[Earlier snippets are in the News Clips Archive]

February 2005

President's Prattle

• Christmas is a distant memory
• Christmas Social really enjoyable
• Buffet excellent
• Spoon-fed blancmange
• Cars Down Under
• The role of a funeral director
• MGCC nearly as old as VSCC
• MG J2 more reliable with Ford power

Secretary's Scribble

• Save your postage stamps
• Signs of getting old
• The first show is only 15 weeks away
• Wait for the ME form
• Sweets from the sandwich ladies
• Zero, nil, zilch unpublished articles (not many, then? Ed.)
• You have been warned!

Other Items

• Motor joke
• Gutsy + XBR
  • shoestring classics
  • two foreigners
  • a bit on the wrists
  • not as handsome as a Goldie
  • Bert Greeves
  • shaft drive and Brembos
  • gearbox crunch embarrassingly loud
• NYD parade in London
  • No-one heard big ben
  • Whitehall littered with umbrellas
  • On the reserve list for 2005
  • Behind a Willys, alongside an Austin 7
  • Tea brewed on a portable heater
  • Spectators 10 deep
  • Steaming Jaguar sent to St John Ambulance
  • Backfire startled the crowd
• Monk joke

For Sale/Wanted

• For Sale
  1956 Austin A90 Westminster 2,600cc, Black/red interior, crossply tyres, rare floor change, stainless exhaust, new battery & water pump. MoT Sept 05.
• Wanted
  3.7 or 3.9 diff from Wolseley 1500 or Riley 1.5