Dick Knudson reduex
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2001 7:13 am
I am a member of long standing in the T register, in 1967 when I thought I was the only person who had a TD I floundered about sourcing parts and putting up with the abuse of parts people (they were to lazy to look on their shelves for parts I knew were there), and later on I discovered the MG T Register, at my first Gathering (Jug End) I was amazed and absolutely flabbergasted in seeing so many of the cars I owned and loved in one spot.
Dick Knudson and Frank Churchill made that possible, he made this list possible and he made all of us in the business possible, now I am not meaning to say that Dick is directly responsible what I am saying is that he and Frank for the first time in this country that I know of put together a cohesive list of owners in a pre-computer day, and there was a movement that was started and other people picked up the ball and it grew. I know that the MGCC was in full swing in the 1960s but they may have been on the moon to a young boy in Queens Village New York. If any of you people can remember back to the late 60s you may remember that people thought we were nuts, why buy a 15 to 20 year old "Foreign" car of dubious merits when you could buy a Chevy.
I always considered myself to be a mechanical person, I was trained as and aircraft mechanic and have spent all of my working life repairing automobiles and components, but when I look back on the accomplishments of others I pale in comparison, could I have invented the airplane, or build and automobile before the concept of the automobile existed, but after the accomplishments of others I can fix and even improve on their invention, I can even criticize the original invention but no my fellow list members I could not have throughout up an entire new technology, nor could I have the stamina to keep what has become a international club going for 40 years
Maybe Dick works on the theory of why buy the cow when the milk is free. If you want information that the Register has then you should join the Register, as for the fellow who lost his SASE and never got an answer well did you try to contact Dick and remind him of your question. while I am sure that everyone on this list loves their cars and has a burning passion to keep them alive, remember that 40 years ago the best we could have hoped for is that we would have had a small local group of enthusiasts.
Now before any of you guys think I am on the "payroll" or am related to Dick I am not, I too have some issues with the Register but I know what has been done for me and I appreciate it, imagine where the Renault Dauphine club would be today had it had a Champion such as MG T series had.
Joe Curto
NEMGTR # 1408