November 2008
Chicagoland MG Club
P.O. Box 455 Addison, IL 60101
www.chicagolandmgclub.com
Monthly members’ web password: xxxxxxx


President
Jim Evans
630-858-8192
president@chicagolandmgclub.com

Vice-President
Dean Swanson
630-663-0029
vicepresident@chicagolandmgclub.com

Secretary / Membership
Victor L’Heureux
847-516-3093
secretary@chicagolandmgclub.com

Treasurer
Reinout Vogt
847-342-9804
treasurer@chicagolandmgclub.com

Editor
Bill Reece
630-816-1195
editor@chicagolandmgclub.com

Classifieds
David Lieb
847-588-8016
classifieds@chicagolandmgclub.com

Regalia
David L. Ransom
708-452-7312
regalia@chicagolandmgclub.com

Librarian
Bill & Deb Mennell
630-393-1514
librarian@chicagolandmgclub.com

Driving Events
Seth Jones
847-869-7474
drivingevents@chicagolandmgclub.com

Tech Coordinator
Dave “Cowboy” Bralich
630-289-7915
tech@chicagolandmgclub.com

Webmaster
Barney Gaylord
630-505-0866
webmaster@chicagolandmgclub.com

Ebay Program
David Evans
630-462-9181
ebaymaster@chicagolandmgclub.com
 
The Natter ‘n’ Noggin is held the second Tuesday of each month at alternating locations. Please check the Driveline or club website for the current location. The talking, eating and drinking starts about 7:30 p.m. Come and stay as long as you can.

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

 
   


It was early September 1971. I was a History student at Loyola College in Montreal, Quebec. I had bought this 1956 MGA several months earlier for $250 from a classmate. A few dents and some bondo, but BRG with a magnificent Moto Lita type wheel engraved with Stirling Moss’s signature. This photo was taken shortly after a successful brake-bleed (ergo the grin). A “new” $10 junkyard rear bumper was installed a couple of hours later.
I’d started seeing a lovely young woman about this time, Allyson, who enjoyed the car as much as I did as we explored the winding, hilly roads of the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal. Allyson never minded that we had to push-start the car as often as not, or that it took in water from almost everywhere when it rained. All of that paled in comparison to the fun of cruising the hills on those warm, sunny, fall days. Memories of the girl and the car are inexorably connected.
Eventually, I had to sell the car to help pay tuition, and though my current MGB is civilized, reliable (well…you know) and even luxurious in comparison, I’ll always harbor a fondness for the noble MGA, and a wee cruise down MGA memory lane.
-- Joel-Paul Brossard

   
 

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