles, Brisbane, Australia
# 35594 David Halliday, Australia
# 35895 was on ebay
You're travelling to Silverstone? Why not visit the Beachampton Natter close to
Silverstone? See events for more information.
Talking on events. Here is a report from Trevor Jones of the registers
event in Somerset last weekend.
1st June 2009
Alan Barnard came across an elderly report which was printed in "Restored
Cars", an Australien mag that has been published Down Under for the past 30
years.
And new month - new picture of the month...
28th May 2009
Loz Scott send a short report of Classic Show Case in Australia....
25th May 2009
George Wilder kindly informed and corrected me. I gave wrong information with
the picture of the month...
More updates this week, but organisation of the Magnette Day in June has
priority at the moment.
18th May 2009
There was a nice article in Safety Fast!, the magazine of the
MGCC, which we reproduce here...
You receive this monthly magazine for free once you are a member. More
information on mgcc.co.uk.
10th May 2009
During the last weeks I received several entries for the gallery. Time to get
them online, so here we go. Please welcome
# 5137 of Justin Greenwood, South
Australia
# 5367 of Des Barker, Wooroloo, Australia
# 9472 was restored by Ron Lomax,
Australia
# 10728 of Bob Towns, Australia
# 13445 of Stephen Hicks, UK
# 22850 of John Brumpton from England
# 37061 changed hands to David Watson
By the way. I still receive emails concerning my April's fool. It seems I hit
the nerve as many of you were unsure whether it was a joke or another goal from
Brussels. Well so far it was a joke, but let's wait and see....
3rd May 2009
New month - new picture of the month...
At the moment Mexiko makes headlines because of the swine-flu. Time to show that
they have good news as well:
Luis Benito Ruiz Bogarin sent some pictures of an
exhibition at La Paz in the Sea of Cortez, where his Magnette attracted a lot of
interest and won the prize for best European Sedan! Well done Luis Benito!
Isn't that a nice location for an autoshow?
25th April 2009
As promised the report of Magnettes & Steam, the official register season openener, sent by Stephen Tickell.
21st April 2009
Our Australian friends are still very busy: here are some more pictures of
the Geelong concours
and the Wagga Wagga event has been added to the diary...
On 2nd April I showed two cakes. Grant Howlett informed me that we already had
another cake on this site, which his wife baked some time ago. I don't hesitate
to show it again:
We meanwhile crossed the 200,000 visitors mark. So it's a good reason for
another cake...
19th April 2009
After a two weeks break the first update: Here's a report of the Australian
Geelong concours...
Report of "Magnettes & Steam" to follow this week.
2nd April 2008
This month the website celebrates it's 9th birthday! A nice present by you is
that our counter will certainly show 200,000 during next week!
Thanks all outside for your input and support!! Adequate for this event I found
photos of two nice cakes. Unbelievable what enthusiasts do all over the world.
The right cake was eaten y Udo barthels from Germany, but I unfortunalety
renamed the left picture and don't know who had eaten this one. If you read this
please sent email.
Back to business. Hans Lubberding informed me, that he made a story for a Dutch magazine, which
you can (or can't as it's in Dutch) read
here...
Of course a new picture of the month... and finally
another tech report of Loz Scott, this time concerning the
repair of the A-pillar...
Also don't forget our season opener on Easter saturday! See
events...
Ooh, I nearly forgot: I received several emails from all parts of the
world of those who wanted access to the
"protected gallery". Don't worry about that - look at the date ;-)
(By the way this was a good feedback.Thanks!)
1st April 2009
Bad news from Brussels for those who liked the gallery, where we had more than 600 Magnettes in all states of condition pictured: EU-law hit our website with full force. We received an official notification from Brussels, that our website is in breach of European Data privacy protection and we therefore have to put off the gallery from the web. Otherwise we have to pay a penalty of up to 15,000 Euro. Because of this I will put it off on 3rd April. But if you like the gallery you can send me an email and will send you an access and password for the protected area, where I will put the gallery. This should work. Send email to info@magnette.org. Thanks!
Günter
29th March 2009
This is a small update as we will have the monthly one the day after
tomorrow.
First I got a note from Magnette owner Grant Howlett who offers all Magnetteers
a special rate to stay in
his hotel during the Easter event "Magnettes & Steam". You can
contact Grant at
granthowlett@btinternet.com.
Should you book, please mention this website.
Another email came from Japan. Satoshi Ohtsu sent a
nice picture from a Classic car run.
24th March 2009
For us the first event in 2009, for our friends the end of the season: see
Loz Scott's report of the
Magnette and Y register fun run to Mornington Peninsula
22nd March 2009
The Register has produced an events calendar, with some useful information. You can download the pdf here...
Loz Scott updated the gallery with some bad news. Most of the following cars
beeing already scrapped with only the ID plate remaining. Only one car beeing
restored at the time:
# 1376 only ID plate remaining
# 3177 only ID plate remaining
# 3766 paddock car. Its future is bleak
# 20218 wrecked as donor car
# 28661 under restoration
15th March 2009
The 620th car on the gallery is Richard Wigley's restoration project ,
Magnette # 16139.
Malcolm Robertson wrote a nice article about
the SA and Magnette taking part in the Paris-Peking-Rally which was publishes in
the North American Classic MG Magazine.
8th March 2009
Time for some entries to the gallery. I still had some pictures left in my
mailbox:
# 9409 was found on ebay UK
# 11615 was for sale on ebay Australia
# 23180 was for sale in Luxembourg
# 25931 also ebay UK
# 35923 the only Magnette today that is
in good ownership. She's in the hands of Tony Brinsdon.
1st March 2009
March! The winter should go to an end by now and we are looking for a new
season. Time to make your diary for the Magnette events now and have a look at
your car.
The following tech tips might be useful for you:
Malcolm Eades sent me an article he saw in the Octagon Journal, concerning
the right choice of engine oil
(pdf)....
And Stephen Tickell wrote a nice article about
fitting a rear screen
heater to a Varitone...(pdf).
Once your Magnette is ready for the road enjoy our new Picture
of the month...
Lastly a reminder that the booking date for the Magnette Day ends on 15th March!
22nd February 2009
New on the gallery: # 34782, which
currently is for sale in the Netherlands.
Also bad news for the gallery: # 2431 was
destroyed by the bushfires in Australia!
On the other hand a fresh restored Magnette is collecting prices: #
7415 was restored by Lyle Constable in
Australia and
# 15230 is John Hallidays new toy.
17th February 2009
More traffic on the gallery:
# 13863 of Alastair Stevenson, UK
and
# 19935 which is for sale in South
Africa.
16th February 2009
Please welcome # 3713 and Robert Mason from Victoria Australia and # 31040 with Hank in Pennsylvania, USA
14th February 2009
Please welcome Rod Paxton from South Africa with # 32852
6th February 2009
I’m delighted to report that the dates for MG Live! have been confirmed. The award winning Silverstone event will take place on 10th,11th,12th July 2009.
1st February 2009
Wow, January already passed! Europe is still cold but dry. If there only was
some time to get the Magnette out...
For those who have bad weather or want to warm up after hours spent in a cold
garage, we got another reprint for you. This time it's from Malcolm Robertson,
who made a nice article about his restoration and owners review in North
American Classic MG magazine
(www.ClassicMGMagazine.com), who gave us permission to reproduce it here.
Another email came from Lionel Burrell, Managing Editorof The Automobile. He
sent the picture of the month and also features his ZA in
"The Automobile"
25th January 2009
# 32690 belonging to Register
committee member Trevor Jones has been added to the gallery.
Also Eddy Lepez uploaded a new
movie about
Goodwood, where you can see Magnettes racing in a short szene.
19th January 2009
A reprint of MG Enthusiast September 2006 including a Survival Guida has been added to "Articles".
14th January 2009
Four new cars on the gallery. Three of them '54 models:
# 2431 Adrian Zorner AUS
# 2860 Phil May Hampshire, GB
# 3113 Michael Anderson, Nevada,
USA
#32990 Mark Michalak, Chicago, USA
Plus an owner change:
# 34482 new owners are Nigel and Bev
Bartram, GB
All of you a warm welcome!
11th January 2009
Karel Vermeer asked me wether I ran out of pictures, because the current
picture was already published in October 2004! Karel, you are right, it was my
mistake. So here we have another picture of the month. My
apologies.
I also uploaded information and entry form for the Z
Magnette Day at the end of June in Germany.
5th January 2009
Peter Martin had a telephone call from John Warner yesterday to say that Tony
Hopkins passed away just before Christmas on 23rd December. Tony had been ill
for quite some time and was in a wheel chair whenever he was at a club
event in latter times.
As Tony was at one time a register committee member, it may well be that some of
you would like to attend his funeral. Apparently, it will be this coming Friday
the 9th at Basingstoke Crematorium at 2pm. John can be reached on 0118-9814592
if you want any further details.
2nd January 2009
Hello Magnette world! I wish you all a happy New Year and a Magnettic season.
We start with a new picture of the month and the first
newcomer on the gallery in 2009. # 15378
belonging to Roger Dawson ,Vancouver, Canada. Sady it will be the last picture
of the car as it will be scrapped.
Several thousand miles away is # 16324.
David Kelvin's shiny ZA in sunny Australia.
