The Monthly Club Meeting is held on the third Monday of each month (except no meeting in December). The meetings are from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. at MACK’S GOLDEN PHEASANT in Elmhurst

		Our First MG, the year was 1976 After college I served in the Dutch army for a year and a half and my first job, in the fall of 1975, was field service engineer so it came with a company car. What better circumstances to make a very old wish for an English sports car come true. It didn’t have to be brand new or even second-hand since we could always use the brand new company station wagon for reliability. So we started searching seriously with only a few pay checks in hand and we looked at Healey’s, Sunbeams, Triumphs, Jaguars, MG, and so on. We had no real favorite as long as it was a British Roadster. The first British Roadster that met the real requirement, costing not more than we had saved (and that wasn’t very much), was a gold’ish ‘65 MGB. Bang… that was it…we bought it and we became life-long MG aficionados! It had an aftermarket luggage rack and after going around the block for a couple of times we packed for a weekend trip to the islands in the South West of Holland. Not very far away at all, not even a 100 miles. But “Appie” (we already had given him a name, see license plate) broke a motor mount which caused some other malfunctions with fuel lines etc., and had to be towed home! So here is the very first picture of our very first MG weekend: Appie jacked up on the side of the road and me under the hood! Little did we know back then? This would not be a single occurrence; this would not even be an exception. This would become a routine. Henneke claims that she knows every major highway in Holland, from the shoulders and the sides, that is. Waiting for me to fix Appie or the MGC that followed. However, I did learn to fix my MG’s pretty quickly and the towing part became the exception indeed.   Reinout Vogt