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Ten years ago

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:11 am
by Ian Grace
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.

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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.

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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.

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