MIKEP wrote:WE KNOCKED THE BASTARD OFF
Well thanks to all of you coming to Manfeild. I am informed that we have broken the Australasian record of 65 MR2s in one place at one time.
As long as all those who have signed up come we have done it.
Let's hope we all manage to get to Manfield, Mike...!
And again, well done guys for organising this event. Good work. And good on everyone who has decided to be there too!
Cos an event without attendees is a non-event.
And there's nothing more crushing if you've busted your butt to organise something for people. So well done, everyone.
Gotta say Mike it'll be great to see that list of entrants. It's been REALLY weird for me not being involved in helping get a thing like this off the ground. Again, good on yas.
Must be said though... Nice placement of the 25 year logo Simon. Playday gets 000 Likes.
Will be great to have Gary running things. Knows what he's doing, plenty of experience. And a club member from way back.
Here's a wee bit of memorabilia that's kinda apt, considering the venue and all...
Here's another one featuring Rodney's mate Jeff. Looks to me as if he might have the longest running "track record" of using an AW11 in motorsport? Deserves an AWard, methinks. Don't think Jeff with be at the Nationals but I'm pretty sure he and Rodney (Speedhog) will be hooning around in an AW11 on same insane twisty (closed) gravel road that weekend.
Here's a snippet I've highlighted from the Club's first ever newsletter, penned by founder Ade Mora in 1994.
Just so there's no doubt about the 25 years thing. A bit of background info here too:
https://mr2.org.nz/the-club/first-ade
Michael (
mknz) can you please fix the video on that page mate?
I see the archived newsletters have disappeared too. Some were kinda interesting, would be nice to have them back if that's possible, thanks mate.
And the 2nd Club newsletter is pretty funny. I remember discovering the existence of the interweb around then too. It was a strange and mysterious thing, it was. Full of all sorts of interesting ideas, yet the freakiest thing about exploring cyberspace in the early days was that you kinda couldn't see much until you bumped into it. A bit like walking around in a huge city at night during a power cut while carrying a small torch for light. Or a match, more like it. The advent of the search engine definitely made the internet a LOT more user friendly.
So yeah the Club has been going 25 years. Thanks Ade (and Steve, and all others who joined in as well).
And it's been an "incorporated society" for 20 years. That's how long ago its founders placed its fortunes in the hands of its members. So that the members could ensure that their Club and its Internet presence continued to bring MR2 owners together for good times, and capture and share technical information to help keep our MR2's on the road, for years to come.
May we, the membership always value those two simple founding objectives of our Club. Cos without them this Club simply wouldn't be. Here's to another quarter century guys...!
