Y Type Newsletters

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June 2024

942kb

Features:

• The 2024Spring Run
• The Register
• The Dinner
• The Run
• MG Y Type model

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June 2023

691kb

Features:

• Interview with Chris Callaghan

There was no Newsletter in December 2023

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June 2022

1.5mb

Features:

• Eight Y Types move to France

December 2022

1.5mb

Features:

• Dennis Doubtfire and Y Type memorabilia

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June 2021

2.3mb

Features:

• An Irish MG YT
• Adveenture in a Y Type
• Y Types in Art
• The Naming of Little Gem
• Peter Vielvoye's YT
• A Useful MG Tool
• Your Register needs you

December 2021

1.9mb

Features:

• Me and 'my' MGs

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June 2020

1.15mb

Features:

• What have you been doing during lockdown?
• Drive it Day 2020 and coping with the lockdown in style, Y not!
• Y Panel Fittting
• Past Events and New Toys

December 2020

1.5mb

Features:

• David Baker's YT
• Refitting YT Doors
• The Flying Midge
• The Chrome Embellishers

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June 2019

851kb

Features:

• The 22nd Spring Run and Weekend May 5 - 6 2019
• Other News
• AGM 2019

December 2019

921kb

Features:

• LDA 506. An MG YB restored to life.
• The MG Y Type Pedal Box

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June 2018

1.0mb

Features:

• Spring Gathering and Run 2018 - Bedford
• The Dinner and Awards Evening
• AGM 2018
• Old Tyres
• Y Types Spring Run May 12 - 13
• Y Type Spring Weekend

December 2018

1.4mb

Features:

• The impossible we do today, miracles take a little longer
• The restoration of LDA 506/YB 1127
• Derek Moore's YB meets up with Paddy Hopkirk's BMC 1800
• ... and finally

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June 2017

1.7mb

Features:

• Drive it day event
• First Y (Y 6807) found and restored
• Discovered Y Types
• Y Type Spring Weekend

December 2017

1.3mb

Features:

• Looking back at the 70th Anniversary
• Brooklands MG Experience
• Y Register weekend and Spring Run
• Y Register at MG Live!
• The Round Britain Relay
• Autumn Break - Isle of Wight

April 2017

2.6mb

Features:

• Marc Hanson recalls his experiences in the 2017 Monte Carlo Rally in his MG YB

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June 2016

2.3mb

Features:

• Whatever happened to YB KCJ 481
• And a YB that has been rebuilt?
• More YTs returning home?
• Success at MG Era Day, Brooklands. April 10 2016
• Y Type 70th Anniversay in 2017
• Obituary Alan Chick 1928 - 2016

December 2016

948kb

Features:

• MG Y Type Round Britain Rally
• Improving an Aftermarket Crank Seal Kit
• YA Saloon XMY 55
• Jack Murray Obituary
• Alan Chick Obituary
• Events to celebrate the MG Y Type's 70th Birthday 2017

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June 2015

2.4mb

Features:

• Telescopic dampers on a Y Type
• Fitting disc brakes on a Y Type
• Ys Alive
• Robert Taylor's YA
• One of Neil Coombes' YTs

December 2015

1.4mb

Features:

• Reflections on 2015/Looking ahead to 2016
• A simple carburettor bowl repair
• Y Types Out and About

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June 2014

949kb

Features:

• Little Gem Update
• Members' Cars

December 2014

1.2mb

Features:

• Origins of the MG Car Club Y Type Register
• Jerry Birkbeck's YT
• 2015 Spring Run details

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June 2013

2.0mb

Features:

• Homecoming

December 2013

1.8mb

Features:

• Members' Cars
• Y Register Events

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June 2012

1.1mb

Features:

• 65 Years of the Y Type
• Events
• Electronic Ignition
• President Dennis Doubtfire stands down
• End of an Era

December 2012

1.9mb

Features:

• 3rd Y Trip to Brittany
• Update on the Sidney Perelman Trip
• Spring Weekend May 2013

February 2012

1.78mb

Features:

• Out of my comfort zone

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June 2011

1.36mb

Features:

• Richard Dicks on his MG YB
• The MG Enthusiasts' Bulletin Board
• The Spring Run

December 2011

4mb

Features:

• Dennis Doubtfire profile
• The Spring Run 2012

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June 2010

1.73mb

Features:

• The DNA of a 'MG Y Type'

December 2010

1.1mb

Features:

• The British Racing Green 'Streamlined Gem'

April 2010

1.71mb

Features:

• Importing an MG YT into the UK

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June 2009

1.84mb

Features:

• Restoring MG YB 438 LRM - part 1 of 2

December 2009

927kb

Features:

• Restoring MG YB 438 LRM - part 2 of 2

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June 2008

937kb

Features:

• A Taboo Subject by Neil Cairns
• Tuning for the car's era
• Legal modifications
• Desirable modifications
• Serious modifications
• A second look
• The side effects

December 2008

700kb

Features:

• Owning a Y Type
• Back in 1947 ...
• The Y in 2008

March 2008

899kb

Features:

• Everyday Y by Ian Hopkins

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August 2007

1.04mb

Features:

• So you want to buy an MG Y Type?

December 2007

2.08mb

Features:

• The MG 'One and a Quarter Litre' Y Series 60th Birthday by Neil Cairns

June 2007

1.84mb

Features:

• History of the Y Register by Dennis Doubtfire, David Hague and Jack Murray

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June 2006

763kb

Features:

• With Ys in Japan and Australia
• How to save your block!

December 2006

461kb

Features:

• A brief account of getting to and from the Ardennes by Y
• Skye's the limit!

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June 2005

717kb

Features:

• From Alf Luckman, Australian Representative - Y Register

December 2005

503kb

Features:

• Off with its head!

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June 2004

540kb

Features:

• Sydney Aussies 'Y's up
• John Edwards
• Registrar's report to the AGM

December 2004

480kb

Features:

• 'Y' Register 2004 Yorkshire Weekend
• Graham Bushnell's Y Type saloon

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June 2003

330kb

Features:

• Nineteen go to Brittany
• News from Dennis Doubtfire
• Cruising

December 2003

356kb

Features:

• To go with the flow, or improve it?
• Y Type Register website

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June 2002

1.6mb

Features:

• The New MG Y Type Website
• Jim Mackannes 1925 - 2001
• Estate Car-Shooting Brake 'Y' Type?
• The Resurrection of 1948 MG 'YA' Y 2313 "AGL 730"
• Radiator Overflow Tank
• Devils Numberplate

December 2002

329kb

Features:

• Running costs
• That sinking feeling
• MG YB 5 speed conversion

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June 2001

1.6mb

Features:

• The Nuffield Gearbox in a 'Y'
• YA KSC 171 Where are you now?
• Successor to a 'Y' Type?
• ICUR2Y'S 4 ME
• Close Relations to a 'Y'

December 2001

985kb

Features:

• Speedometer Clock Repair
• MG 2001 in Minnesota
• 2001 Why to Exe

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June 2000

1.2mb

Features:

• The Missing Power Mystery
• The Australian Take Away Grille
• The Italian Job - Influences on M.G.
• Morris X-series Engine Water Pump
• South African Special

December 2000

461kb

Features:

• 'Y's on the internet
• The Foukes-Halbard Nostalgia Museum
• "Ys" on film
• MG 10 HP Series Saloon, 4 Door - Drawing Number B741 dated 22.04.39
• MOTing a "Y" Type

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June 1999

953kb

Features:

• Keith & Jerry
• Another Y Makes it to Monte
• Make Your Own Y-Type Grab Straps
• Carburettor Needles and Modern Petrol
• The Y's Special Day

December 1999

1.2mb

Features:

• Chairman's Chatter
• Len Shaw
• Y Type Carburettor Needles
• The Finishing Touch
• A Day Out in the Country - or soemthing like that.  The Y Register 1999 Spring Rally

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June 1998

1.3mb

Features:

• A day out in the Cotswolds
• 1950 MG Y Tourer - EXU 3030 -XPAG 20438 - Body 45022/342
• Going Unleaded

December 1998

1mb

Features:

• Overnight Stage
• The Enigma Run
• The Angel's Share
• Surfing the Web for a YT and then another

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June 1997

1.4mb

Features:

• Chairman's Chatter
• Picnic at Pinware - the first Y-Types in Labrador
• A Gem of an Idea
• Veneering or "Ironing away with a smoothing dash!"
• Birth of the "Y" Run - March 16 1997

December 1997

1mb

Features:

• Y-Type 50th Anniversary - Tour of Luxembourg - 1997
• Nicole Dick relives a childhood experience
• Alan Chick relates to Dennis Doubtfire the saga of a punctured carburettor float
• Bert and Mia Keuren's thoughts
• more ...

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August 1996

936kb

Features:

• How Do They Do That?
• Extracts on Camshafts and Things
• 1949 M.G. 'Y' Tourer

December 1996

849kb

Features:

• Chairman's Chatter
• Touring Down Memory Lane
• How do they do that? Part 2, Pumps
• Going Leadfree

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August 1995

1.5mb

Features:

• Y Switch - Y Not
• Down Under with a YT Special
• M.G. YB Versus Riley RMA

December 1995

910kb

Features:

• Y -Type Pick-Up
• Memory Corner
• Relays
• Wiring Hints

January 1995

1.4mb

Features:

• Good Spark - Wrong Time?
• The 'Light' Restoration
• Increased Visibility
• How the Cooling System Works
• Thank God It's Finished!
• A Y's Buy

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January 1994

2.4mb

Features:

• Pedestrians Beware!
• Y Bother with Maintenance?
• Is There A Bucket In Your Boot?
• The 'Y' Type Tour of the Dales

September 1994

2.6mb

Features: (apart from Len Shaw on the front cover)

• Heat Shield
• Heat Shield Supplement
• Don't Just Sit There - Navigate!
• Revive That Leather
• A Trip Down Memory Lane
• Supercharging of Standard Production Engines
• Christmas Card

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February 1993

1.5mb

Features:

• Chairman's Chatter
• Useful Tips
• In the Pursuit of Power

September 1993

1.1mb

Features:

• The Works Y's In Competition
• Fitting Flashers

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November 1992

821kb

Features:

• Maharani - the story of an Indian Princess
• Colour Codes

The MG Car Club Y Type Register was formed in 1991, having previously been a part of the T Type Register.