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V8 Column for June 2003
published in Safety Fast!, the award
winning monthly magazine of the MG Car Club
From the middle of the month, the V8 25th Anniversary 2003 Week
of activities will be underway starting with the RV8 Talk on Sunday
15th June and running through to the following weekend when members
of the MG Car Club gather at Silverstone for the annual International
MG Meeting at Silverstone. Bookings for the V8 Dinner
at the new BRDC Clubhouse at Silverstone on the Friday evening,
20th June, have been coming in briskly as it is proving popular.
Later in the V8 25th Anniversary year we have the V8 Cornish
Tour over the long weekend 3rd to 6th October.
The V8 25th Anniversary 2003 Week of events runs from Sunday
15th June through to the International MG Meeting at Silverstone
over the long weekend from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd June. Full
details of the programme of events are in the four page V8 Newsletter
in the April issue of Safety Fast! and on the V8 Website at www.v8register.net
including application forms for each event and for a V8 Pass. The
V8 Pass Holders and V8 Dinner Ticket Holders are listed on the V8
Website and the passes and tickets will have been sent out to members
from the middle of May. If you have ordered one and not received
it by the time you read these notes, do get in touch with Victor
Smith.
From mid April there has been a V8 Online Sales service available
on the V8 Website which enables members to purchase workshop notes
CDs and tickets for events online using the PayPal payment mechanism
which enables you to transfer funds using your chargecard or credit
card. This should be particularly convenient for our overseas members.
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The V8 Register has been an openly democratic group from its formation
in 1978, and V8 AGM has traditionally been held on the Sunday
at the Club's Silverstone weekend so as many V8 members as possible
can attend. The V8 AGM will be held at 12.30pm on Sunday 22nd June
2003 at the V8 Marquee. A formal
notice of the V8 AGM and agenda will appear elsewhere in
Safety Fast! The V8 Track Laps session is at 11.40am so the AGM
will follow shortly after members get back from the track to the
V8 Parking area.
In the Autumn there is the V8 Cornish Tour over the long
weekend from Friday 3rd to Monday 6th October 2003. The V8 Tours
have been a very popular event over the years and this year the
base hotel is in Falmouth. The organiser Gordon Hesketh-Jones has
already seen a stream of advance bookings. Full details of the programme
of events, information on the hotel, costs and booking forms are
on the V8 Website. Members without internet facilities can contact
Gordon for an information pack at Manningford, Trew, Helston, Cornwall
TR13 9QW or on 01736 763053. His email address is at manningford@btinternet.com
for any queries.
Daniel Heyer (Damask 0987) at Chateau Chambord
on the Loire Valley on his way from Germany to Portugal last year.
He arrived early when the horses were being exercised in the grounds
long before the hordes of tourists rolled up! (Photo: Daniel Heyer)
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