MG Car Club of South Australia
HISTORIC VEHICLE REGISTRATION
ANNUAL LOG BOOK UPDATES
H opefully more helpful notes from your Historic Vehicle Conditional Registration scheme scribe . As your Annual Subscription is now due and your log book requires endorsement for 2017 , it is timely to remind all members that Club inspectors are available to carry out inspections and log book updates every Saturday morning from January to the last Saturday morning of February . Opening times for subscription payment , log book endorsement and reinspections ( if required ) are from 10 am open to 12 noon close . Please allow for some extra time if reinspection is required . Please bring the following for each vehicle covered by the HVCR scheme : - � proof of your membership renewal , � log book for the vehicle , � current blue registration papers with proof of payment and expiry date and a
� signed statutory declaration , indicating either no change or specifying any modifications made since the previous year ’ s declaration ( the form is available on the Club ’ s website ).
Please note that if subscriptions are not paid by February 28 for the 2017 financial year , you are no longer a financial member of the Club , your historic vehicle registration is invalid from that date and the Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure will be notified in March . You will subsequently receive a letter from the Department warning you that a decision must be made within 14 days to either pay your subscription to the Club or change your registration to full registration . Meanwhile , in this interim period , you must not use the vehicle as it will not be covered by the HVCR scheme and as such , it is no longer registered and covered by third party insurance .
More minor improvements for MGAs : - Head-light lighting was barely adequate when new for night driving and the bulbs themselves slowly deteriorate with usage . The tungsten filament gradually deposits itself on the inside of the glass envelope of the bulb , reducing the visible light output . I suggest changing to quartz halogen head-light bulbs , result : 30 % brighter . Exact replacement bulbs to the Lucas pattern are available from Club member Anthony Pearson . As radial ply tyres are in common usage , some minor changes should be made to the suspension and wheels . These changes mentioned below are allowed within the Code of Practice for Historic Vehicles . Radial ply tyres are not only superior in many ways when compared with cross ply tyres ( originally fitted to MGAs ) but also are considerably safer . Stopping distances are shorter , especially on wet roads . However , in the early 1950s the vehicle ’ s suspension was designed around the best available tyres , the cross ply design .
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