Ten years ago

Post by **Ian Grace** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:11 am

Now that we are ten, it is fascinating to look back ten years and see what we were doing, and what was happening in the vintage Minor world.

Here's a photo from M 105 - the Autumn 2001 issue.

This is the VMR team at the VSCC Light Car Section's Summer Rally in deepest Buckinghamshire on 30th June 2001.

Left to right - Tom Dixon's 1929 fabric saloon WL 7995, David and Claire Rolfe's 1930 saloon UT 7156, Clive Hamilton-Gould's 1930 tourer DG 325 and Mike Jones' 1930 Semi-sports JN 570. I have owned three of these cars, and built the sills and scuttle for the fourth - Clive's tourer.

Also reported in M 105 was the debut of Peter Plant's Meadows-engined Minor special at Prescott. Sweet lines.

Finally from M 105 - the famous front cover photograph showing our very first gathering - Summer Rally 2001, Saturday morning, the Royal Oak at Barrington, Cambridgeshire. Nine vintage Minors, a SV and Geoff Thornton's Bullnose. My 1929 tourer VF 6700 fourth from right. Happy memories.