MG Car Club Y-Type Register

The MGCC Y Type Register 21st Annual General Meeting was held at Kimber House on Sunday 25th March.

I am very pleased to report that all existing committee members were unanimously re-elected apart from the following. Brian Moyse stood down from the committee as secretary and Chris Callaghan was unanimously elected in his place. David Pelham has also stood down from the committee and Jerry Birkbeck has taken on the additional responsibility for PR. Many thanks to Brian and David for their service over the past years and special thanks to Chris for stepping forward and taking on the job of Secretary.

My Chairman’s report is available via the link below as is the Registrar’s Report. Members are welcome to ask Annette for an email copy of the Treasurer’s report and accounts. Please quote your membership No. on application.

Peter Vielvoye.

MGCC Y Register Chairman.

The Y Register Chairman's Report 2012 is available via this link.

The Registrar's Report 2012 is available via this link. This one is a PDF file.

March 26th, 2012.

Owner and Location.

Peter Vielvoye, Gloucestershire, UK.

Date of First Registration.

1949.

Chassis Number : Y 4276

My New YA (February 2012)

After recently failing to persuade the present owner of the YB I owned back in the sixties to sell it to me, I decided it was time to start looking for a Y Saloon to accompany my Tourer.

David Pelham is organising a Y Type Tour of Brittany during the second week of September 2012.

The Tour will depart from Portsmouth on the 9th September at 07:00 and will return on Friday 14th September in the early evening. There will be stopovers in Normandy on both the outward and return journeys. The base hotel will be near Ploermel which will be the base camp for three nights.

Numbers are strictly limited, as a Family Run hotel is being used, it will be ‘first come first served basis’ , so please contact David directly if interested for more details.

This is an MGCC Y Type Register event open to all, non members welcome.

As we head off into a new year I would like to take time to look back over another eventful year of the MGCC Y Type Register. Early in the year Neil Cairns gave notice that he felt the time had come after 14 years to move on from being our Safety Fast! scribe. The committee felt he had done a great job and commissioned a portrait of his car that I had the pleasure of presenting to him at our Spring Run Dinner. Neil promised to keep on writing and became our official Technical Advisor. He then set about filling our website Technical Information Section with a wealth of Y related gems. More recently many of you will have read his diary in which he related his trials and tribulations as he rebuilt the engine of his YB, a masterpiece that will serve all MG owners far into the future. The First installment of An XPAG Engine Rebuild--'Introduction and Day One' can be found via this link. After advertising the Scribe post Jerry Birkbeck came to our rescue, took up the pen and has made a great start to his period of office.

2010 left us with a website and no one to run it. We have been very grateful to our committee member Ted Gardner, who took up the challenge and with no previous experience of running websites has developed it into a first class tool for Y owners. Websites need time to grow, ours is in its comparative infancy but with your help it will continue to expand. Contributions on anything Y are always much appreciated.

Or alternatively there is the popular BBS ( a Bulletin Board independent of any Register ) on the MG Enthusiasts Car Club website run by Mike Plumstead and to access this bulletin click here BBS Y-Type Thread

The second MGCC Y Type Register Autumn Run took place on Sunday 11th September 2011. Every day of the week leading up to it saw the TV weather men and girls predicting a ‘low front appearing over England at the weekend, bringing with it gales and torrential rain’, which did depress me a bit. I then did what everyone who ever organises an event in England does, I googled ‘weather’ twice a day and read every forecast. I read every one so that I could chose the best one to believe in. This did me no good though because they were all dire. But then forecasts of heavy rain turned to heavy rain showers, and then to light showers and then to ‘fair all day’.

Well a couple of them did.

The entries for the run hadn’t exactly flooded in and even two solid certain participants had withdrawn; one through illness and one because he was becoming a grandfather for the second time that weekend. In the end though we had a good dozen entries, plus five ‘In Spirit’ runners from overseas (more of them later). The day did dawn bright and clear and we drove to the start, Stondon Motor Museum. There were some early risers there already, two Ys and a Varitone MG ZB. We had two phone calls from MG Z owners who were due to attend; one had broken his arm and couldn’t come. The other was going to attend Goodwood Revival the next weekend and his wife needed to buy some seamed stockings. One of the best excuses for lateness I have ever heard.