2024 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show Our 2024 display at the NEC in Birmingham proved a hit with visitors and comprised a unique Austin 1100 Jensen Convertible, a Mk1 Morris Traveller and a Mk3 Morris Traveller as well as the cutaway engine and a comprehensive selection of regalia.
2024 National Rally
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre The National Rally for 2024 was held over the weekend of August 10 and 11 at the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre & Country Park, Sutton Cheney, Nuneaton, Leicestershire. Plenty of sunshine ensured a brilliant turnout and a great selection of cars.
Sunvisor Clips available! The 1100 Club is pleased to announce that yet another part for our fantastic cars has been reproduced. Spearheaded by member Mark Margetts in Canada, the very hard to find Mk II sun visor clip is now available - Mk II owners will confirm that these clips often break after years of use and haven’t been available in decades! Our sincere thanks to Mark, who has demonstrated perfectly what an international club the 1100 Club is. The clips are priced at just £5 each plus postage, and club members can order them from chairman Robbie on chairman@the1100club.com
2023 National Rally at Milestones Museum Another successful National Rally! This year we were at Milestones Museum, Basingstoke over the weekend of July 29 and 30 with even more cars attending on the Sunday than we've had in recent times and a return to typical damp national rally weather.
2022 National Rally at Cogges Manor Farm For 2022, the 1100 Club National Rally was, once again, a two day event held over the weekend of August 13 and 14 at Cogges Manor Farm, Witney, Oxfordshire.
The weather was sunny for both days because, like much of England, Oxfordshire was in the middle of a heatwave. Despite the scorching weather, sixteen ADO16s made the journey on the Saturday and more than 25 visited on the Sunday - some naturally stayed for both days!
2019 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show This year the 1100 Club featured on one of the official Top Trumps cards at the NEC Classic Motor Show and this stunning Mk I Austin 1100 was on the stand to correspond with the card.
On display as well was the Austin 1100, an MG, a 1300GT and the cutaway engine.
2019 Spring ShowWe had a brilliant turnout at our Spring Show at Kempton Steam Museum with thirty cars enjoying some sunshine! 
2019 National Car Club Awards The 1100 Club was shortlisted in the 'Outstanding Online Presence' category for the National Car Club Awards held on 23 March 2019.
This category considers our work on social media and also our club website, with its increasing technical content for members and of course its comprehensive set of Idle Chatter magazines with searchable database of content.
2019 Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show with Discovery For the first time ever, the 1100 Club had a stand at the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show in March, with some live restoration action while we were there! 
2018 Classic and Sportscar Club Awards After being highly commended for the last four years, we've finally done it - Idle Chatter was awarded 'Club Magazine of the Year' at the glitzy Classic and Sportscar Club Awards at the NEC on Nov 9.
We are absolutely delighted, and would very much like to thank Classic & Sports Car magazine and Lancaster Insurance Services for the award, and of course all of our members who have supported Idle Chatter with articles and features large or small.
2018 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show The 1100 Club stand will, as usual, display several stunning variants of the marque, including a concours 1300GT from Ireland, a Morris Mk II and what must be one of the best Vanden Plas Princess examples in the country. Also as usual, the full range of club regalia will be on sale and the stand will be staffed by some of the most knowledgeable and friendly car enthusiasts in the business.
But our centrepiece will be something even more special still - you will have to visit us on Stand 485 in Hall 3 to find out what it is, but we can reveal that it will involve a chance to get 'up close and personal' with an A Series.
2018 BL Autumn Rally Over 220 cars turned up to the BL Autumn Rally at Milton Keynes in September marking the end of the show season.
And thanks to The 1100 Club's ‘Tea-m Essex’ at least nine ADO16s were on display - even an Austin Apache - and all the usual fun and games! The show was impressive, with more cars than ever before - great work from organiser Tom Morley.
2018 National Rally The 1100 Club National Rally was held at the Epping Ongar Railway and, despite variable weather, more than 30 1100s visited during the weekend.
It was hard to keep track as many members took the chance to take their cars on a tour of the picturesque Essex countryside around Epping.
The Saturday evening meal aboard the Epping Fryer heritage train was enjoyed by around 100 members and their guests.
2018 Spring Show We had a lovely sunny day for our Spring Show at the new location for 2018 of Waterperry Gardens, Wheatley, Oxfordshire.
A good turnout of members made the most of Drive It Day (April 22) to join us and enjoy the interesting venue.
It was a good chance for old friends to meet up for the first time in the new season, and also to welcome some new members into the fold - at least two of the cars present were driven by people who had never attended an 1100 Club event before!
Spare Parts Supply The 1100 Club is delighted to report that we have been able to secure the purchase of the tooling held by Earlpart Ltd for front wings and rear subframes.
We hope that this will allow us to continue to supply our members with high quality wings and hopefully move towards rear subframe remanufacture when the time is right.
UPDATE: We have sold recently five more wings from our stock!
2018 National Car Club Awards The 1100 Club was shortlisted in the 'Outstanding Online Presence' category for the National Car Club Awards, and at the event held on 24 March 2018 was 'Highly Commended'.
This category considers our work on social media and also our club website, with its increasing technical content for members and of course its comprehensive set of Idle Chatter magazines with searchable database of content.
We are very pleased to say that we are ending 2017 with more members than we have had for many years - delighted to have you with us!
Don’t forget to renew your membership before 18th January 2018 to receive your Jan-Feb Idle Chatter on time.
You can do that using the details in the magazine or on this website.
2017 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC
This year's show was hugely successful for the 1100 Club, with a number of new members joining on the spot, regalia (especially our unique books) selling well and, most importantly, a constant stream of visits from members from up and down the country.
We do hope you enjoyed our display if you visited us at the show - thank you for coming to say hello! Classic & Sports Car Club Awards
We were delighted to get an honourable mention TWICE in the Classic and Sportscar Club Awards at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the weekend. Idle Chatter was highly commended for the fourth year in a row, and for the first time our website and our social media presence were also recognised! Congratulations must go to the winners in each category, of course, but it was still great to be noticed by the judges in both.
The September issue of Idle Chatter
In this biggest ever 48 page issue, we have news and reports from the National Rally, including this year's prizewinners, area updates from a busy summer and, as usual, a variety of interesting and inspiring running reports, with a couple of new faces to the feature.
We bring you Part II of the 'Model Answer' diecast 1100s article and explain in detail how your ignition timing works and how you can affix your GT side trim if you can't get hold of the proper trim clips!
BMC/BL Day - Best Club Stand AwardThis year the Club had 15 cars on display at Peterborough and won the award for Best Club Stand for the second year running! 
Another Successful National Rally DayOur 2017 National Rally took place across the weekend of 29th and 30th July at Mapledurham House, near Reading. It celebrated 50 years of the Austin-Morris Mk2 and, despite the variable weather, some 40 cars made an appearance during the weekend. 
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