Official Club Stuff It's Official - New Joint Major Sponsor MG

[Alberton Proud]

MG name origin

MG stands for Morris Garages - the initials pay homage to car magnate William Morris. Morris owned the garages where MG's founder Cecil Kimber worked, and Kimber started the MG brand in order to make faster and sportier Morris cars

Didn't know this previously

 

[Grave Danger]

MG name origin

MG stands for Morris Garages - the initials pay homage to car magnate William Morris. Morris owned the garages where MG's founder Cecil Kimber worked, and Kimber started the MG brand in order to make faster and sportier Morris cars

Didn't know this previously

Mao's Garages now

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Plenty of MG car clubs all around Oz. We should do a sponsorship with them, and they can bring their cars out for displays in whichever city we play in. There is even one on the GC, so just in time for Rd 1 to set this up.

MG Car Clubs in Australia

mgcc.com.au

and the one in SA. http://www.mgccsa.org.au/index.html

 

[HighBudget]

So does any one have a rough idea on how much $$ MG is giving to Port for this sponsorship?

 

[Byrons Firen]

So does any one have a rough idea on how much $$ MG is giving to Port for this sponsorship?

REH alluded to $1.3m annually a few days ago but that figure was in his own words a whisper from "Deep Throat" (of Watergate scandal fame).

Most welcome too. Anything north of a brick per yr is jim dandy by me.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So does any one have a rough idea on how much $$ MG is giving to Port for this sponsorship?

Eddie McGuire said it was worf muuullyons

 

[HighBudget]

REH alluded to $1.3m annually a few days ago but that figure was in his own words a whisper from "Deep Throat" (of Watergate scandal fame).

Most welcome too. Anything north of a brick per yr is jim dandy by me.

Not bad! hopefully things go well within next 5 years and we get the chance to up the price substantiall!

 

[PatientMental]

The mg sticker they look to have slapped on the proper player guernseys for last night is a big yikes.

Hope for the fans sake the ones they're offering to cover the gfg logo is better

 

[1954]

REH alluded to $1.3m annually a few days ago but that figure was in his own words a whisper from "Deep Throat" (of Watergate scandal fame).

Most welcome too. Anything north of a brick per yr is jim dandy by me.

Good to hear from someone who knows what a brick in monetary terms is, mention a yard or a brick to most Aussies under 50 today, and they look at you like you are speaking Swahili.

 

[El Zorro]

Good to hear from someone who knows what a brick in monetary terms is, mention a yard or a brick to most Aussies under 50 today, and they look at you like you are speaking Swahili.

Bloody metric system! What's a brick in monetary terms? Never heard of it.

 

[Magus]

Good to hear from someone who knows what a brick in monetary terms is, mention a yard or a brick to most Aussies under 50 today, and they look at you like you are speaking Swahili.

I'm more worried about the term Deep Throat being thrown around tbh.

 

[1954]

Bloody metric system! What's a brick in monetary terms? Never heard of it.

Aussie slang terms for money eg a yard = $100, half a yard = $50 and a score = $20 were still in regular use in Adelaide ( particularly in the front bars of hotels) for decades after the metric system was introduced.

The `turf accountants ' I did business with from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, including a number of the illegal variety in various Broken Hill drinking establishments when I was there on St Paddy's day footy trips usually referred to a brick as $1,000, but in BF's case I assume he is referring to a very big brick ( north of a mil ) with the MG sponsorship.

 

[jac147]

The old MG’s are keeping their prices. Foxtel currently runs a show about a Yorkshire auction house specialising in classic cars.
Yesterday two red MG’s came under the hammer.
There was a 54 TF just recently restored, it had been rescued from Arizona and it was beautiful. It went for £18K.
The other MG was a 47 TC with an older restoration and the owner had put a reserve of £30K on it. It failed to reach the reserve on two occasions, so it went home with him.

Edit. With the 47 TC he was getting bids around £25K.

 

[Papa G]

Just remembered my uncle imported MGBs from California in the late 80s early 90s. Apparently they were plentiful in California and due to the weather in that part of the USA didn't have the rust issues you got in other parts of America/Europe. Their Showroom was on South Road near the Hilton Hotel.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Just remembered my uncle imported MGBs from California in the late 80s early 90s. Apparently they were plentiful in California and due to the weather in that part of the USA didn't have the rust issues you got in other parts of America/Europe. Their Showroom was on South Road near the Hilton Hotel.

And the sunshine factor. 12 months with the roof down in California compared to the NE and mid west.

Many of my US and Canadian mates have asked me over the years why we don't have more convertible cars in Oz given our weather.

 

[Janus]

Good to hear from someone who knows what a brick in monetary terms is, mention a yard or a brick to most Aussies under 50 today, and they look at you like you are speaking Swahili.

In finance and trading, a million dollars is known as a buck.

So if the deal was $1.5 million, you’d say it was worth a buck fifty.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

And the sunshine factor. 12 months with the roof down in California compared to the NE and mid west.

Many of my US and Canadian mates have asked me over the years why we don't have more convertible cars in Oz given our weather.

Because for the most part we aren’t w***ers like the yanks

 

[Papa G]

Because for the most part we aren’t w***ers like the yanks

You'd think with all our superior healthcare we'd be less scared of getting skin cancer.

 

[1954]

Just remembered my uncle imported MGBs from California in the late 80s early 90s. Apparently they were plentiful in California and due to the weather in that part of the USA didn't have the rust issues you got in other parts of America/Europe. Their Showroom was on South Road near the Hilton Hotel.

Before that was he in partnership in another classic car sales place on South Road at Edwardstown, it was in a building alongside Clem Smith's car yard?

I bought a TR250 from two blokes who ran that business in April 1990, and when I went to collect some parts a few months later I was told one of them had left to open a similar business on South Road near the Hilton.

 

[Papa G]

Before that was he in partnership in another classic car sales place on South Road at Edwardstown, it was in a building alongside Clem Smith's car yard?

I bought a TR250 from two blokes who ran that business in April 1990, and when I went to collect some parts a few months later I was told one of them had left to open a similar business on South Road near the Hilton.

I reckon that would have been my Uncles business partner Craig.

 

[Thunderer]

So, how much is a brick?


Go metric, oi, oi, oi.

 

[PatientMental]

Yes, the logical and not insane subdivision of a number is 8ths, 16ths, 32nds and 64ths then onto hundredths to thousandths of that same number.

 

[Janus]

So, how much is a brick?


Go metric, oi, oi, oi.

It's relative to the denomination of the notes being used. It's 1000 notes.

Using $100 notes ($100,000): 1000 x 0.1408 mm = 140.8 mm thick x 158mm x 65 mm

Using $50 notes ($50,000): 1000 x 0.14 mm = 140 mm thick x 151 mm x 65 mm

Using $20 notes ($20,000): 1000 x 0.1332 mm = 133.2 mm thick x 145 mm x 65 mm

Using $10 notes ($10,000): 1000 x 0.1294 mm = 129.4 mm thick x 137 mm x 65 mm

Back in the day, $1000 in $1 notes would also have been called a brick.

 

[68vette]

Just remembered my uncle imported MGBs from California in the late 80s early 90s. Apparently they were plentiful in California and due to the weather in that part of the USA didn't have the rust issues you got in other parts of America/Europe. Their Showroom was on South Road near the Hilton Hotel.

The East Coast of the USA salt their roads in the winter.

 

[bomberclifford]

A brick is a grand.
An elbow is a pound.
A pineapple is a fifty.
A ball is three and a half grams.