Gate
3 at the MG Plant
One of our founder members of the V8 Register
in 1978, John Dupont, has sent in some photos of his visiting Gate
3 at the MG Plant in Abingdon two days after the Plant closed for
the last time.
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Looking back
Posted: 210119 & Updated 250210 |
The last
MGB bodyshells to be delivered to be delivered to Cowley from
Swindon seen on Sunday 12th October 1980.
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John Duponts new MGB Roadster outside Gate 3
at the MG Plant at Abingdon |
Two days
after these famous gates at the MG Plant in Abingdon closed
for the final time on Friday 24th October 1980, John Dupont
and his father parked up by Gate 3 on Sunday with their then
new MGB Roadster and John's MGBGTV8 (Teal Blue 0534) which
was 7 years old at the time. John was a founder member of
the V8 Register in 1978. (Photo: John Dupont) |
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The first
meeting of the V8 Register was held at the Crossroads Inn at
Weedon Bec on the A5 north of Towcester
on the Saturday of the MG Car Club's annual meeting at Silverstone
in May 1979. |
| Alongside,
left to right: John Dupont, Alan Kingwell, Geoff Allen, Jerry
Bright, Charles Williams, Howard Gosling, Peter Beadle, Tony
Hilton, Victor Smith and Mike Maude-Roxby. Jim Gibson, Tom Studer
and Eric Prasse were at this initial meeting but somehow missed
the photo.Above is a line up of 14 MGBGTV8s in the car park
of the Crossroads Inn at Weedon Bec in May 1979. |
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