MG Manawatu

A mainly sunny day dawned over the Manawatu as 17 cars and their crews assembled at the Massey Car Park in Centennial Drive Palmerston North ready to celebrate Christmas and the end of another year of MG fun. The MGF team were out in force today with 5 cars arriving – great effort! Ian & [...]

MGB Oil Consumption.
An often overlooked reason for excessive oil consumption is the restriction or blockage of the engines crankcase breather system. With the “breathing” ability of the engine impaired it will expel oil from wherever it can – passed seals or forcing past the piston rings. As one of our group recently experienced after freshly [...]

A fine sunny morning, a gentle breeze, what better way to spend the day than with a top down MG run to nowhere! Twelve cars assembled at the Bulls Bridge and we made our way along the back roads behind Marton to Turakina picking up another MG. From there we motored on to our morning [...]

6.30am Sunday – Hmmmm, from the sound of what I can hear on the roof outside I don’t think it’s going to be a “Sun”day buy hey it’s an MG run so it will be a Funday!
We set off in drizzly rain from Palmerston North and headed off to the start in Pahiatua via the [...]

Photo: Rob Crowley
 
19 cars in total 15 departing from New Plymouth & 4 from Wanganui…….
On Friday 6 cars travelled in convoy to New Plymouth, the other 9 made their own way. After a meal of fish and chips and a swim in the hot pool at the Flamingo Motel we slept through a rough night, much rain and lightning [...]

Saturday 19th 5-30 am! It’s pouring down, it’s going to be a wet trip to Lake Ferry….
Met up at Longburn at 9-15, weather improved as we made our way down the island the wind increased the closer we got to Wellington. 14 cars in total with two making it a day trip. Had a short [...]

A little something all of us should now be aware of is the gradual shift away from the conventional lead acid car batteries we are all used to, to the new calcium type batteries that are now prevalent in the market place. Calcium batteries are still lead acid but have calcium incorporated into the plates.
All [...]

Makoura Lodge Breakfast Run 02/08/2009 Report by Liz & Neil. 
The weather did not start out too kindly for us (raining), but this did not stop a great turnout of 20 MG’s with 38 members.  We left on the dot of 8.30am on a “follow the leader” run to Makoura Lodge at Apiti.  The line of cars [...]

Hi everyone  – on the recent Coast to Coast Run, our MG group was spotted by a reporter for the Wairoa Star newspaper and Kath and Morris Gordon Bear ably assisted in the interview and the following appeared in The Wairoa Star on 19th May. I can print copies of the newspaper article if you [...]

 
Hi everyone, we are now back in NZ after a wonderful 3 month touring holiday of Great Britain and of course we had to include some MG activities into our itinerary!
Our first MG stop was in Abingdon, where we visited Kimber House, the home of the MG Car Club. We arrived unannounced but Julian White, [...]

Classic scenic driving roads, old Hotels & Churches, murder mysteries, flax weaving, Devonshire teas – attracted your interest yet?
Surely something for everyone to enjoy on this unique day out!
Read all the details for this event here: mangamahu-run-april-2009
Please make sure you reply to Robin & Claire with numbers attending for the Devonshire teas!
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Palmerston North turned on one of its normal bright sunny days, albeit with a cool south easterly blowing for the Chrome, Classic & Custom Car Show on the Railway Land on Pioneer Highway, a fundraiser for the Arohanui Hospice.
27 MG’s and Triumphs arrived for the MG Manawatu display with some coming from Levin, Wanganui, Waikanae [...]

 
A showery, windy, sunny day produced 26 cars in total to make the journey to the Foxpine Airpark in Foxton to view Jabiru aircraft and assembly processes by their New Zealand agents, John and Jennifer Lester.
The main group of cars assembled in Manchester Square Feilding ready for the 1.15 departure for the run south to Foxton. Our [...]

Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow Run Report by Kath Morse. 

 Twelve MGs met in the rain at Woodville, and one Morgan joined us at Pahiatua. It rained steadily all the way until, believe it not, we came to Masterton.
We had a group stop and then went through gate D and parked up amongst other classic cars on [...]

Our Annual Planning Meeting (APM) was held on Tuesday 13th Jan 2009 at 7.30pm. It was the best turn out for a planning meeting that the group has ever had. 32 people attended the meeting with quite a few travelling a considerable distance to be there. A really big thank you to everyone who attended!
After [...]