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MG TD TF 1500 - Trying to form a group for British cars in my area

Got 3 TD's together today. Another one under going a full restoration in town and another planned to meet us from a longer distance away. Couldn't drive the TF and the TD both. So the Hornet stayed in the shop. It was a little brisk for my top down 15 mile drive to our meeting place.
28 degrees F. Pretty sure our next meet will have the hood up.

L E D LaVerne

I knew this car was in my area but I hadn't seen it 7 years. It was handed down to the daughter of the previous owner when he decided he shouldn't be driving it anymore.
Thats her on the right. She is very proud of it. Says she helped her dad with the restoration a number of years ago.

L E D LaVerne

Got 9 people to show up for our initial get together. Truimph powered TVR Vixen

L E D LaVerne

79 Spitfire and VW Bug. Bug owner has a 59 Bugeye Sprite that I recently rebuilt the gear box on. It's presently at the paint shop. Hoping it's on the road soon.

L E D LaVerne

Another fellow there with a 59 MGA...didn't get a shot. 15 people in our group now and we believe that number will grow considerably.
L E D LaVerne

Go for it, buddy. Insanity is healthier in groups. Stay warm. Dan
Dan Craig

I started something like this 3 years ago - just getting together in our historic downtown for coffee and talking cars for a couple of hours each Saturday morning. Mostly just word of mouth advertising and this summer we routinely had 25 cars. It makes an excellent alternative to the all day car show and the best part is seeing a different mix of cars each week and meeting owners who are interested in driving their cars. I even managed to meet a neighbor who has lived around the corner from me for 10 years and we had never met! Good luck.

Don

FYI - the white Datsun 1200 in the picture is an electric drag car that is street legal but turns 10.2 in the quarter mile. Very impressive.

don scott

We have an LBC group here in eastern NC that meets 4-6 times/yr for a lunch outing. No officers, no rules, no schedule, just a good outing. One guy gets us together via emails, we come from a radius of up to 30-50 miles, most much less. 25-30 cars at the last one. Lotsa Healeys, some MGs, a few Jags & Triumphs, even a Caterham, and others. Emma is usually the oldest. pic next msg
Al
54 TF Emma
A W Parker

2 rows, some cars out of view.
Al

A W Parker

LaVerne, if you get it started, count me in. what is another few bucks for dues anyway...I wont make very many meetings but what the hey???
Tom Maine

Were a no club car club...kinda like Al. Nobody wants 50 pages of rules, bylaws, officers, dues, or most likely..responsibility. But send money anyway Tom ...lol. Looks like a once a month get together...want to do drives come spring and I've got an ideas or two along with some from a few others. WE are 250 miles or farther from the MG club groups on the populous side of the state. We are still scattered all over creation...some 150 miles from me. There are a lot more LBCs in my area. Right now were are trying to get the word out and generate some interest.
L E D LaVerne

LaVerne - that's exactly what we are - although officially we are a club, just so we can accept sponsor money to print posters. We have no membership roster, no bylaws and no officers. We just get together and talk cars and tour. One thing I have found useful is keeping an email list of participants - I send out a few pictures and its good to keep people's interest up. Good Luck!
don scott

The Minnesota MG T Register has rules and bylaws, so we can collect money for stuff. They also have a newsletter, which is mailed, but many of us take it online instead to keep the clutter down in the house. They just had their business meeting, which I don't attend because most of us don't really believe in running by rules anyway, and have an aversion to over complicating things. The club is quite active though many of the founders who are still around are in their 80s, we have our share of younger folks. The old-timers try to keep a lid on officiousness. The MNMGTR is hosting the GOF Central next year in Chaska, MN. I notice that our "Holiday Party" keeps moving up in the calendar to accommodate the 'snowbirds', it's in November this year.

In February or some such they have their calendar setting meeting which I do attend, because its not business and it is fun to anticipate the upcoming year.

The Minnesota MG Group on the other hand keeps getting lost in rules, and they can't understand why their membership is not participating much. I am a charter member of the group from 1987 with my TD (I didn't know about the MNMGTR). They had a little reward system to encourage driving the MGs. The rules for the system went from relatively simple to extremely complicated, to the point where one year Diane and I didn't get recognized for attending a regional MG event because we 'may' have registered as members of the T Register and not the MMGG. Of course this is also the same group of people who put a picture of Henry Royce on a document for Cecil Kimber's and when challenged insisted that the facts must be wrong because 'perhaps' he aged. Never mind that Kimber died in 1945 in a train accident so never got to the white hair, white beard stage in life! I still write a monthly tech article for their Gazette, and the North American MGB Driver Magazine picks up most of them. The newsletter was the NAMGBR Chapter Newsletter of the Year in 2011, I think based partly on the tech within the newsletter. I ended up receiving the 2012 Best Contributing Author, a new annual award from NAMGBR to promote contributions to the publication.

So, there is kind of a laboratory experiment on how one can run a club within the same geographical influence going on in Minnesota.

Warmly,
Dave
Dave Braun

I joined a local club years ago near here. European Sports Car Club of Southern Ohio. They were having a Poker run. As luck would have it my daughter and I were going to a birthday party for friend of hers first child and the "run" was starting near my house and ending about 3 miles from our destination so we figured ...fun ...if we win we will give the prize $ to the kid. Ended up joining the club.
Monthly meeting and lots of fun driving tours with that gang. "European" kind of got dropped and we all kinds of cars in the group ...that made it even more fun.
We turned a lot of heads!
M.G., Triumph, Austin, Sunbeam, Ford GT, Porsche, Viper, Mustang, Corvette, Duisenberg, Cord, ect all travelling together. A very strange assortment of cars. Just basically people that loved to drive rather than "sit". We had a lot of fun.
David Sheward

If L E D LaVerne, USA is in LaVerne, CA, I live about 60 miles away, but would be interested. Can I get an email from you?
CH Hull

I could give you my email CH but LaVerne is my first name. I'm in western Colorado. L E D are my intitials,,,,kind of a goof I made when I signed on years ago.
L E D LaVerne

The only thing that may be wrong with an informal group like this is the legal position if something were to happen. The person that organises it could be held to account. That is why one such group over in Aus decided to get incorporated. They still don't have formal meetings, newsletters etc but no one can lose their house.
Max Irvine

Would love to be in on that LaVerne, but your 700 miles from me! Long ways for a cup of coffee! Grin. PJ
Paul sr

LaVerne has been known to drive that far for a cup of his favorite beverage. Or five times that for a car meet.
Dave Braun

True Dave, true.
L E D LaVerne

Or to drive that far to help a friend in need.
John Brickell

Or a guy who happens to have a spare fan blade and with no notice shows up and replaces my broken blade and gets me and the wife back on the road within an hour! (We broke down a few miles from LaVerne's house in Grand Junction, CO.) Thanks again dude!
Ed & Cindy
PS: I've ordered the 7 blade from Jeff Zorn today.
efh Haskell

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