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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