The Arizona MG 'T' Roadrunner Club, formed January 30, 1976, is: Dedicated to preserving, using and enjoying all MG's - and to those who do so. Membership dues are $25.00 per year (March through February of the next year), members may advertise MG related advertisements free of charge.

Non Club member and commercial adds are $10.00 per issue.

Editor: Ken Martin: 602- 840-3554 Regalia: Danny Young: 602-218-460 TSO:

AAHC: Ed Battershell: 602-955-0489

Chair: Terri Bounty: 702-275-5561 Vice-Chair: Wyatt Tichenor: 480-434-5887 Sec: Susan McDonald: 623-414-3697 Treas: Bonnie Mater: 480-326-8586 B.M.A.L: Ginny Martin: 602-840-3554 Webmaster: Mike Grogan: 602-380-3188 The Octagon Wheel is the official newsletter

of The Arizona MG 'T' Roadrunner Club. Contributions from the members are encouraged, and every effort will be made to use appropriate material. The editors reserve the right to edit for length and suitability. Opinions expressed are those of the contributor and do not necessarily reflect the policy or philosophy of The Arizona MG 'T' Roadrunner Club.

July 2019

FROM THE CHAIR'S SEAT Our June 8th breakfast at Deer Valley Airport was so much fun. We had a great turnout of Roadrunners and AZ MG members. It was early enough to encourage eight members to drive their gorgeous cars! The food was delicious and it was so much fun to watch the small planes take off and land. My son and 15 year old grandson were visiting from Las Vegas and joined me for the break-fast, My grandson was impressed that “old people” really like old cars as do a lot of young kids now. I didn’t tell him we were young when these cars were new. LOL Thank you to Ken and Ginny for suggesting this new place. Remember next month is our MG Birthday Party Look for details in the newsletter. Please RSVP for the restaurant headcount. Everyone is busy getting ready for the GOF West August 12-16 in Prescott. Have you made your reser-vations yet? The sooner everyone makes reservations, the easier it is to get an accurate count for events, din-ners, trophies, etc. We’re hoping for great Roadrunners turnout.

Happy motoring,

Terri Bounty

AZ. MG T Roadrunners Website: www.arizonamgtroadrunners.org

The Arizona MG “T” Roadrunner Club is affiliated with The New England MG “T” Register

July 14 MG Birthday Party August 12-16 GoF West Prescott AZ September Pool Party at the Youngs October From The Frame Up Tour November 3 British Wheels on the Green Car Show December 14 Holiday Party

TSO Representative Wanted

We are still in need of a TSO representative to send our yearly club activities and photos to the editor of The Sacred Octagon magazine. Jane Par-ker our last TSO rep will tell you how and what needs to be done. It usually has to be sent some-time in December. As editor I have a lot of photos.

ANYONE WILLING TO HELP?

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Saturday, June the 8th, was a great event, including both the Arizona MG ‘T’ Roadrun-ners, and the AZ. MG Club. We had a great time chatting in the parking lot, checking out some cars with hoods up, and just having a great time! As we went into the airport where we had re-served a room that would hold us all, only to find another group in the room! The manager took care of it, asking them to car-ry on their meeting in another area! After the staff cleaned up their drinks, etc., we were able to all be seated! Club members from both clubs were: Terri Bounty, her son and grandson, Vic-tor and Evelyne Rodrigues, Steve Strublic, Gra-ham & Susan McDonald, Sherwood & Jane Par-ker, Don & Ginger Pottenger, Mike & Barb Grogan, Randy Copelman, George Minchuck and friend, George & Delores Bean, Danny & Barbara Young, Warren Kosters, Linda Akley, Joel Haglund, Steve Tate, Tony Wende (who lives in Apache Junction) said, “It is a long way

to drive my TD, so I will fly!”, also at-tending were Ken and Ginny Martin who ar-ranged for this

event. I purposely didn’t put clubs with at-tendees, we are all interested in MG’s, no mat-ter what year they are! We assume everyone enjoyed their Breakfast, following which Tony Wende flew home safely, and we all went out and checked one another's MG ‘s again!

Number 1 & 2: A nice bunch of MG’s in the parking lot. It was good to see the Pottengers’s engine problem was finally figured out and they had a nice ride to the event!

Number 3: Tony Wende’s Grumman MG for the day.

Number 4 & 5: AZ MG Club & AZ MG T Roadrunner members enjoyed breakfast and good conversations.

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1952 MG TDC Mark II

I received this car from my parents estate, Barbara and Orville Granquist. Orville bought the car on Sept. 17, 1973 from Charles Roush. It was restored by Dave’s Import Service to original condition inside and out September 6, 1990. Driven 205 miles. Kept in parents garage. Car returned to Dave’s Import by me on Nov. 9, 2017 to get the car back on the road. Service at Dave’s complete with mileage from restoration at 581. New tires all around. Although we love the car, a two-seater is just too small for our family.

Asking $18,500 Contact info: normajohansen@cox.net or 480-595-8120, our home phone. Ask for Dan. Car is garaged in central Phoenix at my parents home. Interested buyers can contact us to make arrangements to see and drive the car.

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July Board Meeting

CARS & COFFEE AT PINNACLE PEAK

Show is held the 2nd Saturday of the month. 7 to 10 am.

Location: The Villages at Pinnacle Peak 10458 E. Jomax Rd. Scottsdale, AZ. 85262

(E. Jomax Rd. & Alma School Rd.)

The Board has been working on updating our By-Laws, the latest proposed By-Laws were included several times previously in our newsletter. We have given over 60 days notice to the members so they can vote on their acceptance. We will have a short business meeting at the upcoming MG Birthday Party on Sunday July 14th to vote on these pro-posed By-Law changes. A pdf of the By-Laws will be included along with the Octagon Wheel. Please read them and come prepared to cast your vote.

This months Board meeting will be held Thursday, July 11th at the Denny’s Restaurant, 3315 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale. Just S. of the SE corner of Scottsdale Rd. and Osborn Rd. Starting time is 6:30 p.m. and all Club members are encouraged to attend. The room we have reserved will hold up to 50 people.

Sunday, July 14th at 5:00 p.m.

Rosie McCaffrey’s Irish Pub, 906 E. Camelback Rd, Phoenix, 85014

We will be in the big room in the back, same as last year.

Guests will order from the menu; Club will provide birthday cake.

Please RVSP to Ken & Ginny Martin by

Friday, July 12th at 602-840-3554. Please leave a message on their

answering machine if they are not home. Also feel free to email your response: to the Martins at: kmartin410@cox.net

Hope to see you there!

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Roadrunners, here is the registration form for GoF West 2019 that is being held in Pres-cott AZ this year. We hope a lot of you will sign up for the GoF this year as it is right in our backyard. This is a good way to get our cars out in public view.

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Hello Members, I volunteered to coordinate the solicitation of auction items for this year’s GoF in Prescott, AZ August 12 – August 16! A lot of planning and coordination has gone into this GoF, the venue is great, and the outlook is that it should be a great one for all of us. We on the plan-ning committee hope that Arizona is well represented. I’m sure that I don’t need to remind you that the auction is one of the mandatory events for any GoF. This auction allows us to take care of any expenses that have not been covered by the income for the event, and, again, hopefully, gives us “seed money” for next year’s event. I can’t tell you how many times in the past few years that the Steering Committee members and Chairpersons of the GoFs were crossing their fingers hoping that the auction turned out well so the finances would balance in a positive direction. But it has worked out each year, thanks to your generous contributions—Thank You! Well, it’s time to ask for your contributions of auction items again. We could have used a few more items last year. I’m asking if you would consider contributing a bit more than you may have in the past. Go into your garage and find some of those MG items that have been gathering dust that you will probably never use and help us turn them into cash for the GoF. How about those great posters that have been rolled up for the past 20 years? And that extra set of Whitworth wrenches that you have been saving for when your others wear out? There are probably a lot of items that you have that others don’t but would like to have if only they could find one. However, we can’t use old greasy chassis parts. If you have good, clean, serviceable items, please consider donating them. Items don’t necessarily have to be MG related for the attendees to find value in them. If you do have some items to donate to this worthy cause, please let me know by e-mail (yooperdave@me.com) what the items are and bring them along to the GoF, or send them to Ken Martin 4846 E. Indianola Ave. Phoenix, AZ. 85018. (I am moving to a new house shortly, thus I can’t receive ship-ments.) I will still be tracking each item(s) by the registrant’s name. Even if you can’t attend, we sure could use your items. Let’s make this event one that provides a lot of fun for the attendees and that keeps our fi-nances in the black. Hope to see you there. Thank you, Dave Boyer Auction Coordinator GoF West 2018

It is farewell to Roadrunners Victor and Evelyne Rodrigues until next spring but the Maters and the Parkers could not let them go without including them in their cherished tradition of eating at the Chuck Box at ASU and then coming back to one of their homes for cake to celebrate a birth-day. This celebration was for Bonnie's birth-day. Grilled hamburgers, FRIED poppers, mush-rooms, onion rings, and zucchini certainly intro-duced them to a real "dive" with all its grease and goodness! Swiss fondue it is NOT but from eve-rything they tell us, they are leaving Arizona with the very best memories and looking forward to re-uniting with all of us again next year. Sherwood Parker

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CLUB REGALIA FOR SALE

WHITE T SHIRTS WITH COLORED LOGO VARIOUS SIZES $16.00 LARGE COLORED EMBROIDERED LOGO PATCHES 8"X 6" $5.00 SMALL COLORED EMBROIDERED LOGO PATCHES 6 1/2"X 5" $4.00 ENAMELED CAR BADGES $35.00

Contact Danny Young at

602-218-5460

Doug & Carol Pelton 1948 TC Jan & Carole Rons TA “Encore” Special Sherwood & Jane Parker 1955 Arnolt Coupe Terri Bounty 1955 MG TF Randy Copleman 1953 MG TD MK ll Barry Briskman 1947 MG TC Don Mapes 1952 MG TD Danny & Barbara Young 1958 MGA Coupe Dave & Gretchen Boyer 1951 MG TD Mickey Saperstein 1913 Malcolm Jones cycle car

ROADRUNNERS RECOMMEND

Below are services that our members

have used and recommend.

Who: Advanced Distributors What: Rebuilds and Recurves our Distributors. Comments: Reasonable price, fast turnaround, Jeff really knows our engines. Recommended by: Sherwood Parker Contact: www.advanceddistributors.com From the Frame Up: Club member Doug Pelton’s com-pany. He specializes in the hard to find TC parts. Con-tact him @ 602-690-4927 or www.FromTheFrameUp.com Arizona Brake and Clutch. 602-256-7966, 2211 N. Black Canyon Highway, (that is on the east side access road). Take in your old shoes and they will be done in a week. Smart money says take in a drum and they will arc the brakes to your drum. I have found very reasonable pricing and service for powder coating at: Affordable Powder Coating. They did a mesh grille for the TC for $40. They have a sepa-rate company at the same address for Ceramic coatings (like Jet-Hot). They did my Header, Header pipe Muffler and tail pipe for $212 and it was ready in 5 days.

Affordable Powder Coatings & Extreme Coatings 2111 W. Fillmore St. 2111 W Fillmore St. Phoenix, AZ 85009 Phoenix, AZ 85009 602-272-7646 602-272-0268 Copperstate Alternator 3807 N 35th Ave. (35th Ave and Indian School) 602-253-4155 Sherwood had Starter and Generator done. Reasonable turnaround. Reasonable price. Sherwood had a good experience getting 2 crankshafts cleaned and Magnafluxed with these people. It took about a week and the cost was reasonable at $49.00 for 2.

Continental Diesel, Inc. 2734 W Palm Lane. Phoenix, AZ 85009

Sherwood Parker also recommends.

Tichenor Coachworks 650 W. McKellips, Mesa

480-434-5887

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FOR SALE FOR SALE

XPAG Crankshaft, Used. Just Passed Mag-naflux. Mains and Rods are STD but need to be cleaned up. May clean at -.010, if not will clean up at -.020.

Call Sherwood at 480 577 7545 and leave a message.

For Sale 1960 MGA 1600

The car was built by Phil Smid and he does it right. I drove it about 6 years ago and it was sweet. All the particulars are in the Craig's list link, Phil is helping his 85 year old friend sell the car.

Sherwood Parker

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/phoenix-1960-mga/6920924849.html

Shock Exchange Service for MG TDs, MG TFs and other British Cars.

I have been providing shock services for years and am offering Roadrunners 10% off of current internet pricing. World Wide Auto Parts of Madison Wis-consin is considered to be one of the best in the Shock repairing business for many years. See their website for more infor-mation then call me for the details.

http://www.nosimport.com

Thanks, Sherwood. Cell: 482-577-7545

ROADRUNNERS

There is still time to register for GoF West 2019, being held in Prescott AZ., August 12-16. Come enjoy all the fun and meet new MG friends. If you can only come for a couple of days, that’s alright too.