24th December 2011
The MGCC Z Magnette Register wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
18th December 2011
# 6960 belongs to Bruce Bramhill and
is another Magnette that has undergone a complete restoration and is prepared
for the next 50 yrs.
# 7846 was bought by David Holland a few
days ago and he is going to change her back into original style.
# 25590 will be dismantled this winter
by James Frogatt and finally owner of # 17325, Henk Kroese updated his picture.
17th December 2011
The Dates for 2012 are released now. Make your diary and show up at the events!
1st December 2011
New month - new picture of the month. Have a look...
27th November 2011
It's been quiet on the Magnette frontier so far, so here are just a few more
updates for the gallery:
First # 9674 which is running in Roma, so
accordingly a lhd car. The current owner wants to sell this car. If you are
interested, please contact me.
Then we have # 9712, which as completed
restoration by Sylvester Earl Harvin
17th November 2011
James Froggatt came across these reviews/ buying guides in smaller classic
magazines in the UK:
ClassicCars4sale and
ClassicCarMart. Both are very positive reports about our beloved Magnette,
although there are some mistakes written.
14th November 2011
The Classic car of the year was voted last weekend at the NEC classic car
show. You know that Grant Howlett made it into to top five amoung 20 other
classiccs and was invited to present his car at the show. The Magnette was the
runner up, the first place went to the E-type Jaguar, which was well deserved,
it was a superb car with a great owner. (Well, this could be said for the
magnette as well!). So a BIG Congratulation Grant from the Magnette world! You
did a superb job and good publicity for the Magnette. Here are some shots:
13th November 2011
Dietrich Krahn informed me about this link, showing a ZA with a Eriba caravan.
10th November 2011
Three new cars on our gallery:
# 13902 of John Doublet, Jersey,
# 14210 of Jorge Lino, Portugal and
# 22026 of Ron Mc Innes, France.
1st November 2011
Again another picture of the month...
and # 16464 a rough car, seen on ebay
has been added to the gallery.
24th October 2011
We welcome three new entries to our gallery:
# 8632 Andrew Fuller from Oxon, #
16137 David Harrison and #
33089 Andrew Stevens, Cambridge
17th October 2011
Well done Magnetters! The Magnette is now in the Grand Final of "Classic Car of the Year competition" ! The final 5 cars that will be judged at the International Classic Car Show in November are: MG Magnette, Austin MINI Cooper, Jaguar E-Type, Ford Capri and Jensen Interceptor. last year over 60,000 car enthusiast's went to the 3-day show. Grant, owner of the Magnette, has some free tickets left. Contact the webmaster and I'll forward your email...
11th October 2011
The classic car of the year (see notes of 19th Oct.) voting finishes this
thursday the 13th, so thank you all Magnette owners that have voted, if you have
not yet, you still have time untill midnight on the 13th-this thursday!
Please give your vote at www.ccoty.co.uk and make the Magnette the Car of the
Year!
8th October 2011
The
picture of # 22809 has been updated
after restoration by Cliff Hughes and # 22856 of Colin Richardson
is new on the gallery.
Already a month ago Brian Pollard sent this picture saying: "This is a
recent foto of my Magnette getting blessed by the Bishop of Ibiza at the Saint
Christopher day celebrations. Shortly after the car lost a core plug and I lost
faith!
4th October 2011
Again another nice picture of the month, sent by our chairman Paul Batho.
29th September 2011
Loz Scott send a report and pictures of their "Gathering of the Faithful". While we start to prepare for the long and cold season, they start with a new season...
19th September 2011
Great news for Magnette lovers: Grant Howlett's one family owned ZA has been
chosen by Classic Cars, Classic Car Weekly, Practical Classics and their
partners Lancaster Insurance as one of their top twenty cars in this year’s
Classic Car of the Year competition!
Please give your vote at
www.ccoty.co.uk and make the Magnette the Car of the Year! (Don't
forget to tick that you don't want any advertising from them, if you don't like!
They also don't check the email...)
Two weeks ago I mentioned the Cape to Cairo rally. You can follow the Magnette
and other classic cars on their blog at
www.afriod.co.za/
Well and another tour and another blog, but a bit more relaxed than an Africa
crossing. Some cars, including a Magnette will leave from from Sheffield to
drive to Limoges in France to raise money for the Wooden Spoon Charity. Follow
them at
http://sherlockholmesandwatson.blogspot.com/?spref=fb
14th September 2011
New on the gallery are Adrian Hollington-Sawyer from Canada, who is the new owner of #
17758 and Nigel Younger with # 26173
and
Phil Dean wrote:
It may look like name dropping but we of the EYTCC were invited to take part
in the filming of an episode for the latest series of Sarah Beeny's show
featuring the restoration of her own home at Rise Hall here in the wilds of the
East Riding. In the enclosed shot there are two Magnettes, mine ( ZA RXH 423)
and NBW 333 which has just returned to the road after extensive renovation by
the current owner Alan Finney. It carries the vin number
32419 and has covered about 100 miles
since finishing.
12th September 2011
Robert Schmitz spotted these cars on ebay: #
8278 and #
31830 and Jürgen Rheintal updated the
picture on # 22261
James Hamilton sent a scan of a lube chart, which I added to the
technic page. It's a good scan and you might print it
for your garage if you like. By the way: this is the old technic site. Have you
seen our own technical website? Link from technic as
well
6th September 2011
Another nice couple with a nice Magnette on the
wedding gallery...
Today starts the Cape to Cairo challenge. An event with 11 cars, amoung them
Roger Pearce in an MG Magnette
4th September 2011
Here is the picture of the month for September...
26th August 2011
More Magnettes for the gallery. We hit the 750th picture...
First we have an original Italy-Export car, runnibg in Roma. #11739
belongs to Roberto Martinangeli.
Per Malmros found two Magnettes on the net, that are for sale currently in
Sweden: # 14938 and #
2747
Then
# 22037 of Harald Sonesson in Sweden.
This is his scrap car. We had his 3 other cars with the last update.
# 26362 is of Mike Greenwood in Australia
and
# 35478 is Tony Smith's Magnette
8th August 2011
Today we'll do an update on the owners gallery. It's interesting that I still
get pictures of cars that haven't been on the gallery or register before. Still
cars turn up that are unknown! How many beauties are still sleeping around the
world?
We start with Harald Sonesson from Sweden, who owns 4 Magnettes! Three of them
are now on the gallery:
# 3033, #
4038 and #
17464.
While we are adding early bult cars, here's one from ebay: #
2576
And at least the only remains (VIN plate) of # 32159
And finally Heinrich Koncki finished his one year restoration of #
23521
1st August 2011
I hope you ad a better summer than we had here in Germany. July was a wet and
cold month and the summer is nearly gone. But luckily the Magnette has no soft
top but a heater. So there was no excuse not to use her!
As always we'll strat the new month with a new picture of the
month. Martin O'Brien sent a truly contemporary picture when the world was
still fine. Have a look to find out what I mean...
24th July 2011
Rikke Nissen sent spome photos from this year’s European event in Spa,
Belgium, June 3rd-June 7th. 3 ZBV Magnettes and 1 ZA Magnette took part, and as
you can see they also managed the Spa-Franchorchamp racetrack.
23rd July 2011
Malcolm Eades was clearing out some cupboards and found a nice wedding picture. This car is since several years now mine and parks at least once a year in front of Malcolm's garage!
21th July 2011
Mark Bunce send pictures of this years
MG Live! at Silverstone.
Thanks Marc!
Talking about events. The date for the Magnette Day 2012 is fixed. It will be on
22. - 24.06.2012. So make your diary now!
19th July 2011
Here is a sales brochure of the brand new MG6 GT Magnette. Not do they only write Magnette like on the Farinas, no, they also feature a Z in it (unfortunately they say ZA and show a ZB).
12th July 2011
Most of you will know the "Living with Alison"-tales of Malcolm Robertson from Australia. In his latest report he muses about using his 1957 MG Magnette as a daily driver…
10th July 2011
We have our 100th Australian Magnette on the gallery! # 7115 belongs to Les hall from Victoria who is doing "a slow restoration" as he says. Next on the gallery is Martin O'Brien's Magnette # 29272 from Ireland.
3rd July 2011
I'm still looking for pictures of MG Live at Silverstone. Nobody been there
and taken a few shots of Magnettes? I can't believe.
New month - new picture...
