2006 EVENTS

2006 EVENTS

International MG Show and Spares Day

STONELEIGH

Sunday 19th February 2006

The South East Region of the MG Car Club MGF Register

SEfers meeting up at the Cherwell Services in the early morning mist	...and here they are again !	Loads of Fs in the cowsheds at Stoneleigh
This is an F 180 ! (With a bit of tweaking)	Playgirl Jay's distinctive F reflects the skylights	The F Register stand in all its glory.
The MGOC F now sports an HGF fix !	A very rare Berlinette coupe bodied MGB believed to be the only one in RHD form on the MGCC stand.	A couple of Morris's ! Tim presents Dave with his F Register Member of the Year Trophy
F Reg committee man Paul Smith brought along his new car a 2005 edition TF to add to the F he already has !.	Nice contrasting colourwork	Red Stripes, old english white and lexus lights on this F
A couple of personal plates spotted at the end of the day.	The old and the new	A couple of Trophy 160s together in the cowsheds
Another rarity - this convertible Metro was for sale - possibly the last one in existence.	There were some cars even older on display !	As usual there were loads of bits for sale.
A nice Metro Turbo for sale at £3995 . You can get a decent F for that !	BAS demonstrated some interesting hood colours	Much modified Rover 25 on the Moto build stand
Mike Gedge's Red Hot on the F Register stand	The F Register stand was in a convenient location !	Rick Earle's "Number 72" took up the other display slot
This Demon Tweeked car seemed to belong to Mad Dave	Martyn Wise and Tim Morris just before the launch of FasTForward whilst Adrian and Michelle prime the bubbly	Tim and Martyn toast to the success of FasTForward in MGF 10 mugs of course
	The first copy went to Steve Marsh of A Plan Insurance

The annual International MG Show and Spares Day at Stoneleigh always marks the beginning of the season for the main MGF Register. This year we took the opportunity to officially launch the new F register magazine FasTForward as well.

Several of the regions organised runs in to the event from Wales, Essex, the South East and the Midlands. The SEfers met up at Cherwell Services on the M40 and headed in across country through the early morning mist.

Upon arrival the Fs and TFs made a B line for the cow sheds and the under cover parking. This year there were a huge number of F/TFs and Zed cars present with many of their owners looking for parts to modify their cars. Many personal plates were in evidence and lots of individually styled cars from the pink striped to the highly tuned.

INside the hall the F Register hand hosted Mike Gedge's Red Hot modified car which sparkled in it's TF body styling and attracted the Meguiars polish people to take photos of it. Mike's car was joined by Rick Earle's early car "Number 72" which may soon be re christened as "Purple Haze". Both cars attracted a lot of interest and the stand itself was in a very convenient position - right in front of the loos and ensured plenty of passing traffic !

Fs and TF were to be found scattered throughout the halls - on the BAS stand on Demon Tweeks and elsewhere . The MGOC had their new club F on show with it's uprated Land Rover gasket conversion hopefully eliminating the HGF at last.

High Noon was the official launch time for FasTForward and the consultant editor of MG Enthusiast , Martyn Wise, did the honours by cutting the ribbon for us and sending the first edition out in to the world amongst the flying sparkling wine corks and party poppers . After posing with FTF editor Tim Morris for the photos Martyn toasted to the success of the new magazine from MGF 10 mugs !

With the stand crowded for most of the day we were pleased with the amount of interest and welcomed the many new faces who came over to say hello. There's no doubt that the F register is growing as the price of the cars comes down and more and more people are buying them and discovering how much Fun they really are . So much fun that MGF Committee member Paul Smith has just bought his second - one of the last 631 final edition TFs and another personal plate for his wife MG MRS !

Of course there were one or two other MG cars of interest at the show including displays by the MGM group - MGOC, MGCC, Midget and Sprite group plus many others as well as all the traders - F interest kept up by Brown & Gammons, Rimmer Bros, BAS , MG Mania and Full Throttle amongst the memorabilia and rusty old MGB bits !

Finally it was time to pack up and tackle the M40 for the trip home !

Additional Photo acknowledgements - Neil Sutton, Emma Jackman, Richard Creese