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A Christmas card from Masaaki Sakaguichi. |
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 2007 Christmas cards from Jack
Murray. |
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Christmas 2006just would not be
the same without a contribution from Jack Murray - this time the YT depicted
is Saul Duck's and the Saloon is the webmaster's. |
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Jack Murray's very original
Christmas card for 2005 - Ian Hopkins' MG YB colour scheme and David
Pelham's YT. Don't try
this at home folks! |
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Christmas card 2004 from Ted
Gardner. |
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Yet another hilarious card
(2004) to
regale us from the ever imaginative artwork of the illustrious Jack Murray. |
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And the YA version of the
same card. |
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A drawing of an MG YB by Kentarou
Sakaguchi, aged 11 years. |
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Willem's message is Happy Christmas and a reliable 2004. |
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BEN produced a set of 6
Christmas cards for 2003, one of which, ref. 33P2 included an MG Y Type
Saloon entitled Christmas eve at the station. These are currently no
longer available, however as persistence often pays off, you can contact BEN
through their website
www.ben.org.uk (click on Christmas cards and gifts to see current
selection). Founded in 1905, BEN
is the UK occupational benevolent fund for
employees past and present (and their dependants) from the motor trade. For more information, please
contact: BEN, Lynwood,
Sunninghill, Ascot.
Berkshire, SL5 0AJ UK or Tel:
+44 (0)1344 620191
Fax: +44 (0)1344
622042 or email and ask them if they will rerun them. |
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The 2003 card from Jack Murray.
Since the webmaster's car has been resprayed Almond Green Jack has had to
change the colour scheme on the card! |
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2003 was probably been the
wettest winter on record in the UK - if not it should be. Jack
Murray's wonderfully funny wit manages to raise a smile every year and this
year was no exception. Any similarity to Dennis Doubtfire's colour
scheme is not totally co-incidental! |
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Kentarou's father, Masaaki Sakaguchi,
has turned his son's picture into a Christmas card to great effect too. |
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The 2002 card from Jack Murray, this time to David Pelham, in YT format.
The observant among you will quickly spot where all the little Ys and YTs in
the dividers and on Ys on Parade now come from! |
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and another .... |
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Here is one he has done featuring Saul
Duck's YT! |
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The first Christmas card received
by the Webmaster from the Registrar - 1997? |
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Over the years Jack Murray has sent my wife
and me
various Christmas cards, featuring a Y in our colour scheme. Here is a selection.
Jack has also kindly offered to produce cards, customised to your own colour
scheme, provided he does not get totally inundated. Please
contact him
directly by clicking here. |
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Another from Jack Murray ... |
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and another ... |
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Rally Plates
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 Event plaque
for the Diamond Anniversary Pacific Northwest Run 2007. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Diamond Anniversary Spring Run 2007,
Charlcote House. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Spring Run 2006, Gloucester
and Warwickshire Railway to Claydon House. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Spring Run 2005, Sudley Castle. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Spring Run 2004, Rousham House. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Why to Exe tour 2003. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Spring Run 2003, Snowshill Manor. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Riverside Picnic 2002. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the Spring Run 2002, Broughton Castle. |
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Ian Hopkins event plaque
for the original Why to Exe tour 2001. |
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Paintings and Drawings
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A graphic
artist and classic car freak, that's me, Dermot Gallagher. If you like
illustrations such as these, there are more at my
eBay shop, Classic Car Art Drawings. Visitors
most welcome. Full size of my prints are 11.7 X 8.3
inches. |
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A cartoon by
Alwyn Morgan, originally published in June 2008 Safety Fast.
Safety Fast is the monthly magazine of the MG Car Club and full
copyright rests with them. Reproduced here by kind permission. |
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A cartoon by
Alwyn Morgan, originally published in April 2008 Safety Fast.
Safety Fast is the monthly magazine of the MG Car Club and full
copyright rests with them. Reproduced here by kind permission. |
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I'm sending you a jpg of a
nice print I have, of what looks like an oil painting of a Y-Type, out on a
Sunday afternoon drive in the country. The artist was named M Thompson, but
I have no other information. This treasure was bought on ebay about a year
ago. Perhaps this could go in the art section of the web site so others can
enjoy it |
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 Now the "Y" trilogy
is complete ! Charles has finished the close-up of the "shady lady". Not
much to be seen of the car, this time. Actually, it was me who had to pose
for it, and the face was changed just a little bit...
The
inspiration for his painting is a circa 1925
picture by Tamara de Lempicka, pure art deco period.
Remo Peter
Painter: Charles Héritier, Zürich, no copyright if not used commercially. |
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 Anura B. Maswelagedera,
of Sri Lanka, has penned this picture of an MG YB. Anura's website and
other work can be seen at
http://www.automobileartist.com/home.htm. |
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George
Herschell produced this rendition of a Y Saloon. |
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Here
comes the second painting in the "film noir" series. Now I start to wonder
about the plot of this movie...or is this already the poster for the sequel
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Remo Peter
Painter: Charles Héritier, Zürich, no copyright if not used commercially. |
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My life partner has just finished an oil painting of my YB, inspired by "film noir" posters from the Forties. He got the idea because people keep taking the little MG for a Citroën Traction Avant, the classic gangsters'
getaway (and police pursuit) car in French films of the era.
Perhaps our website visitors will like the more gory side of prewar car style, too ! Please include the picture in the "Artistic Ys" section.
Remo Peter
Painter: Charles Héritier, Zürich, no copyright if not used commercially. |
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Ian Guy painted this picture for
Mrs. Ellis for her husband, hence the name above
the main entrance. The whole scene is totally fictional, a complete fantasy,
the garage does not exist in any form other than in this painting!
Click here to see
some working drawings. The
painting consists of five of Mr. Ellis' classic cars owned at different
periods in his life. The Riley, for instance, was the car they went on
their honeymoon in, so he added ribbons as a fun
detail. The MG TC was placed in the foreground as it was his favourite. Mr.&
Mrs. Ellis appear in the TC, their son is the petrol attendant and their
daughter.......you guessed it.........is stood by the Austin A35. Mr. Ellis,
it seems, always hankered after his own garage, so I thought it the ideal
setting. Oh, and the recovery truck? A GUY Invincible, a little pun on
his part, to remind them of the artist's name!!
Another of Ian's pictures is below. |
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A collection of drawings of Woody Y Type conversion proposals. The top
picture, combination is by B Oudejans and Willem van der Veer.
The lower one is a design proposal by Scott Barrow to
resurrect the remains of the body of Y 4099 as a woody Y Type. |
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Pencil sketch by Odette Coulson
(aged 12) showing how to fit roller bearings to the propeller shaft
universal joint. |
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Pencil sketch by Odette Coulson
(aged 12) showing how to fit the yoke of the propeller shaft to the flange
with the universal joint in place. |
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Ian Guy painted this picture as a
birthday present for his Father in law. He says "he
(father in law) owned the car in the '50s
and '60s and always regretted selling it. The painting came as a total
surprise to him. I was able to get most of the
information I needed from my Mother in law,
including the fact that it was Metallic Bronze which I queried given the age
of the car. After contacting the MG Club and Octagon Club I was assured that
indeed metallic paints were an option on this model. In fact MG were one of
the first companies to offer such a paint!" Ian's other paintings can be found
by clicking
here. |
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Jack Murray assures us of the
"originality" of this advert featuring his car! While we are convinced
about the originality of the advert, we are somewhat more sceptically we have
included it in this Artist's Impressions rather than the Reprinted
Advertisements as more than a little artistic licence is being taken we
feel. You judge for yourself!! |
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A painting featuring our chairman,
Peter Arnell, his wife Suzie, their dogs, and their sun bronze Y Type.
Painted by Nick Rowlatt |
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Another family scene from the brush
of Nick Rowlatt featuring Barbara (pushing on the right as you look at the
picture) and David (steering) and a couple of spectators, having become
stuck in the mud in a gymkhana at Loosley Place, April 2000. This
picture is an extract from a montage of MGs see
http://fp.furzedown.plus.com/images/losmorecontr.jpg at
http://fp.furzedown.plus.com. |
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The story behind it goes
like this:
I am in the process of clearing out my late father's flat, where some old
stuff of mine was also stored, among it my study books from college.
Dreamily flipping the pages of an English textbook, a little leaflet fell
out: a drawing of an MG Y-type! Although I had kept quite a few objects from
that era of my life, I was genuinely surprised this drawing had survived.
Anyway I had completely forgotten about its existence. But I remember now
that I had copied the picture from a photo in an old Swiss car magazine, and
used the time of some boring lesson to shade it with pencil. But how come a
14 or 15 year old boy in the early Seventies would want to draw a
Thirties-style car? Well, it all started with a love story, the 1970 film
"Love Story", to be precise. This, as any MG buff will know, featured a TC,
and that's what I fell in love with when I saw the film in our local cinema
(never mind the girl or the boy, or the plot, which must have been awfully
"kitsch"). Wanting to know more about the TC, I wrote to "Automobil Revue",
the very renowned and long-standing Swiss car magazine. They sent me
photocopies on what looked like chalk-coated paper of the article they had
published for the TC's launch in 45, and the good soul who had dived into
the archive threw in an article on the Y from 1947 with it. No idea why,
perhaps because it was the only other MG car produced during that period.
But what happened? From the photos, I liked it
even better than the TC - what a cute little car! Especially the idea of
carrying a suitcase on the open platform I found really funny, having grown
up with car boots you could hide in. And for some unknown reason the shape
of car most appealing to me has always been with separate fenders
and headlights. So instead of dreaming to drive a Cortina Lotus (to be
honest, I did...a little), I imagined myself in the 1935 Chevy Master a
mechanic had hidden in a garage space after a quarter of a million miles of
faithful service, or in the Mercedes 170S with the broken clutch that could
have been mine for 500 Swiss francs (with 4 years to go to get my driving
licence!). And when the Jaguar dealer close to my school persuaded a Mark
IV 1.5 Litre to cough itself back to life that must have been stored for two
decades, right when I passed on my moped after lunch break, this was one of
the few times I ever skipped my lesson, just to drop into those leather
seats, peering over the chromed headlamps, letting my eyes wander over big
dials and wooden dash - and sobering up when the value of the car was
discussed. The MG Y for me seemed to have all these qualities, but in a more
manageable format. So I started looking around to see one, but at the time
nobody in the whole of Switzerland seemed to know this model at all. But
patience pays off: A quarter of a century later I finally became owner of a
YB ! The article mentioned is the
one reprinted on the Y-types' website, and if you superpose my drawing on
the photo there, you will find they match perfectly.
(At least it did before I had to scale it for display on the website -
Webmaster). |
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I would like the gallery to
have this part finished pencil sketch of YA 2793, which appears in YA's on
parade. Regretfully I am no longer the owner, but still follow avidly all
things MG. In my opinion the Y' s a have particular grace and character
of their own. If you would like me to do a similar sketch or
water
colour of your MG for a small fee, I can be contacted through the Octagon
club member no 4328, or by email here. Alan Taylor |
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Russ Taylor has provided this
wonderful painting entitled "A 'Y' in need". |
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Cakes
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A 40th Birthday Cake made by
Shirley Pelham for her husband David, our Public Relations Officer. |
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Here is another 40th Birthday Cake
- this time it was your webmaster's - also a few years ago now! The
cake features my YA in the top right, with my ZA top left, MGB bottom left,
and MGB GT bottom right. |
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Animated Gifs in this site
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This one is
used as a divider on pages like Hints and Tips
and in the Technical Centre.
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We use this one on
Stories from the Rear View Mirror - a page where owners who want to tell a
longer history of their car and show more pictures, can do so. |
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This gif is used on our page on
Oil Leaks. |
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This gif is used in our Privacy Statement page -
raising the anti-dazzle curtain. |
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This gif is used in our Jackall Advice page -
watch for the Jackalls. |
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This gif is used in our Technical Advice and our
Technical Data pages - operating semaphores and
flashing lights. |
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The one that started the
animation going - Rik Moncur's speeding Y. (I still get a kick out
of it now - Webmaster.) |
