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  • March 10, 2023 2:10 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)


  • March 07, 2023 4:52 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    We received this letter from Heather Marsh & Russell Read who are the coordinators for the TX MG Registry Spring GoF (Gathering of the Faithful)...


    Greetings from your Spring GoF hosts Heather and Russell.  This will be in your next issue of BACKROADs, but if you want to print it out - see attached!  A formal schedule will be forthcoming, but see below for a snapshot.

    • Thursday Night (April 27th):  Caravan to the Spare Birdie Public House.  Pay your own way… and get ready to play darts, have fun with a huge variety of video games…and oh yeah…eat and drink!  Visit sparebirdie.com for an online preview.
    • Friday Late Morning-Early Afternoon (April 28th):  Caravan to Perissos Winery.  Visit perissosvineyards.com for an online preview.
    • Friday Late Afternoon (April 28th):  The Terrific TMGR TECH TEAM will host a session at the host hotel!
    • Friday (April 28th) Evening:  Pizza in the hotel parking lot.  First Come- First Served!
    • Saturday (April 29th) start the day with some spit and polish and get ready for the car show!
    • And of course, Saturday will include a fun drive, and end with the TMGRs Spring GoF banquet.
    • Sunday will feature a lot of hugs in the hotel lobby as TMGR-ers say goodbye to friends, and promise to meet up sometime over the summer for fun drives.

    AND click below for the online reservation to the host hotel - rooms $149 with breakfast.

    Texas MG Register Group Block II | April 2023

    Rooms = $149 with breakfast.

    REGISTRATION FORM:  2023 TXMGR Spring GoF REG FORM.pdf

    SAFETY FAST and Happy 100th birthday to the MG MARQUEE!  Heather Marsh and Russell Read / TMGR Volunteers


  • February 21, 2023 4:40 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Photos by Lesley & Gavin Kidd, Bob Chalker

    On Saturday the club was represented in the Katy Livestock and Rodeo parade, a two mile affair through the heart of the city.  The weather was a bit nippy to start but everyone bundled up and had their cowboy hats firmly on their heads.  Soon the day warmed up a bit and everyone had a great time.  We had 10 cars with a mix of MGB's and MGA's and we took in a stray Triumph.  The streets were filled with spectators and our cars were a hit.  Maybe it was all the candy we threw to the little ones.  We were pleasantly surprised later in the day when we learned that the club was awarded first place in the class of Cars, Trucks, Tractors & Toys.  Gee, I wonder if they thought we were driving cars or toys?   Next year we will need to up our game, maybe we will add decorations and choreographed maneuvers down the parade route. 

    Enjoy the photos below.....



  • February 21, 2023 3:08 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    It is hard to believe that February is almost over and that it is 80 degrees outside.  Perfect weather for top down driving.  Well maybe not so perfect on Wednesday when approximately 20 club members travelled to Sealy for a tour of the Bumbera's Performance shop.  We were warmly greeted by their youngest daughter Kendall who led the tour.  We had a special treat when family patriarch Kenny joined us to share several entertaining stories.  The Bumbera's had a mix of classic restorations, hot rods and racing cars in the shop.  As they tell it, they restore and build customer's cars by day and prepare their racing machines by night.  It was great to see the mix of vehicles in various states of restoration and build.  And we all enjoyed the company of the shop's dog Sarge. 


    Following the tour we headed to the Wolf Pack Bar & Grill downtown Sealy to break bread and swap stories.

    Kendall Bumbera touring us around the shop


    Kenny Bumbera sharing one of his many stories


    Sarge greeted us at the door


  • February 14, 2023 5:36 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    … Probably not to the U.S. but we can dream.   Click HERE to catch up on the MG Cyberster which is forecasted to go on sale beginning in April in the Europe and China.




  • February 05, 2023 12:44 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Here is the latest through the end of January....


  • January 17, 2023 10:48 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    For those considering doing the long drive to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for MG 2023, I have now completed planning for the route from Texas to Calgary. While this is still preliminary and subject to change, I expect the route we take will be pretty close to what is presented below. If you are interested in joining us, please contact me as soon as possible. We will have to finalize the route as soon as we can so that we can make reservations at hotels and other places, like Yellowstone and Going to the Sun Road. 

    I have shown pdfs of the daily drives. Some of the drives cannot currently be shown in Google Maps because of winter road closures, so I have marked those by hand. This drive to Calgary will take ten days and cover approximately 2,600 miles plus whatever you drive on Day 1 to get to the meeting point in the Texas panhandle.

    General rules of the road: We will have breakfast eaten and be ready to leave by 8:00 am each day and will arrive at our destination by 5:00 pm. The mileage shown is for each segment of the planned route, as is the driving time. We will avoid interstate highways where it is possible and reasonable to do so. We will make frequent stops for pictures, bio breaks, food and interesting roadside attractions. All of the roads will be paved, and we will be flexible for route corrections if needed.

    Day One - Thursday, July 6: Drive to Hotel Turkey, Turkey, TX  Approximately an 8 hr drive from Houston

    Meet at the Hotel Turkey, home of Western Swing music, for dinner. If more than four cars participate, we will need to switch to a meeting destination near Lubbock. I am open for suggestions on this as long as we meet in this general area.

    Day Two - Friday, July 7: Turkey, TX to Trinidad, CO 338 miles, 5 hr 50 min, time zone change to MDT

    We will plan a morning stop at the Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo. Not a whole lot else to see, so we'll just have a leisurely travel day with plenty of rest stops to get used to being on the road. With the time change we will get in early.

    Day Three - Saturday, July 8: Trinidad, CO to Georgetown, CO 298 mi, 6 hr 20 min

    First day of scenic drives in the Rocky Mountains. Leaving Trinidad we will take the Highway of Legends Byway over our first mountain passes on the way to Walsenberg, CO. We end the day taking the Guanella Pass Scenic Byway over an 11,669 ft pass. An alternative to Guanella would be to drive through Breckenridge and crest the Loveland Pass on Route 6.

    Day Four - Sunday, July 9: Georgetown, CO to Cheyenne, WY 228 miles, 5 hr 50 min

    A full day of scenic drives in the Rocky Mountains.  Leaving Georgetown we head for scenic Hwy 40 which passes Winter Park ski area on the way to Granby. From Granby we head into the Rock Mountain National Park and take the Trail Ridge Road Hwy 34 through the park. One of the highest continuous paved roads in the US, the high point is 12,183 ft above sea level. The road ends in Estes Park, and we will continue through the eastern slopes and catch part of the Cache La Poudre Scenic Byway before heading into the plains and onto Cheyenne.

    Day Five - Monday, July 10: Cheyenne, WY to State Game Lodge, Custer Park, SD 299 miles, 5 hr 50 min

    A lot of open plains to cover before we hit the scenic roads of the Black Hills. Possible stops include Wind Cave National Park or the Crazy Horse Memorial. We will end with the amazing Needles Highway before stopping at the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park for the evening.

    Day Six - Tuesday, July 11: Custer State Park to Gillette, WY 249 miles, 5 hr 35 min

    Our day begins with a drive to Mt. Rushmore on Iron Mountain Road, which features unique views of the monument framed through tunnels on the road. After Mt. Rushmore, we drive the fabulouse roads of the Black Hills through the towns of Deadwood and Spearfish on our way to Devil's Tower National Monument. From there we head on to our destination in Gillette, WY.

    Day Seven - Wednesday, July 12: Gillette, WY to Cooke City, MT 342 miles, 6 hr 40 min

    A lot of driving, but the great plains are broken up by a scenic highway through the Bighorn National Forest and the day ends with a drive on the glorious Beartooth Highway, cresting at 10,947 ft in the mountains east of Yellowstone.

    Day Eight - Thursday, July 13: Cooke City, MT to Bozeman, MT 134 miles, 2 hr 50 min plus Yellowstone Loop

    We start this day driving through the bison populated plains along the East Yellowstone entrance. We will do a loop through the grandfather of our National Parks that will take us past Yellowstone Falls, Old Faithful, Grand Prismatic Spring and Mammoth Hot Springs, and will spend as much of our six hours or so in the park seeing as much as we can. We end the day in the college town of Bozeman.

    Day Nine - Friday, July 4: Bozeman, MT to Whitefish, MT 317 mi, 5 hr 40 min

    We get to enjoy a lot of scenic Montana on our way to Whitefish. Plenty of empty roads, trees, large valleys and mountain passes. We end the day in the resort town of Whitefish.




    Day Ten - Saturday, July 15: Whitefish, MT to Deerfoot Inn and Casino, Calgary 279 miles, 5 hr 40 mins

    Our last day on the road starts with driving through Glacier National Park and the incomparable Going to the Sun Road cresting Logan Pass (small cars only). We will cross the border at the Chief Mountain crossing and stop at Waterton National Park in Canada. From there, we will travel north through the foothills on our way to our destination hotel in Calgary.

    Sunday, July 16 Stampede Grounds, Calgary: The closing day of the Calgary Stampede! Gates for the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth open at 9:00 and the show closes with fireworks at 11:00 pm. We can catch both the Rodeo Finals in the afternoon and the Chuckwagon Finals in the evening if we buy our tickets early.

    Monday, July 17: Registration for NAMGBR is open until 5:00 pm, so we can spend the day driving through the foothills, Highwood Pass, Kananaskis Provincial Park, and Banff National Park if anyone is interested.

    I will work on the return route and hope to have something by the end of the month. In the meantime, register for the MG2023 and reserve the hotel in Calgary. Remember to add the Saturday night July 15. And make sure to register to see the tour of the Phillips car collection on Tuesday, July 18, it is great!

    - Scott Hardy


  • January 09, 2023 9:02 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

     Save the date for the Spring 2023 Gathering of the Faithful.  The TMGR has announced that the event will be held April 27-30th in Cedar Park, TX.  Cedar Park is an easy drive from Houston and with it's convenient location to Austin and the Hill Country there will be plenty of fun for all.

    The host hotel will be the Hyatt Regency - Cedar Park and the organizers have made arrangements for discounted hotel rooms.  Here is a link to make your reservations or you can call the hotel directly (512) 337-3001.  Tell them you are with the Texas MG Register.  But book soon as the rooms will go fast.

    Stay tuned for more to come on this year's Spring GoF.  

  • December 15, 2022 9:18 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Greetings all,

    The Houston MG Car Club is an affiliate member of the North American MGB Register and the North American MGA Register.  Because of this relationship we get several benefits including the ability to secure insurance for the club and our events at no cost to us.  We also have the opportunity to vote on the officers of the NAMGBR.  

    But to have this benefit there is a requirement for us to know which members of the Houston MG Car Club are also members of  the Registers.  We are asking that everyone who is a member of one or both Registers to provide us with your respective membership numbers for each of the registers.  This is easy to do.  Simply go to your profile page on the Houston MG Car Club website and enter them.  The field is near the bottom of the page, below where you enter your vehicle information.  

    And if you are a member of one of the Registers but not a member of Houston MG Car Club, we would love to have you become a member.  Simply click on “Join Us” above.

    Thank you in advance for your timely response to this request.


    Houston MG Car Club Board of Directors 


  • December 10, 2022 2:54 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    During the Club's Christmas party on December 3rd president Mike Woodward, board chair Ron Redding and incoming president Bob Chalker announced the 2022 award winners:

    President's Award

    Greg Fleischer


    Board of Director's Award: 

    Fran and Glenn Carpenter


    Back Seat Driver's Award 

    Angie Bard


    Ralph Diebert Award:

    Rich Colwell, 1959 MGA Twin Cam


    Alan Rayne Memorial Award 

    The Broken Crankshaft

    Larry Lovins


    MG Driver Award

    Most miles in an MG

    Roger Sykes


    Kimber Spirit Award

    Most events in any car

    Mike Woodward


    Safety Fast Award 

    Most events in an MG

    Gordan Bard


    Presidential Recognition Award

    Mike Woodward


    500 Mile Club

    Roger Sykes

    Rob Ficalora

    Bob Chalker

    Scott Hardy

    Rich Colwell

    Ralph Ratta

    Ken Evesson

    Gary Myers

    Alex Laverock

    Bill Sysman

    Ron Redding

    Dwight Dawson

    Gordan Bard

    Joe Schrodi


Contact Us:  HoustonMGCarClub@gmail.com


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