Martin Simmonds advertised his RV8 on 26th June and it has sold in the last few days. He says "my RV8 Woodcote Green 1966 is now sold so please update the web site advert. I've a few spares (air con parts, water pump etc) to sell on and I'll send this information shortly. Sad to loose the RV8, hopefully they'll still be going strong when life frees up a little more time to enjoy them, i.e. kids left home, job less hectic, decent garage! Thanks for all your great work supporting the website, pity (non V8) MGB owners aren't as organized or perhaps passionate?".

Victor Smith comments "They are probably just as passionate but unfortunately the MGB Register chairman, Bernard Rengger, spends much of his time being critical of the new directors work at Silverstone and of Victor Smith's work in carrying out a thorough and professional appraisal of the New Club Office proposals last August. You can see his letter to me at Bernard Rengger letter. His ignorance of the serious concerns over the project's poor rationale, large project risks and hopeless viability (the project would have pushed the Club into insolvency within 4 years) was astounding. Back in the 1980s the V8 Register prepared an abstract of the V8NOTES which applied to the MGB model and produced several boxes of spiral bound copies which it gave to the MGB Register free of charge as a gesture to help them launch a BNOTES series. Sadly we received little thanks and no published BNOTES series has resulted so far as one can see". (25.7.06)