MIDWEEK RUN REPORT -   22/05/2024

By Mark Lacy and Sharon Hill

 

A grand total of 21 cars met up at the Ferny Grove Water Park on a rather grey and chilly May morning; it was great to see some new faces and welcome others not seen for a while.  We had 3 MG TD’s, a Magnette, 2 Midgets and 8 MGB’s of various types, along with MX5’s, a Hyundai, a VW, a Subaru, a Corvette and last but not least a rather grand Rolls Royce.

 

We set off in convoy with the MG’s to the fore, through Samford and then up to Dayboro where some of the group paused to patronise the bakery. We then headed up Mt Mee towards the morning tea stop at The Gantry in the D’Aguilar National Park. As the leaders turned left towards Mt Mee we were greeted by a short, light and fortunately short lived sprinkling of rain, much to the consternation of those travelling topless! Unluckily we were stuck behind an extremely slow BMW on the way up so had probably the slowest ever ascent…

 

Behind us two of the MG TD’s had misfortune; one blew a clutch and one lost a wallet out of the glove box.  The clutch necessitated an early exit and a tow home; the wallet was picked up by a cyclist and returned to the owner before day’s end.  Nice to see that there are still good, honest people out there!

 

The sun had decided to come out by the time we reached The Gantry so we had a pleasant and warm morning tea in the clearing in the middle of the rainforest. The 2 remaining MGTD’s left us here and returned home.

After our break we came down on the quite steep and sinuous Campbells Pocket Road; fun in the MG’s but quite a challenge for the 2000 kg Silver Cloud with drum brakes! We then wound through the Glass House Mountain area before heading up to Peachester and then up to Mary Cairncross Park in Maleny. 

Here we were met by Joy and Trevor in their MGA, Peter in his KIA and Robyn in her Honda.  We were very fortunate that they got there before us as the park was incredibly busy, but they had managed to snaffle a couple of picnic tables - parking was another story!

 

After a pleasant and sunny lunch we made our own ways home.  Roll on next month’s run to the Brisbane Motor Museum.

 

PARTICIPANTS:

Brad Hart & Sonia McPherson - Ivory MG TD

Ross & Shez Letton - Blue MG TD

Marc Alderding & Henry Patracci - Silver MG TD

Ian Fettes & George Diggles - White MG Magnette

Suzanne Doyle & Bev Clydesdale - White MG Midget

Chris Hood - Blue MG Midget

Lloyd Thomson - Red MGB

John & Pat Walker - Red MGB GT V8

Allan & Joyce Tebbutt - Blue MGB

Gary & Dawn Laurern - Black MGB GT

Michael Salt & John - White MGB

Jan Burke - Red MG

Barry Lutwyche - Red MGB

Mark Lacy & Sharon Hill - Primrose MGB

David & Meryl Miles - Green Subaru Forester

Michael Garratty & Kay Hawley - Red MX5

Val & Kerry Morgan - Blue MX5

B & Anne Hill - Grey Golf R

Kevin Trower - White Corvette

Steve & Kate Redford - Silver Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 2

Jeff Heslewood - Grey Hyundai

Trevor & Joy Jones - Red MGA

Robyn Jenvey - Gold Honda

Peter Walker - Blue KIA