Chris Hale c.hale1962@btinternet.com www.mgcc.co.uk/midget-register/
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WELCOME TO THE
MIDGET NEWSLETTER With lockdown well on the way to being consigned to history (hopefully by the time you read this most of the restrictions should have been revoked) we can once again look forward to exciting times with our cars and reacquainting with old friends and making new ones all as part of the marque of friendship. That being said, much of 2021 has been adversely impacted, with many planned events being either cancelled or postponed to future years, but even so there are many great times to be had this year. As many of you will know, the British Motor Museum at Gaydon has introduced a regular evening gathering for classic car fans about once every two months over the summer, and my eldest son and I went along in May to see what it was all about. As the Midget is still a long way from being roadworthy, we went in the 80th Anniversary MG TF. It proved to be a great evening with MGs being the most numerous marque present, but with everything from pre-war models through American muscle cars and hot rods through to modern-day classics turning up. The museum also had a couple of rare vintage cars out and driven round the car park and you could get up really close to examine them in detail. There weren’t many Midgets there but if you can get along to future events, I thoroughly recommend it. One where there was definitely a larger number of Midgets present was the event organised by the Midget Register to
The Midget 60th celebration ale, brewed in Abingdon
celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the first modern MG Midget rolling off the Abingdon production line in June 1961. Max Authers takes up the story. 60 years of joyful motoring is certainly something to celebrate and this year the Midget Register hosted a celebratory trip
A varierty of Midgets, from a MkI to a 1977 rubber bumper one parked at Nuffield Place
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