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Bits’n’Pieces<br />

At the last hillclimb of the<br />

year, this wallaby was<br />

found in the spectator area<br />

apparently wondering where<br />

all the other spectators<br />

were! Or maybe it was<br />

looking for the koala which<br />

had taken up residence in a<br />

nearby tree at the previous<br />

hillclimb. Our beautiful venue shows how nature and<br />

motorsport can blend very comfortably together.<br />

A few gremlins slipped their way into the November<br />

issue of the <strong>Octagon</strong> but, despite that, there were<br />

more positive responses to an <strong>Octagon</strong> for a long<br />

time.<br />

The last issue was No 6 - not No 7; we have only 6<br />

issues per year though there is more than enough<br />

material for more!<br />

The photograph here of Mike Anderson in the<br />

Charade should have been published in the hillclimb<br />

report but, instead, Roy Davis’s Triumph GT6 got<br />

double exposure.<br />

When Mike was contacted with an apology, he<br />

advised that he won’t be seen in the Charade again<br />

as it has gone to a new owner in Melbourne who<br />

intends to use in on Targa Tasmania among other<br />

races/rallies. Mike assured us that we’ll still see him<br />

at Mt Cotton in his MG.<br />

At the last hillclimb Ann Thomson handed me a<br />

printout of an article about the ‘Dumbest Guy on<br />

the Planet’ which she thought worth sharing. I can’t<br />

reproduce it here but if you do a Google search on<br />

“Dumbest Guy on the Planet - Home Depot”, you<br />

will see why she thought it worth sharing! Thanks,<br />

Ann!<br />

There has been some focus on the MGA in 2015<br />

with the celebration of its 60th birthday and Dan<br />

Casey’s research into ownership of MGAs in<br />

Queensland. Coincidentally BMC<br />

Experience magazine has<br />

also been looking at MGAs<br />

and has an article on an<br />

ex-Sebring MGA in its latest<br />

issue keeping up its record<br />

of including MG stories in<br />

most, if not all, issues which,<br />

in case you don’t know, are<br />

now available in both print and<br />

digital format.<br />

Congratulations to two of our regular hillclimb<br />

competitors, Steve Purdy and John Gilbert who<br />

made the long trek to WA for the 2015 Australian<br />

Hillclimb Championships. Both came home with<br />

very interesting looking trophies. With the <strong>2016</strong><br />

Australian MG National Meeting also being held in<br />

WA, a lot more of our members will soon be heading<br />

westwards - and hopefully also bringing back some<br />

trophies. Many thanks to John and Glen Boyce who<br />

were spectators at the event and thought to take<br />

some photos for us.<br />

WANTED: A copy of the Centaur book written<br />

and published by John Campbell. Please contact<br />

Dino Mattea by email to margdino@bigpond.com,<br />

or by phone to 07 3263 2625, or 0447 369 675.<br />

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The <strong>Octagon</strong> - November 2015

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