Vintage Transport
Extravaganza
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
August 1, 2010 - 10:00 AM

IL Route 31 & IL Route 176, Crystal Lake, IL
Starting in Crystal Lake Illinois at 10:00 AM at the
McDonalds on Hwy 31 and Hwy 176 intersection next to the
Honda dealership.

This Rally will have three stops along its route of the back roads of McHenry County. The first stop will be at an RC flying field to take a look at some different kind of airplanes. www.coleagles.com
Then onto Union IL to the Illinois Railway Museum for quick stop to cover the Trains theme, a great place to go back to one of those days that you can spend hours walking back into history and see some big iron. www.irm.org
The third stop will be at a private micro car museum just outside of Crystal Lake. At this location we will have a pizza and soda lunch. A donation toward the purchase of the Pizza will be collected at the start of the rally. You will be able to tour the museum ?free? and the owner of the collection will be there to answer any questions and show you his very unique collection of Micro cars from all over the world. We will have a few hours to eat and tour at this location. www.microcargarage.com This will be the ending point of the rally directions will be given to get back to the starting point.
The rally will be relatively short 70 mile and will be a "gimmick" rally with easy instructions and questions along the way to keep you on track to the location of the stops.
I will need an estimated number of club members that are planning to attend this rally to have ample instruc-tions. Please send me an email.:

Paul Urquhart - MGA 1600 MkII- pgurq@sbcglobal.net

Lucas Memorial Night Rally August 21st 2010 (NOTE date change!)

Rallymeisters Dave & Sue Tucker invite you to the Annual Memorial Lucas Memorial Night Rally on Saturday evening August 21st, 2010, starting at 6:30 pm. (Please NOTE the DATE was recently changed from August 14th!)
The starting and ending point of the rally is: Les Brothers Restaurant, 8705 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Lawn, IL (708) 599-7990. Registration opens at 6:30 pm, with a short drivers meeting before the start.
The 2010 Lucas Memorial Night Rally will follow an easy route for about 2 1/2 hour. This Rally is designed for the first time rallyists as well as for the 'old hands' at rallying, and includes a cruise through the woods and checkpoints to stop and earn extra points. There will also be questions and clues to answer along the way. All answers are lit-up unless they are also made by Lucas.
Come with a clipboard, and a flashlight -- and a work-ing odometer will be helpful! Don‘t get lost in the woods in the dark!

DIRECTIONS to START POINT (Les Brothers Restaurant):
Take I-294 to 95th St exit East
Go EAST approx. 2 miles to Ridgeland Avenue
(Billy Boys Restaurant on corner)
Turn LEFT (NORTH),
go approx. 1-1/2 mile to 87th STREET,
on RIGHT hand side just before the 87th Street traffic light is State Road Plaza,
Les Brothers Restaurant is in the north end of State Road Plaza.

For more information, call (708) 415-5875 or
e-mail Susie & Dave Tucker: mgrus@sbcglobal.net

Orphan Car Picnic Sunday, August 29th, 2010 This year the Orphan Car Picnic will be a joint event between the Chicagoland MG Club and the Vintage MG Car Club. We will have a parking area staked out so we may park as a group -- however we can hold the area only until 11:00 AM, so please plan on arriving before the cutoff time. Reinout has asked me to coordinate between the clubs, so feel free to contact me with any questions. This has been a fun event in past years, with lots of interesting cars to see (the Studebaker Starlight Coupe being one of my favorites). Please reserve the date and look for more details in next month’s news-letter. - Bill Cole - (847) 437-2036