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16th Club Meet - Heritage Motor Museum Gaydon:
April 2014

The first National Meet of 2014 was held on Sunday 13th April 2014 at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire



Members had two treats in store; the great improvement in the weather over the previous days Pride of Longbridge and the sight of number one parked on the grass outside the museum ready to take part in our timeline display of "Dealer Launch Cars"

Belying its age, still with that new car smell, looking if it had just come from the production line and with only 33 miles on the clock, number one was a pleasure to behold.











The early arrivals were soon treated to an impressive display of nine early 75's including one members pre-production example, the museums #1 and seven member owned dealer launch cars





Many visited the museum especially as there had been a discount negotiated for club members, it's an impressive collection many with a Longbridge, Rover or MG connection.










Not only does the museum have the first production Rover 75 off the line it also has the last, a rather nice example in Firefrost



During the afternoon there was a very amusing and informative question and answer session given by Rincewind aka Nic Fasci, previously a homolgation engineer with MG-Rover, currently with the UK Vehicle Type Approval authority VCA.

A raffle was held presided over by Reebs and actros with the able assistance of sworks, the star prize of an LCD television was won by Moonshine Mark.



There was an impromptu monogram themed display of ten cars arranged later on in the afternoon.

The Gryphon Trophy was awarded to Rob Wijnstok from the Netherlands for his beautiful Chatsworth Tourer.





It had been a busy and enjoyable day with a total of 139 cars attending the event, a record breaking one in the Club's history.