Picture Spurt Updated 3rd May

[shite_meister]

Some pictures wot I took yesterday of the MG Owners Club meet which happens every year in Jersey, bearded real-ale drinking 'enthusiasts' come from all over the UK and park next to other cars exactly the same in a perfect row whilst a man reads incredibly dull information over the P.A which relays information via large speakers placed around the cars informing anyone within earshot that in 1955 the MG TA used a slightly different spire clip to the previous year whilst gentlemen of advanced years talk about beard styles or how to polish their grilles.

 

This was the scene that greeted me upon arrival, keep with me 'shiters I know it looks about as fun and interesting as Chris Moyles but as I thought I'd give it a go anyway.

 

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz "WAKE UP SHITE MEISTER!" "Sorry Sir, I fell asleep, it were all them MGs wot done it sir"

 

 

This looked alright, Revolution alloys and a dirty great Rover V8 always a winning combo for an MG, in fact when I become Chancellor Supreme I will only allow MGs with a V8 on the road-fact!

 

 

These are great fun, an MG RV8 with a 3.9 injected V8, having driven one I can say they're great but being an MG they are very very small.

 

'Must...polish...chassis legs....must....polish...chassis legs' is the mantra chanted by this gent for fear of being lynched by the concourse judges, so keen was he to have the shiniest chassis leg that despite explaining to him that nobody could see the sodding thing anyway he actually wore his index finger down to the knuckle and then some, as you can imagine he was in great pain but as I explained to him helpfully: No pain, no gain. The cunt did have a shiney chassis leg though.

 

These three gentlemen were totally absorbed by the graceful slow dance of a dying slug just in front of the car, shortly after pointing out to these folk that it was in fact a piece of dog turd excreted by a small dog say a Yorkshire Terrier or some such simply blowing in the wind to which the gentleman on the left of the picture called me a 'Fucking idiot who doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about' Charmed I'm sure, I left in disgust....

 

.....and made my way towards this Vermillion Clubman. I once bought a Clubman you know. Its a little known fact that these stripes were designed by serendipity that is to say one night in the design studio the stylist in charge of the Clubman Mr Hugh G. Rection Esq badly needed to itch his anus as was often the case of the aforemention pile sufferer, in accidently inserting two digits 'beyond the call of duty' he found that he was in a Picasso predicament by having two brown fingers whereupon he proceeded to wipe his fingers along the bodywork of the Mini 'buck' in a feeble effort to rid his fingers of mud but in doing so he created these two brown stripes. Thats what I heard anyway...from a bloke...in a pub.

 

Ford

 

Anglebox

 

Yawn, what? am I supposed to get excited about this because its old and worth fuck-loads? when was the last time the owner of this pleb-mobile kicked the arse out whilst exiting a car-park in front a load of laydeez and made them wet? NEVER thats when.

 

How about an eight year old copy of Razzle and twenty B&H?

 

Quite liked this Frogeye, did you know that its called a frogeye not because of its styling but because when these were made a man in the BMC factory would have a massive box of live frogs and he'd gouge out their poor little eyes and fill the rear axle with them in a form of pre-historic Molyslip, this act of lunacy was soon outlawed however hence the face-lift and the expression 'Mad as a box of frogs'

Oh yeah the car, it was for sale and stuff.

 

 

 

This looked alright in a sleep-with-it-pissed sort of way.

 

Fanny Magnette

 

 

Fuck Yeah!

 

I'd like to run away with this late 1976 P6 and make sweet love to it, I can't of course as this would be silly and illogical so I will have to make do with a real woman except on the wedding day it'd be this little minx that I'd be thinking about you get me? This one was just like my old P6 only mine had leather seats and.....oh fuck it you don't care anyway.

 

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This is my mate's 1965 Cooper S, moments after this picture was taken a large party of rowdy BMW MINI owners staggered up to it, turned it onto its roof led by '80s light entertainment duo Cannon and Ball and set fire to it whilst chanting 'Die Die Die' of course, that might not of actually happened.

 

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If it were me I'd have saved the extra money on keeping an emergancy repair fund rather than spunking it on a wanky plate with a silly badge on the left hand side thats the same colour as the car so it looks like the number plate is broken, still, what do I know? nice car though.

 

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This was sexual, I particularly like the seats and I'd very much relish the prospect of lightly scalding my scrotum and buttocks on these chairs of a warm sunny day. This is owned by local classic Ford nut who owns the very very very tidy Sierra Cossie in the opening pages.

 

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Yes, yes that is a mk3 Cavalier in a classic car line up, I'll come back to that after the TVR. TVR 350i owned by a beard.

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Note in window of cav which if you read between the lines is actually MG Owner's talk for 'My fucking MGF blew another head gasket again'

 

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Previously documented Karmann Ghia for sale.

 

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Also previously mentioned Esser, I belive the gentleman on the right owns this should you wish to track him down and congratulate him on a fine pair of balls, I love the fact that this is displayed with all the boring shit good work that man, I'm making a Shite_Meister Meister of Shite award medal and placard as we speak, I've made it from solid enriched uranium.

 

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I didn't take my Mini because I the whole show took me 12 minutes to walk around, I felt like I had gone back in time two years because when I was last here it was exactly the same...same cars in the same positions.

 

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Ironically my Shite_Meister Car of the Show award goes to a car that wasn't even in the car show but noted in the car park walking back to my car, its a Merc 190 2.6 and I want it bad, I had one but like a huge twat I parted company with it.

 

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These pictures were brought to you with the help of the 318is, some painkillers and a Canon G7.

 

Nurse....NURSE.....NURSE!

[barrett]

Brilliant, your commentary made an otherwise fairly dull show hugely entertaining. Did you not get a decent photo of the Minx estate though? Those things are MEGA_RARE (and hugely shite).Thanks for the 'groffles'

[155V6]

If I went to an MG show,I'd complain if there were no Expresses .Love the Mk 3 Cortina though

[shite_meister]

Brilliant, your commentary made an otherwise fairly dull show hugely entertaining. Did you not get a decent photo of the Minx estate though? Those things are MEGA_RARE (and hugely shite).

Thanks for the 'groffles'

Cheers, the only pics I can find showing it better are these:

 

 

 

Have a cheeky bonus pic of a gentleman possibly trying to sell his hoop to the driver of this Austin A50:

[Minimad5]

Brilliant, your commentary made an otherwise fairly dull show hugely entertaining.

Hugely Agree !Had me laughing for ages Thanks for sharing your pictures and mad words with us all

[55bloke]

Yup, great stuff! Have to say, that Anglebox is sporting the most half arsed wheel arch extensions I've ever seen!

[myglaren]

What the hell is it with the "J"?

 

99% of the cars in this thread are J-reg! Is it some kind of numberplate conspiracy

 

Wonderful set of photo's though, first class snapping

[Minimad5]

The "J" reg that you are talking about is common to Isle Of Man (Is it Isle Of Man ?? - Please correct me if i am wrong)

[Richard]

Please correct me if i am wrong)

Ok. It's Jersey.

[trigger]

Great write up again Mr Meister, i particularly like the one about the dying slug, That had me laugh loudly.

[pogweasel]

The "J" reg that you are talking about is common to Isle Of Man (Is it Isle Of Man ?? - Please correct me if i am wrong)

E MINUS 4 GEOGRAPHY.

[shite_meister]

What the hell is it with the "J"?

 

99% of the cars in this thread are J-reg! Is it some kind of numberplate conspiracy

 

Wonderful set of photo's though, first class snapping

 

The "J" reg that you are talking about is common to Isle Of Man

(Is it Isle Of Man ?? - Please correct me if i am wrong)

Yes Minimad you must have been to the Jade Goody school of geography! All Jersey cars have a J prefix followed by some numbers, there are some JSY prefixes but these were only issued in very small numbers and are usually bought by air-headed finance workers to put on their Porsche Boxters/Cayennes/RangeRover Sports.

 

Guernsey has just numbers and the Isle of Man has quote:

Vehicle registration began in the Isle of Man on 1 January 1906, following the Highways Act Amendment Act 1905. Initially, number plates started with the letters 'MN' followed by up to four digits. In 1935, the prefix 'MAN' came into use, followed by up to three digits, and the following year a further scheme was introduced allowing three letters to be used in addition to up to three digits (BMN-1 to YMN-999).

 

In 1959, the scheme changed to allow the digits to precede the letters, starting with 1-MN, and after 1964, starting with 1-MAN, and from 1965 until 1971 1-BMN through 999-YMN were issued.

 

In 1971, unissued numbers from the original MN-1 to MN-9999 range were issued. When these ran out in 1974, a trailing letter was added, giving MAN-1-A through to MAN-999-Y. In 1979 this was swapped to be a prefix (A-1-MAN up to Y-999-MAN), and in 1983 the range MAN-1000 to MAN-9999 was introduced.

 

This was reversed in 1985, giving 1000-MAN to 9999-MAN, which lasted until 1987. At that point, the current system was introduced, which has an initial letter, followed by MN, up to three numerals, and a trailing single letter. The initial plate in this system was therefore AMN-1-A, with the registration BMN-1-A being issued following AMN-999-Y. Thus the trailing letter does not indicate the vehicle age, unlike the similar format British plates, and many different suffix letters are issued each year.

 

The letters I, Q, S and Z are not used on Manx number plates.

 

The Isle of Man uses retro-reflective number plates with black letters; on a white background on the front of the vehicle, and on yellow on the rear. Vehicles manufactured prior to 1 February 1990 can display white-on-black plates as an alternative

 

Gibraltar has the G prefix and I belive the Falkands the F.

 

Detention for you Minimad, see me later

[michiel]

Hmmm, Isuzu Minx Estate... GR8 pics & words!

[myglaren]

The "J" reg that you are talking about is common to Isle Of Man

(Is it Isle Of Man ?? - Please correct me if i am wrong)

Never thought of Jersey

 

Where's the headslap smiley when you need it?

[Minimad5]

Shit i'm in trouble now !I did say Correct me if i am wrong. and Wrong i was ! Glad we have afew clever people on here

[CIH]

I'm surprised the MGB fratirnity mix with the new-age MG hot hatch types....

[Parky]

Another superb summary of most car clubs today Meister. Loved the Austin Healey "when was the last time it made a lady wet" comment. Thats so true!And Fanny Magnette! Obvious but I have never thought of that myself.

[mk2_craig]

I didn't get to the MG/Classic Ford weekend, the publicity for the Ford shindig was so scarce that the local commercial radio station resorted to asking its listeners to phone-in when they saw the convoy. Wouldn't have wanted to turn up with a mk2 Fiesta anyway given that it would've been OSF CITY judging by the numbers of pre-70s Cortinas and RWD Escorts I saw out'n'bout that weekend.

 

Haven't seen that Minx estate before, wonder which barn that was found in?